Meet our speaker - Maciej Gozdowski

Maciej  Gozdowski

Maciej Gozdowski

player.pl

Maciej Gozdowski

player.pl

BIO

He joined TVN (now TVN Discovery Group) in 2015 as managing director of Player.pl (OTT service). During his work he developed Player, which today is the largest Polish legal VOD service. The platform's library includes the best Polish films and series, entertainment programs, as well as lifestyle, automotive, live sports and children's content.

Maciej has led Player through an unprecedented period of growth and development. In recent years, the platform has significantly increased the number of Player Original productions. In 2020 it was as many as 6 titles, in the next year it will be over a dozen items. These are undoubtedly the most popular items on the service. According to Justwatch data, Player's flagship project "Chyłka" is the most watched series in Poland. The users of Player have also access to the unique discovery+ collection with cult Discovery productions. Thanks to cooperation with such players as CANAL+, HBO, Eleven Sports, Viacom, Player offers the most universal and extensive offer on the Polish market.

Maciej is also an active member of many market initiatives, including sitting on the Board of Digital Poland Foundation. The goal of the organization is to make Poland one of the main Digital Innovation Centers in the world. Every year Player is one of the strategic partners of the biggest event in Poland dedicated to the development of competence in the field of new technologies – the Digitalization Festival. Maciej participates in panel discussions and market conferences as a VOD market expert (among others Filmteractive).
Before joining TVN, Maciej Gozdowski worked for almost 15 years in various pay-TV companies such as Cyfrowy Polsat, platform n, Canal +.