Dan Hong: Essential grazes for a digital generation

Who doesn't love a cooking show? With your kind of people in it? With a hot new chef? All in a day's future proofing for the production company.
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Image: Dan Hong hustling the show on Instagram.  

Behind #Shelfie with Dan Hong lies a case study in the evolution of a modern media company. Essential Media and Entertainment has been steadily developing its digital media slate for some time. 

‘All our customers are increasingly platform agnostic’, said Alan Erson, the Head of Factual for Essential. ‘They want to create stuff which they will be putting out on all sorts of platforms and that is just a reality.’ 

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.