“There is always someone who has to make a decision on what people watch” – interview with Jeff Ford
Welcome to the first in a series of posts from selected industry influencers — producers,…
Yearly Archives: 2017
How Beat Bugs “contextualises iconic music for 4-7 year-olds” – interview with Josh Wakely
A kids’ animation show based on the songs of The Beatles. Great idea, right? Little…
Disney, Apple and Facebook to launch own services: SVOD’s fragmentation in 5 figures
The video-on-demand (VOD) market is a fragmented one. The top 10 VOD companies (Netflix, Amazon,…
What is the future of TV, film and VOD?
No one can see into the future, but wouldn’t it be exciting if we could?…
Chat fiction: The new format for creative storytelling
Gen Z is the most web-savvy, app-friendly generation. This young generation favours more personal, immediate…
“This is a very specific market, however, there are global opportunities” – How to crack Latin America as a producer
Few people actually know that my first project that I ever filmed was in high…
Why launching an SVOD service is now easier than ever
Just five years ago, if you wanted to distribute your SVOD content via the internet…
How Easter Eggs can delight your shows’ biggest fans
One of Veep’s recent episodes saw Selina Meyer appearing on “The Tonight Show” again with…
“Short form can look forward to a long future” – Interview with MTGx’s Arnd Benninghoff
This is the second in a series of interviews linked to “Digital Native Strategy and Short-Form…
5 Streaming Trends to Watch this Summer
Summer is here. For many, this means reading a book at the beach, but maybe…
World of Snapchat Dance, BBC Election Chatbot and The Ministry of “real”-Time: Today’s best digital activations, by VAST MEDIA
WORLD OF DANCE: ON SNAPCHAT (NBC, USA) NBC launched an eight-part Snapchat spinoff of the…
How VR moved forwards at MIPTV
This year’s MIPTV had a large focus on Virtual Reality, with many sessions discussing the…
MIPTV 2017 UHD / 4K Wrap
This is the last in a series of posts by the MIPTV News team, summarising the…
MIPTV Factual Wrap
This is the latest in a series of posts by the MIPTV News team, summarising the…
5 Key Figures from MIPTV 2017
What did we learn from MIPTV 2017? Plenty. The show covered such diverse topics as…