This section includes information on our Multiplatform strategy, including a guide to Multiplatform Commissioning; a guide to submitting a Multiplatform Proposal and information on our Multiplatform team.

A guide to commissioning multiplatform content in BBC Vision

• BBC Vision genre teams will act as a one-stop shop for multimedia commissioning.
• Development priorities for multiplatform sit with the relevant genre area i.e. a documentary multiplatform priority will sit in the Documentary section.
• Commissioners are supported in their decisions by Multiplatform Executives, who are spilt into the following teams:

Fiction and Entertainment Multiplatform Commissioning

Victoria Jaye		Acting Head of Fiction & Entertainment Multiplatform Commissioning (*Covering for Emma Somerville)
Martin Trickey		Comedy Entertainment
Sarah Clay (Covering maternity leave for Rosie Allimonos)		Drama, Films & Acquisitons and Switch

Knowledge Multiplatform Commissioning

Ayesha Mohideen		Head of Knowledge Multiplatform Commissioning
Lisa Sargood		Science & Natural History
Max Gadney		History and Business Factual on BBC Three Current Affairs Religion
Nick Cohen		Arts Documentaries Features on BBC ONE and TWO Music and Events

Children's Multiplatform Commissioning

Rebecca Shallcross		Children's (CBBC & CBeebies)

Submitting a Multiplatform Proposal

• All proposals (including stand-alone and web-focussed ideas) must be submitted through e-Commissioning to the relevant genre, further details can be found here.
• If an idea is:
  • primarily linear - the proposal will be considered by the relevant Commissioning Editor, who will involve the multiplatform exec at the appropriate stage of development to work on the multiplatform elements. The multiplatform proposition should form part of the initial proposal, to enable all elements of a project to be considered together at the same time.
  • stand-alone or primarily web-focussed - the proposal will be considered by the relevant multiplatform exec, who will involve a commissioning editor as appropriate.
• If a new media service is commissioned relating to an indie programme, that company will get first refusal on producing the new media aspects. If not, the indie can work with a company from the BBC's approved supplier list, or with the Vision Multiplatform Studio.
• There will be a dedicated Independents Support Unit to facilitate technical compliance and delivery of multiplatform projects from external suppliers. Editorial sign-off rests with the genres.
• Internal BBC production and technical teams can still sub-contract agencies for specific design and technical projects. The existing New Media online commissioning system will still be used for this process of approving technical suppliers and tendering.

This process applies across BBC Vision. However, Formal Learning will continue to be a self-commissioning area, with its own delivery unit. Multiplatform proposals for TEENS should be submitted through e-commissioning to the relevant genre and will be considered by Geoffrey Goodwin (please make this clear on your submission).

Page last updated 28 April 2010