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Edinburgh TV Festival Takeaways: YouTube’s Rise, Commissioning Landscape and Move to Manchester

Variety · August 28, 2026 at 11:07 AM

Edinburgh TV Festival Takeaways: YouTube’s Rise, Commissioning Landscape and Move to Manchester

This year’s Edinburgh TV Festival was one of the buzziest, a somewhat ironic fact given it’s also the last.

From next year the TV festival, which first originated in the Scottish city fifty years ago, is moving to Manchester.

The move was inevitably the talk of this year’s edition, with many genuine

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Edinburgh TV Festival Takeaways: YouTube’s Rise, Commissioning Landscape and Move to Manchester

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