Watch RTS events in full

Networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are now an integral part of the UK’s video landscape. What are the implications of their growth, not just for viewers, but for content creators, traditional broadcasters and advertisers?

An expert panel, chaired by Kate Bulkley, discussed the subject at our 'Social Media Muscles in on TV' event. The panel included Dara Nasr, Managing Director, Twitter, UK; Stephen Nuttall, Senior Director, EMEA, YouTube and Patrick Walker, Director of Media Partnerships, EMEA, Facebook.

Virtual reality headsets and gadgets fought for space with a bumper audience at the RTS event on 360-degree technology.

Click here to read the full event report and watch highlights from the event.

At the RTS London Conference, the discussion over regulations in the public service broadcasting sector got heated as the panel debated government intervention, licence fees, and staying true to their remit. 

Pat Younge chaired as Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt, BBC's director of strategy and education James Purnell, Italian journalist Monica Maggioni, and head of planning and scheduling for Denmark's broadcasting corporation Peter Rosberg offer their take on how to best serve the public. 

Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse talks about the responsibilities of scientists in the modern world, the role the media has in explaining complex topics, and the effect of a Brexit on the science community. 

The BBC's former media correspondent Torin Douglas asked the questions; what exactly is big data? And how is it useful?

The panel at Covent Garden's Hospital Club included Accenture's Laura Chittick, Sky's Jamie West, Mark Connolly from Havas Media Group, and Channel 4's deputy head of analytics Pedro Cosa Fernandezd

Heat magazine's Entertainment Director Boyd Hilton chaired a discussion with the creative team behind last year's hit period drama Poldark.

Writer Debbie Horsfield talked topless scything and the good fortune of the General Election alongside actor Jack Farthing, composer Anne Dudley, and managing director of Mammoth Screen Damien Timmer.

Read the full report from the evening here.

Watch the full video from In Conversation with... Gary Davey. The early evening event was hosted by the Managing Director of Sugar Films, Pat Younge. 

 At last month's The Secret of the Soaps event, the masterminds behind Coronation Street revealed to RTS audiences the inside secrets of what has made the show last for 55 years

The panel starred actor Tina O'Brien, writer Debbie Oates, producer Stuart Blackburn and ITV's Creative Director of Serial Dramas John Whiston. The session was chaired by former ITV Director of Entertainment and Comedy  Paul Jackson.

Please note that this video contains adult material.

This is the full video from this year's RTS Comedy event where chair Boyd Hilton asked members of the panel about comedy going online, the longevity of the genre and whether anything needs to change about what type of comedy is being commissioned.