We generate international broadcast and web coverage for news stories ranging from business and financial to sports, science, medicine, entertainment and the arts.
Clients world-wide includE:
ABSA • ACWA Power • ADPC • Emaar • Continental Coal • Discovery • Dubai Expo 2020 • Emaar • Gold Fields • JCB • Johannesburg Stock Exchange • Kazakhstan Expo 2017 • Louvre Abu Dhabi • MiSK • Motorola • Nakheel • Old Mutual • PwC • Qiddiya • Red Sea Gateway Terminal • Sanlam • Sappi • Sasol • Shuaa Capital • Standard Bank • Transnet • UNCTAD • WeAreXpert • Weber Shandwick • World Petroleum Congress • Zurich Financial Services.
Case studies:
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
During Covid-19 lockdown (in both the UK and South Africa) we were able to set up this remote interview with the CEO of the JSE, Leila Fourie, on BBC World Service Radio Africa Business Update (interview starts 2 minutes into the programme).
OHM Live
We produced broadcast news stories focusing on the Dubai-based organizers of this global 24-hour fundraising event and the featured talent including stars Dua Lipa, Jason Derulo, Jewel and CeeLo Green.
Qiddiya, Saudi Arabia
We produced a narrated YouTube video for Saudi client Qiddiya when the company announced its master plan to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s capital of Entertainment, Sports and the Arts, to meet and satisfy the recreational, social and cultural needs of current and future generations.
BBC World Business Report (radio) interview with Qiddiya CEO, Michael Reininger:
DP World in Somaliland
We travelled to Somaliland to produce radio, TV and web coverage of the launch of DP World’s plans for expansion of operations in Berbera Port.
Louvre Abu Dhabi
The Louvre Abu Dhabi asked us to manage the global distribution of TV coverage for the inauguration of the Louvre Museum by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and, the following night, the museum’s launch ceremony and fireworks show.
For this event we worked with Brunswick Arts and the museum’s TV production company to liaise with the international broadcast news agencies and target broadcasters to deliver satellite-linked coverage.
Broadcast news agencies supply video footage to websites as well as to traditional TV broadcasters, allowing the news footage we distribute to gain maximum global TV and internet coverage. We are also able to work with state broadcasters such as Abu Dhabi TV to ensure that the news coverage they produce reaches global TV audiences.
Jaguar F-Pace Launch, Dubai
We were commissioned to maximise broadcast and web news channel coverage of the Middle East launch of Jaguar’s F-Pace SUV which, for the first time ever, used the facade of the world’s tallest building – the Burj Khalifa in Dubai – as a giant billboard. The video below shows the news edit distributed to broadcasters and news agencies for each to adapt to their own needs (i.e. it is not shown ‘finished’), containing car footage provided by Jaguar.
MiSK Hackathon
In November 2016, Saudi Arabia hosted the inaugural MiSK Hackathon. Held simultaneously in Riyadh and London, the innovative event for the first time enabled young men and women from both Saudi Arabia and the UK to work together co-operatively to seek new solutions to current medical and healthcare challenges. We provided live satellite links for broadcast interviews and bi-directional communication between the UK and Saudi Arabia throughout the three-day event, as well as news edits for Middle East and International media.
Our colleagues at ARK media produced this video about the event:
ACWA Power
When ACWA Power unveiled its innovative Bokpoort solar power plant in the Kalahari Desert, we produced live interviews from the site, as well as producing and distributing news and web edits.
Kazakhstan Expo 2017
In 2017 Kazakhstan for the first time hosted a World Expo, taking the theme ‘Future Energy: Action for Global Sustainability’. We produced news footage (i.e. it is not shown here ‘finished’) from Kazakhstan focusing on planning and preparations for the three month global exhibition.
Transnet
When South Africa’s state-owned freight transport and logistics company announced the award of a R50 billion (US $4.68 billion) contract to equipment manufacturers in China, Europe and North America, OLB arranged live interviews into African and international radio and TV channels, as well as producing news edits for news agencies and web news channels.
JCB Dieselmax Land Speed Record
When Andy Green shattered the international diesel land speed record on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats, we covered the nine-month run up to the record attempt and then delivered news footage and interviews to the world’s broadcasters as soon as the new world record was won. We also produced this video allowing JCB staff at the company’s UK headquarters to share in the success of the project.
National Guard Hospital Riyadh, Separation of Conjoined Twins
We produced ground-breaking news footage and live interviews with channels including CNN, BBC, Sky and ITN from an operating theatre in Riyadh as surgeons separated conjoined twins. Following the successful operation we produced interviews and news edits showing the twins’ recovery and an interview with HRH King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud who had made the operation possible.