The Urban List to launch new regional network Metropolist on Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast
Lifestyle content platform The Urban List has launched a regional network called Metropolist which aims to deliver lifestyle content to Australians living outside of capital cities, with the network launching on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast in November.
Speaking to Mumbrella The Urban List founder Susannah George said Metropolist is about “connecting regional locals, as well as savvy tourists with a really great digital experience”.
“It’s The Urban List’s take on content, so it’s vibrant, authentic and credible, only this time we’re delivering that content and value to people outside of the city,” she said.
Well that’s interesting and as the one comment attached to the Urban list link at the bottom of this article would suggest this is a company being built on the back of well basically free labour.
https://pedestrian.tv/jobs/media-publishing/intern/1b275bb7-5c6d-4fd8-9c11-f9fbf4970c30.htm
So yes getting a content channel like this has start up costs but with that must surely come an ethical basis to build upon? Maybe Mumbrella could do an article on this dreadful practice of using interns as free labor, the churn from film and radio schools feeding hundreds of hopeful graduates in to an industry with no real business training. Yes they may be taught how to light shoot and do basic sound but what about teaching the graduates what industry rates are? How to do your B.A.S. your tax and insurance obligations? All of those annoying things that get in the way of being creative getting exposure and being exploited.