(Burbank, CA - May 24, 2007) BBC Motion Gallery (BBCMG), the footage licensing arm of BBC Worldwide, is aligning with educational publisher Peachpit to deliver added value to customers of both organizations.
The two companies have formalized their relationship to give Peachpit customers and authors special pricing on BBC Motion Gallery content and BBCMG users discounted rates on Peachpit's vast resource of training materials covering creative production and post.
Peachpit will introduce video training tools featuring BBC Motion Gallery content, leveraging the 600,000+ hours of footage ranging from wildlife to natural history, to travel, news, performance and more. Peachpit's educational products cover tools that are essential to any production toolkit including: Apple's Final Cut Pro in HD, Shake, DVD Studio Pro and Motion; Avid Video Editing Solutions and Adobe's Premier Pro. Select Peachpit video training tutorials will also be made available online, to BBCMG customers. Footage from BBCMG appears prominently in the current edition of EditWell, the e-newsletter for Peachpit customers. The issue also features a supplement entitled "The Power Users' Guide to Licensing Stock Footage" which highlights many of the BBCMG's unique and easy-to-use search capabilities.
"We are thrilled to be working more closely with BBC Motion Gallery, and we think this agreement represents a great opportunity to benefit our user communities," said Hannah Latham, Associate Publisher of Peachpit. "BBC Motion Gallery offers an incredibly comprehensive collection of high-quality footage and working together we can create more exposure for our properties, which in turn makes them more beneficial to our users."
"Working with Peachpit allows us to provide our customers with a wide range of tips and tricks, directly related to their day to day creative projects. Plus, our users will receive great discounts on Peachpit's bestselling books and other training materials," said Kristy Manning, Director, West Coast Sales, BBC Motion Gallery. "It's all about teaming up with other members of the community, especially those who serve the same types of customers, such as editors, producers, etc., and then giving them as much added value as possible."
About Peachpit
Berkeley-based Peachpit has been publishing the industry's best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web publishing, digital video and general Macintosh computing since 1986. Its award-winning books feature step-by-step explanations, time-saving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice for computer users of all sorts. It is the home of the internationally recognized Visual QuickStart Guide series, the design imprint New Riders and its highly popular Voices That Matter series, and is the publishing partner for Adobe Press, lynda.com, NAPP, Apple Certified, AIGA Design Press and others. Peachpit is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson's primary operations also include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. Learn more at www.peachpit.com and www.pearson.com.
About BBC Motion Gallery
BBC Motion Gallery, offers media professionals access to the world's most comprehensive collection of high-quality motion imagery for licensing worldwide. With more than 600,000 hours of footage, BBC Motion Gallery encompasses a wealth of content covering natural history, sport, news, locations, art, music, celebrities, historic events and more. BBC Motion Gallery is also the exclusive global representative of the CBS News Archive, and has global distribution deals with NHK, Japan's national broadcaster, ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and CCTV, China's national television station. BBC Motion Gallery operates from offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, Toronto, Sydney and Tokyo.
BBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The company exists to maximise the value of the BBC's assets for the benefit of the licence payer and invest in public service programming in return for rights. The company has seven core businesses: Global Channels, Global TV Sales, Magazines, Content & Production, Home Entertainment, Children's and Digital Media. In 2005/06 BBC Worldwide generated profits of £89 million on sales of £784 million.
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