Nigel Jones, Investment Manager Digital & Creative Industries North West Regional Development Agency

England’s Northwest £111bn Economy 6.8m population 230,000 businesses Highest concentration of HEIs in Europe, 230,000 students, 100,000 graduates per year Highest concentration of graduate level skills outside of London 2 international Airports, Manchester and Liverpool

Northwest Regional Development Agency Leads the economic development and regeneration of England's Northwest. As a business-led organisation, the NWDA provides a crucial link between the needs of business and Government policies. As such, a major responsibility for the Agency is to help create an environment in which businesses in the region can flourish through offering business support, encouraging new start-ups, matching skills provision to employer needs and bringing business investment into the region.

Priority Sectors Target 6 sectors to address GVA Gap 1.Biomedical 2.Energy & Environmental Technologies 3.Advanced Engineering & Materials Chemicals Aerospace Automotive Advanced Flexible Materials 4.Food & Drink 5.Financial & Professional Services 6.Digital & Creative Industries

NW Digital & Creative Industries Significant Existing Cluster - The biggest focus of media and technology related industry outside of London High Growth Sector – faster than the UK economy as a whole and growing faster in NW than the comparable UK rate. Sector Value of £15.8bn - with 6 priority sub sectors: broadcast and digital media; videogames; digital technology and ICT; creative services; music; publishing. Catalyst for Growth - MediaCityUK is forecast to generate in excess of £1.5bn for the regional economy over 5 years

MediaCityUK – what is it? A 25 year private sector development to create the UK’s only dedicated ‘Media City’ Bespoke environment to stimulate creative ideas, innovation & knowledge transfer Creating the first globally recognised ‘attack brand’ for the UK’s digital & creative economy World class facilities offered on a service based model for the largest broadcaster down to the innovative digital entrepreneur Transform the relationship between creativity and technology

Location The Quays – Manchester’s waterfront Two minutes from the motorway network Manchester city centre – 12-minute tram ride – offers access to national rail network (6 minute frequency from 2011) Manchester Airport – 20 minute drive – offers a choice of more than 240 worldwide destinations

About the Peel Group One of the largest property and transport companies in the UK Asset value approaching £7bn Divisions include: —Peel Land & Property —Peel Airports —Peel Ports —The Trafford Centre —Peel Environmental —Peel Telecommunications —Peel Media

About Peel Media Created in 2007 Responsible for developing and managing MediaCityUK Construction started in 2007 – £175m already spent Working in partnerships with NWDA, Salford City Council, Salford Urban Regeneration Company and the BBC Anchor tenants BBC and Salford University – more to be announced soon Studios, ingest and archive businesses started Growing team of commercial, media and ICT technologists, services and property specialists

MediaCityUK Vision: MediaCityUK will become the largest purpose-built media community in Europe, providing opportunities for more than 1,000 businesses from the creative and digital industries to thrive in a shared environment, delivered by £3 billion of private investment  Public & Private Sector Collaboration  It’s happening now – £150 million has already been invested by Peel Media. Work on the initial 36-acre site began in 2007 after the BBC’s decision to commit to the development as an anchor tenant (the overall vision for the development covers 200 acres). In total, Peel will invest £500 million in the first phase, which will be open for business by 2011  Shared services model – MediaCityUK will provide a shared media services infrastructure and aims to aggregate demand from companies, providing significant benefits of scale and the ability to build sustainable business models for the creative sector.

The story so far 200-acre site at the heart of Manchester’s waterfront £3bn of private investment over next five years Employment opportunities for 15,000+ people Development partners Peel Media, NWDA, Salford City Council and Salford URC Anchor tenants – BBC and Salford University £0.5bn Phase 1 – 36 acres being built now

What’s being built now? Office – 700,000 sqft Studios – 250,000 sqft Retail – 60,000 sqft 378 apartments Hotel – 218 beds Five-acre green park, including Piazza for 9000 people New tram link to city centre Improved road infrastructure

Operations Operations facilities Largest studio block in UK 7 HD TV studios —900 – sqft Two audio studios —one dedicated to BBC Philharmonic Post production Ingest and Archive Infrastructure Full resilient external network connectivity State-of-the-art fibre network Dark Fibre across site Fibre To The Home (FTTH) to hotel and residential (200mb) Unified IP communications Public and private wireless network

The benefits to investors Economy of scale from Blue Chip to SME Common technology platform to facilitate innovation & collaboration De-risked & Future proof technology Creating a transformational environment for business growth A true creative cluster - buyers and sellers of services on site together Global Brand for the UK Creative Economy - Magnet for top talent Flexible commercial model: fully managed service, plug and play, tenant Businesses can focus their energies and resources on outputs and audiences rather than wires and boxes

Why come? Home to all media Purpose-built in partnership with the Industry For companies, people, individuals – live, work and play environment Leaders in their fields including key brands from across the globe Unrivalled & unique offering New environment, new space With innovation and technology at its heart Shaping the future of media

BBC moving 5 major London based departments: 1. Future Media & Technology 2. Children’s 3. Sport 4. Learning 5. Radio 5 Live BBC investing multimillions 2,500 jobs by 2011 Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC: “never experienced such commitment and enthusiasm, either in the UK or abroad, as I encountered in Salford who came up with an idea that was bigger than that we were thinking of. It ticked all the boxes we needed ticking. It was something that we felt would make its mark internationally.”

Generating revenues now TV and commercial production at MediaCityUK studios at The Pie Factory Formerly a ‘Freshbake’ pie factory it is now a film production studio with three sound stages, two large open spaces, a 19m infinity cove, two four-seat make-up rooms and green rooms Recent productions include Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Visit, Cold Blood and The Royle Family

More than a business park Connected organisations Connected spaces Buyers and sellers Investors Innovators Talent MCUK Academic orgs Tech providers VC and other investors TVFilmWebMobilePublishing Business services Retail

Talent pool North West region is second largest creative cluster in Europe and a major centre for the creative, digital and media industries Employment in digital and creative industries in the North West is estimated at 320,000 in 31,000 businesses Salford and Manchester universities provide one of the largest student populations in Europe There are almost 300 media courses are on offer to students at the 18 universities within 60 minutes drive time of Manchester Salford University (on site) offers courses in radio and TV performance, animation, media technology, computer and video games Universities within 60 minutes drive of Manchester produce nearly 15,000 graduates in computer science subjects each year

Timeline 2008 Production at MediaCityUK studios First commercial customers – small 2009Data centre build Ingest and archive Initial residential site Wide connectivity 2010Studio running, studio offices Post running Site wide services Retail Hotel completion 2011BBC move completed University September intake Additional office space Phase 1 build complete 2012London 2012

MediaCityUK Projects in development MediaCityUK will create a dedicated environment for the media and technology industries in the UK, with innovation and knowledge transfer at it’s heart.  Academic Institutions on site – Additional tenants already signed up include Salford University 6* research institution with specialist school in media and arts. Additional Universities across the UK in ongoing discussions with regards to future opportunities, including Cambridge, Liverpool & Lancaster.  Framework for Innovation & Research at MediaCityUK (FIRM) – £45 million horizon scanning research project developed by a consortium of 6 academic institutions including MIT, Cambridge, Goldsmiths, Lancaster, Salford, Manchester and a number of additional industry bodies  Digital Content Lab – A dedicated, purpose built Centre Of Excellence for innovation and collaboration for the UK’s best post graduate talent, pioneering digital & creative SME’s, major international blue chip organizations including BBC’s FM&T and SCEE.  NorthernNET – A purpose built high speed telecommunications network across the North of England with MediaCityUK at its hub. Connecting over 50,000 innovative digital & creative companies to each other and into MediaCityUK. Facilitating collaboration and commercial activity between companies and commissioners.

NWDA & Sector Development Strategy development and coordination Economic impact studies to assist investment decisions Working with BBC to facilitate their move Lobbying of UK Government on telecoms and broadcast regulation and business support for Digital & Creative sector Financial support for business and project development Workforce development through £2.8m Audio Visual Skills Support infrastructure development – ICT, transport Foreign Direct Investment support (with UKTI)

Building Economies of Scale Working with cluster organisations to develop supply chains and facilitate collaboration between large companies with market access and innovative smaller technology and content firms Projects to build economies of scale between businesses and clusters across the North, including: –Media Access Bureaux; editing and business nodes on NNET –National Centre of Excellence for Videogames

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Who would we like to speak to? Multinational corporations looking for an environment tailored to the development of convergent digital channels, content and technology Researchers from both education and private sectors looking to find investment to take new IP to market Fast-moving, innovative small companies with aspirations to develop products and services for the global media marketplace Investors who would like to be able to share risk with other partners from private and public sector organisations Thought leaders looking to forge a 21st Century media

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