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One afternoon in NYC

On my trip to NYC to celebrate Virgin Atlantic’s 25th birthday, I had a few media appointments that allowed me to share my thoughts on the Virgin brand and our businesses and announce a bit of exciting rock-n-roll news. Here’s a snapshot of an afternoon in the Big Apple.
My first visit was with CNN American [...]

Sign up and save Sydney FBi!

I’ve been receiving lots of requests from the supporters of Sydney FBi 94.5FM to help save their community radio station which is in financial trouble in this recession. They’ve set a goal to raise one million Australian dollars.
I’d like to congratulate FBi radio for running a truly inventive and original ‘Ask Richard Campaign’. I only [...]

The Independent interview

Here’s an interview I did recently with Simon Calder from The Independent newspaper in the UK to discuss Virgin Atlantic’s 25 year history. Follow the link to read the interview or listen to the podcast…

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PitchTV: Vote for your favourite video pitch

Voting is now open for the third round of PitchTV. It’s up to you to decide which five video pitches will make it in to August’s episode of Richard Branson’s PitchTV which will premiere on board Virgin Atlantic planes and then be shown here online.
So which of the latest batch of pitches do you think [...]

PitchTV: Prefio

Here’s another PitchTV video for your consideration: Prefio.com claims to be a novel way of recruiting which achieves far better results, more quickly, at much reduced cost. Do you think this video pitch is good enough to make it in to Richard’s PitchTV show onboard Virgin Atlantic planes?

Keep checking back for more video pitches [...]

PitchTV: Ask Michelle Mone - creator of Ultimo

I’m Michelle Mone - the founder of MJM International and creator of Ultimo lingerie, now the UK’s biggest leading designer lingerie brand. I’m very honoured to be listed as one of the top 3 female entrepreneurs in the UK.
I’ve always been driven and entrepreneurial for as long as I can remember. Growing up in the [...]

PitchTV: iSyndica

Here’s another PitchTV video for your consideration: iSyndica - the web distributor. Do you think this video pitch is good enough to make it in to Richard’s PitchTV show onboard Virgin Atlantic planes?

Keep checking back for more video pitches over the next few days before we ask you to vote for your favourite.
For [...]

Another day in the office…


The second PitchTV show winners…

Voting has now closed on our second round of PitchTV, and the winning video pitches that will feature in the next Virgin Atlantic’s PitchTV show are:

Team Marco Polo

The Grad Room

Webcam City Movie

Project Rhythm Seed

Me-TV

Congratulations to you winners and thanks to everyone who submitted videos!
I’ll let everyone know soon when this next PitchTV show, which also [...]

Ask Richard anything

Got a burning question for Sir Richard Branson? The time has come for another Q&A session so now’s your chance to ask the smiley man with the beard anything you want. Richard will answer a few of your questions - but only the very best, so make it a cracker…
Submit your question by adding a [...]