ScreenDaily Talks: How emerging SVoD platforms are thriving in a busy ecosystem

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ScreenDaily Talks: How emerging SVoD platforms are thriving in a busy ecosystem

The latest in our ScreenDaily Talks webinar series takes place on Wednesday September 2 at 18:00 BST/10:00 PDT/13:00 EDT. The session will look at three emerging platforms in the North American streaming landscape.

This episode of ScreenDaily Talks is sponsored by Britbox.

As SVoD services proliferate around the world and the lockdown brings a surge in engagement for platforms and their partners, three players will discuss the streaming ecosystem and how they see it evolving as they work with content creators and rights holders, forge clear brand identities, and develop growth strategies.

Soumya Sriraman is CEO and president of BritBox, the joint venture between BBC subsidiary BBC Studios and ITV that streams popular British content. In less than three years she has led the platform to more than 1.2m subscribers in North America.

Rob Holmes is VP of programming at streaming platform Roku, where he oversees the development and growth of The Roku Channel as well as programming strategy. Prior to Roku he was with Comcast where he developed and executed the advertising strategy and ran projects across the broadcast and cable networks, advertising, digital and the film studio.

Matt Stein has served for the past two years as head of brand and creative at streaming service Philo, which launched in November 2017, and has worked with network partners to develop multi-touchpoint awareness and acquisition campaigns. Prior to Philo he spent 20 years in the cable universe, developing, writing and producing content for VH1, Spike TV, Discovery Kids and The Travel Channel.

Join Screen International’s Americas Editor Jeremy Kay for a live conversation with the executives.The 30-minute discussion will be followed by a live Q&A in which the audience will be able to ask questions to the speakers; we can also take advance questions at orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com.

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