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In the latest podcast, David Kitchener talks to Barry Sheldrick from DbM / Meriden regarding the remarkable growth of DbM as a spin-off distributor. Recently, DbM earned the title of Distributor of the year at the recent Smart Building awards, just three years since its inception. Listen to the discussion about this incredible achievement.

In this podcast David Kitchener and Dan Sait discuss the merits of advertising, what it can do for you and what benefits advertising brings to your company. 

Don’t let your company get left behind by thinking that advertising does not work!

David Kitchener talks to four successful women in the AV industry, to celebrate International women’s day.



“Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all embrace equality”.


So, celebrating women's achievements and increasing visibility, while calling out inequality, is key.

With this podcast we are concentrating on lighting, as we are joined by the award winning Rako Controls the UK’s leading smart lighting controls manufacturer, who recently picked up awards at the Smart Building awards for the “Best Lighting control” and to add to that Rako won the “Best Hardware” category award at the recent CEDIA EMEA awards, for their modular WK-MOD and RK-MOD keypads.

To the AV integrator, power is everything. 

The connection of a system to the mains fires up all sorts of solutions, from lighting and HAVAC through to cinema and music. But how much attention do we actually give to the power source? 

All it takes is a spike in power or power cut and all of the integrators hard-earned work requires service visits and, at worst, swapping out of kit. So, to discuss this important topic we are joined by Philipp Gude of GUDE Systems.

This podcast focuses on Snap One. This is a culmination of SnapAV and Control4 rebranding as Snap One just over a year ago. The rebranding and general marketing for a company the size of Snap One is a mammoth task: hear how they are achieving this and where Snap One are now.