Concise Media Business Update 2020

Plenty has changed over the last year and yet Concise’s thirst for seeking out new opportunities and challenges has continued to drive growth. We have developed and invested in both existing and new areas across research, consulting, trading and share to strengthen our offering and delivery to our customers. And we’ve never been in better shape.
                 
Concise has continued to evolve as the full service commercial assurance specialists, offering extensive research and consultancy services as well as a complete assurance capability. We still provide a quick response and face to face accessibility with our central London base, working alongside you to gain a deep understanding of your needs. We also still offer a market-leading share audit and research capability coupled with exceptional systems and reporting functionality, including overnights within seconds of daily data becoming available. And yet we’ve added so many more strings to our bow since the start of 2019.
 
We are delighted to announce that our consultancy division has enjoyed new engagements with DCM, ESI Media and Bauer Media. As the landscape continues to change, we are at the sharp end of how these organisations can set themselves up to enjoy even greater commercial success.

We also welcomed Global and Reach Plc to the Assurance division of Concise, giving us a market leading position within U.K. radio and publishing. 

On to the hyper growth of our Research division. We added Viacom to our client list with some great insight and overnight reporting work. This led us to also compliment the DCM, Bauer, RTE and ESI Media consultancy work with some well-placed market research projects. On the back of this, we’re extremely excited to announce that we recently opened a new Research Office in Taunton, headed up by Research Director, Sam Randoll. This reflects the excellent progress that Concise continues to make with its research offering, and demonstrates further investment to enhance its proposition.

And most significantly, we are incredibly proud to have achieved a 100% renewal rate on all of our existing contracts that were due to end, which is the strongest testimonial we could ask for!

As we settle into 2020 with an established and valued set of clients, this sets the bar for us as a business to have a focus on growth and development. We’re now confidently beginning to position Concise as the go-to professional services business within the UK media market. We have more than proven our capabilities and continue to focus on combining our extensive commercial awareness and understanding with excellent research credentials.

Echoing a comment we made last year, we’ve got big plans and will be working hard to make these a reality including a fresh look and a new website which is now under construction. Our commitment to delivering best in class services to those that have shown their commitment to us as we have established the business over the last few years will never diminish and as Concise we thank you for your valued loyalty. We wish you all plenty of success and look forward to speaking with you soon.

Concise Media is thrilled to announce that it has recently opened a new Research Office in Taunton, headed up by its Research Director, Sam Randoll. This reflects the excellent progress that the company continues to make with its research offering, and demonstrates further investment to enhance its proposition.

Kevin Waller, Founder of Concise comments: “We have made great strides with our research division over the past 12 months and I firmly believe that it will be a crucial part of our business going forward. Through delivering market-leading research and insight, we will continue to drive significant added value for our clients.”

Concise is also delighted to welcome Samuel Goswell as its new Head of Research. With responsibility for optimising the structure and processes within the company, Samuel will also manage the research department and support the wider Concise team through the expertise he brings to the business on regular reporting.

Prior to joining Concise Media, Samuel worked as a Research Manager for Digital-I, where he gained over eight years’ industry knowledge and was responsible for overseeing all reporting and ad-hoc projects, including team management and process improvements within the business. Samuel will report in to Sam Randoll and be based in Taunton.

Concise Media confirms that it will continue working with The Guardian News & Media for a fourth consecutive year under a new media share audit contract.

Kevin Waller, Founder of Concise Media, comments: “We are thrilled that working with Guardian over the past 3 years has proved to be a success. As such an important media owner, it’s a real privilege for Concise to be able to add value to Guardian’s business and we very much look forward to developing our relationship further over the next 12 months.”

In addition to Guardian News & Media, Concise Media works on behalf of Sky Media UK & Ireland , News UK, Bauer Media Group, Reach Solutions, TI Media, Global, RTÉ, Dorling Kindersley, Discovery Networks, NBC Universal, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting, BBC Studios, Sony Pictures Television, Soundmouse & Digital Cinema Media. For more information about Concise Media Consulting and how we can help your business, please visit our website www.concisemedia.co or call us on 020 3950 0310 to talk to one of the team.

Concise Media is delighted to announce that it has been appointed by ESI Media to provide media consultancy services for 2020.

Kevin Waller, Managing Director of Concise comments: “We are very excited to once again demonstrate Concise’s unique understanding of the market place as well as put the full complement of skills within our team to good use for ESI Media.”

Mike Soutar, CEO of Evening Standard adds: “We were aware of Concise’s reputation beforehand but were impressed with the expertise and market knowledge of the team when we met them.  We look forward to developing our relationship during the course of 2020.”

In addition to ESI Media, Concise Media works on behalf of Sky Media UK & Ireland , News UK, Bauer Media Group, Guardian News & Media, Reach Solutions, TI Media, Global, RTÉ, Dorling Kindersley, Discovery Networks, NBC Universal, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting, BBC Studios, Sony Pictures Television, Soundmouse & Digital Cinema Media. For more information about Concise Media Consulting and how we can help your business, please visit our website www.concisemedia.co or call us on 020 3950 0310 to talk to one of the team.

Concise Media today confirms an extension of its current contract with Bauer Media to the end of 2021. The
contract covers magazines, radio and digital share audits as well as strategic support in commercial strategy
and provision of market research.

Kevin Waller, Managing Director of Concise comments: “We’ve been working with Bauer for well over five years
now and have a very productive and strong working relationship so are delighted with their ongoing
commitment to Concise.”

Simon Kilby, Chief Revenue Officer of Bauer Media adds: “We believe that Concise is the ideal commercial
partner for us and provides a high level of added value, so it’s a natural step to continue with our existing
contract for another two years. During this time, we intend to strengthen our commercial strategy and our
overall impact on the market.”

In addition to Bauer Media, Concise Media works on behalf of Sky Media UK & Ireland, News UK, Guardian
News & Media, Reach Solutions, TI Media, Global, RTÉ, Dorling Kindersley, Discovery Networks, NBC Universal,
Viacom, Turner Broadcasting, BBC Studios, Sony Pictures Television, Soundmouse & Digital Cinema Media. For
more information about Concise Media Consulting and how we can help your business, please visit our
website www.concisemedia.co or call us on 020 3950 0310 to talk to one of the team.

Concise Media is delighted to announce that its current media share audit agreement with Sky Media has been extended by a further two years to 31st December 2021.

Kevin Waller, Managing Director of Concise comments: “This is fantastic news and is testament to the work our teams at Concise and Sky Media have done over the last 5 years. Sky Media is a great business and I look forward to seeing what exciting developments the next 2 years will bring.”

John Litster, Managing Director at Sky Media adds: “Concise Media has provided exemplary service to us since we began working with them in December 2014 and will remain a key partner for our commercial business as the industry landscape continues to change.”

In addition to Sky Media UK & Ireland, Concise Media works on behalf of News UK, Guardian News & Media, Bauer Media Group, Reach Solutions, TI Media, Global, UKTV, Dorling Kindersley, Discovery Networks, NBC Universal, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting, BBC Studios, Sony Pictures Television, Soundmouse & Digital Cinema Media. For more information about Concise Media Consulting and how we can help your business, please visit our website www.concisemedia.co or call us on 020 3950 0310 to talk to one of the team.

Concise Media is thrilled to announce that it has been chosen by Global, the Media & Entertainment group, as media share auditor across its radio portfolio. This news follows a competitive tender process that has resulted in a 2 year deal which commenced on 1st June 2019.

Kevin Waller, Managing Director of Concise Media, said: “This is a huge win for us and we’re extremely happy to be working with Global. The team and I are very keen to bring the benefits of our expertise and our processes to help drive Global’s business forward.”

Martin Plant, Commercial Trading Director at Global, commented: “We’re pleased to be starting a new chapter with Concise Media who have demonstrated strong credentials and focus on delivery during the pitch process.”

In addition to Global, Concise Media works on behalf of Sky Media UK & Ireland, News UK, Guardian News & Media, Bauer Media Group, Reach Solutions, TI Media, UKTV, Dorling Kindersley, Discovery Networks, NBC Universal, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting, BBC Studios, Sony Pictures Television, Soundmouse & Digital Cinema Media. For more information about Concise Media Consulting and how we can help your business, please visit our website www.concisemedia.co or call us on 020 3950 0310 to talk to one of the team.

About Global
Global is one of the world’s leading Media & Entertainment groups. It is Europe’s largest radio company and one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe. Global is home to respected, national, market leading media brands including Capital, Heart, Classic FM, LBC, Global’s Newsroom, Smooth, Radio X, Capital XTRA, Gold and Global Player, which allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly-curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers.

With an extensive and diverse portfolio, Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in the UK & Europe with over 235,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 25 million on the radio alone.

Global created and operates DAX, the market leader in digital audio advertising. Through its proprietary technology, DAX connects advertisers with an audience of more than 130 million people worldwide, inserting targeted advertising into music streaming services, connected radio listening and podcasts in the UK, Europe, the USA and Canada. DAX is the largest digital audio advertising platform in the UK.

The company headquarters is in London’s iconic Leicester Square. Ashley Tabor-King OBE is Founder & Executive President, Stephen Miron is Group CEO and Lord Allen is Chairman. Ashley Tabor-King created Global in 2007.

www.global.com
@global

Concise Media today announces that it is to embark on an exciting new Business Transformation consultancy contract with Digital Cinema Media. This major project follows on from several years of Concise and DCM working together and will include analysis of DCM’s current commercial structure and strategy intended to form the basis of a 5 year plan to maximise collaboration and reach DCM’s commercial goals.

Kevin Waller, Managing Director of Concise comments: “This is a fantastic opportunity for both Concise and DCM; it enables the teams to use their extensive commercial understanding to determine and create a dynamic strategy that will meet the needs of a continually evolving market environment.”

Karen Stacey, CEO at DCM adds: “The Concise team have demonstrated their consultancy credentials by providing useful insight and advice throughout the time we’ve worked with them. This new project provides an opportunity to build on that on a large scale and we look forward to Concise being able to provide new stimulus that will be fundamental to shaping our commercial strategy going forward.”

In addition to DCM, Concise Media works on behalf of Sky Media UK & Ireland, News UK, Guardian News & Media, Bauer Media Group, TI Media, UKTV, Dorling Kindersley, Discovery Networks, NBC Universal, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting, BBC Studios, Sony Pictures Television & Soundmouse. For more information about Concise Media Consulting and how we can help your business, please visit our website www.concisemedia.co or call us on 020 3950 0310 to talk to one of the team.

Concise Media announces that it is forming a new strategic alliance with Reach Solutions. This will include both the share audit of Reach’s newspaper portfolio plus additional work streams that will focus on maximising partnerships and developing Reach’s business for the future.

Kevin Waller, Managing Director of Concise comments: “We are very much looking forward to working in this new partnership with Reach. We’re all well aware that the industry is changing and that we need to look at commercial options in different ways that challenge the status quo and open up new revenue sources. This will give us the opportunity to explore and develop those.”

Andy Atkinson, Chief Revenue Officer at Reach Solutions adds: “It’s important in the current climate to get under the skin of the commercials of our business and use the insight we gain to drive Reach’s performance forward. We’ve chosen to work with Concise as we’ve been impressed with what we’ve seen and are convinced that they will prove to be the right partner for us.”

In addition to Reach Solutions, Concise Media works on behalf of Sky Media UK & Ireland, News UK, Guardian News & Media, Bauer Media Group, TI Media., UKTV, Dorling Kindersley, Discovery Networks, NBC Universal, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting, BBC Studios, Sony Pictures Television, Soundmouse & Digital Cinema Media. For more information about Concise Media Consulting and how we can help your business, please visit our website www.concisemedia.co or call us on 020 3950 0310 to talk to one of the team.

Concise Media today shares an update of its successful progress in developing a significant research and insights offer to complement and broaden the portfolio of commercial and strategic services that it has built a solid reputation for delivering over the last five years.

Following the appointment of Sam Randoll in November 2017 to spearhead Concise’s Quantitative offer, and the announcement of the joint venture with Juice founder David Green in March 2018 to shape its Qualitative proposition, Concise has introduced several new initiatives – from delivering the fastest overnights in the market to programme development consultancy – which have already had excellent feedback from clients.

However, this is just the start. As founder Kevin Waller explains: “Although we have already had a hugely positive client response to these initiatives, we believe that, by more closely synthesising our historic expertise in commercial strategy with our more recent offerings in strategic insight, we are now uniquely placed to build a genuinely distinctive through-the-line strategic offer to our media clients.”

Kevin adds: “Concise has proven data expertise and a genuine can-do attitude together with a London base to provide a fast response and face-to-face accessibility. We have a deep understanding of clients’ data needs enabling us to do all the heavy-lifting and provide the insight they need in a digestible format. Which ultimately means that they can use their valuable executive time to concentrate on efficient decision making rather than trying to make sense of what their data is telling them.”

The key business areas covered by Concise Media’s research and insights services include overnights, regular reporting, data enrichment & provision, outsourcing & support, system & process development and consultancy & insight projects.

Concise Media works on behalf of Sky Media UK & Ireland, Time Inc., News UK, Guardian News & Media, Bauer Media Group, UKTV, Discovery Networks UK, NBC Universal, BBC Studios, Dorling Kindersley, Turner Broadcasting, Soundmouse, Sony Pictures Television Networks and Digital Cinema Media. For more information about this or any other aspect of Concise Media and how we can help your business, please call us on 020 3950 0310 to talk to one of the team.

Read more about our Insights offering here: Concise Media Insights Update Sept. 2018