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Entertainment

Future is one of the world’s leading publishers with a strong multi-platform portfolio across print, online, video, mobile, apps and events. Future’s Entertainment Group comprises film and video game titles.

Film

Future’s film websites attract over 11 million page views each month.

Total Film is the flagship brand in a portfolio that includes ODEON magazine, SFX, SFX Special Editions and Comic Heroes. We have a unique position in the market, delivering cross-platform campaigns to influential film fans throughout the full product lifecycle of a film: from the early buzz across our magazines and social networks, through to the cinematic release and then its DVD release.

Totalfilm.com has seen an uplift of traffic to over ten million page views each month – an increase of 135% year-on-year – with average time spent on the site now reaching eight minutes. The Total Film iPhone app brings the latest news, reviews and trailer videos direct to film fans, as well as location-based cinema listings, show times and directions.

Total Film’s Apple Newsstand proposition reached No.1 in the top grossing iPhone apps category at launch in October 2011. The brand’s Screening Club has enabled over 12,500 film fans to preview the latest movie releases in 2011. In addition, Total Film has over 128,000 Facebook fans, 115,000 Twitter followers and 46,000 Tumblr followers.

SFX.co.uk has been redesigned and relaunched, and unique users have doubled year-on-year. The magazine also underwent a redesign and celebrated its new look with a first-of-its-kind Tardis sound-card cover which achieved an 11% uplift on the previous issue. Furthermore, the SFX ultimate Sci-Fi Quiz app launched in October 2011 on iTunes, packed with 1,000-plus brain teasers.

Games

Future holds a unique position in the global games media market, combining the strongest games industry partnerships with an innovative multi-channel approach. We are the only games media owner with audience reach across print, online, apps, cover discs, mobile, on-console and events.

More than 14 million global users visit Future’s games websites monthly, and this figure is growing. Video is a central part of our digital strategy – the games portfolio now has a dedicated video studio, and more than 2.2 million minutes of video are viewed every month.

GamesRadar is the planet’s third biggest games information website. CVG, the world’s longest-established games media brand, has reaffirmed its position as the leading games news site, with monthly visitors of more than 2.5 million. PCGamer.com, launched in June 2010, has increased unique users at a rate of over 12% each month. Bringing more than 15 years of PC authority online, it now reaches over 2.8 million dedicated PC gamers every month.

Future publishes official and unofficial titles for Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo and licenses these titles into further territories. In 2011, we launched OfficialPlayStationMagazine.co.uk and revamped the websites for Xbox 360: The Official Magazine and Nintendo: The Official Magazine.

All three main games consoles carry our content. On PlayStation 3 we have extended our Sony partnership with the launch of Access – a weekly HD video show. On Xbox 360 we publish the monthly OXM Report and we produce Nintendo TV on the Wii.

The Edge brand continues its global expansion with a new site, incorporating business-to-business content and recruitment advertising, fused with innovative content tracking and delivery.

Our annual GamesMaster Golden Joystick Awards are the world’s biggest and best video games awards voted for by the general public. Dubbed “The Oscars of Gaming” by the BBC, we garnered more than two million online votes in 2011, winning a Guiness World Record, attracting lead sponsor Alienware and delivering exclusive content reveals from games publishers including Nintendo, EA, Sega and Namco.

Magazines/Digital Editions:

UK

  • Comic Heroes
  • Edge
  • GamesMaster
  • Nintendo: The Official Magazine
  • ODEON magazine
  • PC Gamer
  • PlayStation: The Official Magazine
  • PSM3
  • SFX
  • SFX Special Editions
  • Total Film
  • Xbox 360: The Official Magazine
  • Xbox World

US

  • Xbox 360: The Official Magazine
  • PC Gamer
  • PlayStation: The Official Magazine

AUS

  • HedzUp
  • Nintendo: The Official Magazine
  • PSM3
  • Xbox 360: The Official Magazine

Websites:

Events:

  • GamesMaster Golden Joystick Awards

Please contact clair.porteous@futurenet.com for more information.