Whilst moving to a new iPhone, the photos app decided to go a bit crazy with my iCloud albums and download random pictures from the last 7 years. One of them was this; taken in my friend Jon’s university bedroom, at 3:25am on 23rd October 2011.
Jon, our friend Sam, and I had a common love for electronic music and wanted to create a platform to share this with the world. We spent all night working on the concept for the brand, and the website that would be the hub of this. Over the next couple of years, we went onto create a semi-successful YouTube channel, with supporting Facebook and Twitter accounts. We connected with many similar people, built relationships with producers and record labels, and even had a short lived run on our University radio.
However, what I now realise is this process allowed me to develop some digital marketing and web design knowledge, improve my networking skills, as well as learning how to produce a radio show. These experiences have both intrinsically helped in developing these skills, but also in creating stories to tell at interviews and in my current role. It also taught me a very valuable lesson… you are not bigger than copyright law!
