Digital & Social Media
As Digital and Social Media continues to disrupt and provide challenges and opportunities across the Media and Entertainment industries, we are perfectly placed to understand the issues and provide converged and innovation solutions and advice.
Our multidisciplinary team combines deep experience around online, mobile and social platforms with expertise and skills from TV, publishing, games and ad/marketing backgrounds.
We act for digital producers, leading social media platforms, MCNs, YouTubers, digital publishers, social talent and influencers and games developers, as well as brands, agencies, retailers, traditional TV companies, magazine and news publishers as they go through their own digital transformation journeys.
In doing so we provide strategic and commercial advice in relation to all aspects of the creation, funding and distribution of content across all digital platforms.
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