Northants Tourism Forum

Tourism Forum, Kettering Conference Centre, Thursday 22nd October 2009


Stream Exchange Director, Caroline Oldrey will be delivering a presentation on Online Media Streaming to delegates at the Northamptonshire Tourism Forum at Kettering Conference Centre on Thursday.

Delegates will explore the effectiveness of video in getting a message across, and learn how to harness the power of the internet using video online to raise the profile, proactively market and increase the revenue of a tourist destination.

The event is being hosted by Northamptonshire Enterprise Ltd.

Breakfast Event - Media Marketing Breakfast - Norwich 17th November

We are delighted to invite you to join Fiona Ryder, founder Director of StreamExchange, who will be guest speaker at the first of a series of new Media Marketing Breakfasts being hosted by Business Link East.

The Breakfast will be held on 17th November @ the Forum Norwich - early start 07.45hrs.

It is sponsored by Business Link East and aims to give an interesting introduction to the power of Internet Video - Using video & the web to get your message across. This event will show you ways to use this new media to enhance your message.

Fiona will be sharing her extensive knowledge of the the sector and will be joined by Mark Overton, Director of Arena Media Partnership who has just launched an internet TV channel from StreamExchange as a communication and marketing tool for Social Housing Organisations.

Places are limited so book now via http://www.bookevents.org/ or phone 0845 6011000

Grants may be available to develop interactive Internet TV channels

StreamExchange is involved in an exciting new project to create hyper-local TV. It was commissioned by Arena Media Services to develop an interactive internet TV service for UK Social Housing landlord organisations.

Mark Overton, founder of Arena Media Services took advantage of the TakeITon grant scheme available to eligible businesses in the East of England to part fund the project.

StreamExchange created the new channel and provided an end-to-end service from the creation of a branded web TV player to production of the media, complete with co-ordinated channel titles and stings. The brief was to create an engaging local TV style community service, addressing the issues of most importance and interest to residents, with the added benefit of easy to follow interactive surveys and subtitles in several languages.

Mark is delighted with the results of what he calls "a fantastic communication tool". "We are very excited to be able to broadcast media via the internet in such a user friendly and interactive format." he says, "StreamExchange offered us a professional service from start to finish, and continue to help us to explore new ways in which our client organisations can engage their residents".

Arena Media Services claimed 40% of the development costs through the TakeITon Scheme available to small to medium sized businesses in the East of England from Business Link East. Mark says the application process was "very straight forward", with his application being completed and approved within 10 days. "Business Link could not have been more supportive", he says.

TakeITon is a major initiative launched by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) and designed to help boost the productivity of businesses in the region through improved use of IT. An awareness raising campaign running alongside the support programme aims to encourage SME's to think again about the way they use IT and to become more competitive, visible and profitable as a result.

Arena and StreamExchange are working in tandem to develop similar TV projects to serve more local social housing communities around the country.

For more information, please call StreamExchange on

0845 0508419 or email info@streamexchange.tv