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Channel 4 hired The Cast

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Channel 4 had no influencer agency at all, and was cutting about 200 jobs after its first ever deficit.

On the public record

The problem is documented by somebody with nothing to gain from the agency winning the work.

How we know

Revenue of 1.02bn, down 10 percent year on year, and a 52m deficit for 2023, the first in the broadcaster's history, with about 200 job cuts. The appointment in February 2025 was its first influencer marketing agency, after a competitive pitch.

Who says soCampaign and Marketing Beat for the appointment; Televisual and Deadline for the deficit, entirely separately. Nobody has said the appointment answered the deficit, so the sequence is documented and the cause is not. Read it
A second sourceRevenue of 1.02bn, down 10 percent, and a 52m deficit for 2023, the first in the broadcaster's history. Read it
What the agency was asked to doNot published as a quoted brief. On record: its first influencer marketing agency, appointed after a competitive pitch.
How the agency was pickedCompetitive pitch
How that happenedCampaign reports a competitive pitch. The agencies that took part are not named.
Watch out for: The link between the deficit and the appointment is ours, not a source's. Both halves are independently reported, which is rare here, but no outcome has been published.
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