On how Barcroft Media became the fifth biggest news provider in the world on YouTube. See article for more information.
Sam Barcroft
Sam Barcroft is founder and CEO of Barcroft Media, the industry-leading international media company that creates content for a global audience highlighting ‘the amazing side of life’.
Formerly a photojournalist and national newspaper picture editor, Sam has transformed the business from a bedroom start-up to an international media company with newsrooms in London, New Delhi and New York supplying video, photography and editorial content to global media brands such as AOL, MSN, New York Post, Mail Online, Guardian.co.uk and The Sun.
Barcroft Media also owns and curates the world-leading YouTube channel Barcroft TV, one of YouTube’s highest viewed news channels in the World. As of December 2013 the channel has attracted over 230 million views and 250,000 subscribers.
Barcroft Productions, the TV production arm of the business creates popular factual programming for international broadcast channels such as TLC, Channel 5 and National Geographic Channel.
For further information on Barcroft Media see the Press Gazette article of 04 January 2014.