Hey, we’re Splice.

Let’s build you a viable media business.

We’ll help you build a business that serves a user need, creates value, and ultimately makes money.

  • We’re 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

  • We’re coaches.

    We can help you build confidence and your sense of self

  • We’re trainers.

    We can teach you and your team skills around mission, audience, business, product, operations, and people

  • We're designers.

    We will help you build the branding and identity you need — for your website, logo, social surfaces, event, or merch

  • We're researchers.

    Thinking of funding or investing in a new market? Ask us for a media landscape audit, with discovery, insights, and actionable recommendations

  • We’re your community.

    We’re here for you. We’re here for each other. Splicers of the world, unite ❤️

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Listen to sessions from Beta 2023

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“What really left a mark is how this festival creates a tight-knit, supportive community. No one’s a stranger here! Whether it’s a quick chat before or after sessions, during meals, or over coffee, it’s all about making connections. It feels like a time for rejuvenation”

— Catur Ratna Wulandari,
digitalMamaID
Indonesia

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Get your tuktuk on

Wear your love for media startups, community, and tuktuks with our new collection of Splice Beta tees and caps. Also… mugs!

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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

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“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

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“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

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“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

Darshini Kandasamy, the co-founder of Between the Lines, Malaysia

“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

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“Splice rocks!”

— Ankhbayar Tserenvandan
Lemon Press
Mongolia

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“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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