Zinc Media Group

Zinc Media Group operates in Aberdeen, Belfast, Glasgow, London and Manchester with an emerging Bristol base. The Group announced back in September that it would also explore targeted M&A as it looks to scale the Group in the years ahead. "This investment provides a bulwark against further Covid related disruption, even if it extends into 2021, and it means we can now drive forward our growth plans. New markets for content creation are emerging and we see opportunities for further revenue diversification as we expand the kind of content we make both in Zinc TV's labels and in Zinc Communicate," adds Mark Browning. "Zinc has a strong UK footprint in the Nations, Regions and London along with a sizeable proportion of revenues from outside the domestic market." Zinc Media Group is home to five leading factual TV production brands - Blakeway , Brook Lapping , Films of Record , Tern Television and the recently-launched Red Sauce . Zinc Communicate , its agency division producing TV and digital content for advertisers, publishers, media owners and rights holders, houses Zinc's new Branded Content Division , which launched in June. It partners brands with Zinc's programming ideas to develop new revenue models alongside Zinc's TV labels. This new investment, to help drive growth in 2021, follows a previous fundraising round, which attracted £3.5m of new funds in January this year. That allowed the Group to invest in several senior creative appointments; launch a new Branded Content division, headed by Dominic de Terville, launch a new factual entertainment and formats label Red Sauce, headed by Tom Edwards; build a new state of the art post production facility; move its London operations to a new office; and strengthen its corporate infrastructure. "This new investment is a huge endorsement of the progress we have made since January and will allow us to realise our ambitions in 2021.