Discover how broadcasting legend Mabel Constanduros revolutionised comedy and entertainment by pioneering the potential of radio.

BookTok has 64.2 billion views and counting on TikTok. It transformed the publishing world. Can podcasts follow a similar route? Studying the most viral podcast clips on TikTok, and using a BookTok-inspired influencer marketing strategy, a lot can be learnt by podcasts looking to grow their audiences.

Launched in September, 2021, Side+ is an exclusive membership club for Sidemen fans all around the world. Members will have access to exclusive content, giveaways, meet and greets and be part of the community.

When Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner announced plans in 2015 to establish a new production company with its own studio space in Cardiff, everyone expected it to be a game-changer. Six years on, it is now reportedly being sold to Sony Pictures Television (SPT) in a deal thought to be worth close to £60m.

Jungle Creations has agreed to sell a majority stake in the social media publishing business to private equity firm, Livingbridge, for £30 million.

The last year has not only been one of endless lockdowns and Zoom meetings; it has also been a year of social movements and political justice. And there is one way the world has been educating and spreading good messages - Instagram. We’ve compiled a list of some of the top Instagram accounts that not only keep you updated with the world's events, but also educate you on specific topics. 

Social commerce allows us to buy natively through social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Once fragmented, the journey from perusal to purchase is now radically shortened. While customers benefit from the elimination of obstacles such as web sign-in or app downloads, brands overcome issues such as abandoned carts.

We wanted to highlight who we think the UK’s top LGBTQ+ YouTubers are. 

At present, ‘Top # LGBTQ+ YouTubers’ lists typically focus on American creators, whilst lists here in the UK tend to exclude any discussion on sexuality/identity. We thought it was about time that changed, so here’s our list of the UK’s top 5 LGBTQ+ YouTubers. 

From TikTok to LADBible, women have been powering your favourite social media content in the UK for years. We’ve thrown some limelight on five of the most influential women in social media that you might never have even heard of.

We wanted to find out who the UK’s leading women are in streaming media, but we couldn’t find an answer. With streaming our favourite shows becoming increasingly popular, we decided to pull a list together of some of the women who are leading the way in UK streaming media. From Apple to Britbox, Amazon to Netflix, here are our top seven female leaders.

We took a look at some of the most popular streaming services in the UK (three services from British broadcasters like iPlayer, and three international streaming giants, like Netflix) to check out their accessibility features in a bid to find the best.

In the past two weeks, Sony has successfully brokered an exclusive first-pay-window licensing deal with Netflix, followed quickly by Disney announcing that it, too, had a content licensing deal with Sony. We look at the bigger picture of these major industry moves.

In the first quarter of 2021, Twitch generated 6.3 billion watching hours in total - a new milestone for Twitch as that’s a huge 97% increase compared to the first quarter of 2020. In other words, its viewership almost doubled in one year. Its biggest competitors, YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming don’t even come close.

Having side-stepped a Microsoft buyout valuing it at $10bn, Discord has been in the spotlight recently. The social platform has built a loyal community of 140 million monthly active users, all without making money from their data through ads.

Channel 4 has long garnered the following of younger audiences that other broadcasters could only dream of. Still, Channel 4 is reaching out for more by expanding its in-house content creation unit, 4Studio, and building ties with rising platform giants such as TikTok.

Taking a look into the minds behind it and the exciting content coming this year, will AppleTV+ pip its competitors to the post and become an everyday platform we use to stream our favourite shows?

When the Bafta 2021 winners are picked from the unprecedentedly diverse array of nominees on Sunday night, we will get a glimpse of the impact that recent diversity efforts have started to make.

Co-founded in 2010 by Nick Bedu and Teddy Nygh, Fully Focused Productions is a non-profit, youth-driven production company. Through diverse and unique content, they’ve grown their YouTube channel, Million Youth Media, to 380K subscribers and have now been commissioned to produce a 4-part comedy series for the BBC.

No doubt the past year has been a challenging one for the UK entertainment industry. 2020 got off to a strong start, with the industry heading towards a record spend of £1.08 billion in the first quarter, but then the pandemic resulted a 21% decline from the year before. Fortunately, though, the last quarter of 2020 had the second highest three month spend on record.

Every day there seems to be a new start-up that provides content creators with tools to manage and grow their business. Of these, Stir and Koji have recently taken the spotlight as useful tools for those looking to expand their content creation.