It has been a pleasure to present a second season of The Communications Risk Show, reaching audiences of well over a thousand viewers with every episode. However, all good things must come to an end. Yesterday’s livestream was the last in the series. The show featured debate about the most important lessons learned since the beginning of the season and the presenters’ predictions for the future risk landscape. We also reflected on developments in the news, with huge numbers of Commsrisk readers drawn to recent articles about artificial inflation of traffic hurting forecast revenues for SMS authentication messages and the new owners of analytics and assurance leader Mobileum stating the company was overvalued by more than a quarter because insiders had booked sham invoices.
We routinely cover difficult topics during our show because we know that nobody else wants to give them the attention they deserve. Good risk managers tackle every risk as a matter of fact; they do not ignore inconvenient subjects. It is our job to inconvenience ourselves because human nature guarantees that many other people pretend risks have disappeared if nobody looks at them. The upside for me and my fellow presenters is that talking about the messy realities ignored by marketeers and flimflam artists is a lot more interesting than endlessly repeating sales-driven fantasies.
Delusions about wonder technologies and easy profits are the reason why reputations are ruined, jobs are culled, revenue streams decline prematurely and businesses get sued. We would rather see the comms industry deliver sustainable returns by providing reliable services which deserve to be trusted by customers. This challenge is not going away, and we will be back with more broadcasts in 2024. Be sure you do not miss them by subscribing to our streaming schedule and having all our future programs added to your diary automatically. In the meantime, replay any episodes you missed at tv.commsrisk.com and watch yesterday’s show below.
