Golant Media Ventures is an innovation agency that helps create new kinds of creative products and services and ways of distributing and monetising them. It acts as a catalyst and broker with and between the private, public and third sectors and has both a UK and an international dimension.
Golant Media Ventures works across the creative and cultural sectors including film, TV and radio, games, music, advertising, publishing, fashion, design, performing and visual arts. It explores new ways of combining content from different sectors and art forms to deliver experiences, in both the digital and live worlds, which users really value.
Patrick is a service designer and media executive.
At Golant, Patrick is responsible for platform strategy covering everything from YouView and other connected TV platforms, apps and mobile internet to relationships with telecoms providers such as BT. He leads the company’s business affairs and compliance areas, developing innovative new licensing models for commercial media, cultural content and public sector information alongside advanced personal taste profiling and analytics. He uses service design and user-centred approaches to create new services that span multiple digital platforms and physical environments whilst creating coherent experiences and journeys for users.
In recent years with Golant, he has amongst other things advised the Royal Shakespeare company on the implementation of their digital strategy, architected and implemented a radically new content aggregation and syndication model for public sector content England-wide, produced Encyclopaedia Britannica’s first foray into broadcast quality video, produced for Film Education/Pathé Distribution their first online only ‘extras’ and redesigned customer experiences for E.ON energy with brand agency Afia.
Before Golant, he founded and ran Simulacra Media from 1997 until 2006, a new media agency and consultancy specialised in digital learning and cultural content. Simulacra were the lead advisors on the award-winning £500mn Curriculum Online programme, architects of the multi-award-winning Stagework online learning service for the National Theatre, digital services partners to the Design Council and advisors to the Countryside Agency on the implementation of their groundbreaking social media and heritage media initiatives.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he led the UK National Commission for UNESCO’s work on information society policy internationally and in the UK on non-broadcast media’s role delivering public service values.
Mandy brings wide experience of the creative and cultural industries and a track record of initiating, developing and leading innovative projects exploring new thinking in digital media. Spotting opportunities, developing a vision and getting people to buy in, Mandy can persuade and enthuse people across different sectors, from cabinet ministers and business executives to artists and community leaders. She builds partnerships that deliver new creative enterprises.
At Golant, Mandy builds strategic partnerships with a wide range of businesses, public bodies and social enterprises. She leads Golant’s public affairs and policy work regionally and nationally as well as the sharing of learnings from our portfolio of near market research. She is developing the editorial strategy for creating compelling combinations of content – from film to culture, from archive to editorial and is managing the local delivery of this model within cinemas as well as other entertainment and community venues.
Prior to Golant, Mandy founded 01zero-one in London’s digital heart, Soho, creating a space for collaboration between the converging sectors of the audiovisual and interactive digital media industries. There she established the InSync network for the digital media sector, featuring leading UK, US and European players, exploring and imagining the future direction of commercial and creative practice in the 21st Century. This is where she gained her experience of helping individuals as well as small and large creative companies interested in new and emerging technologies and cross-platform content to adopt new ways of working, distribution and business models.
Mandy co-led the UK National Commission for UNESCO’s work on digital media literacy from 2009 to 2011.
Interesting Stuff is a service that harnesses digital technologies to create a sustainable model to deliver quality entertainment and cultural content to the widest audience both in venues, on the move and in the home.
In 2011, the service is being piloted in Cornwall and the UK’s South West, the Czech Republic, Italy and Scandinavian/Nordic territories. We anticipate a further UK and international roll out. It focuses initially on reaching audiences in rural areas, and urban areas where there is a concentration of creative and cultural activity.
The Interesting Stuff platform enables the delivery of experiences combining creative content and related tools and services in social spaces, cultural venues, at home and on the move. Film, animation, archive, arts and cultural content are integrated with editorial content and contextually linked to consumers’ interests. It uses the power of social networks to replace traditional high-cost, advertising-led marketing and use of advanced personal data analytics to understand and respond to user needs and preferences and thereby optimise revenues.
Content can be enjoyed in village halls, sports clubs, arts and cultural venues, libraries, cafés and bars as well as cinemas. Users can download content to view in the home or on the move and associated cultural products are recommended to buy including music and books. Interesting Stuff is also a platform for local content creators and the ability to connect digitally to arts and cultural organisations and the work of artists across a range of artforms.
The pilot for the service is refining new ways of contextualising and programming longform film alongside audiovisual and editorial cultural content and proving technical feasibility over superfast and normal broadband to venues and homes with standard IT equipment. It is demonstrating how social media and content marketing approaches can be applied to film releases. Finally, it is developing a commercial and legal framework to establish a new model of revenue sharing across multiple income streams for rights holders and artists, distributors and other intermediaries from a range of physical venues and digital platforms.
The initiative has been developed by Golant Media Ventures with TwoFour Group, Guardian News & Media, Ivan Sanna and user experience design partners Ribot.
The pilot service is supported by the EU MEDIA Programme, the UK’s Creative Industries iNet, and the consortium’s own research and development resources. The Creative Industries iNet is a part of Solutions for Business, funded by ERDF and led by South West Screen. Other partners include BAFTA and BT.
With the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
Film Ancillary Revenues Optimisation Engine (FAROE)
Film Ancillary Revenues Optimisation Engine (FAROE) is a collaborative applied research project involving the Guardian’s digital agency and optimisation teams, the business innovation agency Golant Media Ventures, semantic personalisation and matching platform Idio and music metadata specialists Decibel. The project is a YouView partner through Golant.
The purpose of the prototype produced through this project will be to show that if film producers and/or distributors create rich metadata for films, then it is possible to create additional revenues for these rights holders (and others in the film value chain) by dynamically optimising the value created by audiences buying – or paying for with their attention and personal data – related content and experiences.
The project will develop a framework for linking together metadata describing users’ tastes, filmed media, editorial content and music and implement this framework in a software engine. To demonstrate the value and power of the engine, user interfaces will be created for the YouView and Android platforms, with a view to future exploitation on Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), mobile and web.
Customised solutions based on the engine will be sold by the project partners to brand and media content owners and distributors worldwide, as well instances of the engine populated with market-specific data (e.g. UK film and music products) being licensed to consumer-facing services on revenue share and pay-per-use models and made available via web services APIs.
Funding
The project was recently announced by the UK’s Technology Strategy Board as being one of the projects funded through the Metadata: Increasing the value of digital content competition, subject to the successful completion of their compliance and financial review processes.
Patrick Towell – Project Director and Business Affairs Mandy Berry - Director, Content and Strategic Partnerships UK Ivan Sanna – Director Acquisitions and Partnerships, Europe
Film Ancillary Revenues Optimisation Engine (FAROE)
Film Ancillary Revenues Optimisation Engine (FAROE) is a collaborative applied research project involving the Guardian’s digital agency and optimisation teams, the business innovation agency Golant Media Ventures, semantic personalisation and matching platform Idio and music metadata specialists Decibel. The project is a YouView partner through Golant.
The purpose of the prototype produced through this project will be to show that if film producers and/or distributors create rich metadata for films, then it is possible to create additional revenues for these rights holders (and others in the film value chain) by dynamically optimising the value created by audiences buying – or paying for with their attention and personal data – related content and experiences.
The project will develop a framework for linking together metadata describing users’ tastes, filmed media, editorial content and music and implement this framework in a software engine. To demonstrate the value and power of the engine, user interfaces will be created for the YouView and Android platforms, with a view to future exploitation on Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), mobile and web.
Customised solutions based on the engine will be sold by the project partners to brand and media content owners and distributors worldwide, as well instances of the engine populated with market-specific data (e.g. UK film and music products) being licensed to consumer-facing services on revenue share and pay-per-use models and made available via web services APIs.
Funding
The project was recently announced by the UK’s Technology Strategy Board as being one of the projects funded through the Metadata: Increasing the value of digital content competition, subject to the successful completion of their compliance and financial review processes.
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JOHN NEWBIGIN TOM WATSON PROFESSOR ROSE LUCKIN PATRICK MONTAGE TOM LOOSEMORE ADRIAN HALL RICHARD ALLAN PETER BAZALGETTE JON WATTS GOLANTMEDIAVENTURES
Golant Media Ventures is an innovation agency that helps create new kinds of creative products and services and ways of distributing and monetising them. It acts as a catalyst and broker with and between the private, public and third sectors and has both a UK and an international dimension.
Golant Media Ventures works across the creative and cultural sectors including film, TV and radio, games, music, advertising, publishing, fashion, design, performing and visual arts. It explores new ways of combining content from different sectors and art forms to deliver experiences, in both the digital and live worlds, which users really value.
Patrick Towell - Joint Chief Executive
Patrick is a service designer and media executive.
At Golant, Patrick is responsible for platform strategy covering everything from YouView and other connected TV platforms, apps and mobile internet to relationships with telecoms providers such as BT. He leads the company’s business affairs and compliance areas, developing innovative new licensing models for commercial media, cultural content and public sector information alongside advanced personal taste profiling and analytics. He uses service design and user-centred approaches to create new services that span multiple digital platforms and physical environments whilst creating coherent experiences and journeys for users.
In recent years with Golant, he has amongst other things advised the Royal Shakespeare company on the implementation of their digital strategy, architected and implemented a radically new content aggregation and syndication model for public sector content England-wide, produced Encyclopaedia Britannica’s first foray into broadcast quality video, produced for Film Education/Pathé Distribution their first online only ‘extras’ and redesigned customer experiences for E.ON energy with brand agency Afia.
Before Golant, he founded and ran Simulacra Media from 1997 until 2006, a new media agency and consultancy specialised in digital learning and cultural content. Simulacra were the lead advisors on the award-winning £500mn Curriculum Online programme, architects of the multi-award-winning Stagework online learning service for the National Theatre, digital services partners to the Design Council and advisors to the Countryside Agency on the implementation of their groundbreaking social media and heritage media initiatives.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he led the UK National Commission for UNESCO’s work on information society policy internationally and in the UK on non-broadcast media’s role delivering public service values.
Mandy Berry - Joint Chief Executive
Mandy brings wide experience of the creative and cultural industries and a track record of initiating, developing and leading innovative projects exploring new thinking in digital media. Spotting opportunities, developing a vision and getting people to buy in, Mandy can persuade and enthuse people across different sectors, from cabinet ministers and business executives to artists and community leaders. She builds partnerships that deliver new creative enterprises.
At Golant, Mandy builds strategic partnerships with a wide range of businesses, public bodies and social enterprises. She leads Golant’s public affairs and policy work regionally and nationally as well as the sharing of learnings from our portfolio of near market research. She is developing the editorial strategy for creating compelling combinations of content – from film to culture, from archive to editorial and is managing the local delivery of this model within cinemas as well as other entertainment and community venues.
Prior to Golant, Mandy founded 01zero-one in London’s digital heart, Soho, creating a space for collaboration between the converging sectors of the audiovisual and interactive digital media industries. There she established the InSync network for the digital media sector, featuring leading UK, US and European players, exploring and imagining the future direction of commercial and creative practice in the 21st Century. This is where she gained her experience of helping individuals as well as small and large creative companies interested in new and emerging technologies and cross-platform content to adopt new ways of working, distribution and business models.
Mandy co-led the UK National Commission for UNESCO’s work on digital media literacy from 2009 to 2011.
Interesting Stuff is a service that harnesses digital technologies to create a sustainable model to deliver quality entertainment and cultural content to the widest audience both in venues, on the move and in the home.
In 2011, the service is being piloted in Cornwall and the UK’s South West, the Czech Republic, Italy and Scandinavian/Nordic territories. We anticipate a further UK and international roll out. It focuses initially on reaching audiences in rural areas, and urban areas where there is a concentration of creative and cultural activity.
The Interesting Stuff platform enables the delivery of experiences combining creative content and related tools and services in social spaces, cultural venues, at home and on the move. Film, animation, archive, arts and cultural content are integrated with editorial content and contextually linked to consumers’ interests. It uses the power of social networks to replace traditional high-cost, advertising-led marketing and use of advanced personal data analytics to understand and respond to user needs and preferences and thereby optimise revenues.
Content can be enjoyed in village halls, sports clubs, arts and cultural venues, libraries, cafés and bars as well as cinemas. Users can download content to view in the home or on the move and associated cultural products are recommended to buy including music and books. Interesting Stuff is also a platform for local content creators and the ability to connect digitally to arts and cultural organisations and the work of artists across a range of artforms.
The pilot for the service is refining new ways of contextualising and programming longform film alongside audiovisual and editorial cultural content and proving technical feasibility over superfast and normal broadband to venues and homes with standard IT equipment. It is demonstrating how social media and content marketing approaches can be applied to film releases. Finally, it is developing a commercial and legal framework to establish a new model of revenue sharing across multiple income streams for rights holders and artists, distributors and other intermediaries from a range of physical venues and digital platforms.
The initiative has been developed by Golant Media Ventures with TwoFour Group, Guardian News & Media, Ivan Sanna and user experience design partners Ribot.
The pilot service is supported by the EU MEDIA Programme, the UK’s Creative Industries iNet, and the consortium’s own research and development resources. The Creative Industries iNet is a part of Solutions for Business, funded by ERDF and led by South West Screen. Other partners include BAFTA and BT.
With the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
Film Ancillary Revenues Optimisation Engine (FAROE)
Film Ancillary Revenues Optimisation Engine (FAROE) is a collaborative applied research project involving the Guardian’s digital agency and optimisation teams, the business innovation agency Golant Media Ventures, semantic personalisation and matching platform Idio and music metadata specialists Decibel. The project is a YouView partner through Golant.
The purpose of the prototype produced through this project will be to show that if film producers and/or distributors create rich metadata for films, then it is possible to create additional revenues for these rights holders (and others in the film value chain) by dynamically optimising the value created by audiences buying – or paying for with their attention and personal data – related content and experiences.
The project will develop a framework for linking together metadata describing users’ tastes, filmed media, editorial content and music and implement this framework in a software engine. To demonstrate the value and power of the engine, user interfaces will be created for the YouView and Android platforms, with a view to future exploitation on Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), mobile and web.
Customised solutions based on the engine will be sold by the project partners to brand and media content owners and distributors worldwide, as well instances of the engine populated with market-specific data (e.g. UK film and music products) being licensed to consumer-facing services on revenue share and pay-per-use models and made available via web services APIs.
Funding
The project was recently announced by the UK’s Technology Strategy Board as being one of the projects funded through the Metadata: Increasing the value of digital content competition, subject to the successful completion of their compliance and financial review processes.
Patrick Towell – Project Director and Business Affairs
Mandy Berry - Director, Content and Strategic Partnerships UK
Ivan Sanna – Director Acquisitions and Partnerships, Europe
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Film Ancillary Revenues Optimisation Engine (FAROE)
Film Ancillary Revenues Optimisation Engine (FAROE) is a collaborative applied research project involving the Guardian’s digital agency and optimisation teams, the business innovation agency Golant Media Ventures, semantic personalisation and matching platform Idio and music metadata specialists Decibel. The project is a YouView partner through Golant.
The purpose of the prototype produced through this project will be to show that if film producers and/or distributors create rich metadata for films, then it is possible to create additional revenues for these rights holders (and others in the film value chain) by dynamically optimising the value created by audiences buying – or paying for with their attention and personal data – related content and experiences.
The project will develop a framework for linking together metadata describing users’ tastes, filmed media, editorial content and music and implement this framework in a software engine. To demonstrate the value and power of the engine, user interfaces will be created for the YouView and Android platforms, with a view to future exploitation on Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), mobile and web.
Customised solutions based on the engine will be sold by the project partners to brand and media content owners and distributors worldwide, as well instances of the engine populated with market-specific data (e.g. UK film and music products) being licensed to consumer-facing services on revenue share and pay-per-use models and made available via web services APIs.
Funding
The project was recently announced by the UK’s Technology Strategy Board as being one of the projects funded through the Metadata: Increasing the value of digital content competition, subject to the successful completion of their compliance and financial review processes.
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