Olsberg•SPI today publishes Global Screen Production – The Impact of Film and Television Production on Economic Recovery from COVID-19.

Olsberg SPI have been retained by the Netherlands Post-Production Alliance (NPA) to conduct a study into the post-production and VFX sector in the Netherlands.

SPI’s report on the Cultural and Audience Contributions of the UK’s Film, High-End Television, Video Games, and Animation Programming sectors has been published by the BFI.

SPI has undertaken a review of the impact of UK’s Terms of Trade, a series of agreements relating to commissioning and rights ownership when public broadcasters and independent producers work together.

The BFI, in association with Arts Council England and Ukie, has contracted Olsberg•SPI to lead an assessment of public investment and support for the video games sector.

The Institut de Cultura de Barcelona has retained Olsberg•SPI to undertake a study that will assess the impact of screen tourism in the city.

Olsberg•SPI has been retained to produce a key study on the economic, cultural, and audience contributions of the UK's film, high-end TV, animation, and video games industries.

The Prime Minister of Malaysia has announced a new fiscal production rebate of 30% for local and foreign film makers. This initiative was based in part on Olsberg•SPI’s feasibility study on incentives for Malaysia, completed last October for our client Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios.

Olsberg•SPI carried out a research and analysis study into two important programmes which Northern Film and Media ran in recent years: The Network Television Investment Fund and the subsequent Content Fund Extension.

SPI was recently retained by AGICOA, an international, not-for-profit organisation that has been established to track and distribute royalties on retransmission of the products of independent producers.

SPI was retained to assist in the creation of an agenda for the support of the region's digital media cluster. Specifically, the assignment consisted of a review of existing support structures, an identification of appropriate interventions for the sector and an outline of possible impacts from such support, including inward investment and exports.

SPI was retained to conduct a study of the film and broadcast sectors in the English regions of London, the East and the South East.

For various clients, SPI designs and runs intensive, residential programmes, which redefine co-production training methods and builds producers’ abilities in the co-productions area. SPI has branded these programmes as Co-Production “Tournaments” reflecting the original nature of the training design.

SPI was hired to research, study, map and evaluate the training and development needs in the screen industries of 32 European countries. The assignment included mapping the existing training and development provision, as well as identifying gaps and new training needs on a European and national basis.

SPI examined the UK Film Council’s track record in supporting the development of major film talent (producers, directors and writers) including a dozen case studies and a set of recommendations for enhancing their efforts in the future.

SPI conducted a study of conditions in Victoria's film and television sectors, and proposed a set of possible new, cost-effective, public initiatives to be adopted by state screen agency, Film Victoria, aimed at countering a downward trend in economic activity.

This exhaustive study on the development of the film and television industries in Scotland was commissioned by the Scottish Office. The assignment resulted in the writing of a major report, “Scotland on Screen”, which articulated a development strategy for the entire film and television sector in Scotland.

SPI has created an original and innovative course on business strategy for the screen sector. Since then it has been conducted in Scandinavia, Scotland, Portugal, the UK, and three times in Australia. During the course, film television and new media producers benefited from the opportunity to look at their businesses strategically and create realistic and informed plans and strategies for corporate growth.

SPI was hired to conduct three separate assignments to explore the feasibility of creating a Highlands and Islands Film Fund and a fund in each of Jersey and Guernsey. The study considered and recommended a framework for the fund’s operation and identified the benefits that would result from its creation.

SPI was retained to conduct a feasibility study into the possible creation of a new fund to invest in local and incoming productions in order to expand inward investment and increase exports. The assignment included an assessment of competing Northern European film production centres (London, Hamburg, Berlin, Trollhattan in Sweden).