Ben Keen
BEN KEEN is Chief Analyst responsible for leading Screen Digest's research and consulting activities.
With more than 20 years experience in media industry research, he is a leading authority on all aspects of screen-based media, particularly digital and interactive media. Additionally, since 1988 Ben has been retained as advisor to the government-industry liaison organisation, the British Screen Advisory Council (BSAC).
Ben has led the Screen Digest teams that have undertaken consultancy projects for more than 70 different international clients. Consulting assignments have included projects for the British government, pay TV broadcasters, major Hollywood studios, top video games publishers, several leading private equity groups, a digital cinema consortium, a leading chip-set designer, and a top-three computer manufactures.
Ben has contributed to over 25 different books and periodicals and has spoken at more than 200 international conferences and seminars. He holds a 1st class BSc degree, followed by PhD research at Imperial College, London.
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This report examines Internet-delivered major Hollywood movies available to consumers in Europe on an ownership model otherwise known as "digital retail" or "download-to-own". The report analyses Western European online movie service providers and their business strategies regarding digital retail, whilst also employing data on broadband penetration and digital retail movie revenues throughout territories on the continent.
Management Report - Dec 06
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This report examines Internet-delivered major Hollywood movies available to consumers in Europe on an ownership model otherwise known as "digital retail" or "download-to-own". The report analyses Western European online movie service providers and their business strategies regarding digital retail, whilst also employing data on broadband penetration and digital retail movie revenues throughout territories on the continent.
Management Report - Dec 06
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The next video format war - are you wondering what the truth is? This is the first major study to analyse the current video format battle and to assess the potential outcome. The report includes 5 year forecasts with combined sales of the new format broken out for US, Europe and Japan.
Management Report - Aug 06
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Management Report - Aug 06
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The next video format war - are you wondering what the truth is? This is the first major study to analyse the current video format battle and to assess the potential outcome. The report includes 5 year forecasts with combined sales of the new format broken out for US, Europe and Japan.
This cooperation between Screen Digest and Rightscom examines the lessons learnt from the music industry's digital experience and also analyses the way in which DRM systems might allow movie release windows to be radically changed in future.
Management Report - Apr 06
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This cooperation between Screen Digest and Rightscom examines the lessons learnt from the music industry's digital experience and also analyses the way in which DRM systems might allow movie release windows to be radically changed in future.
This major report from Screen Digest looks at the prospects for HDTV in free-to-view and pay TV markets in 19 territories worldwide. Historical and forecast data to 2010 is provided for each market for HD TV sales, 'HD ready' households and HD platforms and channels.
This must-have report on mobile gaming looks at the value chain for the wireless gaming market and assesses all the key players. The report looks at mobile specialist content providers, developers and assesses the challenges and trends facing the industry. Included are revenue and handset market forecasts as well as a directory of over 200 mobile games developers and publishers.
Management Report - Nov 05
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This groundbreaking report from Screen Digest is the first publication to identify the world's most profitable games software publishers and reveals the strategies that have led to their success. Employing analytical techniques never before applied to the games sector, the report critically examines a range of operating strategies as well as strategies for growth.
This groundbreaking report from Screen Digest is the first publication to identify the world's most profitable games software publishers and reveals the strategies that have led to their success. Employing analytical techniques never before applied to the games sector, the report critically examines a range of operating strategies as well as strategies for growth.
Management Report - Nov 05
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This report provides a detailed examination of the business models and ownership structures that will effect the potentially enormous market for mobile digital television. Also assessed are the consumer, economic, rights and regulatory issues that will govern the MDTV landscape.
Management Report - Sep 05
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This report assesses the rapidly developing market for the digital downloading of PC and console games as well as Games on Demand. With historical and forecast data to 2010, the report is the most detailed analysis to date of this increasingly important sector of the games industry.
Management Report - Aug 05
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This new report from Screen Digest is the only source of data available on the structure and dynamics of the European games industry. It contains a thorough analysis of the changing factors affecting the key players throughout the games value chain. The report is published in association with ELSPA.
After many years of anticipation, the market for games on mobile phones finally arrived in Europe in 2003 and really began to blossom in 2004. Two factors were key. First, mobile phone penetration in developed countries started to reach saturation, meaning that networks had to look towards non-voice services to increase revenue and act as a differentiating point to reduce churn. Second, downloadable technologies (and enabled handsets)— primarily Java-based—emerged to offer a compellingly simple (and billable) platform for the delivery of games.
Mini Report - Mar 05
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This new report from Screen Digest outlines mobile phone network operator strategies for wireless gaming across Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region. The report includes forecasts to 2010 for games revenues, enabled handsets and monthly ARPUs for games subscribers. Games deployments and pricing strategies for each operator are covered in detail.
Management Report - Oct 04
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The fifth edition in this ongoing series of reports provides a benchmark reference for the games industry. Two of the industry's most respected analysts, Ben Keen and Nick Parker, have combined their expertise to bring you the definitive market research tool.
Management Report - Aug 04
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The fifth edition in this ongoing series of reports provides a benchmark reference for the games industry. Two of the industry's most respected analysts, Ben Keen and Nick Parker, have combined their expertise to bring you the definitive market research tool.
Management Report - Aug 04
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The fifth edition in this ongoing series of reports provides a benchmark reference for the games industry. Two of the industry's most respected analysts, Ben Keen and Nick Parker, have combined their expertise to bring you the definitive market research tool.
Management Report - Aug 04
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The new report is the first comprehensive study into the rapidly growing market for online gaming. Complete analysis on the market for pay-per-play browser gaming as well as massively multi player online games (MMOG) is presented in this report.
This new report profiles the growth of iTV betting, gaming and lottery services, analysing the availability and prospects for these services in key European markets. It includes a unique forecast model, offering territorial revenue forecasts until 2007 and an exclusive analysis of gross margins by application type.
This unique study assesses the state of the market for alternative content in electronic and digital cinema. This includes any form of large-screen content other than feature films and also includes alternative cinema use, such as for corporate events. The report also explains how alternative content could revolutionise the economics of the cinema industry.
Management Report - Oct 03
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The European Cable Yearbook 2002 is the third edition of a guide produced through the unique collaboration between Screen Digest, the respected media research company, and the European Cable Communications Association (ECCA), the industry organisation for Europe's cable operators.
Management Report - Nov 02
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The storage of audio-visual content on a disc is not a new idea. Since John Logie Baird demonstrated his Phonovision back in 1927, which used conventional gramophone records to play back mechanically derived moving pictures and sound, a video disc system
Management Report - Nov 02
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The storage of audio-visual content on a disc is not a new idea. Since John Logie Baird demonstrated his Phonovision back in 1927, which used conventional gramophone records to play back mechanically derived moving pictures and sound, a video disc system
Management Report - Nov 02
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Management Report - Nov 02
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The report predicts which content genres will prove the most successful online, forecasts future revenues from Web content to 2005 and predicts that the MPEG-4 delivery format will help to fuel user adoption of streaming video. Screen Digest also surveys the US and European markets for short form and long form online content distribution while predicting which providers of security, content delivery and digital asset management (DAM) software and services will benefit most from the predicted explosive growth in demand for online content.
Management Report - Apr 02
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