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Ste Thompson: Bringing the Film Industry into the Future
Category: Business
Duration: 00:32:25
Publish Date: 2018-08-29 22:30:05
Description:

As the CEO and Creative Director of London’s award-winning creative studio POWSTER, Ste Thompson built a movie platform responsible for show times and ticketing sites for thousands of movies across the entire world. He also develops interactive media that helps studios connect with audiences. In today’s episode, Ste takes us behind the scenes at POWSTER, and unpacks the past, present, and future of media. We also explore how to infuse the disparate worlds of creativity and data, and talk about some of Ste’s most influential and adventurous projects.

Topics include:

  • The role of social media platforms in dictating media formats and trends
  • How POWSTER is working with augmented and virtual reality
  • Shifting away from complex movie websites
  • How to use Facebook Messenger to connect people with movies (and each other)
  • The interesting relationship between creative and data teams
  • POWSTER’s place in the media industry (and its work with Movieo, iTV, and British television networks)

Ste Thompson is the CEO and Founder of POWSTER, a provider of creative services to over 50 film distributors in over 40 countries and music videos and interactive content to the major music labels. Ste has led the POWSTER creative vision since its foundation in 2009, winning many prestigious awards. Ste’s primary skill is product development and innovation. Prior to POWSTER, he developed creative content for the music and brand industry and studied multimedia, computer game design, and digital media.

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