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Register now to get a massive discount on Kidscreen registration and join ‘Team GB’ at KS Miami 23-26 February.

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Manimation 2014 was on Thursday 20 November 2014, in BBC Bridge House, Media City, Salford

Reports of each session, including the keynote from Cathal Gaffney, are available in the CMC Blog, with PowerPoint and video also available.

Manimation 2014 was organised by CMC and supported by MIDAS.

Dates have been announced for the next Children’s Media Conference. It will take place in Sheffield, Wednesday 1 – Friday 3 July 2015.

Full information on last year’s conference is available here.

You can catch up on content you missed at CMC.

PowerPoints, audio and video of many of sessions at the CMC are available, and the list is growing every week. It’s all session-specific, so just find the event in the sessions list and you’ll find the blog report, downloadable presentations, podcast and video as it  comes available.

Commissioners from Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney reveal their priorities.

Malorie Blackman’s inspirational Creative Keynote.

4 projects pitched in the ever-popular ‘Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is’

Children’s BBC top team talk about commissioning.

Dylan Collins’s SuperAwesome opening Keynote.

The CMC 2014 Opening Session explores the next five years in the children’s media biz.

CMC 2014’s Closing Keynote Interview – Michael Acton Smith launches PopJam.

Commissioners from four broadcasters at home and abroad outline their strategies.

The future of BBC Children’s during and after Charter Review. new

 Podcast from CMC 2014:

• Achievement Unlocked
• Angels and Urchins
• BAFTA Masterclass: The Dumping Ground new
• Charter Renewal: The Great British Sell-off? new
• Children’s Film: Forever Forgotten?
• Closing Keynote: Mind Candy’s Big New Idea
• Coming Together or Falling Apart?
• Commissioner Conversation: BBC
• Commissioner Conversation: Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network & Disney
• Creative Keynote: Malorie Blackman
• Digital Consumer to Digital Creator
• Hunting, Finding, Caring, Sharing
• Learning and Laughter
• Opening Keynote: Dylan Collins
• Out of the Mouths of Babes: Free Expression, Children and 21st Century Media
• Pact: Give Kids a Break
• Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
• The IP Crowd
• Mini Dragons: Kids as Commissioners
• Second Screen: Changing the Way We Watch TV
• Service with a Smile
• Telling Tales: From Paper to Pixel
• Transmedia: Where Do I Start? new
• Weird Science
• Whatever Happened to the Heroes?
• When Technology Meets Storytelling

These audio recordings are all also accessible on our new podcast website.