Sam Barcroft

CEO

Barcroft Productions

Sam Barcroft is CEO of hybrid independent TV and digital content producer / distributor Barcroft Media. Barcroft businesses create content for a global audience highlighting ‘the amazing side of life’.

With newsrooms in London, New Delhi and New York supplying video, images and editorial content to global media brands such as MSN, New York Post, MailOnline and The Sun, Barcroft Media creates news global stories 24/7 and provides the catalyst for Barcroft Productions’ factual programming output for international broadcast channels including Discovery, TLC, Channel 5 and National Geographic Channel.

The business also comprises world-leading YouTube channels Barcroft TV, Barcroft Cars and Bear Grylls Adventure, some of YouTube’s most popular global news channels. Barcroft TV has attracted over one billion views and one million YouTube subscribers and is also featured on the Rightster network, AOL On, MSN, oNet in Poland, Yahoo Screen, YouKu in China, and Yahoo’s GyaO!

Barcroft TV also serves as incubation channel for Barcroft Productions providing optimised broadcast content, pre tested and popular for a global audience.

Speaking at: Trendwatch: New platforms, New approaches