Ben Devlin
Encyclopedia
Ben Devlin is a British television Executive Producer. After periods working in journalism
including a stint at the British
newspaper
the Daily Telegraph he entered tv broadcasting and worked for the BBC
, Rapido TV, Clive James
's Watchmaker Films, Graham Norton
's So TV and Visual Voodoo, the entertainment arm of ITN. His credits range from The Generation Game
to Eurotrash
He now specialises in content creation strategies for brands, developing and placing branded content
, advertiser funded programming
, and product placement
in the UK. In 20010 he set up BrandSponsor.co.uk andBrandsonTV.com an agency representing a dozen of the UK's leading production companies who work with brands and agencies to create integrated content across all platforms.
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
including a stint at the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
the Daily Telegraph he entered tv broadcasting and worked for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, Rapido TV, Clive James
Clive James
Clive James, AM is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism...
's Watchmaker Films, Graham Norton
Graham Norton
Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton , is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist...
's So TV and Visual Voodoo, the entertainment arm of ITN. His credits range from The Generation Game
The Generation Game
The Generation Game was a British gameshow produced by the BBC in which four teams of two competed to win prizes...
to Eurotrash
He now specialises in content creation strategies for brands, developing and placing branded content
Branded content
Branded content is a relatively new form of advertising medium that blurs conventional distinctions between what constitutes advertising and what constitutes entertainment. Branded content is essentially a fusion of the two into one product intended to be distributed as entertainment content,...
, advertiser funded programming
Advertiser funded programming
Advertiser Funded Programming is a recent term applied to a break away from the modern model of television funding in place since the early 1960s. Since that time, programmes have normally been funded by a broadcaster and they re-couped the money through selling advertising space around the content...
, and product placement
Product placement
Product placement, or embedded marketing, is a form of advertisement, where branded goods or services are placed in a context usually devoid of ads, such as movies, music videos, the story line of television shows, or news programs. The product placement is often not disclosed at the time that the...
in the UK. In 20010 he set up BrandSponsor.co.uk andBrandsonTV.com an agency representing a dozen of the UK's leading production companies who work with brands and agencies to create integrated content across all platforms.
Past Credits include
- 100 Greatest Stand-Ups - Channel Four
- Richard Hammond Meets Evel KnievelRichard Hammond Meets Evel KnievelRichard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel is a one-off television documentary presented by Richard Hammond and first broadcast on 23 December 2007 on BBC Two. The show was produced by Visual Voodoo and the executive producer was Ben Devlin....
- BBC TwoBBC TwoBBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio... - The Million Dollar Mind Reader: Derek OgilvieDerek OgilvieDerek Ogilvie is a self-proclaimed psychic medium and self-styled baby mindreader from Paisley, Scotland. He lives in Kilbarchan, near Glasgow....
- Five - James HewittJames HewittJames Hewitt is a former British household cavalry officer in the British Army. He had an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales for five years, receiving extensive media coverage after revealing details of the affair.-Early life:...
Under Hypnosis - Five - The Jules and Lulu Show - ITVITVITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...