Indispensable

Imagine "fully-connected video".  No, I don't know what it means, and I'm not sure the BBC does either. But they're excited enough to be recruiting a Head of Product, Fully Connected Video, to deliver something, anything, over the next year and a half..

"The BBC has recognised the need to pursue big, bold innovation, against unmet user/audience needs to help support the reinvention of the BBC for the audience. To do this we are embarking on an exciting programme of Innovation Challenges. Each challenge will explore a particular area, with the ambition of creating something of the scale and as innovative as iPlayer was at the time it was launched. An innovation challenge will run for a defined period (up to 18 months) and with an agreed budget. If successful we imagine that any developed product could have an ongoing place as the heart of the overall BBC product portfolio."

The successful candidate gets to work with Challenge Sponsor, Cassian Harrison, Channel Editor BBC Four. "The aim is to explore how the BBC could use the latest technology to create indispensable video experiences that connect our audiences and are distinctly BBC?"

Leading-edge Cassian cycles to the BH Ideas Factory from home in Paddington. His early ambition was to be an 80s synth-pop record producer, like Martin Rushent. He was a grammar school boy extra in P'tang Yang Kipperbang, written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted for Channel 4 in 1982. After Bristol University, he got a job dubbing corporate videos for Body Shop. The rest is history. Or 80s synth-pop on BBC4....