MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANCY

Independent advice on media strategy, technology transformation and the decisions that commit a business for the next five years.

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  • Media strategy
  • Technology transformation
  • Boardroom advisory

Advisory services

Engagements are scoped around a decision you already have to make. These are the ones clients ask for by name.

Most requested

Media strategy advisory

Where audience, distribution and revenue are moving, and what that means for your portfolio of titles, channels and rights.

  • Audience and distribution review
  • Revenue mix and dependency mapping
  • Portfolio options with trade-offs
  • Board-ready strategy paper
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Technology transformation consulting

A sequenced programme for moving off legacy platforms without taking publishing, playout or sales systems offline.

  • Current-state architecture review
  • Target operating model
  • Migration sequencing and risk register
  • Programme governance structure
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Digital infrastructure assessment

An audit of the estate as it actually runs: hosting, delivery, data flows, integrations and the cost behind each.

  • Platform and integration inventory
  • Resilience and single-point-of-failure review
  • Run-cost breakdown by system
  • Prioritised remediation list
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Market and competitive analysis

A structured read of the category you compete in: who is moving, on what economics, and where the opening is.

  • Competitor positioning and model teardown
  • Category and demand outlook
  • Entry, exit and partnership options
  • Executive summary with evidence appendix
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Technology vendor selection support

Requirements written before the demos, so the shortlist is scored against your business rather than the sales deck.

  • Requirements definition workshops
  • RFP drafting and shortlisting
  • Scored evaluation and reference checks
  • Commercial and contract review support
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Implementation and change management guidance

Advisory alongside your delivery teams from kick-off to steady state, including the part everyone underestimates: adoption.

  • Delivery assurance and checkpoint reviews
  • Role and workflow redesign
  • Training and adoption planning
  • Benefits tracking after go-live
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Every engagement begins with a written scope: the question, the evidence we will gather and what you receive at the end.

How we work

Independent of every vendor on the shortlist

We take no commissions, resale margins or referral fees from technology suppliers. The recommendation is the recommendation.

We assess the estate as it actually runs

Diagrams rarely match production. We work from the live systems, the integrations nobody documented and the real run cost of each platform.

Options with trade-offs, not a single verdict

Boards decide; advisers frame. Every recommendation arrives with the alternatives considered, what each costs and what each forecloses.

Migration sequenced around revenue

Legacy replacement is planned so that publishing, playout, subscriptions and ad operations keep trading through the transition.

You keep the working material

Models, requirement sets, evaluation scorecards and the evidence behind them are handed over, so the work survives the engagement.

From first contact to delivered

  1. Introductory call

    A conversation about the decision in front of you — not a pitch. We establish whether the question is strategic, operational or technical, and whether we are the right firm for it.

  2. Written scope

    You receive a short scoping note: the question stated precisely, the evidence we will gather, who we need access to, the duration and the deliverable.

  3. Diagnostic work

    Interviews with your teams, review of systems, contracts and numbers, and desk analysis of the market. Findings are shared as they emerge, not held back for a reveal.

  4. Recommendation

    A board-ready paper with the options, the trade-offs and a sequenced plan — presented in person to the executive group and defended under questioning.

  5. Implementation support

    Optional continuation alongside your delivery teams: checkpoint reviews, vendor management and adoption planning through to steady state.