Watch the launch of a £10m fund for digital media in the West Midlands

Channel 4 has announced that Birmingham is to become the commissioning hub for their new Four Innovation for the Public fund (4IP).
This move will kick start a wave of new investment in public service digital media content for audiences around Britain, and is a major coup for the region who already contribute ground breaking public [...]

Online goes offline in future

The message of this year’s world new media festival at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, is that online will move into the real world of offline, according to one delegate.
Digital media consultant Stef Lewandoski, from Birmingham, attended the festival as part of a group of delegates from the West Midlands to bring back the latest [...]

Birmingham drives digital revolution

Birmingham drives digital revolution as Screen WM announces £10m fund backed by Advantage West Midlands 
Regional Screen Agency, Screen WM, has today announced a £10 million digital media fund, developed through an innovative partnership with Channel 4, and supported by Advantage West Midlands.
Birmingham has been confirmed as the UK commissioning hub for England and Wales of Channel [...]

Blogger’s view from South by Southwest

In a video blog from the South by Southwest new media festival in Austin, Texas, Birmingham’s only professional blogger Pete Ashton explains what he’s hoping to pick up from the world’s biggest digital media gathering.
South by Southwest brings together people from across every aspect of new media from around the world to share the latest technological [...]

The face of Facebook

The billionaire chief executive of networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, talked about how his company is valued at more than just its $15bn price tag in making a keynote speech at one of the world’s biggest new media festivals, South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
He is just one of a series of top names at the festival [...]

ideasforlife.tv at the world’s biggest new media festival

ideasforlife.tv begins a series of reports from one of the biggest new media festivals in the world, South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. 
Birmingham digital media consultant Stef Lewandoski is one of half a dozen delegates from the West Midlands at the conference who are trying to raise the profile of the region and get the latest ideas [...]

Our man at the World Service

One of the biggest names in the media is due to give a talk at Coventry University as part of the Coventry Conversations series.
Nigel Chapman, head of the BBC’s World Service, will take the floor for the talk, which is free and open to the public, at 1pm on Thursday February 28 at the Ellen Terry Building, room ETG [...]

Using Digital Media in Marketing and Communications

A unique opportunity to attend two events on digital media.

If you are a West Midlands-based business keen to ensure that your organisation takes advantage of the digital media and communications, then join us on Wednesday 5th March at Lasan Restaurant (St Paul’s Square, Birmingham) for a networking event and the [...]