Cinema Operators Strategy Summary Database

David Hancock

Chief Analyst, Media and Entertainment

David is a leading expert on the global film and cinema market and played a fundamental role in the conversion of cinemas to digital projection and distribution technology over the past decade. Leading Omdia’s cinema team, he has set up the cinema intelligence service and the premium cinema service, most recently. 

David has authored reports on the cinema market and participated in consultancy projects. He specializes in new business models, market sizing and valuation, competitor analysis and benchmarking, strategic roadmaps, due diligence, and market analyses. 

Since 2015, David is the President of the European Digital Cinema Forum and often contributes to media regarding the film industry. Prior to joining Omdia (formerly IHS Markit), David was as a research consultant at IDATE DigiWorld and a senior executive with Eurimages. 

He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in business studies and French from Leeds Beckett University in the UK and studied at the Brest Business School in France. 

Pablo Carrera

Lead Consultant, Media and Entertainment

Pablo leads the Consulting Practice for Media and Entertainment at Omdia. In his role, Pablo works with clients across the entire value chain and segments—video services operators, broadcasters, games studios and publishers, game tech vendors, media delivery tech vendors, trade bodies, and companies operating in music and advertising—to define their objectives and deliver a bespoke solution to meet them.

Before moving into consulting, Pablo spent four years as a Cinema and TV analyst at IHS Markit, specializing in the cinema exhibition industry and working on a database that tracked TV titles across SVOD platforms.

Pablo’s earlier career in media (in Spain and the UK) has taken him from producing documentaries to working in the structured finance division of an established film financier and managing a music publishing company specialized in film and TV soundtracks.