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| UnLimited's consulting division provides expertise in music, media, culture and youth. |
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| We advise existing players and newcomers in all these areas on current trends and best practice, and help consumer brands who wish to utilise music, media or culture as marketing channels. |
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| Our consulting practice is headed up by director Chris Cooke, who is a leading expert on the music, media and cultural industries, as well as boasting over a decade's experience leading projects and campaigns targeting and engaging the youth and student markets. |
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| On cultural projects, director Caro Moses also takes a lead role, bringing to the table fifteen years of experience in developing, directing, producing and delivering innovative cultural ventures. |
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| The nature of our consulting services vary from project to project. We can offer simple low-cost 'insight sessions' and 'workshops', as well as competitively priced bespoke 'trend reports' and 'market reviews'. We also undertake large-scale research and business development projects. |
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| Chris is also available to write, speak and lecture on music, media or culture topics. |
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| To discuss a consulting project, contact Chris Cooke on 020 7099 9050 or send an email to chris@unlimitedmedia.co.uk |
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| This page last updated: Mar 2010 |
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UnLimited provides music expertise to both media and entertainment companies, and to those using music as a marketing tool, including: |
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• Music industry insights
• Project and business planning
• Music as a marketing channel |
UnLimited Media's Chris Cooke is a leading expert on the UK music business.
He has been writing about the music industry on a daily basis for CMU for over a decade.
He also regularly speaks about the business at conferences, and frequently comments on music industry stories for other media, including Sky News, CNN and the BBC (including Radio 4's 'Today', Radio 5Live's 'Wake Up To Money' and the News Channel).
As well as writing about and commenting on the music industry, Chris has over ten years experience in managing music marketing programmes and partnerships, and in developing music-orientated content platforms. Brands Chris has worked with on such music projects include Orange, Tiger Beer, Bacardi, Motorola and the Virgin Group, as well as media like the Daily Mirror, Mail On Sunday, Evening Standard and Xfm, and digital music services like MUZU.
Artists Chris has worked with include Oasis, Adam Freeland, Moby, Blondie, Krafty Kuts, Pete Tong, Mylo, Soulwax, The Killers, The Stranglers, Kasabian, Brian Wilson and record labels like Finger Lickin, Marine Parade and Sunday Best.
Chris' specialist areas include copyright and licensing, digital distribution, online PR and marketing, music partnerships, the 360 degree music model, and future trends. He recently wrote a paper on music copyright as part of his Law degree at London Metropolitan University.
Supported by five other associates with music, media and digital backgrounds, Chris can consult for your company on its music ventures.
To discuss a music consulting project contact Chris Cooke on 020 7099 9050 or email chris@unlimitedmedia.co.uk |
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| UnLimited provides media expertise, both to existing media owners and content providers refreshing their output, and to brands using content to engage, including: |
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• Media industry insights
• Media channel development
• Digital content strategies |
UnLimited Media's Chris Cooke is a leading media expert, with over a decade's experience of both the editorial and commercial sides of print and online media production. He is also an experienced presenter and producer of audio and video-based content.
Chris is an accomplished publisher and editor, having co-launched, developed and managed the four media platforms now owned and operated by UnLimited Media. As publisher he has overseen the sales, production and distribution of these titles, while as an editor he has devised editorial policies and style guides, and edited and produced content, often working to a daily deadline.
Chris has also consulted on the launch of new titles and websites for other media owners, and coordinated editorial and promotional projects for national newspapers. He has also developed media platforms as marketing channels for brands looking to engage consumers through content, and has advised blue-chip companies on their own corporate and internal media.
Chris is also an experienced tutor in this area, having devised and delivered a number of acclaimed training programmes, covering both the structure and development of the media industry, and the skills required by editors, journalists and publishers.
On top of all this, Chris writes about the media – the press, TV and radio – on a daily basis for two of his own publications, the CMU Daily and CreativeStudent.net. This means Chris is bang up to date on all the key developments across the media industries, and in particular on the impact of the internet on traditional media businesses. He also regularly writes about new media technologies, and the legal side of the industry, in particular copyright.
Supported by five other associates with media and digital backgrounds, Chris can consult for your company on its media ventures.
To discuss a media consulting project contact Chris Cooke on 020 7099 9050 or email chris@unlimitedmedia.co.uk |
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| UnLimited provides cultural expertise, advising arts organisations and those using culture as a marketing channel, including: |
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• Event + festival planning
• Marketing through culture
• Cultural marketing strategies |
UnLimited Media's Chris Cooke has been active in the arts industry ever since his stint as President of Edinburgh University Theatre Company in the mid-nineties.
As a producer he has staged premiere productions of new plays at both the Edinburgh Fringe and on London's West End. He has also provided arts marketing and publicity expertise to numerous projects; planned, produced and marketed cultural festivals; and has experience in running arts venues.
Utilising his more general marketing experience, Chris is also well versed in the ways brands can engage consumers by enabling and championing innovative cultural projects.
UnLimited Media's Caro Moses has worked across the cultural spectrum, as a playwright, script-doctor, director and actor, and also as a producer and publicist.
She has performed all these roles at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe, while also coordinating new writing programmes in London's West End.
Meanwhile, as Editor of ThreeWeeks at the Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals, and of UnLimited's new culture news service ThisWeek In London, Caro is in tune with all the key trends, projects and talent in the UK's comedy, theatre, film and literary sectors.
Through her Editor roles, Caro also boasts great connections across the UK's cultural industries.
Supported by three other associates with arts and culture backgrounds, Chris and Caro can consult for your company on its cultural ventures.
To discuss a culture consulting project contact Chris Cooke on 020 7099 9050 or email chris@unlimitedmedia.co.uk |
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| UnLimited provides expertise on the youth and student markets, advising companies looking to engage or support these audiences, including: |
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• Youth market insights
• Student partnership advice
• Youth marketing strategies |
UnLimited Media's Chris Cooke has been leading projects and campaigns targeting and engaging the youth and student markets for over a decade.
As editor of CreativeStudent.net, he is in direct contact with creative and opinion forming students at universities and colleges across the UK, and has extensive knowledge of and contacts in student media, societies and unions, who often provide the link between brands and the student community.
Through the ThreeWeeks programme, and other UnLimited-produced education programmes, Chris trains and directly works with a large team of young people (aged 16-25) every year, giving him on-the-ground insights into trends and developments in the wider youth market.
Chris applies his insights and contacts in the student and youth markets to help brands looking to engage young consumers, specialising in marketing programmes that connect with young people through their passion centres (such as music, film and media), normally by enabling them to achieve their own creative ambitions.
Chris also helps organisations looking to develop engaging and practical training programmes that enable creative young people hone their skills and showcase their work to potential employers.
To discuss a youth consulting project contact Chris Cooke on 020 7099 9050 or email chris@unlimitedmedia.co.uk |
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