London, UK – Jan 12th 2012 – Consumer engagement specialists, TE Media (a Telecom Express Group company) today announced a joint venture partnership with live advice industry experts Michael Spencer and Gordon Robson, to form a new lifestyle advice company, Live Guru (
www.live-guru.com). The joint venture will combine state-of-the-art technology with the collective expertise of both parties in order to better serve current and prospective media clients.
Spencer and Robson originally founded Stream Group PLC in 1999, including Stream Live, which was built up to become the leading UK psychic services business, before its sale in 2008. After three years working on other ventures, the pair formed new company, Psychic Friends, developing a cutting-edge live advice platform, currently used by Craig Hamilton Parker’s
www.psychics.co.uk.
TE Media’s current lifestyle offering has been operating in the industry for over 13 years, providing fully managed psychic and astrology services, consultancy and in-house technology to leading newspapers and magazines. They work with leading astrologers and psychics such as Mystic Meg and Shelley Von Strunckel. Clients include The Sun, Daily Mail, The Times, The Sunday Express, The Telegraph, The Daily Star, OK!, Grazia, Prima, Cosmopolitan and Bella.
Live Guru, the newly formed joint venture company, will provide strengthened expertise and industry-leading state-of-the-art technology to help increase revenue for their already impressive list of clients.
Rob Ellis, Managing Director at Telecom Express commented: “We’re thrilled to announce this new venture with Mike (Spencer) and Gordon (Robson), two figureheads in the interactive services industry and highly successful entrepreneurs. Our combined expertise, innovative technology and extensive client list will help to propel Live Guru to the UK’s number one live psychic and astrology business, offering the best-in-industry live advice services for our valued media partners”.
Mike Spencer commented: “Live advice services are undergoing exciting expansion with multi-channel delivery and combining our strengths will ensure we are best placed to capitalise on that growth”.
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