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Beyond the Podcast
I’m starting a newsletter, and honestly it’s a bit selfish. I keep hearing that the creator economy is exploding, that podcasting is booming, but that’s a broad claim and nobody quite defines what it means. Everyone’s got a number to back it up, and every number seems to be measuring something slightly different. I got […]
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Happy Birthday West Digital Studios
August marks the end of West Digital’s 23rd year. I’ve been thinking about what success actually means. In a growing economy the answer feels obvious. Revenue up, team growing, awards on the shelf. But in a contracting market and the TV, film and marketing communications world has been contracting for a few years now, survival […]
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The Rest Is Entertainment is recording here
There’s a lot of conversation in the podcast world right now about video — most of it focused on whether to bolt a camera onto an existing setup. We think that’s the wrong question.
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Our first live comedy evening — Mark Steel with Sophie Wilan
This summer we hosted our first ever live comedy evening at West Digital — Mark Steel, live in our events space, with guest Sophie Wilan. It was live streamed and published across our channels. The events space now has a full stage and lighting rig, and an evening like this is exactly what it was […]
