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Funded by fans: the Time Team playbook
How going direct to consumer can pay off
 • Tara Conlan 📺
Vertical drama, two ways: A producer and app developer on playing the long game with short form
Short, sticky and with no signs of slowing down, the vertical drama mania that has gripped the entertainment industry is finally touching down in the…
 • Manori Ravindran
Mega-mergers, market power and the indie squeeze: Pat Younge’s reality check
What the mega-mergers mean and the practical moves indies can make to stay on top
 • Tara Conlan 📺
Indie insights: Extending the ‘Financial Freeway’ and betting big on ‘HUMAN’ with Ben Zand
If you build it (and pay for it yourself), will they come? The self-commissioning model is daring brave indie bosses to find out.
 • Manori Ravindran

January 2026

December 2025

Indie Heroes: DocHearts’ Andy Mundy-Castle on building resilient businesses
Staking a claim in the creator economy
 • Tara Conlan 📺
Indie Insights: Premium documentaries with Dov Freedman from Curious Films
What’s driving demand for prestige popular factual in the streaming era and how you can stay ahead of shifting tastes.
 • Paul Revoir
Accelerated consolidation, prominence, creator core, AI and direct-to-consumer: Emile Nawagamuwa’s 2026 Predictions
Six months on from co-producing Ros Atkins’ agenda-setting Edinburgh TV Festival, the UKTV commissioning editor for factual gives his forecasts for next…
 • The Indie Hustle
Vertical drama, digital channels, brand funding, how small indies can have the edge in 2026.
More highlights from GrowthLab London
 • Tara Conlan 📺
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