A few hours after a story emerged that indicated there’s little love for him among Twitter workers past and present, the service’s former Twitter CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey has responded.
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Marta Balaga Banijay will continue to be innovative and sustainable, CEO Marco Bassetti said at Mipcom. When asked about the company’s future growth, and a recent SPAC deal, he added: “It’s helping us not to lose all the opportunities the market can give us. We have all that we need in order to grow, definitely.” “But our growth should follow a certain strategy. We don’t want to lose our DNA. So far, it has worked.” Last year, the company produced more than 90 pilots. In October, Banijay confirmed the proposed acquisition of Beyond International Limited. Bassetti also commented on Banijay’s takeover of Endemol Shine.
“Part of this integration was done by Zoom, but it went very well. If I look at the company now, we are trying to merge two cultures and trying to maintain their best sides. I think we are there now.”
“Scale is important,” he added. “To have scale means to have leverage. It means to have opportunities. You can give people what they need to produce a new pilot, to retain talent, you can invest and retain IP. Today, we need to invest more. But in order to do that, you need a company that’s backing you.” According to Bassetti, it might be the “golden age of content,” but not of revenue sharing. “I believe that if you want to continue to create value, you would be smart to leave a part of value creation to the talent and the producer. Like in the music business, publishing business. It’s not fair to just tell them: ‘Give me everything’.” It’s also important to speak the same language as the people you are working with, he said. “We are all producers. We know how difficult it is to pitch, to convince others to buy a show. It’s pretty unique and we are happy about it.” “We want to leave our talent to be
A few hours after a story emerged that indicated there’s little love for him among Twitter workers past and present, the service’s former Twitter CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey has responded.
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Manori Ravindran International Editor Banijay Group CEO Marco Bassetti may be making a smart marketing move by delivering a Mipcom keynote on Oct. 18, but the Italian executive insists that “PR, for us, comes after.” At the first major TV market for the “Survivor” distributor since its $2.2 billion acquisition of Endemol Shine Group in 2020, Bassetti has a clear message: Producers, including Banijay, need a more equitable business model against the streamers. “It’s the golden age of content, but I’m not sure it’s the golden age of revenue share for producers,” Bassetti tells Variety from Banijay Group’s Paris headquarters in late September. “We need to be careful if we want to continue creating value in the industry. We need to fight to allow producers to keep their model as it was before.”
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