Britain’s 100 Most Powerful People In The Media For 2014

Google co-founder and chief executive Larry Page has been named the most powerful person in the media for 2014 in the Guardian’s annual power list, the MediaGuardian 100.

More significantly, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been ranked second, Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, ranked 3rd, Director general, BBC Tony Hall, ranked 4th, and Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos ranked 5th in the Guardian’s list of the Top 100 figures in the media for 2013.

Dick Costolo is placed at number 6 in the Guardian’s influential list of players in the British media scene, while rupert Murdoch makes an appearance at number 7.

Singer Taylor Swift was the highest-placed woman on this year’s list, marking her debut on the MediaGuardian 100 at number 10.

All very worthy, as you would expect.

Guardian’s 100 Most influential players in the British media scene

1. Larry Page
co-founder, chief executive, Google

2.Mark Zuckerberg
founder, chief executive, Facebook

3. Tim Cook
chief executive, Apple

4. Tony Hall
Director general, BBC

5. Jeff Bezos, 50
founder, chief executive, Amazon

6. Dick Costolo, 51
chief executive, Twitter

7. Rupert Murdoch, 83
head of 21st Century Fox and News Corp

8. Lenny Henry, 56
actor, writer, comedian

9. Paul Dacre/Martin Clarke, 66 (Dacre), 50 (Clarke)
editor, Daily Mail (Dacre), publisher, Mail Online (Clarke)

10. Taylor Swift, 24
musician

11. Martin Sorrell, 69
chief executive, WPP Group

12. Danny Cohen, 40
director, BBC Television

13. Jeremy Darroch, 52
chief executive, Sky; chair, Sky Deutschland

14. Adam Crozier, 50
chief executive, ITV

15. Peter Fincham, 58
director of television, ITV

16.Sajid Javid, 45
secretary of state for culture, media and sport

17. Rona Fairhead, 53
chair, BBC Trust

18. Simon Cowell, 55
presenter, music and TV producer

19. Sophie Turner Laing , 54
chief executive, Endemol/Shine/Core

20. PewDiePie, 25
YouTuber

21. Ted Sarandos, 50
chief content officer, Netflix

22. Gavin Patterson, 47
chief executive, BT

23. Alan Rusbridger, 60
editor-in-chief, Guardian News & Media

24. Mike Darcey, 49
chief executive, News UK

25. Charlotte Moore, 46
controller, BBC1

26. Shane Smith, 45
co-founder, chief executive, Vice Media

27. David Dinsmore, 46
editor, the Sun

28. David Abraham, 51
chief executive,
Channel 4

29. Nick Robinson, 51
political editor, BBC

30. Jonah Peretti, 40
founder, chief executive, BuzzFeed

31. Evan Spiegel, 24
co-founder, chief executive, Snapchat

32. John Fallon, 52
chief executive, Pearson

33. James Harding, 45
director of news and current affairs, BBC

34. Viscount Rothermere, 47
chair, Daily Mail & General Trust

35. James Purnell, 44
director of strategy and digital, BBC

36. Lionel Barber, 59
editor, Financial Times

37. Russell Brand, 39
comedian, actor, author, activist

38. John Witherow, 62
editor, the Times

39. Murdoch MacLennan, 65
chief executive, Telegraph Media Group

40. Jay Hunt, 47
chief creative officer, Channel 4

41. Daniel Ek, 31
founder, chief executive, Spotify

42. Tim Davie, 47
chief executive, BBC Worldwide; director, Global

43. David Lynn, 45
president, UK, Viacom International Media Networks

44. John Malone, 73
chair, Liberty Media and Liberty Global

45. David Joseph, 45
chair, chief executive, Universal Music UK

46. Helen Boaden, 58
director, BBC radio

47. Susan Wojcicki, 46
chief executive, YouTube

48. Sally Wainwright, 51
television writer

49. John Whittingdale, 55
chair, Commons culture, media and sport select committee

50. Benedict Cumberbatch, 38
actor

51. Geordie Greig, 53
editor, Mail on Sunday

52. Richard Desmond, 63
chair, Northern & Shell; proprietor, Express Newspapers

53. Pierre Omidyar, 47
founder, chair, eBay

54. Ian Hislop, 54
editor, Private Eye; presenter

55. Martin Ivens , 56
editor, Sunday Times

56. Jerome Jarre, 24
Vine star

57. Ev Williams, 42
chief executive, Medium

58. Shonda Rhimes , 44
writer, producer, director

59. Satya Nadella, 47
chief executive, Microsoft

60. Bob Shennan, 52
controller, Radio 2, 6 Music, Asian Network; BBC head of music

61. Alan Parker, 58
founder, chair, Brunswick Group

62. Sheridan Smith, 33
actor

63. Marissa Mayer, 39
chief executive, Yahoo

64. John Micklethwait, 52
editor-in-chief, the Economist

65. Stuart Murphy, 43
director, entertainment channels, Sky

66. Stephen Lambert, 55
chief executive, Studio Lambert; chair, All3Media America

67. David Lynch, 68
writer, director, musician

68. Jeremy Clarkson, 54
presenter, columnist, author

69. Matthew Freud, 51
founder, chair, Freud Communications

70. Evgeny Lebedev, 34
owner, Independent titles, London Evening Standard, London Live

71. Ben Stephenson, 37
controller, BBC drama commissioning

72. Nicholas Coleridge, 57
managing director, Condé Nast UK; president, Condé Nast International

73. Sarah Sands, 53
editor, London Evening Standard

74. Ashley Tabor, 37
founder, executive president, Global Group

75. Roland Rudd, 53
founder, chair, Finsbury

76. Simon Fox, 53
chief executive, Trinity Mirror

77. Jamie Oliver, 39
TV chef

78. Lloyd Embley, 48
group editor-in-chief, Trinity Mirror

79. Alan Moses, 69
chair, Ipso

80. Richard Ayoade, 37
actor, writer, director, presenter

81. Eliot Higgins, 35
blogger

82. Brendan Iribe, 35
chief executive, Oculus VR

83. Ben Priest , 46
founder, executive creative director, Adam & Eve DDB

84. Steven Moffat, 53
writer, executive producer

85. Jan Koum, 38
co-founder, chief executive, WhatsApp

86. Kim Shillinglaw, 45
controller, BBC2, BBC4

87. Jeremy Paxman, 64
presenter, writer, stand-up

88. Justine Roberts, 47
co-founder, chief executive, Mumsnet

89. Amol Rajan, 31
editor, the Independent

90. Zoella, 24
YouTuber, author

91. Mishal Husain, 41
presenter, journalist

92. Lena Dunham , 28
writer, actor, producer

93. Alexandra Shulman, 57
editor-in-chief, British Vogue

94. Paul Staines, 47
blogger

95. Gary Lineker, 54
presenter

96. Katie Grand, 43
editor-in-chief, Love Magazine

97. Alex Ljung, 33
co-founder, chief executive, Sound Cloud

98. Laura Bates, 28
blogger and campaigner

99. Piers Morgan, 49
columnist, TV presenter

100. Kim Kardashian, 34
celebrity