62 HAPPENING Interview
Words by Neil Romanek CONNECTING BVE TO ST CENTURY TV Connected Media
on the success of that seminar programme, we’ve extended that into a full exhibition this year. FEED Can you tell us about BPL Broadcast’s history before Connected Media Europe? NN BPL Broadcast launched what became Connected World at the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam. I worked on that project from the start. That has since become IBC’s Content Everywhere segment, which IBC now runs in-house. After our arrangement with IBC ended, we started working with the NAB Show team in Las Vegas producing Connected Media|IP, where we now have 70 or more exhibitors and two theatres, with Cisco as our platinum sponsor. That’s become a very big event. We’re also doing a smaller version of Connected Media|IP now at NAB Show New York. FEED What has the response been to Connected Media Europe? NN We’re really excited that it has taken o as well as it has. It mirrors what we’ve experienced at similar events we’ve launched in the past. We’re delighted to have AWS Elemental and Google Cloud Video as two of our key exhibitors at the show. Having those brands involved from day one has been a real validation of what we are doing.
FEED How did Connected Media Europe get its start? NEIL NIXON At last year’s BVE show, we trialled a seminar programme, which we called Connected Media Europe. We wanted to test the water and give an opportunity to businesses that work in that connected, ‘TV everywhere’ space. BVE historically hadn’t concentrated on those technologies. It gave some of the vendors we’ve worked with previously in Amsterdam (IBC) and more recently in Las Vegas and New York (NAB Show) a chance to check out BVE. It was a show that hadn’t been part of their circuit and we thought we could give them a taste of it. It gave us the opportunity to test the audience too: was our view and BVE’s view of this evolving audience correct? Based Europe returns to BVE, this time with its own plot on the show oor. Neil Nixon, content & marketing director of BPL Broadcast, hopes his show-within-a- show will bring streaming to the UK’s biggest media tech expo.
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