Jon Watts, the London-based media consultant, has announced<\/a> a big change in his professional life:\u00a0 He is transitioning out of his full-time position at MTM<\/a>, the research and strategy consulting firm he co-founded \u00a0in London 10 years ago, to become the firm\u2019s Senior Advisor.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has moved to New York and will continue to advise MTM clients, and has joined Beet.TV as Director of Strategy and Editorial.<\/span><\/p>\n

I sat down with him last week to talk about his big move, why he’s joining Beet.TV and his views on this disruptive period for the television industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beet’s relationship with Jon goes back five years when help curate and moderate a program at Sky’s London office.\u00a0 Since then, we have partnered on several projects including Cannes Lions,\u00a0 Future of TV Ads\/London, CES coverage and most recently the 2020 Beet Retreat in San Juan, where he helped to curate the programming.\u00a0We have grown to become fast friend and colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am incredibly excited about Jon’s joining me and the Beet.TV team.\u00a0 He brings deep domain expertise and insight into what’s happening and what’s going to happen next. He will help power deeper editorial coverage and\u00a0 expand the scope of our events.\u00a0 We will also be expanding the range of services we offer to the industry: more news on this in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Watts, the London-based media consultant, has announced a big change in his professional life:\u00a0 He is transitioning out of his full-time position at MTM, the research and strategy consulting firm he co-founded \u00a0in London 10 years ago, to become the firm\u2019s Senior Advisor. He has moved to New York and will continue to advise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}