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The French TV series
Call My Agent charting the lives of Parisian talent agents and the high-maintenance actors they look after (catering to their every whim) has become a cult Netflix hit.
Now, talent agencies are becoming increasingly common in the art world, with some visual artists choosing to depart traditional galleries in favour of working with agencies whose focus is more on building partnerships with brands and institutions (alongside selling their work of course).
While some of the larger movie and music agencies, such as the Los Angeles-based WME (part of Frieze parent company, Endeavor) and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), only occasionally focus on the visual arts, others like UTA (United Talent Agency) has a whole division devoted to it.
Rio Ferdinand invests in Spotify of overseas payments app Sokin
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Former England footballer Rio Ferdinand is dipping his toe into the fintech world investing in a new overseas payments app launching this summer.
He spoke to
City A.M. about why the partnership with Sokin is in large part because of his experiences through childhood and what he’s learned about investment.
The ‘Spotify of payments’
Sokin, which launches this summer, offers a fixed-fee, subscription-based payment app for overseas transfers. Chief executive Vroon Modgill dubs it the “Spotify of overseas payments”.
Sokin will charge users £9.99 a month to send an unlimited number of payments abroad. “We don’t pay for every track we download or each film we stream, yet when we’re sending money or making a payment, we’re expected to accept unspecified and variable costs. Why? This has to change,” Modgill said.
BBC News
image captionThe New European was launched on a short run in 2016 to fight Brexit
A consortium including Mark Thompson and Lionel Barber has conducted a management buy-out of The New European, the make-shift weekly print title initially launched on a four-week run in 2016 to fight Brexit.
TNE was owned by Archant, the local publishing group based in Norwich.
Its chief content officer, former Daily Mirror executive Matt Kelly, led the fund-raising effort, and as of this morning has left Archant to become CEO and editor-in-chief of The New European.
The executive chairman will be Gavin O Reilly, the Irish businessman who was former CEO of Independent News & Media, and whose father Tony was for many years proprietor of The Independent.
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