Tiga announce Content Market at Develop in Brighton in July

11th May 2007

Tiga, the trade body for development studios, will hold this year's Tiga Content Market at the Develop Conference & Expo in Brighton from 25 - 26 July 2007.

The Tiga Content Market, now in its 5th year, brings together the most important buyers of content from the top US, Japanese and European games publishers to do business with games developers from across the UK and Europe.

Working with UK Trade and Invest, Tiga are again targeting the top acquisitions executives from global publishers to constantly remind them of the quality and benefits of working with UK development talent, and to remind them that the UK is the centre of the European industry.

The prime focus of this year's Content Market will be on matching developers with these publishers. The Outsourcing & Middleware aspect of previous events has been incorporated into the Develop Expo, and Tiga have negotiated a 10% discount for all their Outsourcing & Middleware members wishing to exhibit.

This year's event will offer a new format with dedicated meeting spaces available to developers within the Content Market area, at a greatly reduced cost to previous years.

Tiga Members will pay just £500 (£700 for non-members) for a table and chairs with power supply, and there will be also be a number of closed booths available for private meetings, bookable on an hour-by-hour basis by developers.

UKTI will provide an online meeting planning system to facilitate making appointments.

"Tiga is excited at the prospect of holding the Content Market at Develop in Brighton with Tandem Events," says Fred Hasson, CEO of Tiga

"The new format and greatly reduced costs will make this opportunity more attractive to developers who want to pitch new products to some of the industry's leading publishers or who simply want to keep in touch with key clients."

"From a timing point of view - July is great - and by moving this event down to Brighton it gives us the chance to build a quality B2B event for the industry in the UK, in one of its most important centres," continues Hasson.

As organiser of the Develop Conference & Expo, Andy Lane commented,

"The Develop Conference has quickly established itself as a key event for all aspects of the European development community. We're delighted to be working with Tiga on the Content Market and see Brighton as a natural home for it."

"Sitting alongside the Conference & Expo, the Develop Mobile & Games Edu conferences, and the various other developer events taking place that week, it's clear there's only one place for developers to be this July, "added Lane.

Takeout:

Developers meet US, Japanese and European buyers at Develop, Brighton 25 -26 July

£500 Tiga members, £700 non-members. For more information contact Stephanie Rickwood 0845 094 1 095 stephanie.rickwood@tiga.org.

Tiga Middleware and Outsourcing members sign up for the Develop Expo and get 10% discounts. Contact Tandem Events on +44 (0)20 7405 4500.