BBC Motion Gallery Names New Director

LONDON: Paul Maidment has been upped to director of BBC Motion Gallery—BBC Worldwide’s stock-footage business—following the departure of Simon Gibbs earlier this year.

Maidment joined BBC Motion Gallery in 2003 as business development director and, alongside Gibbs, helped to launch the company. Today, BBC Motion Gallergy represents more than a million hours of footage from a range of genres. “I am thrilled to be leading BBC Motion Gallery through its next phase of development," he said. "With its recent partnership with Thought Equity Motion, the business will present some really interesting challenges especially driving our content forward digitally and broadening the availability of our unique content to creative producers, online publishers and filmmakers worldwide.”

He reports to Tim Mutimer, the senior VP for EMEA in the sales and distribution division of BBC Worldwide.