2nd VOD MARKET DAY

Venice, September 4th, 2020

Co-organised by EuroVoD and the Venice Production Bridge / Venice Film Festival, the 2nd VoD Market Day will take place in Venice, on September 4th 2020, in the framework of the international training course European VoD Meetings, co-financed by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme.

One day of public conferences, B2B meetings and networking, gathering VoD platforms, film professionals and tech companies working with online distribution, but also open to journalists, public institutions and other professionals interested in knowing more the VoD sector and get in touch with the companies attending the European VoD Meetings. The full programme will be announced closer to the date.

10:30 - 13:00 EUROVOD CONFERENCE / DIVERSE, INDEPENDENT AND SUSTAINABLE: BUILDING EUROPEAN VOD

Sala Incontri, Hotel Excelsior, Lido di Venezia & streamed online on the website of the Venice Production Bridge

Moderated by Michael Gubbins

10:30 - 10:40: VOD MARKET DAY OPENING

Introduction by: EuroVoD (Silvia Cibien), La Biennale di Venezia / Venice Production Bridge (Pascal Diot)

10:40 - 11:00: EUROVOD REPORT 2020 & EUROVOD PRO

EuroVoD is the association of European VoD platforms, grouping nowadays around 30 members from 18 European countries. With an average of 78% of of European content in the aggregated catalogue, the association presents in this session its first report, underlining the shape and challenges of European VoD platforms and the impact of Covid on business models. The session will also be the occasion of presenting the new online professional platform, an online market and networking place dedicated to the Vido On Demand sector.

Presented by: Sampo Media (Michael Gubbins), Agustina Lumi (EuroVoD)

11:00 - 11:45: VOD MARKET TRENDS & ANALYTICS

The VOD ecosystem is still rapidly evolving worldwide with fresh challenges and opportunities emerging. The session will provide essential context for the discussions and debates of the next three days. it will offer new, emerging and more established services and platforms a view of where their work might fit into new realities. The session will be a chance to ask questions and share experiences.

Presented by: Ampere Analysis (Guy Bisson)

11:45 - 13:00: DEMAND CREATION: HOW TO ENGAGE A CHANGING AUDIENCE

The European film industry is coming to terms with a rapidly evolving environment with new technologies, changing patterns of audience behaviour disrupting established business. The Covid crisis has accentuated and accelerated changing patterns of audience demand for European film. Months of lockdown has increased interest in on-demand viewing and we need to learn lessons about how European talent and business can build on those changes. Lockdown proved the value of cooperation between on demand services and cinemas and festivals. That combination of online and physical opens up tremendous potential for European film and for cultural diversity. This session will focus on how to build collaboration and cooperation in a new digital framework on the interests of film, audience and business. It will look at emerging models and best practice and how they can be best implemented.

Moderated by: Michael Gubbins

Guest Speakers: MyMovies (Gianluca Guzzo), IMZ - International Music + Media Center (Katharina Jeschke), Filmin (Jaume Ripoll), FilmDoo (Weerada Sucharitkul)

Hosted by: EuroVoD and co-organized with the Venice Production Bridge

14:30 - 18:00 ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS

Hotel Excelsior, Lido di Venezia

Meet the EUROVOD platforms and professionals attending the European VOD Meetings!

The one-to-one meetings will be booked through the Venice Production Bridge website and on site.

CONFIRMED EXHIBITORS: Ampere Analysis (UK), BECCA Europe (NL), EUROPA+ (US), EuroVoD, FilmDoo (UK), Filmin (ES), Huawei, IMZ (AT), Kinow (FR), Les Flicks (UK), Modern Films (UK), Polkatulk (FR), Premiere Digital (US), UsherU (UK), VoD Factory (FR).