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Last week I was really chuffed to be asked to chair a panel on millennials in the workplace on behalf of Bauer at Ad Week Europe.  It’s a subject close to be heart, probably in part because in my heart of hearts I still aspire to be a millennial, but our whole business at Box

As The Box Plus Network launches Box Fresh, its new music campaign for 2017, managing director Matt Rennie has stressed its importance for the music industry. “For a platform like us with access to 15m people every month, I think labels and artists need people like us and Radio 1 and our other competitors to

Pop culture sketch show, 4Music’s first comedy. Stars Harrie Hayes, Steve Bugeja, Jason Forbes, Samantha Baines, Patrick Turpin and more, takes aim at everyone in the world of pop and celebrity – from Pitbull and YouTubers, to fandoms, Pitbull, socialites, Instagrammers and… did we mention Pitbull? https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/pop_sludge/

Adding streams from platforms such as YouTube into the charts could set a worrying precedent for the industry, The Box Plus Network managing director Matt Rennie tells Music Week. For some time now, YouTube has faced the ire of an angry music industry that feels that artists and labels are not sufficiently compensated by the

Someone said to me yesterday that they’re 60% or 70% in.  And whilst that’s good, and means another vote to remain, I couldn’t help but think “I’m so much more than that, possibly even 100%”.  I don’t think think the EU is perfect, far from it.  It needs lots of work but I believe the

The Box Plus Network, a joint venture between Channel 4 and Bauer Media, has launched two new linear TV channels – Box Hits and Box Upfront. The UK music video network has also introduced a new social-first digital channel, called BeBox. Box Plus Network said that the launches are designed address the “changing dynamic in youth media

Matt Rennie, managing director at The Box Plus Network, explains why music channels are still a “healthy business” despite a shift towards streaming. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2015/05/20/is-the-music-channel-dead.html

We wrestle with the BIG issues here at Box (someone has to!).  Of course they’re all great but which one is the greatest? Using complex algorithims to combine things like amount of cash, social prowess, media support and sellability (can they sell stuff), we work out who’s the most powerful player in pop. And this

It would be madness to remove the free tier of freemium services – getting consumers directly into a pay model is so so tough. That said, the current balance isn’t right. The quality and quantity of ads is not right, but they possibly also lack a decent windowing strategy. There’s no reason why you can’t

So today is the day. We’ve been planning this for quite a while, in fact it’s probably just about a year ago that we first mentioned the idea to rebrand the business, and now we’re here. The business has been known as Box Television for the last sixteen years, previous incarnations having been Video Jukebox