Jen Topping explores trends in the current screen landscape and examines what's happening with linear, streamers and FAST channels...
A FOCUS Webinar: Demystifying the current screen landscape – Linear, Streamers, FAST Channels
with Media & Digital Consultant & FOCUS expert, Jen Topping
12 noon - 1.30pm, Thursday 16th March 2023
Online via Zoom Webinar
Media & Digital Consultant and FOCUS Expert, Jen Topping, will lead this FOCUS Webinar to discuss and demystify the complexity of the current screen and TV landscape. Jen will provide an overview of the current state-of-play, identify key players, look at streamer business models and priorities and the rise of FAST channels and explore what the future might hold for the screen landscape – while identifying challenges and opportunities for Scotland’s independent production companies to produce content and get it screened.
Areas we will cover include:
• Global, local & niche players / platforms
• Understanding streamer models & their importance
• Challenges producing content in this market
• Where to get commissioned
• Popular genres
• New & evolving opportunities
About Jen Topping
Jen specialises in strategy and management of digital content propositions for media businesses including budgeting, revenue generation, editorial output, creative leadership, commercial performance, partnership management, talent / team building, operational and cultural change.
As a consultant, she works with a range of clients across TV, film, digital and the arts including Channel 4, STV and the Booker Prize Foundation. She helps them devise and implement strategies to grow their businesses, transform their operations, build talented teams and take advantage of online platforms to find new audiences and income streams.
Previously she was EVP of Digital for Beano Studios where she was responsible for defining the digital strategy to build a global content network for kids. She was director level at Microsoft working for the studio producing interactive TV for Xbox. She spent seven years at Channel 4 in a range of senior roles including managing channel4.com, helping launch 4oD, and latterly business manager for the online commissioning team.
Jen has an MBA and a professional certificate in executive coaching from Henley Business School. She started her career in newspapers and then joined the BBC as a news trainee. Jen was vice chair of BIMA from 2013 to 2016, the trade body for the British digital industry. She’s also on the advisory board for a cultural centre of a UNESCO world heritage site.
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