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WELCOME TO AGORA MEDIA...We help media and entertainment companies to design and deliver multi-device strategies, propositions and products.

Our Business – in a Nutshell.

Agora Media helps media and entertainment companies to design and deliver multi-device, multi-platform strategies, content propositions and products. We are also publishers of www.appmarket.tv, which in a few years, has become a thought leading resource to 30k+ readers a month.

The future of TV has begun to emerge and there will be many changes in the way people will find, consume and share their media lifestyles, born from an explosion of entertainment products and services that attract consumers to come back time and time again.

By tapping into the social, gaming, and entertainment everywhere culture that is emerging in consumer behaviours, there are numerous opportunities for creating unique experiences that are engaging, entertaining and rewarding…it starts with the ideas.

We recognise that it takes a mix of disciplines to design, deliver and tap into these new consumer behaviours, which is why we have built up a team of experts, born from the different sectors and industries now shaping what the future of media and entertainment market will look like in 5‐10 years time. We work with content producers, owners, broadcasters, operators, publishers, brands and retailers to inform their decision making, to shape strategy and to design and deliver product roadmaps.

• We understand commercial opportunities and threats (competition, business models, market trends)
• We are experts in consumer behaviour, engagement, operations & technology (video, audio, social and gaming) We design consumer strategies that tap into digital lifestyle impulses…no matter what screen they are on.
• We help brands drive growth, loyalty and attachment to digital lifestyle products.
• We produce entertainment formats and technology platforms for multi-device distribution and commerce.
• We deliver engaging experiences that bring consumers back time and time again.

 

Appmarket.tv – Web’s Largest Portal for Social TV, Smart TV, TV Apps, Multiplatform Engagement and Transmedia

We publish the web’s largest portal for Social TV, Smart TV, TV Apps, Multiplatform Engagement and Transmedia – an Open Source Journalism and Market Intelligence project, Appmarket offers an enormous array of data on the future of TV with over 1500 articles written since 2010, as well as some 400 videos curated and over 5000 articles curated at Scoop.it.

Richard Kastelein – Partner

Richard Kastelein, a Creative Technologist and Canadian Expatriate based in UK and Netherlands is the publisher of www.appmarket.tv and partner at Agora Media Group in London, England. He was the 2010 Winner of the Deloitte Technology, Media & Telcom (TMT) Predictions for Entrepreneurs in Holland for futurist views on Social TV and Media Convergence (Tech Visionary). In 2011 he won a Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovation honoured for visionary application of IT to promote positive social, economic and educational change including category co-winners from NASA and Duke University and most recently was a finalist for IBC’s ConnectedWorld.TV Personality of the Year 2011 for work at Appmarket.tv – he lost to Marc Zuckerberg from Facebook. He is also a columnist for The Association of International Broadcasters The Channel Magazine. He has spoken on future TV in Rio, Amsterdam, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Copenhagen, London, NYC, Madrid, Berlin, Sheffield, Cannes… and guest lectured at MIT Media Labs and Hanze University on Social TV. Hook up with Richard on Linkedin.

Paul Johnson – Partner

Paul specialises in media product & operations design and delivery. A n inventor with 15 years delivering innovation and growth to brands such as LOVEFiLM, BSkyB, BBC, ESPN and HiT Entertainment. Passionate about the future of TV, second screen, & consumer engagement, he has shaped unique perspectives on this emerging landscape and the impacts it is having on consumer behaviours. Editor at Appmarket.tv and is a regular speaker and chair at International events. Hook up with Paul on Linkedin.

Marc Goodchild – Associate

Marc Goodchild is a multi-award winning producer of linear and interactive content. Expanding the boundaries of interactive TV Marc created the world’s first factual interactive TV programme: ‘Walking With Beasts’. The program won him a BAFTA award after which he set up BBC Factual’s iTV unit. In april 2007 Marc joined the BBC’s Children’s department, as Head of Interactive and On-demand, for BBC Children’s, responsible for Cbeebies and CBBC content across all interactive media. The Cbeebies and CBBC websites are among the most popular in the BBC’s current portfolio. Marc was also responsible for the delivery and launch of two child-friendly versions of the BBC iplayer and is a leading exponent for child-safe services for under 13s. He specialises in digital production, cross-platform TV formats and product delivery across TV, web, mobile and IPTV applications. Hook up with Marc on Linkedin.

Keith Johnson – Associate

Keith is an expert in brand engagement planning & multi-screen consumer interactivity, inc second-screen OTT TV – strategy to execution – Formerly he was the Business Director, Branded Content at Ogilvy & Mather, Commercial Director at Edward Cavendish, Brand & Advertising Director – EMEA at Motorola and Global Brand Director at Allied – Lyons. He’s a leading expert on future TV writing two leading industry reports for Business Insights – “The Future of Video Content Convergence – Consumer engagement opportunities in multi-platform video and over- the-top TV” and “The Future of Pay TV”. Hook up with Keith on Linkedin.

Gary Johnson – Associate

Gary brings over 15 years of a richly diverse wealth of experience in the entertainment, technology, branded entertainment marketing, product placement, social media marketing and event production. He has been responsible for producing various successful concerts in both the US and UK working with renowned artists including Akon, 50cent, Ruff Ryders crew, Destiny’s Child and The Jackson Family. He has also had the pleasure of working with many of the leading global brands. He has played a vital role to numerous renowned Hollywood movies such as I-Robot, Ironman, The Dark knight, 2012, fast furious, Kill Bill and Mr & Mrs Smith through product placement and product endorsements. Hook up with Gary on Linkedin.

Some of the Companies We have Worked With…

— BBC
— ITV
— CHANNEL 4
— NBCU
— Red Arrow
— Amazon (Lovefilm)
— Hit Entertainment
— bSKYb
— ESPN
— Edward Cavendish
— Motorola
— Allied – Lyons
— Energis Interactive
— Ogilvy and Mather
— Cable & Wireless
— MoviePlacement.com
— IBC Media
— Discovery
— Travel Channel
— CBC

Awards and Patents

Marc Goodchild
— 2001 – BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award (Marc Goodchild)
— M.I.High Game – Rose D’Or inaugural prize for best multiplatform format
— Bug Bears – RTS award for innovation
— Me and my movie – Prix Jeunesse (interactive)
— CBBC – Bafta Children’s Channel of the Year (incorporating website)
— Cbeebies – Bafta children’s Channel of the Year (incorporating website)
— BBCi red button service (incorporating Cbeebies) – Emmy for Interactivity
— CDX interactive broadband game – Cannes Lions Game Award, RTS educational multimedia, Flash Forward Games Award
— How to Sleep Better – New Media Age award for best use of interactivity on TV, NMA Grand Prix award for best use of interactivity
— Who Do You Think You Are? – RTS Education Award
— What Am I like? Interactive – Learning on Screen Award
— Dunkirk: The Soldiers’ Story – Grierson best historical doc.
— Bitesize interactive – New Media Age Award
— Pyramid Interactive -British Interactive Media Award, DVDAs
— TV Travel Writer of the Year – (twice)

Richard Kastelein
— Winner 2010 Deloitte Tech., Media & Telcom (TMT) Predictions for Entrepreneurs in Holland for futurist views on Social TV and Media Convergence (Tech Visionary).
— 2011 Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovation – visionary application of IT to promote positive social, economic and educational change.
— Finalist at IBC’s ConnectedWorld.TV Personality of the Year 2011 for work educating broadcasters at www.appmarket.tv. Lost to Marc Zuckerberg.
— Judge – Association of International Broadcasting (AIB) International Media Awards 2012 UK
— Judge – IP&TV Industry Awards 2011, 2012, UK
— Judge – Social TV Summit 2012, USA

Paul Johnson
— LOVEFiLMs “Content Provision” System
— (in relation to the WatchNow VOD Service)

Memberships

— Webinos (EU FP7 for Multiplatform)
— AIME
— Academy of Web Television
— PACT (coming soon)