Ed Barton
ED BARTON attended Westminster School, London and Manchester University. He worked for the corporate financier Nicholas Kittoe's corporate finance boutique, Kittoe & Co, giving board level financial advice to a range of small to medium sized companies, including the Sporting Index Group. Ed also worked for Hydra Consulting on secondment from Nicholas Kittoe's office where he was commissioned by this London-based digital media consultancy to lead a project researching the best ways for the Sporting Index Group to exploit digital sales channels.
Ed subsequently joined Sporting Index Group Holdings as a Business Development Manager in the office of Lindsay McNeile, co-founder and MD of Sporting Index, where he worked extensively on successful capital raising exercises to fund the creation of SportingOdds and Financial Spreads. Subsequently Ed moved to SportingOdds as a Business Development Manager responsible for making deals with online distribution partners and managing the ongoing relationships.
Ed is a leading authority on the global remote gambling and video games industries. He has completed numerous major studies on the gambling and video games industries for Screen Digest as well as consultancy projects including board level strategic advisory work on online gambling, fantasy sports, skill gaming, mobile gaming, online gaming, games publishing, Asian MMO's and next generation console software. Ed has spoken at industry conferences and is regularly cited in both consumer and trade coverage of the gambling and games industries.
Ed heads coverage of gambling for Screen Digest and and is also a key member of the the video games team. His interests include sports, gambling, video games and the Internet.
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Sega, having sidestepped the Christmas market, is leading the industry with the most releases for the current-generation games consoles - eight of them based on new intellectual property - in the first quarter of the new year. Nintendo's Wii is catching up with Microsoft's Xbox 360 in terms of number of releases, although the aggressive support for Wii over Christmas has not persisted into the new year.
Mini Report - Feb 08
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Since before the launch of Xbox 360 in late 2005 Screen Digest has been actively tracking multiple data points regarding every single packaged retail title confirmed for current generation TV consoles. The Console Games Bulletin aggregates and analyses this data to discern key trends in global video games publishing.
Management Report - Jan 08
(PDF)
Since before the launch of Xbox 360 in late 2005 Screen Digest has been actively tracking multiple data points regarding every single packaged retail title confirmed for current generation TV consoles. The Console Games Bulletin aggregates and analyses this data to discern key trends in global video games publishing.
Management Report - Jan 08
(PDF)
Manufacturers introduce new packages for market segments
Mini Report - Nov 07
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Strong format competition based on familiar software titles is expected during crucial Christmas period
Mini Report - Oct 07
(PDF)
Since before the launch of Xbox 360 in late 2005, Screen Digest has tracked multiple data points regarding every single packaged retail title confirmed for 256 bit home console platforms. The final Quarter of 2007 is the ideal time to release our first Console Games Publishing Bulletin given the level of activity in the publishing community and the emergence of trends which could prove highly influential in the shaping of this hardware generation.
Management Report - Oct 07
(PDF)
Since before the launch of Xbox 360 in late 2005, Screen Digest has tracked multiple data points regarding every single packaged retail title confirmed for 256 bit home console platforms. The final Quarter of 2007 is the ideal time to release our first Console Games Publishing Bulletin given the level of activity in the publishing community and the emergence of trends which could prove highly influential in the shaping of this hardware generation.
Management Report - Oct 07
(PDF)
A clear leader is emerging in the market battle between the latest generation of portable games devices, the Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP. We examine the three key territories-Japan, the US and the PAL television countries-and forecast that over the next four years the DS will outsell the PSP in both hardware and, by corrolation, software, especially in the Western territories.
Mini Report - Jun 07
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European hardware sales expectations are reduced as sales and stock availability date feed through, but strong sales are driving Nintendo's Wii forward
Mini Report - May 07
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Overall market performance has been better than expected but next-generation sales volumes have yet to make an adequate impression.
Mini Report - Feb 07
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The Screen Digest report Next Generation Consoles: Games publishing, hardware analysis and forecasts to 2010 examines the prospects for next generation platforms and the implications for the console manufacturers and third party publishers alike. In addition the report forecasts next generation hardware and software markets to 2010.
The Screen Digest report Next Generation Consoles: Games publishing, hardware analysis and forecasts to 2010 examines the prospects for next generation platforms and the implications for the console manufacturers and third party publishers alike. In addition the report forecasts next generation hardware and software markets to 2010.
Management Report - Feb 07
(Print & PDF)
Our analysis of the first stages of marketing of the latest generation of games consoles-Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii-shows the relative strength of the software release slates, based on exclusivity, existing franchises and the creation of new intellectual property (IP). Each of the developers has a different strategy and each has its own advantages, although Microsoft-which launched its format first-retains an advantage in terms of titles on the market.
Mini Report - Jan 07
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The three contenders meet the shift from different perspectives as the cost of innovation outweighs the revenue from current-generation software sales
Mini Report - Nov 06
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This major study of the online gambling industry profiles 30 operators , including the global market leaders in all sectors - sports betting, poker, gaming, exchange and spread betting. The report includes 11 years of historical and forecast data for gross margin and active clients between 2000 to 2010 and detailed historical data for individual operators
Management Report - Jul 06
(Print & PDF)
This major study of the online gambling industry profiles 30 operators , including the global market leaders in all sectors - sports betting, poker, gaming, exchange and spread betting. The report includes 11 years of historical and forecast data for gross margin and active clients between 2000 to 2010 and detailed historical data for individual operators..
Management Report - Jul 06
(Print & PDF)
UK online gambling shake-out
Mini Report - May 06
(PDF)
Spending on outsourcing aspects of games
development will rise to $2.5bn by 2010
Mini Report - Mar 06
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Developers and publishers are lining up for fierce
competition between the next generation of games
consoles - Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation
3 and Nintendo's Revolution. We analyse the runners
and riders and the strategies likely to be followed.
Mini Report - Mar 06
(PDF)
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