What do we do? We research, write, investigate, build, and play in the realm of Convergent Media. We are a group of professionals who revel in living on the cutting edge of technology and sharing the intelligence we gather is part of our open source philosophy. We are available as consultants, innovators, project leaders, event panelists and more. Please visit our new site at appmarket.tv and our blog for more info.
Forty years ago, the brilliant Canadian media theorist Marshall Mcluhan, the “patron saint” of Wired magazine, (who brought us Electronic Interdependence, The Global Village and The Medium is the Massage) metaphorically considered the TV to be an ‘electronic’ hearth – a collective centralized event for the family on the cusp of it’s appearance in the home 50 years ago. By the end of the millenium, TV’s peppered houses and became a more individual experience. In the USA, the average house now has 2.24 TV’s and 66 per cent of households have three or more TV’s.
It's clear that TV is about to become social again (says Forbes, The NYT, The BBC) and the Wall St. Journal) But who, what, when, where, why, how and how much? The questions have yet to be answered. Will the TV continue to evolve as an individual device in a new ‘TV Everywhere’ world? And just become part of a matrix of interactive devices available to each individual? We think it will and can do a lot of things.
And as founders of Appmarket.tv... and curators of a fair chunk of market intelligence - we truly have a firm grasp on the emerging landscape.
Some of our team have built Social TV already - back in 2007, with the Twinners Platform which piloted on SuperRTL, RTL, SBS and TV Copenhagen in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium. We have built open source communities, built scores of applications and widgets, and we have have concepted new formats around both augmented reality and social TV.
Just as social networking reshaped the online landscape we feel the same will come for television. The convergence of TV, internet and social media is an awesome model and we are in the heart of it.
small is better. That's how we feel. Personalised.
Rather than farm out, hire extensively, and dilute our own brand like many agencies, Agora Media Group is a tight, highly experienced group of well seasoned Internet and TV professionals holding a diverse range of skill sets which, when fused, creates a team that can handle almost any convergent media project internally... from Augmented Reality to Social TV, 3D, Social Media to Print Media, Search Engine Strategy to building highly effective TV Applications and Widgets.
We dream in digital. The team at Agora are passionate about the technologies that now define our world and the way they're moulding our future. We are first and foremost great communicators. We are creatives who truly understand how the Web connects us all, and we all want to shape the conversation. We are restless innovators who are not just waiting for the next big idea to come along, we're part of making it happen.
The team at Agora are unique talents, visionaries, experimenters, and live and play on the cutting edge of technology. Agora helps build great brands by creating engaging, experiential social environments in the emerging convergent digital world. With our feet planted in the early Internet, our seasoned team has done hundreds of innovative projects for a wide array of Fortune 500 clients, startups, and a variety of others across the globe. Created in London, Agora Media Group’s roots are in The Netherlands and Japan and the team itself has Canadian, Australian, Italian and Dutch partners.
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