Should Under-16s Be Banned From Social Media? Time Team's Patreon Fortune & Snubbing Tom Hanks with Strongwatch Studios

Ben Powell-Jones and Thom Gulseven of Strongwatch Studios join Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville to reveal what it was really like to work at LADbible when it was booming, why they had to turn down Tom Hanks and whether the UK's proposed social media ban for under-16s can actually work.In this episode:•Why they said no to Tom Hanks's agent (and almost turned down Billie Eilish)•How a £500 video made £80k overnight (and why platform ad revenue can vanish just as fast)•Building LADbible's YouTube channel from zero to millions of views•Why Patreon and direct-to-consumer content is the future of monetisation, from Fin vs History to Time Team•Why focus groups lie (and what LADbible's data really showed about who was watching Love Island)•How TV and YouTube are merging, from Rest Is Football's move to Netflix to broadcasters commissioning entire YouTube channels•Their honest take on the UK's proposed social media ban for under-16sHave a question or opinion? Leave a comment, find us on socials (@InsidersTVPod), or email us at [email protected] you enjoyed the episode, please leave a review 5-star review, share it with a friend and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!CHAPTERS00:00 Meet Strongwatch Studios04:37 Building LADbible's YouTube Empire09:44 Snubbing Tom Hanks and (almost) Billie Eilish12:40 Starting a Company in a Constantly Changing Digital World15:30 Patreon and the Rise of Direct-to-Consumer Content 22:10 Data in Digital versus TV and why Focus Groups Lie23:07 TV as ‘Secondary Distribution for YouTube’26:05 Broadcasters Now Commissioning YouTube Channels33:20 The Social Media Ban for Under-16s#YouTube #LADbible #SocialMediaBan #StrongwatchStudios #ContentCreator #Patreon #TVPodcast #BritishTV #DigitalMedia #InsidersTVPod #TomHanks #BillieEilish #CreatorEconomy #Streaming #Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.