Brands anchor retention
The tech news feeds for the last few days have been full of reports on ‘Candy Crush’ maker King’s IPO plans and Facebook’s $19 billion a...
Author: ndorra
Content is a hygiene factor
In motivational theory, there is a concept called ‘hygiene factors‘. These are elements of a job that do not create satisfaction, but their absence ...
Megatrends for digital content producers
It has been a while since my last post, and I have no idea of the direction this blog will take. If you’re up for surprises (hopefully pleasant ones), sta...
A brief review of the Finnish animation environment
First off, apologies about the long hiatus of this blog. Some of you might have heard that I started as animation producer at Rovio Entertainment Ltd. (aka R...
Where to find financing for your film part II – sponsorship
This is the second part in a series of film financing blog posts. Like I wrote in the first part, I want to outline the more or less obvious sources outside of ...
Where to find financing for your film part I – product placement
It has been said that a producer’s only job is to raise financing for his projects. When everyone competes for the same traditional sources (film fund, broadcas...
When should you kill a project?
When you develop an animation project you will be faced with lots of challenges. You might be tempted to quit at various stages. But how do you know when you sh...
5 things most people don’t know about the animation business
1.) The world wide animation business was estimated to be worth 158 billion USD in 2008 and is expected to reach 249 billion USD in 2012. This figure includes i...
The key question when financing an animated film
The answer to this question is the most important decision that you will make when developing and financing an animated feature film, TV-series or any other pro...
Ebook: Coproducing with Germany
I have just finished work on my first ebook, called “Coproducing with Germany – how to plan a film project with German involvement”. You can d...