Driving business forward with comms
BBC
| Case Study
A digital transformation at the world’s most trusted news organisation
HOW IT STARTED
As the world’s most trusted news organisation, reaching an audience of almost 500 million viewers a week, the BBC has always valued storytelling—not only for its audience but for BBC employees. In the 1930s, the BBC launched Ariel, an employee-focused newspaper, which transitioned to an online publication to meet employee needs in the digital age.
But something was missing.
“It didn’t reflect the modern media organisation that we were,” said Deborah Copeland, director of internal communications and engagement at the BBC. “It felt quite old-fashioned. It didn’t reflect the culture that I knew we had, and were wanting to continue to create, at the BBC.”
WHERE THEY LANDED
“We have correspondents and journalists working in some really difficult circumstances,” Deborah explained. “Having access to the latest information, having it personalised to them, whether that’s via desktop or mobile, is really, really important.”
“The breadth of what Firstup offers allows us to do more in a single platform, and there are cost efficiencies to that.” But more importantly, she said, is that “we have a platform that can grow alongside us. The ambition for the platform matches the ambition we have for our engagement approach. It feels like a journey that we can go on together, which is really exciting.”
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