The Unfair Advantage of Capital Literacy: What the UK’s Enterprise Investment Scheme Reveals About M&E’s Capital Problem

As our industry breaks new records in annual global revenues, and as audiences demand ever more content, creative entrepreneurs struggle to raise capital. Needlessly. 

Media & Entertainment occupies a strange position in the modern economy. It’s culturally central, economically significant and strategically influential. The Media C-Suite has argued that M&E is, in fact, the world’s “Apex Industry”. Yet, its entrepreneurs routinely describe themselves as capital constrained, even while professional investors continue to complain that credible opportunities are hard to find.

Our industry doesn’t suffer from a lack of capital or a lack...