BDS: Data and innovation opening new possibilites

The movie data helps film fans explore Virgin Media’s online movies site and discover new and classic films with a ‘Where To Watch’ guide across thousands of titles and formats, enabling visitors to find a film they’ll love in cinemas, on DVD, Blu-Ray, on TV and online. A unique identifier system, built by West10 and FilmFlex, helps link film titles from cinema release through to DVD release, TV, online and on demand release. With trailers, comprehensive reviews and user ratings, box office details, movie trivia and a range of specially commissioned movie extras, the site is a great destination for all film fans.

“We’ve created a very exciting movies resource,” comments Rosie Harley, Director of Editorial at West10. “It offers a unique means of discovery and exploration via extensive hyperlinks and customised data. We hope visitors to virginmedia.com will rapidly find exactly what they want and pick up a lot of useful information on the way.”

“Virgin Media’s online movies site helps visitors discover and enjoy a whole world of film.” says Alison Davis, director of online at Virgin Media. “West 10 is helping us make the most of a wealth of information and they’ve brought a great level of industry knowledge, experience and expertise to the task.”

“Virgin Media’s commitment to BDS and West10 is not only a huge vote of confidence in its data,” says Barry Smith, Director of Sales at West10, “but also demonstrates West10’s enthusiasm and capacity to react quickly to create data and services specifically tailored for each client”. West10 is the trade arm of BDS and supplies information rich data on home-entertainment releases to internet retailers, the media, trade bodies such as the BVA , wholesalers, market research companies, rental companies, charities including Oxfam and price comparators. Many of the benefits derived from commercial sales, including innovations and data enhancements are passed onto BDS’s library customers.

With almost 10 million customers, Virgin Media is the UK's first quad-play provider of broadband, TV, phone and mobile. The company is one of the largest residential broadband providers in the UK, using a unique fibre optic cable network to deliver broadband with speeds up to 50Mb. Virgin Media has the UK’s most advanced TV on demand service and is the second largest provider of pay TV, and was the first to launch a high definition TV service. The company also operates the most popular virtual mobile network in the UK.

To find out more about Virgin Media visit www.virginmedia.com.
To find out more about West10 visit www.west10entertainment.co.uk.