International Media Industry meets Dutch Media Hub

Successful matchmaking at IBC
Monday, September 13th - Dutch Media Hub, Holland’s new initiative to become the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’, introduced itself these days to the International electronic media industry at the IBC Exhibition.

Friday afternoon, a successful matchmaking session allowed international companies to meet with Dutch Media Hub’s partners: all leading media industry companies within the Netherlands. The networking participants were delighted to have this opportunity to discuss cooperation and learn from each other’s technologies. During IBC, the Dutch Media Hub will be exhibiting in Hall 3, stand B13. Here, members of the project team as well as the project’s partners can tell you more about the Dutch Media Hub project and about ways to participate.

Dutch Media Hub
The Dutch Media Hub is being developed and established by Stichting iMMovator and several Dutch media companies. Within this ‘hub’, a diversity of creative, media and facility services is offered, all concerning digital media. Ton van Mil, General Manager of iMMovator: “The Dutch Media Hub can be compared with the Rotterdam Harbor. All facilities and services combined, make this harbor into an important Main port. When the Dutch media and ICT industry offers her collective facilities and services to international content manufacturers, it presents in effect a highly efficient Digital Main port. Content providers like major film studios can benefit from this structure. Along with such entities as, for example, Asian media companies, that are looking for an efficient way to distribute their online games in the European market. They would all greatly benefit from a central entry point within Europe.”

The Netherlands is best positioned to become this central gateway to Europe. The country is centrally located in Europe, has excellent fiber connections and hosts the largest Internet Exchange of the world, the AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange). Also, the Dutch media and ICT industry are among the most developed, efficient and innovative in the world.

Partners from the industry
Through this project, iMMovator unites industry, government and knowledge institutes. The following companies are already participating in the Dutch Media Hub: Alldata, AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange), Blue Billywig, BT, Chamber of Commerce Gooi- Eem- & Flevoland, Civolution, Digital Film Center Europe, DMC (Digital Media Centre), Dutch Independents, Dutchview, European Communication Projects, FCCE, Getronics (a KPN company), Golden Bytes, GX, Hoek & Sonépouse Facilitair, Interxion, InVision Subtitling, Jet-Stream, Kennedy Van der Laan, Lost Boys Interactive, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, SBS Broadcasting, ODMedia Group, Philips NetTV, SBS Broadcasting, Stoneroos Interactive TV, Team Facilities, Technicolor, The Service Station, United Broadcast Facilities, Videma, Vivesta, World Trade Center Almere Association, XDEV, Novay (formally known as Telematica Instituut) and TNO ICT. The Hub continues to expand rapidly as the project develops further.

State support
The Dutch Media Hub project has the support of Dutch local, regional and national governments. The Municipalities of the cities of Hilversum, Amsterdam and Almere, Province of Noord Holland and the Ministry of Economic Affairs are among the main sponsors. Dutch Media Hub is made possible in part by support of the European Regional Development Fund from the European Commission.

14-09-2009 | Projecten