home biog

Archive for September, 2009

Slingshot in top 100 TechMedia Innovators List

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

There’s rather nice coverage in yesterday’s Guardian; and we are in very good company – including companies I love like Spotify, my friend Brent Hoberman’s MyDeco, MoonPig and Mind Candy.  I blogged a while ago that Richard Wray, the Guardian’s communications editor had interviewed me about innovation. Turns out this is why. Here’s the soundbite:

“In the film industry, Arvind Ethan David, chief executive of Slingshot Studios, can see the same changes coming: “There exists a large and widening disjunction between how audiences want to consume films – when, where and how they want – and how the film industry insists on providing them, according to rigid windowing patterns, fixed price points and non-coordinated marketing between the platforms. Companies that actually work with consumers can reap benefits.”

The full piece is here; and here’s a funny image that the photo editor has chosen to represent what early adopters look like!

CheeseBurger Assault

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Nothing to do with the film industry. But somethings are just too good: