It looks like about 8 months ago they started producing videos again. Awesome! Thanks for sharing this, @cancycou. Edit: Apparently WhyNow media (Mick Jagger's son's company) licensed the brand...
It looks like about 8 months ago they started producing videos again. Awesome! Thanks for sharing this, @cancycou.
Edit: Apparently WhyNow media (Mick Jagger's son's company) licensed the brand from CNN, and are the ones producing the videos now. Hopefully the quality of the content remains the same, because the original was great. Thankfully, this blurb makes me feel optimistic about it though:
Asked about the company’s interest in Great Big Story, Albertine Rae, an executive producer at Whynow, said: “It all started off as Gabe [Jagger] and myself being huge fans of Great Big Story. And when it went dormant a couple of years ago, Gabe started a conversation with CNN and expressed an interest…
“We can relaunch it and kind of bring it back to life because there’s a whole library of incredible content on there which is still pretty popular. And we want to build on that – the world is still full of stories and we want to tell some of them.”
Asked about the business case for reviving the brand, Rae said Great Big Story still had “a loyal audience”.
Whynow head of development Howard Cohen added: “The thing to bear in mind here is obviously, the bloke that runs this place, Mr Jagger, is highly ambitious. And acquiring this is a huge opportunity to create something that has masses of potential reach…
“Every time you come on Great Big Story every week to see a new video, it should make you feel like – ‘Oh good, I’m going to enjoy this and I’m not going to feel cynical or angry’, which the internet is very good at making people do – we don’t need to add to that. Gabe will often say: ‘We don’t need to add to the anger that is already out there.’”
Cumbria is a beautiful area of the UK. Even with those landscapes, I couldn't touch what this man did. However, there is great value, as he mentioned towards the end of the video, in becoming...
Cumbria is a beautiful area of the UK. Even with those landscapes, I couldn't touch what this man did. However, there is great value, as he mentioned towards the end of the video, in becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable, and "working towards the light" (I may be paraphrasing, but I think those were his words). Inspirational (although the room holding all of his shoes must be pretty pongy.
Wait... Great Big Story is back‽
It looks like about 8 months ago they started producing videos again. Awesome! Thanks for sharing this, @cancycou.
Edit: Apparently WhyNow media (Mick Jagger's son's company) licensed the brand from CNN, and are the ones producing the videos now. Hopefully the quality of the content remains the same, because the original was great. Thankfully, this blurb makes me feel optimistic about it though:
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/great-big-story-gabriel-jagger-whynow/
Cumbria is a beautiful area of the UK. Even with those landscapes, I couldn't touch what this man did. However, there is great value, as he mentioned towards the end of the video, in becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable, and "working towards the light" (I may be paraphrasing, but I think those were his words). Inspirational (although the room holding all of his shoes must be pretty pongy.