{"id":68899,"date":"2026-08-06T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/bbc-hires-26-year-old-entrepreneur-to-help-reach-younger-audiences-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:12:06","slug":"bbc-hires-26-year-old-entrepreneur-to-help-reach-younger-audiences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/bbc-hires-26-year-old-entrepreneur-to-help-reach-younger-audiences-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC hires 26-year-old entrepreneur to help reach younger audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Relph, who founded first company at 13, joins strategy team in \u2018much-needed step\u2019 for the broadcaster<\/p>\n<p>A 26-year-old business prodigy and self-styled gen Z whisperer has been drafted in by the BBC as it battles to reach young audiences increasingly choosing content creators on YouTube and TikTok over traditional broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Relph, who founded his first company aged 13, and has been praised by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, has joined the BBC\u2019s strategy team to help counter the existential threat of falling audiences among young people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/aug\/06\/bbc-hires-26-year-old-gen-z-entrepreneur-brandon-relph-younger-audiences\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Relph, who founded first company at 13, joins strategy team in \u2018much-needed step\u2019 for the broadcaster A 26-year-old business prodigy and self-styled gen Z whisperer has been drafted in by the BBC as it battles to reach young audiences increasingly choosing content creators on YouTube and TikTok over traditional broadcasters. Brandon Relph, who founded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}