{"id":490359,"date":"2021-05-14T18:33:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=490359"},"modified":"2021-05-14T18:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:33:36","slug":"business-talk-with-michael-avery-hits-750000-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/490359\/business-talk-with-michael-avery-hits-750000-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk with Michael Avery hits 750,000 views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessTech&#8217;s online talk show <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Business Talk with Michael Avery<\/strong><\/a> has reached 750,000 views.<\/p>\n<p>The Netflix-style business talk show has proved extremely popular since it was launched in November 2020, and has featured conversations with\u00a0South Africa\u2019s leading executives.<\/p>\n<p>The show is hosted by TV and radio personality Michael Avery &#8211; anchor of the Classic Business show on Classic FM and Business Day TV &#8211; who has interviewed the who&#8217;s who of the business world on Business Talk.<\/p>\n<p>This has included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discovery Bank CEO &#8211; <strong>Hylton Kallner<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ARC CEO &#8211; <strong>Johan van der Merwe<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Standard Bank CEO &#8211; <strong>Sim Tshabalala<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sygnia CEO &#8211; <strong>Magda Wierzycka<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>EY for Africa CEO &#8211; <strong>Ajen Sita<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;The first two seasons of Business Talk with Michael Avery have been a huge success, and we have received great feedback from both viewers and the executives who took part,&#8221; said Broad Media MD Kevin Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By hosting the country&#8217;s top executives on the show, who are expertly interviewed by Michael, and making their interviews available in a Netflix-type series we let our audience watch high-quality content when it suits them best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">New seasons coming<\/h3>\n<p>Following the success of the first two seasons, Business Talk will be launching its third season soon &#8211; along with an SME-focussed series aimed at helping South African businesses take their operations to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>All the Business Talk interviews are available on Facebook, YouTube, and the dedicated Business Talk website.<\/p>\n<p>You can access these pages using the links below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\"><strong>Official Business Talk Website<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BusinessTechSA\/videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BusinessTech Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCF2Z3n9P_WUDi9TDFHys9SQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BusinessTech YouTube Channel<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessTech&#8217;s online talk show Business Talk with Michael Avery has reached 750,000 views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":446296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[15578,15840],"class_list":["post-490359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-business-talk","tag-businesstechs-business-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490359"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490459,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490359\/revisions\/490459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}