Philip Bourchier O'Ferrall

Philip O’Ferrall is the current vice-president of MTV Networks.

Listed by the London Evening Standard as one of the 1000 most influential people in 2008.

O’Ferrall launched the world’s first mobile video portal (Mobile Media Club) and the world’s first music video to a mass market mobile phone whilst at Nokia Ventures / Oplayo Mobile Video. He led the company to rech the worlds first million mobile video streams.

O'Ferrall was previously Executive Director at Twofour Group - one of the largest broadcast, communication and digital production companies in the UK. There, O’Ferrall was responsible for strategy and exploiting online, mobile and interactive across the entire Twofour Group output. He also worked with brands to fund traditional and cross platform AFP campaigns, as well as building communities around content to retain audience whilst a show is off air.

October 2008, O’Ferrall has been named in the Evening Standard ‘London’s Most Influential People in 2008’ black book. O’Ferrall has been named alongside, Simon Cowell, TV STAR/MUSIC MOGUL, Simon Fuller, 19 ENTERTAINMENT, CEO

O'Ferrall has responsibility for all MTV Networks activity across online, interactive TV and mobile and is also involved in commissioning shows. Previously he set up an online TV channel, and claims one of his biggest achievements was, at the height of the dotcom boom, raising and spending $30m in six months. An active member of both the Royal Television Society and BAFTA.

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