Entertainment on the Move - Innovation Contest 

£100k in funding for innovation in entertainment on the move

Summary

IC tomorrow, is offering four businesses up to £25k* each to encourage digital innovation in entertainment on the move across music, books, magazines and interactive entertainment and games. We are looking for innovative commercial solutions that meet broad objectives we have set in conjunction with our industry partners – the BPI (British Recorded Music Industry), the PA (Publishers Association), the PPA (Professional Publishers Association) and UKIE (UK Interactive Entertainment).

Contest Video

The challenges

IC tomorrow will be awarding up to four businesses individual awards of up to £25k* for the development of a service or application under four challenge cargories.

• Music on the move in partnership with the BPI
• Books on the move in partnership with the PA
• Magazine content on the move in partnership with the PPA
• Interactive entertainment and games on the move in partnership with Ukie

Benefits

Each successful applicants will retain their intellectual property, and also:

• gain from exposure to a range of industry partners
• be able to test their proposed application or service with a relevant industry partner
• be able to promote their solution via the IC tomorrow programme
• receive support in resolving delivery issues related to the proposed solution.

Briefing Event

We ran a briefing event for the contest from BL-NK in London. You can view a recording of this event here and download the accompanying presentation here.

Key Dates

Key Documents
 

Contest Brief

The contest brief will give you an overview of the contest and the challenges.
 

Guidance Document

The guidance document will give you a more detailed description of the challenges including some essential information to ensure your submission fits the challenge. It also contains a question by question run down on how to complete the application form. 
 

*Individual awards will be a maximum of £25,000* each, excluding VAT.