openspacetv is a joint venture of ZebraWeb Ltd a web design company and Marketing Solutions Ltd who are media sales professionals.

Based in Cambridge, ZebraWeb have been designing web sites for GP practices since 1999 and have over 40 clients who use its EasyGP website package. Our vast experience in helping GP practices to communicate effectively with patients coupled with our design expertise, helps us to ensure that the content of the openspacetv screens is both appropriate and designed to a professional standard. We are acutely aware that introducing commercially-funded services within a general practice environment is a sensitive issue and we seek to maintain an editorial policy towards the selection of sponsors and the creation of content for the waiting room screens which takes account of the ethical issues involved.

Based in Stowmarket, Marketing Solutions have many years of experience in selling advertising media to small businesses. We are specialists in public space advertising and have contracts with several high street and leading supermarket chains to provide local information services. We bring a community-based approach to the recruitment of sponsors for the openspacetv project and work closely with individual practices in selecting the right sponsors for a particular location.

We believe it is possible to exploit the sponsorship opportunities available within public spaces, such as GP practice waiting rooms, to provide information services which improve the experience of those using the space. Our first priority is to provide quality and professional information services and we see sponsorship and advertising as providing the means to fund this. In approaching advertisers and sponsors, we will always stress the importance of the medium as an information tool and will not allow the requirement to generate revenue to over-ride this priority. Advertisers and sponsors are generally receptive to the idea that their message is more effective when delivered in a context where it harmonizes with interesting and informative content.