What are we?

Company Profile

Innovation, Creativity, Research & Development,
Implementation, Evaluation, Sustainability

pjb Associates is a European-based, globally looking, consultancy and service agency company, at the forefront of new media developments. It is led by Senior Partner Peter Bates who established the company in 1990.

pjb Associates focuses on “adding value to video assets”, personalisation and personalised TV - in the home and on the move - helping to create sustainable media-rich information, entertainment and learning services through communities of interest. This involves working with organisations to develop sustainable business models for new interactive and content-based services that will be delivered to the home through broadband TV and through mobile devices.

pjb Associates works at the interception of the Four Cs – Content, Communications, Commerce and Communities – bringing together video production companies with technology solution providers in order to create new media services including niche and thematic web-based and TV-based IPTV services.

This also involves developing creative solutions that are leading towards new business development opportunities for new revenue generation through more personalised advertising and marketing.

We offer: -

Consultancy services – including: -

Strategic thinking and planning	Market Research
“Out of the box” innovative thinking	Competitive analysis
Development of new business models	Evaluation of products and services
Project Management	Report writing

New media products and services agency - working in partnership with companies from across the world pjb Associates can offer various innovative products and services that add value to video and audio assets. These include: -

Technology platform solutions for web-based IPTV or Internet TV	Online video and audio music shop (download to own)
Searching within video	Clickable hotspots within video
Encoding and management of video assets	Rapid video production and editing services
Tagging and “bookmarking” within audio and video including podcasts	Video overlays – including sub-titling and bubble captions

pjb Associates was previously focusing on innovative approaches to learning through using new technologies. This involved analysing, monitoring and evaluating developments concerning managerial and technological issues related to current and future developments in networked learning. Reports have been produced for the European Parliament, European Commission and other small and large commercial companies and national agencies.

pjb Associates has also worked on many research and development projects as well as managing small and medium sized projects simultaneously. Senior partner, Peter Bates has given presentations on new media developments and worked in various parts of Europe, USA, Brazil and Central Asia. Other work has involved a global study into developments relating to the use of interactive and broadband digital TV for increasing learning opportunities in the home and monitoring developments related to mobile learning. This has included monitoring developments towards personalised TV for several years.

Contact Peter Bates by email for more information pjb@pjb.co.uk or telephone +44 1353 667973

Last updated 13 July 2007