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Ppp between the national vod-platform flimmit and the orf (austria’s public service broadcaster)
Description of the policy/measure
The austrian video-on-demand platform flimmit, active predominantly in the german speaking countries, aims to develop a sustainable digital business model for diversified domestic and european audio-visual content and currently offers more than 6,000 feature films, children’s and family movies, documentaries, tv shows, and theatre and opera productions, most of which are of european and/or austrian origin. the vod shop and subscription services are available on pc, laptop and mac, on mobile devices via ios & android apps, on televisions via a smart tv app, via google chromecast and apple airplay, and via hbbtv for cable, satellite and terrestrial transmission.flimmit has received multiple awards for its innovative business ideas (e.g. red herring, audiovisual media days, ict finance market place, european semantic conference, etc.).as a consequence, 2014 saw austrian public service broadcaster orf conclude a public-private-partnership agreement with filmmit, joining forces to expand its online offerings even further. concrete measures include:presentation of weekly collections that mix well-known with less-well-known audio-visual titles on a thematic basisclearance of rights for archive collections, aiming to once again make these works available to the publicprioritising certain topics such as myfrenchfilmfestival, which presents selected french films worldwide through online platformscooperation with other national vod-platforms under the aegis of eurovod, which promotes cross-border exchange of a/v contentpromoting austrian films, with collections and continuous thematic film-pools as a regular priority; including cooperation with the austrian film academy and austrian film festivals such as diagonale in order to promote domestic filmmaking even furtherdeveloping innovative exploitation models to further sensitize the public for the digital offerings, including the availability of austrian tv series on flimmit before their regular broadcasts on orf stations and the availability of feature films on flimmit parallel to their cinematographic release
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Cultural Domain(s)
Results achieved
Establishment of a viable home-grown online platform that supplies a diversity of domestic and european audio-visual contentcreation of long-term digital exploitation models and hence revenue streams for filmmakers and other licence holdersattraction of new audiences for domestic and european audio-visual contentassurance of interoperability and compatibility of formats for users
Financial resources allocated to the policy
The establishment, operation and development of the platform was funded by various sources, including in particular funding by the creative europe/media programme, as well as support by the federal ministry for transport, innovation and technology, by the austrian research promotion agency, by “departure”, the creative industries agency of the city of vienna, and by the federal ministry responsible for culture.in 2014 the austrian public service broadcaster orf concluded via its subsidiaries ors comm and orf enterprise a public-private-partnership agreement with filmmit (25,1% of the shares). since may 2016 ors comm together with orf enterprise are the majority shareholders, holding approximately 96% of the shares of flimmit.