Daniel is the Founder and CEO of Navigated Media. He advises leadership teams on the role media should play across their organisations, helping them identify where media can create strategic and commercial value and build ventures around their expertise and intellectual property.

Daniel’s advice is grounded in practical experience helping organisations design, build and grow media ventures. From business models, operating structures and platform strategy through to development, production, rights, partnerships and distribution, he has worked across the full lifecycle of media.

Over the last 25 years Daniel’s career has spanned television, digital platforms and the creator economy. He has developed over 60 primetime television series, scaled leading YouTube channels into media businesses, produced branded entertainment, led major national cross-platform campaigns, and advised organisations including the BBC, Universal Music Group and Tate.

Selected Experience

Building Media Ventures

Universal Music Group / Mercury Studios
Advised on the launch of Mercury Studios, helping define the business model, creative manifesto and long-term development strategy across television, film, digital and audio.

Creator & Expert-Led Media Ventures
Partnered with leading YouTube creators, including Fallow and Dad v Girls, to evolve successful channels into scalable media businesses through corporate structure, intellectual property, revenue diversification and operational capability.

Cultural Institutions
Advised leading cultural institutions including Tate and the Zoological Society of London on identifying and developing media ventures built around their expertise, reputation and intellectual property.

Media Strategy & Transformation

Comic Relief / Sport Relief
Served as creative and strategic lead for Sport Relief, reaching more than 25% of the UK population and raising £40.9 million through an integrated ecosystem of BBC broadcast content, digital platforms, brand partnerships, live events and a donation-driving app.

Premium Media Production

60+ Primetime Television Series
Held senior positions at the BBC and leading independent production companies. Developed and produced major UK and international programmes featuring Bear Grylls, Raymond Blanc, Heston Blumenthal, Professor Brian Cox and Little Mix.

International Award-Winning Film
Created Inside the Mind of Leonardo, the RTS-nominated and Lumières Award-winning film starring Peter Capaldi, built around exclusive access to Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus.

Branded Entertainment & Partnerships

Live & Lost (Channel 4 / BlackBerry)
Executive Produced a pioneering branded entertainment format integrating television, YouTube and live social participation.

Brand & Platform Partnerships
Created content and strategic partnerships with organisations including British Airways, Cunard, Waitrose, Sony Music, Premier League, NFL, Puma, BlackBerry, BT and De Agostini.

Daniel’s breadth of experience gives him a systems-level understanding of how media businesses are built. Today, he helps organisations move beyond simply creating content to building and owning the audience relationships, intellectual property and capability that can turn their expertise into enduring media enterprise.