Industry Masterminds
Media & Entertainment Mastermind.
For leaders in streaming, broadcast, digital publishing, and entertainment — navigating audience fragmentation, content economics, and platform dependency in real time.
The media landscape is restructuring faster than any individual organisation can process. Audience behaviour, distribution economics, and content valuation are all shifting simultaneously. The leaders navigating this need peers who understand the specific mechanics — not generic strategy advice from people who've never had to make a greenlight decision.
Why media leaders need a different room
Industry conferences in media are dominated by platform vendors and ad-tech sponsors. The conversations are structurally compromised. This Mastermind removes those incentives entirely — no sponsors, no vendors, no keynotes. Just senior peers solving real problems in a setting designed for honesty.
What gets discussed
Content economics in a post-peak streaming environment. Audience monetisation when attention is fragmenting across platforms you don't control. The real cost of platform dependency. How to build direct audience relationships when intermediaries capture most of the value. Organisational design for content businesses that need both creative and commercial excellence.
Who belongs in this room
Directors, VPs, and C-suite leaders in streaming, broadcast, digital media, publishing, gaming, or entertainment. People making decisions about content strategy, audience growth, distribution architecture, and the commercial models that fund them.
The curation principle
Different companies across the media ecosystem — streaming, broadcast, publishing, gaming — but the same level of strategic responsibility. The diversity of business models is what makes the exchange valuable. A streaming executive and a publisher face the same audience fragmentation challenge through completely different lenses.
This Mastermind is for leaders who:
- —Hold senior roles (Director+) in media, entertainment, streaming, or publishing
- —Navigate audience fragmentation and evolving content economics
- —Want peer exchange beyond vendor-sponsored industry events
- —Are willing to discuss the real challenges of platform dependency
- —Value strategic depth over networking volume
Founding Exchange — Shape the Format, Set the Price
2026 gatherings are hosted on a founder basis. Boris covers accommodation. Participants contribute €700 per person — all meals, activities, and local logistics across the full weekend.
€700
per person · all-inclusive
From 2027: €2,000–2,500
Your host
Every gathering is built personally by Boris.
"I built two companies, scaled across borders, then spent years inside EMEA headquarters advising the people who run them. That's why I can build this room: I've sat on both sides of the table."
Boris builds every gathering personally, not through an algorithm, not through a team. He reviews every application, builds the room as a whole, and is present for all four days.
Boris built two companies from scratch, scaling to 35 FTE across four offices before pivoting to enterprise advisory. Through his SO DIGITAL and Otto Ziegler Consulting practice, he worked with Directors, VPs, and SVPs at EMEA headquarters: Nike across 14 markets, Uber across 46, WarnerBrosDiscovery / HBO Max across 17, Amazon Ring across 10, and global HQs like TomTom, Victorinox, and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, spanning brand, marketing, creative, e-commerce, supply chain, operations, and procurement. Parallel to this he attended dozens of cross-industry conferences both across Europe, but also across the globe from Hong Kong to Las Vegas. He saw the downsides of mass gatherings for genuine professional connection. It's this combination, founder experience and cross-industry HQ exposure, that shapes how he builds every gathering: he knows which problems are universal, which people can help solve them, and how to build a room where that exchange actually happens.
Frequently Asked Questions
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