Joe Sugg & BBC Studios Lead TellyCast Digital Content material Discussion board Line-Up – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: YouTuber and Strictly Come Dancing finalist Joe Sugg is among the many expertise signed as much as seem on the TellyCast Digital Content material Discussion board in London later this month.

On-line UK star Sugg just lately launched Ultimate Straw Productions and has branched out into performing, after discovering fame on-line, the place his YouTube channels have almost 13 million subscribers. He appeared within the 2018 season of BBC One’s Saturday evening present Strictly and is headed to the UK occasion, which takes place on November 30.

He’ll be showing alongside execs from Meta, Snap, Channel 4, ITVX and BBC Studios, plus new UTA EMEA model purchasers exec Samantha Glynne, whose transfer from Fremantle Deadline just lately revealed, and the supervisor of social media stars The Sidemen on the occasion, which takes place at BFI Southbank, dwelling of the London Movie Competition. The convention focuses on digital-first content material and is being held for the primary time by well-known trade PR Justin Crosby of Growth Dialogue.

BBC Studios has signed up as lead sponsor and a number of other of its execs shall be showing, together with Head of Digital Growth Chris Allen and Vice President of Digital Programming Athena Witter, and BBC Studios Productions Head of Branded Leisure Kate Norum and Director, Digital and Enterprise Growth Helen Pendlebury. BBC Head of Historical past Richard Seatter can be showing.

Together with a number of classes throughout the day, the occasion will give delegates the chance to community with producers, networks, platforms, manufacturers, media companies, trade our bodies and media. Session matters embody focuses on social publishers, platforms, constructing IP via podcasts, brand-funded social content material and AVoD originals.

Deadline is an occasion companion, together with Pact, Edinburgh TV Competition Quintus Studios, After Celebration Studios, metaverse platform MContent and put up manufacturing specialist Racoon. 

Additionally notably showing are Creatorville and Barcroft Studios founder Sam Barcroft, Channel 4’s Laura Marks and Tom Pullen, Meta Strategic Media Partnerships exec Dan Biddle, Pinterest authentic content material exec Ash Greenwood, Snap Head of UK Partnerships Lucy Luke, ITVX Managing Editor Craig Morris, Wall of Leisure Managing Director Taf Makopa, former YouTube EMEA commissioner Luke Hyams and Future Studios Chief Inventive Officer John Farrar.

“The digital content material sector is a hotbed of innovation and creativity and we’re delighted to be creating TellyCast Digital Content material Discussion board sponsored by BBC Studios as a platform for firms throughout the trade to assemble, share and uncover the brand new alternatives on this burgeoning sector,” stated TellyCast host and occasion producer Crosby.