Over the past 28 years we’ve worked everywhere and with everyone.
Both big and small.
Be it creating royal family bookazines with Reach PLC (the UK’s biggest newspaper group), securing a JV for a Singaporean educational publisher to launch their pan-Asian kids newspaper, sourcing video content for Chinese steaming services, or resurrecting advertising sales for The National Enquirer’s foreign edition, we’ve done it.
Who We Are
Butterfly is a virtual editorial and new business development agency with one mission; to use our experience and contacts to grow your media company revenues.
Founded by industry expert and mini-sausage dog devotee Dorian Silver, Butterfly is a network of big brains, talented sales people and experts in all publishing fields.
Our team works in all territories and publishing niches, performing numerous industry functions. Our talent pool has local partner agencies, ELT curriculum creators, eductional and consumer publishing consultants, writers, film industry veterans, distributors, designers and more.
Whatever you require – a translator for a Japanese vegetarian cook book edition; an educational publishing professional to find a Peruvian distributor; or just to ask the best ways to sell video, print or digital content – Butterfly have you covered!
What We Do
At Butterfly we work hard 365 days a year to make your editorial content work harder!
Remember the bad old days when you had to shop around for everything – speed dating with book agents at Frankfurt, attending late night parties in Cannes for film rights, spending hours scouring the web for translation companies, begging friends to recommend licensing brokers – well with Butterfly you don’t have to flit around anymore.
Whatever your international requirements chances are our network of media experts can fulfil them – and give you plenty of new business ideas too.
Services include:
Audio content licensing
Bespoke global and by territory new business planning and implementation
Commissioning and creating new magazines, bookazines and books
Consumer and educational print magazine and book licensing
Content syndication
Digital content syndication and licensing
Distribution agreements
Edtech publishing solutions (sourcing Apps, LMS etc) and content
Joint Ventures and Mergers and Acquisitions
New product launches
Trade and educational book co-editions
Translation, sub-editing and local language adaptation
Video, film, games and TV licensing
Meet the team
Dorian Silver
Founder
Starting out in the eighties as a freelance journalist Dorian quickly moved into editorial syndication, founding leading content licensing agency Planet. With his sales teams he has delivered deals in over 60 countries for the world’s biggest publishers.
Media, martial arts, mini-dachshunds and Iron Men are his metier!
Aviva Silver
Head of Audio Visual
Graduating with honours in law from UCL Aviva was called to the Bar, moved to Brussels, eventually becoming Head of the EU Support Programme for film, TV and audiovisual content. She managed teams in 44 offices in 32 countries and developed innovative financial instruments and international initiatives. She was also responsible for media literacy.
A member of the European Film Academy her interests are cinema, novels and ice cream.
John Moore
Asia (Education and Consumer)
John has over 25 years of experience as a CEO and publishing executive in Asia. He’s launched brands in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and The Philippines. A fluent Japanese speaker John lives in Tokyo.
A strong advocate of animal rights when not working he loves going to live gigs and accumulating vast amounts of Japanese vinyl!
Sarada One
Head of Translation
A Japanese national with an MA in Audio Visual Translation from City University London Sarada lives in the UK. Formerly a translator Sarada now heads our translation division.
Comic crazy (Deadpool please!) Sarada is saving the world one meal at a time, honing her culinary prowess as a weekday vegetarian.
Linda Evers
Butterfly LatAm (Education)
Linda has over 15 years of experience as an educational and edutainment publishing professional in Latin American and EMEA. She's launched brands and licensed extensive content in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Lebanon, Jordan, UAE, Egypt, Sweden, Kazakhstan and India. Having conducted business in person on 5 continents in 50+ countries, Linda is well versed in global business and cultural expectations.
When not working Linda loves writing movies and travelling; her favourite vacation destinations include Germany, California's wine country and Bora Bora.
Kieran MacIver
Creative Director
Kieran has been helping brands connect with their customers for over 20 years, initially working within traditional branding, Kieran also has extensive experience working within the experiential and social sectors.
He also works in the music sector with bands like Public Enemy and Wu Tang Clan among his clients.