SPHERE CONFERENCE

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SPHERE CONFERENCE

• Content Production for Multiple Media
• Drew Kaza
• CEO
• The Hospital Group Ltd.

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BBC

• UK public service broadcaster supported by
  licence fee (2.2b in YE 01)
• 2 terrestrial TV channels
• 5 digital channels
• National radio (51 share)
• Strong Internet presence (Europes most popular
  content site)

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BBC Worldwide

• 100 commercial subsidiary of BBC and main
  consumer facing arm
• Turnover approaching US 1 billion
• Europes no.1 TV exporter and UKs
• 3rd biggest magazine publisher
• Growing Internet/Interactive presence (48 rev.
  growth in 00-01)

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beeb.com

• Est. in 1996 - BBCs first presence on web was
  wholly commercial
• Migrated from web zines to e-commerce
• Built around trusted brands
• Added TH Lee Putnam Ventures as partners (est.
  Aug. 2000)
• Top 3 UK e-commerce site
• Multi-platform, multi-revenue

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BBC Online

• Strong content factory of over 750K pages of
  stuff
• 300m PIs per month (50 non U.K)
• Europes most popular content site (only
  non-portal regularly in top 10 for traffic)
• Developing BBCi

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Interactive Wimbledon 2001 Two thirds of viewers
had sampled Interactive Wimbledon during the
course of the first week.
Source BARB live overnight data (takes into
account schedule changes)
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Interactive Wimbledon 2001 - Demographics
Source BARB live overnight data based on 1 min
reach (takes into account schedule changes)
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The Hospital Group Ltd.

• An artists haven (music, art film facility)
  for creative industry professionals
• Based in Covent Garden, WC2
• Owned by Paul Allen
• Creative Director Dave Stewart
• Due to open in Autumn next year
• Content development/investment starts NOW...

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