BBC director-general Matt Brittin: ‘It’s worth fighting for’ • Financial Times (opens in new tab)

Daniel Thomas lunches with the new director-general of the BBC, Matt Brittin, formerly CEO of Google UK: The BBC has already struck a deal to post hundreds of hours of content on YouTube. Some executives worry that these sorts of deals just give away content to the benefit of the third-party platform. “Ideally, you wouldn’t be starting from where we are, but look at the data. Young people are on YouTube five times as much as they’re consuming television, so we’ve got to be there. We need to h...