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Founded in 2001, NPA Conseil is a leading research and consulting company focused on the impact of digitalization on the value chain of the audiovisual industry: including the emergence of new players, non-linear services, business models, developments in content creation, new regulatory frameworks, and new forms of advertising.

NPA Conseil helps entertainment companies understand and integrate digitalization across all parts of their businesses (legal, marketing, financial, technical, and editorial), and provides a variety of strategic advisory services, including regulatory and business consulting, marketing and IT strategies, and business development.

In the past 2 years, NPA Conseil has been working closely on issues such as:

  • new platforms (e.g. xDSL, DTT, 3G.),
  • new services (e.g. ITV, VOD, DVR and other forms of personal TV, HDTV, mobile TV and video),
  • new strategies/business models,
  • new regulatory frameworks (e,g, the revision of the European Television without Frontiers directive, new release windows, etc.)
  • new players (telcos, CE manufacturers.)
  • new channels (local, thematic and DTT channels)
  • content genre development on TV (drama, reality TV, etc.)

NPA applies and expresses this expertise in the following products and services:

  • Flash NPA, a weekly new media research monitor with an extensive international scope
  • Reports focused on key topics of interest:
    • The revision of the Television Without Frontiers directive, a study designed to offer key stakeholders all the elements they need to understand the Commission.s position and to defend their own interests.
    • PVR-VOD : a report on .personal television.
    • High Definition Television in Europe : A Regional Survey and Prospects to 2014, in partnership with Euroconsult
    • Mobile TV.
  • Ad hoc consultancy assignments (strategic and operational), involving: launching a new channel or platform, VOD and release windows, impact of mobile TV on copyright issues, HDTV development, TV programme promotion, following-up on France.s DTT launch...
  • Seminars bringing together key industry players: the next one is "Television without Frontiers: redrafting or adjusting?" which takes place on November 24th 2005 in Paris.

Leading companies such as TV channels, program producers, French and European public bodies (ministries, regulators.), financial institutions, foreign groups who want to enter the French and European market, are clients of NPA Conseil.