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The agency behind MIPTV & MIDEM campaigns

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:51:15 +0000

If you have ever wondered what the trick is to securing better deals and growing in the TV and content business, MIPTV has the answer: the trick is to be there. Even in the age of LinkedIn and social networking, trade fairs remain the place where the industry gathers, discusses and does business.

This is the theme developed by The Write Stuff & Consorcom, who have worked on 6 MIDEM campaigns, as well as several for MIPTV and MIPCOM over the years. The company has also worked for EAS in Amsterdam as well as developing the names for Amazia in Hong Kong and MIPIM Horizons. A little disclosure is in order as the same company runs Cannes or Bust!

To see more of their work, visit The Write Stuff.

MIPTV to showcase new format talent

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:01:38 +0000

TV formats are hot, which is why MIPTV lanuched MIPFormats, dedicated to the booming formats market. They are following it up with the Fresh Talent Pitch, 10 original ideas for non-scripted concepts chosen from 110 submissions “designed to identify the successful formats of tomorrow,” said Laurine Garaude, Director of Reed Midem’s Television Division. The 10 creators chosen as finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their programme concept to a panel of buyers and commissioning executives from the major players on the eve of MIPTV.

The projects were chosen by a panel of experts comprising Virginia Mouseler and Stefano Semeria from international programme tracking company The WIT, Nicole DeFusco of Sundance Channel, David Lyle, Fox Reality Channel, Jan Salling, Banijay International; and Mikko Silvennoinen, Channel 4 Finland.

Organised in association with C21FormatsLab, C21Media’s feed of daily news and analysis on the non-scripted business for the entertainment industry, MIPFormats has already received 500 registrations, almost half of whom are buyers representing 54 countries.

10 creators chosen from 110 submissions will have the opportunity to pitch their programme concept to a panel of buyers and commissioning executives from the major studios during a pitching session on Sunday, April 11.

Being Jo Sapien, Johnny Blank, Agent Blank, Australia
Welcome in your own body, Mattias Schut, CCCP, Netherlands
My Latest Hit, Jarl Devine, Devine Television, New Zealand
Wayfinder.TV, Michael Koziol, Dragonfruit Studios, US
I’m your Puppet, Nicholas Feustel, Georgetown media, Germany
Win Our Life for a Pound, Mast Media, UK
Auction my Life, Samuel Kissous, Pernel Media, France
Cinema Moments, Gillad Osterer and Uwe Stanz, SEO Entertainment, Germany
2 Strangers & A Wedding, Morgan Krajewski, Small World IFT, US
Date Expo , Zodiak Distillery, Zodiak Entertainment Group’s central creative unit Grand Zentral, UK

The Special Selection

An further 20 formats will be showcased by Elevator Pitches during the Commissioners & Producers MIP Accelerator & networking break, scheduled for 11.15 on Sunday, April 11.

The Killer Room, 3Koma, Spain
WIC – World Innovation Challenge, Antica Productions, Canada
Listen to Me, Federico Bernasconi and Carlotta Rossi Spencer, Italy
Hawks & Doves, Einstein Multimedia Group, Italy
NETBATTLE, Kerem Ergün, Germany
Let’s go camping, La Grosse Equipe, France
The Lift, Little Nemo, France
Rush Hour Challenge, Media Factory, Romania
Is this funny?, Monster Entertainment, Norway
Best Life Ever, More than 30 seconds, Italy
I do More than You!, North Star TV, Ireland
Six Degrees From You, P52 PRODUCCIONES, Spain
Grow Up!, Palm Plus, Netherlands
Different Faces, Primeworks Studios SDN VHD, Malaysia
GLOBALPOP, SELVA FILMES, Brazil
Mission Accomplished, Si Hay Ideas, Colombia
In the Can, Standup etcetera, Finland
One Way or Another, Telston, S. Korea
GOD IS A DJ, TV & NEW MEDIA COMPANY, Italy

For details, visit Fresh Talent Pitch

Coca-Cola to award €10,000 development contract at MIPTV

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:33:26 +0000

Coca-Cola and ad agency Ogilvy have announced they will award a €10,000 development contract at MIPTV 2010 for the best branded content idea to engage teens, as part of the 5th annual Content 360 Challenge. The idea can take the shape of a TV show, a web movie series, a mobile application or ad game, etc.

The Content 360 Challenge at MIPTV offers an opportunity to pitch directly to media decision makers, including Coca-Cola executives, in Cannes next April 13-14. Entry is free and the deadline for submitting a short description of your idea is February 15.

Check http://www.miptv.com/content360 to compete. In addition to Coca-Cola, there are 5 other pitching categories supported by TF1, National Film Board of Canada, Korea Communications Commission and the European Commission.

Euro Commission offers chance to win €10,000 and MIPTV entrance

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:37:29 +0000

The European Commission is inviting audiovisual professionals as well as individuals to compete in the production of a video clip of maximum 3 minutes, presenting an original vision of Europe based on EU archive material mixed with new or remixed images produced by the participant.

The clip should express a personal vision of Europe and be able to captivate a young and wide audience via the Internet and/or mobile devices through its original, creative or aesthetic approach. The clips should convey a positive vision of Europe with an artistic, documentary, humoristic or fictional angle, picturing personal or public situations, current or historical, of European life in their immediate environment: family, enterprise, community, association, city, village; local events – music, fashion, leisure, games that could represent an original vision of Europe.

Download the EU Content 360 Challenge full brief: and the competition’s General Terms and Conditions. Check also the European Commission archives material.

More information about the Content 360 challenge:

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Cannes news and tips to your desk

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:44:39 +0000

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MIPTV 2009: Putting a perspective to the moaning

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:06:15 +0000

An excellent articleby Tanuj Garg in the Bollywood Hungama echoes my experience with the trade fairs at Cannes these past few months. Yes, figures are down. Yes, budgets have been cut. But there is still business to be done – and important contacts to be made for when the recovery picks up.

“The doom and gloom projected by attendees lacks perspective. There were acquisition executives aplenty – what has changed is that these execs are operating with substantially hacked budgets, which has, in turn, made their quest for content narrow, cautious and focused. This means that because buyers know what they want before they come down to the market, they are extremely selective about the companies they want to meet up and do business with.”

My slant: know who you want to meet and know precisely what they want and you have a good chance of doing that deal – perhaps not the deal you would have made last year, but those deals won’t be back for some time.

Check out the full article here.

MIPTV: International Entertainment Industry at the EMC Kick-Off

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:31:01 +0000

On Monday 7 April, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Entertainment Master Class (EMC) held a reception at MipTV in Cannes to celebrate the official kick-off of the EMC format academy. Guests expected to attend included Julie Bristow (CBC Television, Kanada), Ben Hall (BBC Worldwide), Guillaume de Fondaumière (Quantic Dream), Dr. Thomas Bellut (ZDF), Frank Hoffmann (VOX), Jan Mojto (EOS Entertainment), Dr. Matthias Esche (Bavaria Film International) and many more. EMC is a prestigious event that focuses on building expertise in TV formats within Europe.

Advertisers and brands show increased interest in MIPTV

admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:25:00 +0000

MIPTV, the international content fair, was traditionally the hunting ground for everything to to with TV programming. But as other “content” fairs have seen over the past few years, there is increasing spillover from other industries – notably advertising. “The growth of advertising agencies and brands participating at Mip TV Featuring Milia 2008 reflects their sincere desire to join the entertainment content production and distribution players—at a development stage—as strategic partners,” said Paul Johnson of Reed Midem, the convention’s organizer. Companies that have confirmed their presence so far include media groups TBWA, Havas Entertainment, Euro RSCG and Ogilvy, as well as global brands Dove, Nike, American Express, Fanta, Ford, BP and Kodak.

Many are looking to the new formats as a way of reaching new audiences using mobile platforms, while investigating cross-marketing possibilities. A number of conferences will be devoted to the subject, under the “Audiences on the move” banner. Amongst the speakers will be Richard Dickson of Mattel. MIPTV will be held April 7-11. For details about the conference programme, see MIPTV.

Canada dominates interactive Emmies at MIPTV

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:48:21 +0000

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the winners for the International Interactive Emmy® Awards, organized for the second year in a row at MIPTV in Cannes, France in partnership with Reed MIDEM and hosted by actor Roger Bart (Desperate Housewives, The Producers).

Canada led the evening with Zimmer Twins and ReGenesis Extended Reality Game in a tie for the Interactive Program category and BITE Television winning the Interactive Channel category, while the Interactive TV Service category went to the UK’s BBCi.

The Pioneer Prize was presented to BSkyB, for their innovative contributions to the field of interactive television and accepted by Sophie Turner-Laing (photo), Managing Director, Sky Entertainment.

The black-tie ceremony was attended by over 250 international executives from the television, broadband and mobile industries including sponsors: AETN, Deutsche Telekom, Intent Mediaworks, MPS Broadband, Nokia and Sky.

The 35th International Emmy Awards Gala will be held in New York, November 19, 2007.

2007 INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIVE EMMY® AWARD WINNERS

INTERACTIVE PROGRAM

ReGenesis Extended
Reality Game
Xenophile Media
Canada

Zimmer Twins
Lost the Plot Productions/
Zinc Roe Design
Canada

INTERACTIVE CHANNEL

BITE Television
BITE Television
Canada

INTERACTIVE TV SERVICE

BBCi
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
United Kingdom

MIPTV announces the Content 360 finalists

admin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:19:43 +0000

MIPTV featuring MILIA, Cannes’ audiovisual and digital content market, has just announced the 25 finalists for the second edition of “Content 360,” the international competition to commission innovative, interactive content and applications for mobile and broadband.

“Content 360” is organised in partnership with the BBC, the Korean Broadcasting Commission (KBC), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and for the first time WPP’s OgilvyOne Worldwide and Yahoo!

The call for entries received an enthusiastic response from hundreds of international multimedia and application developers. A total of 450 projects from 36 countries were entered compared to 186 projects from 23 countries last year. 240 companies from countries as diverse as Mexico, Australia, Sweden, South Africa, US, France, Canada, Italy, South Korea, UK, India, Singapore… entered projects in this year’s competition. A total of €100,000 in funding will be awarded at MIPTV on April 19. For more details, visit Content 360.