idio talks B2B media and publishing convergence with Patrick Angell http://www.idioplatform.com/siia-interview/

JONNY ROSE: So, what’s happening in the world of B2B media right now?

PATRICK ANGELL:  The sector – at its very broadest – can be broken into two types:B2B information services companies that research, collect and make sense of data and then publish it to an audience that use it for commercial decision-making, add it to their workflow or embed it into other tools, andB2B media companies, which were once traditional print publishers, but who have now become brands with multi-platform and multiple offerings including print, digital, mobile, events and data offering.

The watchword across both types right now is “convergence”.

Publishers are moving into the information game and vice versa. For example, Centaur went on an acquisition spree where they’ve bought companies like Econsultancy and Profile Group. Profile Group, for example, produce a digital data service called Year Ahead which is an event database used by marketing planners to prepare for marketing events throughout the year–

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FCB Continues to Celebrate Bellies for Kmart, Joe Boxer

Two stories about the BBC this week underline how morally bankrupt the Corporation is becoming in its day-to-day operations and attitudes.
Its default position – from new Trustee chairman Rona Fairhead downwards – now appears to be to champion whatever it does, no matter how reprehensible and indefensible.

This underlines yet again that the BBC Trustees – though supposed to guardians of the interests of licence-fee payers – in reality are little more than lackeys of the senior management team.

Story One relates to the continued handling of the Jimmy Savile affair.  It became clear last month here in this TCW item that Fairhead had already ‘gone native’ – and her  approach to her new role was going to be to defend existing practices and approaches in the BBC rather than to attempt reform.

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