etv launches VisitBritain’s first adaptive video application

VisitBritain has today appointed etv online to design and build a unique video eCRM application which will enable VisitBritain to showcase the variety of experiences and destinations available within the UK, to international audiences.
VisitBritain is using its wealth of video footage to capture the best of Britain’s tourist attractions, which etv will post-produce and package [...]

All of us who make travel television owe Teletext Travel a huge debt.

All of us who make travel television owe Teletext Travel a huge debt. In was in the late 90’s and early noughties that clunky old analogue Teletext Holidays had stolen something like 13% of the entire UK package travel market. It was that singular statistic that encouraged [...]

All of us who make travel television owe Teletext Travel a huge debt.

All of us who make travel television owe Teletext Travel a huge debt. In was in the late 90’s and early noughties that clunky old analogue Teletext Holidays had stolen something like 13% of the entire UK package travel market. It was that singular statistic that encouraged first TV Travelshop, then Thomas Cook, Sky and [...]

It’s rare to come across real insights into how businesses of the future might look. I think this sentence from Charles Leadbeater’s “We-Think” really encapsulates the sort of radical transformation that consumer facing companies are going to have to get to grips with.

“The most exciting business models of the future will be hybrids that blend elements of the company and the community, of commerce and collaboration; open in some respects, closed in others; giving some content away and charging for some services; serving people as consumers and encouraging them, when it is relevant, to become participants” Charles [...]

Fat Pets, Fat Owners in the Daily Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1198602/Fat-cats-Britains-porkiest-pets–fatter-owners.html

etv bolsters sales team with ex Red Bee Media and ITV sponsorship heavy weight Andy Thompson

etv media group has appointed Andy Thompson to the newly created role of Head of Business Development. In this new position, Andy will be working with brands and agencies to provide them with engaging video and digital marketing solutions.
 
Andy will begin his new role on 20th July 2009 and report to Andy Rogers, managing director, [...]

Gala TV goes showbiz crazy!

Throughout July, Gala TV is filled with ex-Big Brother housemates and celeb gossip
To ramp up the heat this summer Gala TV welcomes ex Big Brother housemates to present the show every Sunday at 8pm. Craig Phillips will launch the month of ‘Housemate Bingo’ on 5th July – an exclusive new show on the popular live [...]

Fat Pets, Fat Owners documentary extended into 360 degree series

Sky Real Lives has extended etv productions’ latest commission, Fat Pets, Fat Owners, into a three part series with an additional hour long special. The programme will have its own web portal which will launch this week ahead of the first episode’s transmission date of 16th July 2009 at 8:30pm.
The 360 degree elements of the [...]

Andy Roger’s Campaign magazine vox pop

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/News/915557/Campaign-video—Digital-Essays-2009—Andy-Rogers-etv-online/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

Stealing the march by offering digital development for free

We are in changing times; marketing and advertising agencies are scrambling to become more digital while digital agencies are trying to elbow their way into the strategic and creative roles played by more traditional agencies. In the end it seems the whole top end of the creative and strategic industry is becoming homogenised; with all [...]