Hey, we’re Splice.
Let’s build you a viable media business.
We’ll help you build a media business that serves a user need, creates value, and ultimately makes money.
So what can you do with Splice? Take your pick below.
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We’re your consultants.
We’ll show you how to build a newsroom, a business or product strategy, an AI policy, a team, a workflow, or an audience.
Let’s refocus your business or mission by examining the user problem you solve, and build your product-market fit around a business plan that works for you.
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We’re your coaches and mentors.
Media and journalism are hard. We can help you see things more clearly towards a path of change, or help you build a product, business, or audience strategy that works for you.
Either way, we’ve been there — and we’re here to help.
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We’re your trainers.
We can teach you and your team how to build a viable media business. Get mindset, skills, and workflows around mission, brand, audience, business, product, AI, operations, people, and more — regardless of where you work in the media ecosystem.
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We're your designers.
We will help you build the branding and products you need to stand out in your space.
We’ll start by making sure your brands and products are doing the jobs you need them to do — your website, product, program, logo, typography, social surface, event, or merch.
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We're your researchers.
Thinking of funding or investing in a new market? Ask us for a media landscape audit, with discovery, insights, and actionable recommendations. We’ll even present it for you.
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We’re your community.
Our community spaces are delightful places to be, online or off. We’re here to build. We’re here for each other. We’re here for you.
Splicers of the world, unite ❤️
Our services and how you can work with us
Transforming businesses and newsrooms
If you’re trying to turn around or rejuvenate a legacy business, we want to help. We’ll help you create and test new monetisable digital products for your audiences, and establish digital-first operations for your teams.
Building new media products
The product journey starts with the user: What do people want that they’re not getting? We’ll help you figure out the gaps in market, the jobs that people expect you to do, and we’ll help you plan and build those great news products that people want.
Growing audiences and building communities
We can help you find, grow, and engage with your audiences. Often, it requires a hard look at what they need, and creating a regular and consistent engagement strategy. We’ll also make sure you’re tracking real metrics, not vanity traffic numbers.
Streamlining workflows and operations
Scale your processes, not teams. We can help you build the right tech stack to automate tasks, or simplify your current operations so that your team is able to focus on the most important parts of the work.
Mapping the media landscape
Media companies don’t grow in isolation. Having the right ecosystem can help create viable media businesses in a country. We can help you put media landscapes in context. Our reports will give you insights and actionable recommendations.
Designing a brand
Your brand is the voice that speaks to your users, whether they’re internal teams, shareholders, investors, grantors, or your audiences. We’ll help you build that voice, from your logo and your website to your social surfaces, events, and your design system.
Training modern news and media teams
New technologies, new formats, and new audiences mean there’s a constant need for training and hiring. We can help you get the right people in place with our lens on diversity, access, inclusion, equity, skills, and outcomes.
Splice Coaching
You probably need some media therapy.
Being in journalism is hard. We’ll help you figure it out.
Book a free introductory chat.
A Splice guide
Apply to journalism grants and fellowships around the world
For journalists looking for opportunities — give your career a boost
The Splice Pink podcast
Quick conversations across the media ecosystem
Other ways to listen and subscribe
Our stories and profiles
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— Catur Ratna Wulandari,
digitalMamaID
Indonesia
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Our work
Transforming newsrooms. Building new media products. Growing audiences. Building communities. Streamlining workflows and operations. Mapping the media landscape. Training modern news teams and creators.
Big or small, we work with wonderful clients and partners to help strengthen this media ecosystem that we love ❤️
Want some case studies?
From the community
“In a time when journalism around the world, including in Indonesia, is changing profoundly, Splice is a community, a safe space for a person like me: a journalist who is trying hard to remain a journalist despite the shrinking industry.”
— Evi Mariani
Project Multatuli
Indonesia
“Can't thank you enough. Splice has had a lasting impact on small outfits like ours, from the moment you just allowed us to be heard.”
— Roby Alampay
PumaPodcast
Phillipines
“Having you guys around is a serious comfort boost — we know if we ever need help, Splice is there.”
— Mustafa Kassim
Roar Media
Sri Lanka
“The Splice community is rooting for your success, looking to work together, and learning from each other. At Beta, they helped me realise that the good work my team is doing is being seen.”
— Darshini Kandasamy
Between The Lines
Malaysia
“Splice rocks!”
— Ankhbayar Tserenvandan
Lemon Press
Mongolia
“Thank you, Beta for this immersive experience! It was my first time and the magical ambience created by Alan and Rishad is just contagious! The solidarity feeling that they created and the friendly and fun bonds were all life-changing!”
— Marwa Ershaidat
AlHudood
Jordan
About Splice
Hi, we’re Alan Soon and Rishad Patel, and we want to help you build viable media startups in Asia.
We do this by working with the global media ecosystem to discover, document, teach, accelerate, advise, transform, fund, and celebrate journalism creators and organisations.
All the verbs.
The Splice mission
To help you build a viable media business.
The Splice theory of change
We believe that a healthy, viable media ecosystem requires a broader definition of media, an obsessive focus on serving users’ needs, and monetary value from that service.
Join us on Planet Splice
It’s your space to network, learn, and discover new opportunities — with the most exciting global media community in the world.
Our access, diversity, and inclusivity goals
Help us build the media community that we can all be a part of.
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