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It was great to have You Are The Media Lunch Club back in Bristol this week for the first time since 2023. The long overdue event brought together friends old and new from across the south west, Wales and even Manchester (fair play Judith Rafferty!). A few of the usual suspects waiting for guests toContinueContinue reading “YATM Lunch Club Bristol”

On Friday I found myself sat on a bar stall at the front of the room for a You Are The Media lunch club event in collaboration with Bournemouth University, celebrating the launch of the new Digital Marketer Apprenticeship degree which Mark Masters, Ella Orr and I were were invited to review earlier this year.ContinueContinue reading “YATM Lunch Club panel on ‘experience’”

You Are The Media Creator Day has been growing since its inaugural year in 2022 as a rebooted replacement to the former YATM Conference. In 2023 it added Failed Nights to the programme, the Wednesday evening before Thursday’s main event. In 2024 the after party and sea swimming were made official fixtures. This year Creator Day became CreatorContinueContinue reading “YATM Creator Day 2025 (and other event stories)”

This week saw the annual You Are The Media flagship event, Creator Day, a week of occasions in Poole, centred around a one-day conference with a difference, hosted by Mark Masters at the Lighthouse. I was very honoured to be asked to present one of the ‘village vignette’ 5 minute segments (although I did overrunContinueContinue reading “YATM Creator Day 2024 talk”

Yes, that is 1,300 Pez dispensers behind me.. Great to talk about community and employee ownership with Mark Masters and Rosie Sherry for the You Are The Media podcast earlier today. Rosie and I are on the bill for Creator Day at the Lighthouse in Poole next Thursday. I’m looking forward to sharing a coupleContinueContinue reading “You Are The Media podcast”

Fresh from the two back-to-back events at Grapevine on Wednesday, Thursday saw the March edition of You Are The Media Lunch Club. This month’s host was Mo Humphries, who had already delivered a successful spring ’24 Business Futures session, which I attended earlier in March, and she did an equally great job of compèring bothContinueContinue reading “YATM Lunch Club March 2024”

Last November, Ben Egginton launched a version of You Are The Media, hosted at Bournemouth University. The format is something of a round table discussion between students and folks from industry. I’m pleased to have been one of the folks for these talks, that have both been very honest and frank conversations about the realitiesContinueContinue reading “Panel talk at BU x YATM event”

After some self imposed downtime to rest and recharge throughout January, February has hit the ground running from day one, with my first ‘business’ event of the year, back at Pi on Poole Quay for another You Are The Media Lunch Club. Go vegan and don’t look back. The pizza is still amazing.  The topicContinueContinue reading “YATM Lunch Club Feb 2024”

The final You Are The Media lunch club of the year was expertly hosted by Lee Taylor, with a special guest, all the way from the other side of the planet, Trevor Young. I’ve really enjoyed the lunch clubs since they returned this year in July, back to their classic format, at the new venueContinueContinue reading “YATM Lunch Club November 2023”