Examining M&A in 2019

Who me? I'm a freelance journalist specialising in writing about broadcast and film technology for a range of outlets. Nowadays that means I also write about mobile, IPTV, computing and pretty much any other medium which involves putting a moving picture on a screen somewhere along the line. I also copywrite for a range of corporate clients, run inbound marketing and social, sub-edit, edit, and research...Basically, if it involves words, I do it.

Current clients (the past 365 days or so)

Audiotonix
Bubble Agency
IBC365
InBroadcast
RedShark News
SES
Televisual
Viaccess-Orca
Vizrt

I have also written for:

Broadcast
IBC
ISE Daily News
SVG Europe (I set that one up)
Televisual
The IBC Daily
TV Technology
TVBEurope

More people I write/have written for:

Numerous corporate clients (Avid, BKSTS, IBC, MJO Broadcast, Quantel, Sony, Sony Professional, VMI, White Noise PR etc)

Numerous PR clients

Numerous websites

All in all, 25 years of doing this for a living has resulted in quite a long list, but highlights include: The Face, Edge, Computer Arts, Sounds (that's where I started), and, as the ads say, many more.

Jun 18

Jun 18 Examining M&A in 2019

Andy Stout

Journalism

A three-part series for IBC365 looking at 2019 Merger & Acquisition activity in the broadcast sector. The first two examined M&A activity amongst vendors in M&A: Vendor consolidation continues and then what the broadcasters themselves were up to in M&A: Broadcasters search for scale. This third piece delves into a more detailed analysis of what might be going on, and includes this nugget:

Three key drivers of M&As: “gaining geographic advantages, gaining access to new markets, and gaining access to new technologies for strategic purposes.”

Read the full article on IBC365 here: M&A: Current drivers and future directions