Meet UK's media pioneer Jamal Edwards

Jamal Edwards, founder of popular online broadcaster SBTV, today announced via Twitter that Channel 4 who earlier this year aired a one off documentary titled Inside SBTV, now want to turn it in to a series.

But who is Jamal Edwards? Jamal Edwards is the black CEO and founder of SBTV – UK’s largest youth media channel, which he started at the age of just 16. Now 20, Jamal has continued to push the boundaries and has come a long way.



In the past few months he has been profiled in The Guardian, been tipped as one of the UK’s top young entrepreneurs by Richard Branson​, signed a label deal with Sony RCA, announced as the face of New Era’s first European campaign and now he has been made the face of the new Google Chrome advert.