Blue Ant: All platforms, all the time, all around the world

THREE-YEAR-OLD Blue Ant Media now has over 200 employees and when you tour around its Merton Street headquarters in Toronto, many of those are your “millennials” or “digital natives” madly creating content for the myriad customers its various media outlets now serve.In just three years, the Michael MacMillan and Seaton McLean-backed venture (TorStar also owns 25%) has grown from purchasing a piece of what was Glassbox Television (with comedy channel Bite and music brand Aux) to a now 11-brand, multiplatform powerhouse with global aspirations. “Our internal motto is ‘connecting people to their passions’,” said Raja Khanna, the company’s TV and...