Listen to this articleReal Vision is on a mission to disrupt financial media. Their objective is to deliver unbiased, in-depth, high quality financial content for intellectually curious investors and market professionals. Real Vision Television is an on-demand video service featuring in-depth presentations and interviews with many of the the industry’s most respected investors, analysts, investment strategists and Geo-political analysts.
Below is our interview with Raoul Pal, CEO at Real Vision TV.
Q: What was the idea behind Real Vision?
A: Real Vision was created as a direct response to mainstream financial media’s relentless drive towards clickbait and sensationalist sound-bites. The media landscape is changing rapidly. Non–linear broadcasting and active user interaction have been instrumental to this change. Video content and immersive story-telling have led the way, becoming the dominant viewing format for the 21st Century.
But traditional financial media hasn’t kept up. They have not adapted in the last 20 years, they remain focused on the media consumption of Baby Boomers and use finance as entertainment. This has resulted in declining audiences.
In reaction to this, financial media outlets have taken desperate measures to cling on to audiences with sound-bites, clickbait and chasing ever-decreasing ad spend. They are losing credibility and have left us, the financial community, un-trusting of their content.
Real Vision has paying subscribers in over 100 countries ranging from students to retail investors and some of the world’s most famous hedge fund managers.
At it’s core, Real Vision is different because we only have to focus on our subscribers. There is no requirement to dance to the tune of advertisers or corporate sponsors. No worries about cutting things short to accommodate commercial breaks. No drive to dumb things down. No need to create sensationalist sound-bites for the sake of clickbait. No requirement to sell anything on the back end.
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Q: You’ve recently added Thomson Reuters veteran as Business Development Director; could you tell us something more?
A: Jack Devery, the former Global Head of Business Planning for Strategic Accounts at Thomson Reuters, hire comes at an advantageous time for Real Vision. As mainstream financial media sees plunging viewership and loss of credibility, Real Vision’s disruptive video-on-demand format is fast gaining traction as a preferred source for investors, traders and hedge fund managers.
The appointment of Devery marks a resolute move towards broadening subscription opportunities for Real Vision by signing big institutional partnerships too. Devery will be based in the company’s New York office and will focus on increasing sales by working with banks and brokerage houses to secure bulk subscriptions. Real Vision provides both investment video and financial report subscription-based products for the financial industry and individual investors. Real Vision is also accredited by global financial and educational institutions including; CFA Institute, CISI, CFP, Cambridge University and MIT.
Devery, joins Real Vision from Thomson Reuters where he spent over a decade across various business strategic and management roles, including Global Head of Business Planning and Operations for Strategic Accounts. Prior to his time at Thomson Reuters, Devery played roles of increasing importance at JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers. Over his successful career to date, he has proven to be a pioneering leader and visionary, which will prove a valuable asset to the growth of RealVision.
Q: Tell us more about your products?
A: Real Vision is a distruptive global financial media company offering subscription-based, on-demand television, written research and podcasts. It’s where we invite the world’s most successful and famous investors to share their thoughts about what really matters in financial markets. Free from sponsors or advertising, we rebel against bias and sensationalism and give our guests the freedom to say what they think. Offices are located in the Cayman Islands and New York.
Our Products include Real Vision Television (interviews and documentaries on finance and geopolitics). We also have two written research products, Think Tank (a compendium of research from top financial writers) and MacroInsiders (an elite macro-analysis report service). In addition we have two free products, a weekly newsletter, 20/20 and Adventures in Finance podcast.
Q: What is Real Vision Television and who is on it?
A: Real Vision Television delivers masterclass-level insight into the investment strategies of some of the brightest financial minds in the world. Plus a level of depth that the incumbent financial media doesn’t get close to.
Our contributors are genuine investment legends such as Kyle Bass, Jeff Gundlach, Josh Friedman, Russell Grant, Mark Cuban, Arthur Samberg, Rick Rule, John Burbank, Mark Hart, Jim Grant and many, many more.
More than just interviews, we tell stories around the most compelling investment opportunities. And our expansive content covers all major asset classes. We also deliver content from a wide spectrum of the world’s technical traders; including a unique series from industry legend, Peter Brandt.
Plus, we create deep-dive films that explore the biggest new investment themes and are laden with market insight and ideas. These have covered everything from Cannabis and Bitcoin to The Auto Sector and India’s Demonetization.
And of course we present a plethora of actionable trade ideas from hand-picked experts that are aimed at both institutional and retail investors.
Q: What can we expect from Real Vision in the future?
A: Real Vision is growing rapidly and poised for great opportunity in a dynamic and changing financial media landscape. Real Vision’s swift growth marks a significant phase in the company’s development as they look to expand beyond their own platform and work with key brands.
Real Vision are also soon to launch a sister channel to Real Vision Television called Real Vision Trader which offers market-relevant trade ideas and opportunities for traders and investors.
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