Analysis and direction where media and technology meet.
DJB Strategies is a boutique consultancy created to help companies in media, information services — and adjacent sectors — respond to change, succeed and grow.
The approach is simple: integrate robust analysis with practical execution. Clarity through complexity, work you can act on.
Clarity through complexity. Practical, actionable and measurable direction for leadership teams.
Explore the work →Designing technology solutions and propositions with powerful product-market fit.
Explore the work →Understanding the future and extracting real meaning from data.
Explore the work →Understanding and navigating platforms — and making them work for you.
Explore the work →In little over two years, DJB Strategies has grown from one founder into a specialist team — trusted by some of the most demanding names in media and information services on both sides of the Atlantic.
A fast-growing team of partners and specialists across audiences, audio and video, analysis and data — senior, hands-on, and led by founder David Buttle.
Selected engagements across AI licensing, search, propositions and platform strategy — robust analysis paired with practical delivery.
Commentary and analysis in the trade press on media, AI and big tech — plus recent speaking from the stage.
Before founding DJB Strategies, David was Director of Public Affairs and Platform Strategy at the Financial Times, where he led the FT's response to artificial intelligence and oversaw its interfaces with big tech. Earlier he spent around eight years as the FT's Global Commercial Marketing Director.
He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, contributes regularly to Press Gazette, and sits on the board of the Independent Publishers Alliance.