Results webcasts and AGM broadcasts are compliance-grade productions: formal corporate proceedings with legal standing, timed disclosure obligations, shareholder participation requirements and a permanent record. The production has to be invisible and infallible: clean capture of every word, voting and Q&A handled to the letter of the articles, webcast access for every entitled shareholder, and publication timed to regulation rather than convenience. Here is how the formats work and what production standard they demand.
Results Webcasts
The rhythm is fixed: results release, then the presentation and analyst call or webcast, often same morning. Production requirements: broadcast capture of presentation and Q&A, slides synchronised, dual-chain webcast into the IR platform per the investor event standard, and an archive edit published same-day. Rehearse against the clock: the market does not wait for a restart, which is why the redundancy architecture runs end to end.
AGM Broadcasts
AGMs add formality: quorum, resolutions, polls and shareholder questions are legal proceedings: the record must be complete and accurate. Hybrid AGMs (now standard for listed companies) must give remote shareholders genuine participation: hearing proceedings clearly, asking questions, voting where the articles allow: which makes the hybrid production discipline a governance requirement rather than a nicety. Registrars, chair scripts and the production run sheet must agree: we build the run of show jointly with cosec teams.
The Compliance Layer
Access control: entitled shareholders and analysts in, per registrar lists. Record integrity: every source recorded twice, retained per policy. Timing: nothing publishes early, nothing lags late. Data handling: the finance-sector standards on who touches recordings and where they live. None of this is exotic: it is discipline, specified in writing.
Planning the IR Calendar as One Programme
Results and AGMs repeat. So treat them as one programme rather than separate jobs. The same crew and the same rehearsed machine, four times a year, removes most of the risk.
Also lock the dates early. Registrars, company secretaries and production all need the same calendar. Meanwhile, AGM notice periods leave little slack once papers are printed.
Then rehearse once per format rather than per event. Our run of show template gives you the document that holds it together.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can remote shareholders legally vote at a hybrid AGM?
Depends on the articles and the voting platform: we integrate with registrar systems; the legal position is your cosec team’s call and shapes the production.
What happens if the webcast fails mid-proceedings?
With dual chains, failover in seconds. The governance answer is that it must not meaningfully fail: which is the specification, not an aspiration.
Who keeps the recordings?
You do, per your retention policy: we deliver the complete record and destroy our copies on your schedule, in writing.
Proceedings, Produced Properly
Results, AGMs and the whole IR calendar, to compliance grade. Talk to us.
