Emerging Media Group (EMG) is a new type of media consultancy that provides
digital content services to emerging entertainment platforms such as online, mobile,
and IPTV providers and also to more traditional platforms such as cable, satellite and
other video-on-demand providers.

With offices in Los Angeles and London, we utilize proven and well established relationships with the major Hollywood & independent studios, film and television producers, TV networks, sports owners, music labels, distribution companies and new media partners to structure, negotiate and close digital content deals for you. Our relationships allow us to license content and acquire rights for both US and international distribution.

Although our core competency is with the acquisition of content across multiple licensing windows — everything from Hollywood movies and network & cable TV shows to short-form content, live sport and music — we also are able to help our clients with other content related services such as technical evaluation of DRM strategies ready for studio approval and fund raising for start-up and early stage digital media companies.

We also offer strategic marketing services to brands, channels, talent and rights holders in the post internet age. In this new consumer-centric, multi-channel market, EMG can utilize its future vision, consumer insight and technical expertise to advise brands on how best to connect profitably with entertainment content providers and rights holders.

EMG is also different in how it earns its fees. We don't charge high monthly retainers like traditional consultancies, but base 80% of our revenue on successfully completing projects. We are also keen to earn equity, and where appropriate, will happily negotiate a deal structure that protects our client's cash flow by minimizing the cash component.

So if you are looking for a consultancy to help you drive margin by negotiating best of class terms with the studios and other content providers, then please contact Richard Jenkins in Los Angeles or Chris Thomas in London immediately and schedule a preliminary discussion.

Richard Jenkins – President & Co-founder

Richard has more than 15 years experience in the digital media world, and is an extremely well connected entertainment professional with demonstrated success in high-level content strategy, acquisitions and marketing with a specialization in technology. His most recent success was co-founding and successfully developing the Content Acquisitions & Programming department at a dynamic Entertainment start-up company — NxTV, Inc. His success at leveraging content to create customer loyalty, combined with extending the brand into many new areas within the digital media mix, helped maximize revenue streams and played a major part in helping NxTV achieve various awards during 2007:

• NxTV named in Inc Magazine's 500 List of "America's Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2007." The company was ranked #389 posting a three-year sales growth of 736%.
• NxTV named "10th Fastest Growing Company in Los Angeles County for 2007" by the LA Business Journal.
• NxTV's exceptional 119% year-over-year growth in 2007 also earned the company the ranking of "No. 2 Fastest Growing Company Overall" by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.

His established studio relationships within Hollywood, New York, London and Hong Kong has enabled him to successfully close deals across multiple licensing windows including hotel and residential VOD, Electronic Sell-Thru (EST), IPTV rights and various online and mobile deals. He is also very well connected within the advertising and financial communities.

Richard attends and networks at all of the major film and television markets including Berlin, Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, Hong Kong, Mipcom, Miptv, AFM, and CTAM. He is also a member of NATPE and the Interactive Television Alliance (ITA).


Chris Thomas – Director & Co-founder

After a successful career in pre-digital advertising, between 1980 and 1992, Chris was among the UK’s new media pioneers finding mixed success with early “internet initiatives” in the mid 1990s – among these were the first website for a European sports event EURO 96, the first website for a major British soccer club www.arsenal.com and later the management of World Cup 98 as head of marketing for EDS UK.

Chris took an early interest in the development of mobile technology and in 2002 became COO of Million-2-1 the UK’s number 1 mobile gaming and entertainment brand. During the period Chris worked closely with major media owners (talkSport, EMAP, Mirror Group) to integrate interactivity into editorial and programming helping to both deliver enhanced revenues mobile and enhance the reading/viewing/listening experience.

Chris is currently a partner at Human, a technology solutions provider to the sports industry and Brand Fusion, a leading design and marketing services business. He is also a Director of Emerging Media Group and provides on-going advice to EMG’s European clients from both a content rights and a brand marketing perspective.

James Allen – Creative Director

James has extensive experience working in the Creative Marketplace from London to Los Angeles. His wide-ranging skills include Film Production, Advertising and Web Design knowledge, developed during campaigns for high profile national accounts such as Tiffany Jewelers, Nescafe, Bacardi and Blue Cross.

During his career as a Copywriter for Laing Henry Hill Holiday/Saatchi and Saatchi James wrote a column for Broadcast, the UK's weekly Television and Radio Industry Magazine. After working as Production Manager on some of Europe's biggest Television Commercials, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Hollywood. He has since become a successful Writer/Director of such award winning films as Judge is God. He currently has a number of projects in development with various Production Companies including Lucas Films.

Over the years James has written and directed for clients as varied as Web Content commercials for Silver Jeans to GQ Award segments with Pierce Brosnan. As a result, he is comfortable working with budgets from the sublime to the ridiculous.

James joins Emerging Media Group as Creative Director, to provide clients with his extensive experience in Filmmaking, Television development, Writing, Web Creation and Small Format Short Form content. His irreverent British sense of humor mixed with his adopted American mainstream sensibility gives him a unique perspective on the World. He believes New Media is the wave of the future and is excited to be around at the beginning of such a major shift in Entertainment Creation and Distribution.