Futurescape is a digital media innovation research company.
Its mission is to provide independent, comprehensive and critical analysis to forward-thinking executives, entrepreneurs and investors.
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Buyers are industry leaders at:
Global companies purchasing reports include AT&T, BBC, BSkyB, CBS, Digitas, Disney, Eutelsat, Fox, HBO, Irdeto, ITV, MediaCom, MTV, Ogilvy, Orange, Publicis, Samsung, UBS, Virgin Media, Warner Bros. |
Worldwide customer base: Austria, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA. Futurescape's research is regularly quoted in international media and marketing publications: MediaPost, Variety, Media Guardian, Broadcast, TV Week, Campaign and the World Advertising Research Center. Custom reports can be commissioned for specific research interests. Please contact us with your requirements: info@futurescape.tv |
The principals |
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Özlem Tunçil is co-founder of Futurescape and an expert on the convergence of television and the Internet. Her experience includes business and creative consultancy and digital strategy for ITV and Microsoft. Özlem has an MA in Hypermedia Studies from the University of Westminster’s Hypermedia Research Centre. She specialised in interactive television. Her 1998 master’s thesis was entitled From Zapping to Clicking: How can an Interactive Experience be Created for Internet-based Television? She applied her principles to creating early iTV prototypes for MicrosoftTV and ITV. These included extending a TV drama’s fiction and integrating characters with both multimedia e-mail on television and social media on the Internet. Özlem has a BA in Business Management. Her first new media company, hUpdate, focused on online educational projects. |
Colin Donald founded the New Media department at Virgin Media (then Flextech Television) in 1995. This was a digital R&D unit tasked with delivering strategic business benefits. He led a team launching award-winning Web sites for satellite channels targeting young men (Bravo), teen girls (Trouble) and business viewers (European Business News), plus the prototype digital EPG Time Machine. Colin has contributed case studies on innovation in a recession to NESTA. As an editorial board member of media consultancy Informed Sources, he analysed broadband content and interactive TV. His ActiveTV column in Broadcast magazine explained new media to the television industry. He was previously at the authoritative business newsletter Financial Times: New Media Markets. Colin has an MA in American Studies from The College of William and Mary. |
Conference partners
Futurescape is a media partner for international digital and broadcasting conferences, including:
Digital Content Monetization - Implementing monetization models to create rapid and sustainable digital growth.
StreamingMedia Europe - the destination for streaming media and online video professionals.
NAB Show - the premier event for broadcasting and content professionals from The National Association of Broadcasters.
Conference presentations: online TV and multiplatform
We also participate in international industry events, on themes such as 360 degree commissioning, interactive media and the future of online TV.
Social TV Forum
- Debate on "What impact will social TV have on the media industry as a whole?" with Rahul Chakkara, Controller of TV Platforms, BBC and other TV industry executives
- Futurescape analyses this crucial issue in its report, Social TV
360 Degree Commissioning
- Panel also included senior TV commissioners and executives from major independent production companies
- Presented insights from Futurescape's report The Birth of Online TV
Chinwag's Web TV Takeover, London
- Chairing debate about future of online TV with executives from Channel 4, Brightcove and TIOTI: see photos and hear podcast
Broadband and Triple Play Services and Video on the Net, Rome
- Presenting findings from research into marketing via YouTube
Interactive Screen, The Banff New Media Institute, Canada
- An intensive development laboratory in new media project creation and development
- Presentation: Issues in adapting fictional television content for new media
- Presentation: Managing production from television to MicrosoftTV
European Multimedia Labs
- Intensive development work on Virus Wars multiplatform sci-fi drama
The Cable and Satellite Show
- Where Bravo, Trouble and Time Machine Web sites won awards
IBC’s UK Digital TV conference
- Presentation: Integrating television with interactive content
Broadcasting @ Internet
- Presenting Internet strategy for Flextech Television (now Virgin Media)
Conference presentations: New media and social networking
Future of Web Apps – panel comparing and debating the US vs UK start-up scene
- See our blog post from the presentation, Great exits for UK Internet start-ups
Netimperative Seminar on Social Networking
- Presentation: Does marketing match social networking members' motivations?
- Successful and failed marketing campaigns via YouTube and Bebo
- See our case studies of social media marketing campaigns
Mediatech
- Discussion on marketing via social networks, blogs, virtual worlds
New Media Knowledge’s User Content: The Real Deal, with Moblog UK and Scoopt
- Presentation: The balance of power is shifting to participatory consumers
Central Office of Information, UK government's marketing and communications dept
- Presentation: Participatory consumers, tailored for COI's responsibilities
Our Social World, the UK’s first blogging conference, Cambridge
- Presentation: A world where everyone can be a media producer/distributor
