Access Interviews
Who is saying What, Why, When and Where

FAQs

What does Access Interviews do? Top

Access Interviews is the direct access point to the world's interviews available online. These interviews may have originated in newspapers or magazines, or on TV or radio, but have been uploaded by the copyright holders. Access Interviews provides a unique index to take users straight to this source material, thereby avoiding the trouble of trawling through acres of irrelevant rubbish on the Web or congested media sites.

Why is it called Access Interviews? Top

In the business of interviewing, the all-important currency is "access". Every journalist, broadcaster or PR knows that "access" is everything. Only the most respected professionals with the best contacts get access. Without it, there is no interview. Access Interviews allows users to access great interviews which have been made possible with great access. Simple really!

Who can use Access Interviews? Top

Anyone can use Access Interviews - whether to browse, or to post. There is no need to register. Just click and go. And there is no need to be a journalist or publisher. If you spot a great interview somewhere, why not up-load the link so everyone else can enjoy your findings.

Why use Access Interviews? Top

Well, if you have ever missed an interview with a favourite personality and you are having trouble finding it on the web, then we will take you right there. We are plugged into the best journalists and publishers who generate all the exclusive interviews around the world. We also know the top PRs who control the supply of interviews.

But surely there are more reasons to use Access Interviews? Top

Yes indeed! Get ready, as this is a long answer because there are stacks of different reasons for all kinds of people and businesses to use Access Interviews.

If you are a newspaper, magazine, TV or radio station with a great series of new interviews to promote, or a big exclusive, then you can post the links to your articles here and tempt a vast new audience to your website. You might even attract readers to the hard copy of your publication by loading a link to Access Interviews. This will certainly benefit a small circulation magazine which manages to get great access.

If you are a journalist or broadcaster, then Access Interviews is the best place to promote your work or website to a wider audience. On this site, you can organise a complete archive list of your interviews, even though they might appear in a range of magazines or newspapers. Access Interviews provides a fully dated, simple chronology of your work.

If you are a PR, then you can makes sure the world knows about a client's publicity campaign. At the same time, you can clearly establish your company's involvement in securing high profile publicity, thereby creating a rolling portfolio of your company's output. You might also wish to have a credible archive of your client's interviews established here, so when a journalist prepares to interview one of your clients, there is no excuse for him missing an important interview in the cuttings.

If you are a fan, a student or an expert researching a subject, then you can collate all the interviews of your favourite personality and share them with other like-minded people.

Finally, if you are a copyright holder, then Access Interviews could also be ideal for you. The Internet is notorious for the abuse of copyright. If you are the copyright holder of an interview that is being flagrantly used elsewhere on the Web - maybe on a fan site, or a rival media website - then post the correct link here and the world will get to know who genuinely originated the work. At Access Interviews, we respect the copyright of journalists and broadcasters and aim to do our bit to correct any copyright abuse of their work.

How does Access Interviews work? Top

Access Interviews is connected to a worldwide network of leading newspapers and magazine groups, and television and radio broadcasters. These are the professionals who produce the world's interviews and have amazing archives of fascinating interviews across the decades. They feed the links to their interviews on their websites to our database.

Access Interviews is also a community generated website. Our broad network of users are able to source and post interview links they have come across. These interviews generate interest and stimulate a broader discussion.

How does the "Most Accessed" rankings systems work? Top

Our ranking system is operated automatically by the technology in the backroom of our site. Every time a unique user accesses a link, it is registered. However, it is worth noting that only one click per user per computer counts, so there is no gain in clicking on an interview many times to falsely boost its popularity.

What happens if I want to submit old interviews? Top

If you want to submit old interview, then that's great - old interviews are fascinating! Our clever system automatically places interviews that are published more than a month before the date you make a submission into the Archive Latest column. Remember to submit the date on which your interview was PUBLISHED.

What constitutes an "interview"? Top

The dictionary definition of "interview" offers many answers, but for the purpose of Access Interviews, it is this: a professionally written, or broadcast encounter with a personality of note in their given field. Preferably, the interview was conducted as a one-to-one, as opposed to a press conference, although �round table' interviews are also valid. The interview must have appeared in a magazine or newspaper, or have been broadcast on television, radio, or on a website.

Equally, if you are a journalist and have some great interviews that didn't make publication for some reason (they were spiked, or cut beyond recognition), then that's OK, we'd like to see a link to them.

Definitely not included are, what are known in the business as "cuts jobs" - articles that have been cobbled together from previously published sources and presented, wrongfully, as an original article. Yuck!

Why is there no actual content of interviews on Access Interviews? Top

The copyright to interviews is owned by thousands of individual writers, publishers and broadcasters, so it would be impossible to accommodate so many varying copyrights on one site. Hence, we link to the sites that own the copyright.

What is the situation regarding copyright? Top

Copyright is a complicated one and everyone needs to check if they own the copyright before posting a link to where people can find an interview. Access Interviews cannot take responsibility for third party websites.

What is "posting" on Access Interviews? Top

Posting an interview link on Access Interviews is very simple. Go to our Posting Page and follow the simple instructions. Several fields are mandatory in order to keep our database fully searchable, but try to fill in as much extra information as possible. To get to the Posting Page click here

Who can post on Access Interviews? Top

Anyone can post a link. The more the merrier.

What is Mettic? Top

Mettic is the dynamic web programming and design company which has created all the clever invisible things that make Access Interviews so slick. If you need a website built, maybe they can help. Contact Mettic here.

Who is Rob McGibbon? Top

Rob McGibbon is an English author, journalist and interviewer who founded Access Interviews. He has been interviewing famous people for 20-odd years and wanted to create a worldwide hub for all the great professional interviewers to collate their work. If you need to know more about Rob, then his website is probably the best place.