In response to growing demand for a collaboration platform for media and entertainment service providers, the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) has been announced. The Alliance, which will launch at the beginning of 2009, will focus on industry-wide issues affecting the production and distribution of both digital and physical media and entertainment in today’s changing business and technology climate.
MESA will represent those companies that provide creative, production, distribution, information and technology services for home video, interactive games, music and electronic publishing.
“These organizations are critical partners as content holders reorganize their supply chains, innovate new business models and maximize their assets for a range of new technologies and emerging distribution channels,” says MESA Executive Director Martin Porter. “We will represent the working community that will get the job done as media & entertainment expands its reach and role in response to consumer demand for a widening range of physical and digital formats.”
Central to MESA’s membership benefits are a timely schedule of focused face-to-face business meetings and conferences held in conjunction with other leading industry trade groups, a solutions-based web community featuring online collaborative tools, and a series of special interest task forces.
In addition to Porter, the MESA management team includes Devendra Mishra, who will serve as Chief Strategist for the group and Guy Finley who will serve as Director of Community Development.
More information about MESA’s mission, staff and membership offerings is available online at www.MESAlliance.org