Yorkshire Companies Pitch their Way to Success at MIPTV in Cannes (07/05/2008)
Yorkshire's reputation as a hot-bed for new media received a boost last month, as two companies from the region won categories at the MIPTV Content 360 Cross Media Competition in Cannes, which attracted more than 380 innovative projects from 42 countries. MIPTV featuring Milia 2008 offered unparalleled access to the latest creative and business opportunities in digital media through the Content 360 Cross Media Competition and Festival. Candidates pitched their content ideas, with 10 finalists sharing €115.000 of development funding, sponsored by the BBC
TwentySix Leeds won the ‘Advanced Mobile Interaction with TV Content' category with their project ‘Coded Vision' pitched by Technical Director, Matt Pallatt and Gail Duddleston, Managing Director. The project aims to give viewers of BBC television programmes more information on the programme being watched, through the use of their mobile phone.
Numiko won the ‘New Forms of Web-Based Audio and Video Aggregation' category with their project ‘Micro Stations' pitched by Managing Director, Dave Eccles and Tom Evans, Interactive Producer. The project allows people to come together around the content they love. Viewers and the BBC are able to collaborate on the curation and organisation of the BBC schedule, archive and wider web, into a meaningful, dynamic group-based set of content that can be narrated with a group editorial.
Two other Yorkshire based companies, Splash Consumer Products Ltd and Blue August Creations, were also very successful as exhibitors on the UK Indies pavilion where Screen Yorkshire provided support for Indies, offering them a subsidised place on the UK Pavilion Exhibition stand whilst also supporting Digital Media companies either new to MIPTV or pitching in the Content 360 Cross Media Competition.
For more information go to http://www.miptv.com/en-gb/content_360.cfm
