The Children‘s Media Conference

CMC 2016 - Research 1 - Continuity and Change: The Impact of Online on Children’s TV Viewing

Compelling video footage plus a decade of quant research reveal what’s changed in children’s viewing and what this might mean for the future.

CMC 2016 The Last Word - George the Poet

Cancel the Search Party.  George the Poet is here, with some final thoughts on making kids’ media matter and CMC16. George has been watching and listening throughout the conference and has some poetic reflections on childhood, kids’ media and how we serve the audience.

CMC 2016 Changemaker - Jess Thom

Writer, artist and part time superhero, Jess Thom co-founded Touretteshero in 2010 as a creative response to her experience of living with Tourettes Syndrome. Touretteshero is about reclaiming the most frequently misunderstood condition on the planet, challenging people to think differently, and building a more inclusive society.

Jess is a visual, performing, and participatory artist based in London. She graduated from The Royal College of Art in 2005. She is committed to increasing opportunities that allow the experiences of people living with Tourettes Syndrome to be heard, and to ‘changing the world one tic at a time.’

CMC 2015 - The Web We Want

What Web do we want for the next generation?  Find out what your responsibilities are – as producers, platform/content providers and brand owners. Test your knowledge as our experts navigate the complicated world of online rights for kids. And contribute your ideas to help establish a better web where the children of tomorrow can grow and flourish. 

CMC 2015 - Play, Make and Share: Inspiring Creativity

As creativity is increasingly squeezed out of formal education how can children’s media inspire and enable children to express themselves and learn through making and sharing?

Kids are claiming back their education.  They’re nurturing their own passions, finding their own spaces, making their own choices, publishing for themselves and looking to their peer groups for recognition.  With all this going on, seemingly unbounded from any formal educational processes, what’s the place for the producers and broadcasters of children’s media within this landscape?

To help debate this topic the session brings together a panel of people who are passionately involved in enabling children to create and share – be that through films, stories or games.  We’ll be quizzing them on the tools and techniques they’re using to inspire these kids, how this fits within the current ecosystem of education and child development, and discuss the successes, challenges and prophecies for the future.

CMC 2015 - Licensed to Thrill

Join Children’s Brand licensing experts from TV, Film, Agents, Publishing and major Retail – all willing to share their wisdom on what it takes to turn a new children’s IP into a smash hit consumer product.

Share their experiences of developing a children’s brand into a huge multi-million pound selling hit or of licensing projects that sadly end up in the bargain bin.

Gain general insights and plan your questions for a 1-2-1 licensing advice clinic which follows this session in the Workstation Mezzanine, when the expert panelists can offer a personal review of your own potential hit brand.

CMC 2015 - Learning by App

Not all games that claim to be educational stand up to scrutiny. 32% of games on the Apple app store have an educational claim or learning goal, but “a great majority… are not very good games and they are not very good at stimulating learning” (Lauri Jarvilehto, Rovio).

We hear from app developers, app reviewers and scientists on what makes an app educational and what the market landscape looks like. We explore real life examples and discuss how making a good app, with true educational value, is harder than it might first appear. Plus we get the facts on app use in the home, as we hear the results of research into which apps children and parents prefer.

CMC 2015 - Learning: A Land of Opportunity?

The Learning sector has changed dramatically over the last few years but where do the future opportunities for content providers lie? Learning is one of the hardest areas to crack but the global demand for creative learning content is increasing rapidly. In this session we’ll hear from a range of voices exploring the changes in the sector.  What are the traditional commissioning broadcasters and publishers of direct learning content looking for; are there new routes to funding that producers can access; who is looking to fund ed-tech ideas and how do they differ from the requirements and needs of traditional broadcasters and publishers; as commissioning models change, where can producers look for finance?

The session will provide an overview of current and future opportunities for producers of learning content.

CMC 2015 - From Tokenism to Truthful

How can children’s content be inclusive AND a hit? Industry leaders shared their best practice secrets of how to be a commercial, critical, inclusive success.

This session began with a presentation from Changemaker 16 year old Seb Gallop, game creator and Future8 Award winner.

CMC 2015 - Finance Lab

Our expert panel of content funders, covering the widest of spectrums from specialist bankers and financiers at one end to tax credits and other forms of soft finance on the other, and taking in broadcasters and co-producers along the way, will help our three kids’ producers piece together their recipes for success to get their projects greenlit.