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Lucie McLean, Head of Children’s Product at the BBC, kicked off her #mtpengage Manchester talk with a nostalgic trip involving TV character Mr Benn – who keeps going back to the same costume shop to equip himself for a party which he may or may not attend. He always comes back with some evidence of the Read more »

Ana Jakimovska has carved out a career in media, working at just about every leading broadcaster in the UK. In this ProductTank London talk she focuses on the importance of knowing your industry and keeping an eye on the wider competition when starting from scratch. The broadcast industry has been hugely disrupted with the rise Read more »

Chris Russell, Executive Product Manager for BBC News, talks about the BBC’s responsive design strategy. The BBC strategy today is about one service with 10 products across 4 screens – tablet, mobile, desktop and TV apps. But of course there are far more than 4 devices and far more than 4 use cases – for Read more »

James Thornett, Product Manager in BBC Future Media. James managed the recent update to the BBC homepage and will be talking about the relaunch itself, how changes to such a prominent site were communicated and a look at the reaction to the new design. Read more »

Griffin Parry, Group Product Development Director for News International, Aaron Scullion, Executive Product Manager for BBC, and Owain Rowlands, Product Manager for Channel4, discuss product management in Media, moderated by Nic Newman. Read more »

Aaron Scullion, Executive Product Manager for BBC Future Media, talks about the recent launch of BBC News for connected TVs. Read more »

Product management is a nascent and little understood role within many media companies, and I was commissioned by the BBC to research the state of product management in media drawing on specific BBC projects and consulting companies such as Channel 4 Television, the New York Times, the Financial Times, The Guardian News & Media, YouTube, Read more »

Big media is getting more serious about product management, something highlighted in the BBC report “The State of Product Management” so we gathered Ralph Rivera, Director, Digital Media at the BBC, Robin Pembrooke, MD of ITV Online and On-Demand, Dan Peters, Director of Product Management at Yahoo! Answers and Stephen Dunn, Head of Technology Strategy Read more »

BBC News is one of the biggest sites in the UK, with over 6 million users per day and 1.3 billion page views per month. In this excellent talk from January’s ProductTank, Anthony Sullivan goes through the year long redesign his team completed in July 2010. Read more »