Andy Meikle

About

Andy Meikle is the Founder and CEO of tech start-up, Recast. Recast is a subscription-free live and on-demand streaming platform powered by microtransactions, that gives fans affordable access to the sports and entertainment they love, and pays content creators and rights holders for every view. Andy, a major sports fan whose own professional football career was cut short by injury, was frustrated by the fragmentation of sports broadcasting and how many subscriptions were needed just to watch sports. With many teams and sports struggling to monetise their rights or develop revenue streams on existing free-to-consumer content platforms, Andy identified an opportunity to create something fairer and more transparent, that could work for sports and also respond to the demands of the growing creator economy. Recast offers an innovative OTT solution that is free to use and allows rights holders and content creators to set up and run their own direct-to-consumer channel in minutes. The plat

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Location

Edinburgh, UK