The International Television Expert Group (ITVE) is a global television business information and networking platform. It was founded on October 12, 2007 in Berlin, Germany.
The International Television Expert Group's mission is to connect television executives from around the world. The group wants to enhance dialogue and improve networking activities for its members and to support global knowledge exchange and international collaboration. In addition, it provides global television market information to the public.[1]
The International Television Expert Group is a non-profit and supra-organizational platform,
supported by national industry bodies and their members. The group is led by its meeting of members and is managed day-to-day by its managing director.
The group is operating an information platform open to the public,[6] but also an internal platform exclusively for its members to organize their information and knowledge exchange. It is moderating industry discussions and various professional communities.[7][8][9]
In the fields of online media the group manages collaborative projects for its members, such as the "International TV Explorer",[10] a project to identify the world's leading online TV and video portals and to connect the responsible online TV project managers.
The International Television Expert Group is also supporting international TV industry and media policy related conferences around the world, such as the Asian Future TV Conference in Shanghai,[11] and it is providing data on global TV markets, used by many experts and frequently quoted in newspapers,[12][13]
magazines[14] and in science.[15]
^Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine, USA and many other countries
