The BVA Awards 2013 In Full
It’s a tradition now: at the end of the annual BVA awards ceremony, all the assorted winners of gongs at the video industry’s annual celebration of its achievements, line up for a group shot. And here, left, is that picture from the 2013 event, held at the now regular location of Old Billingsgate down by [...]
Click here for more >2012 In Numbers
The BVA has unveiled its figures for the year-end, revealing, as expected, a slight dip in the overall market, with growth in the digital arena and, to a lesser extent, the Blu-ray format. Similar figures have already been revealed by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) Here are the figures released by the two respective trade [...]
Click here for more >Mapping The Future
Some months in the planning, The Content Map is the latest tool in the ongoing battle against piracy. Based on the original video landscape concept map put together by our very own British Video Association (our very own BVA), it lays out where consumers can stream or download legitimate content from, taking in not just [...]
Click here for more >Ready To Face The Future In Numbers
A year ago, industry boot the BVA published More Than Just A Support Act, a fascinating look at what the UK video industry ploughs back into our industry. Aimed at dispelling some of the myths at help copyright theft thrive (chiefly the one that suggests that all monies raised from sales head straight back to [...]
Click here for more >Censor Sensibility
One of the rarest items handed out at the annual BVA gongs bash is its Special Award, not least because it doesn’t happen every year and you have to do something really important to pick it up. And here, below, we have a winner at this year’s event, at Old Billingsgate. The picture shows awards [...]
Click here for more >Those BVA Winners In Full
This has become something of a tradition at the BVA Awards, as the organisers pull together every single gong-winner on the evening, along with some of their colleagues, and other assorted industry representatives, for a giant group shot. And, below, here’s the line up of the 2012 event, with the full complement of winners taking [...]
Click here for more >The Top 10 Of Everything 2011
While ploughing through a pile of newspapers and magazines compiling our regular update of press coverage for DVD and Blu-ray releases, we chanced upon a fair few year end top 10s and other Best Of lists from the last year in film. “Why not pull them all together in a not too definitive list of [...]
Click here for more >The News That’s Fit To Show…
The BVA AGM is one of the most important dates on the video business’ calendar, bringing together the great and good of the industry (oh, and The Raygun). In recent years, director general has eschewed the presentation format for her part of the proceedings, preferring instead to offer a far livelier, filmed take on the [...]
Click here for more >Top 10 Bestsellers January To June 2011
The BVA has unveiled the figures for the first half of 2011, totting up the January to June sales and other elements. Sales for the first half of the year were down overall on the same period of 2010, but less than you might have been led to believe; 5.7 per cent, a figure that [...]
Click here for more >10 Things We Learnt From The BVA Yearbook…
The BVA Yearbook has just landed on our mat with a resounding thud and we’ve spent the last seven days or so giving it a good read through, picking out some facts and figures that struck us as being of note. So here then, are the top 10 things we gleaned from the Yearbook, with [...]
Click here for more >Insight 360 In Numbers…
The BVA and Industry Trust-endorsed Insight 360 day was organised to try and look at the wider view of what’s happening in, around and beyond our industry. It obviously paid particular attention to the digital arena, but not just technological developments, as well as taking on those and IP issues, but also in areas such [...]
Click here for more >Those BVA Winners In Full
This happy bunch are the award winners from this year’s BVA awards held at Old Billingsgate, taking in major studios – Fox chief among those with five gongs and independent alike. We’ve already covered it extensively on our weekly email newsletter – but we’ll run you through the winners again and print the picture just [...]
Click here for more >Guess Who?
This is brilliant, and we had so much fun looking at it at the BVA AGM this week, that we thought we’d stick it up on our website. To help mark its 30th anniversary, the organisation got a bunch of respected industry characters to submit photos of themselves from, well, let’s just say around 30 [...]
Click here for more >UK Business: “Resilient And Adaptable”
The following is a transcript of David Elstein’s address to the BVA AGM. We liked it so much, we managed to get hold of a copy for those who couldn’t attend the early November event… “To the surprise of some mavens, the video industry has – taken in the round – been a beneficiary of [...]
Click here for more >The Next 30 Years…
The following is a slightly edited version of BVA chairman Anthony Peet’s address to the BVA AGM held in the first week of November. This year marks a special year for us as we celebrate 30 years of the BVA. In that time it has played a sterling role presiding over an industry that I [...]
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