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Showing posts with label Readers' Choice Awards. Show all posts
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Streaming Media West will be delivering live coverage, keynotes and Red Carpet interviews starting this morning. Keynotes from Bill Stone, president of FLO TV at 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire on "Setting the Stage for 2010 and the Future of Online Video" from the Online Video Platform Summit at 4:45 p.m. EST/1:45 p.m. PST, and Emil Rensing, chief digital officer of Studio 3 Partners/EPIX at 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST on Thursday, Nov. 19. The Red Carpet interviews will be throughout the day and through the week, sponsored by Brightcove, with dozens of prominent online video industry leaders on the Streaming Media TV page
Then, Wednesday night at 10:30 p.m. EST/7:30 p.m. PST, the presentation of the 2009 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards, followed by a performance from video remixers Eclectic Method will be streamed live. Watch it here or on theStreamingMedia.com home page as well as in larger-screen format here.
Stay tuned for more ongoing coverage of the events!
Update: Deleted "For the first time," at the lead since Streaming Media has been doing live web casts for years. Specifically, for the first time Streaming Media West be delivering live coverage of some of the events taking place in San Jose! ;-)
Streaming Media West rolls in into San Jose, California next week and with it comes the new Online Video Platform Summit. There are some 60 companies exhibiting, more than 130 speakers combined at Streaming Media West and the Online Video Platform Summit and over 40 sessions over the four days of the events which begins on Monday, November 16, with Streaming Media West Pre-Conference workshops through Thursday, November 19, 2009. The Online Video Platform Summit is November 18-19 and is held in conjunction with Streaming Media West.
Streaming Media West is the largest conference focused on discussing the business impact that online video is having on the TV and advertising industries. At this year's Streaming Media West Show, executives from FOX, Disney, NBC Universal, MTV, HBO Broadband, EPIX, MLB, YouTube/Google, Turner, CNN Money, Comcast, Associated Press, FUNimation, and Mountain Sports International will discuss how converging media technologies are redefining traditional distribution methods, the disruption they see taking place from Web television, TV Everywhere, broadband enabled devices, advertising standards and HD video. Streaming Media West is two-track conference and you can see the conference program for the full list of sessions and speakers.
The Online Video Platform Summit is a single-track conference with six focused sessions, online video platform showcases and a special keynote address by Brightcove CEO and Chairman Jeremy Allaire. I'll be featuring the individual sessions over the next few days and you can see the full program here.
As part of the festivities, Streaming Media celebrates the industry with the annual Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards. Finalists were selected by 5,136 readers in 18 categories and the winners will be revealed at a gala reception at Streaming Media West on November 18, broadcast live courtesy of LiveStream, and featuring entertainment from Eclectic Method, made possible by our Diamond Sponsor, Kaltura. Thanks also to our Gold Sponsors, Digital Rapids and ViewCast.
For those who can't make it to San Jose in person, we'll be live streaming Jeremy Allaire's keynote from the Online Video Platform Summit as well as the Readers' Choice Awards reception on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 4:45 p.m. EST/1:45 p.m. PST. From Streaming Media West, we'll be bringing you the keynotes from Bill Stone, president of FLO TV at 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST on Tuesday, Nov. 17, and Emil Rensing, chief digital officer of Studio 3 Partners/EPIX at 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST on Thursday, Nov. 19. All keynotes will be delivered again by Livestream on the StreamingMedia.com home page.
Special thanks to our sponsors including our Diamond Sponsor of the Online Video Platform Summit and for both events our Platinum, Gold, Corporate, Red Carpet and Media Sponsors. There are too many to name here but we thank you all.
There has been some great coverage of both these upcoming conferences and the online video the space with recognition by news agencies, blogs and press releases for many of the companies participating in the events. The Forrester Research report, The Forrester WaveTM: US Online Video Platforms, an evaluation of six top online video platform vendors created quite a buzz in the industry and some controversy since the report excluded most of the 60 some platforms in the market. Forrester's Bobby Tulsani went on record speaking with Beet.TV to defend the report saying that it was geared to the mid-tail producers and not big media companies or free video sharing sites. He also wrote a blog post to follow up on why the report only evaluated Brightcove, Fliqz, Kaltura, Ooyala, Twistage and VMIX.
USATODAY.com published an article yesterday which is an indication that mainstream media has taken notice of the growing online video space and the need for publishers and content owners to have a video solution. In the article, Services such as Fliqz, 360 help businesses get videos online, Jeffereson Graham reported on what he called,
"(a) new wave of services has cropped up to help businesses get their work online, via networks that are similar in operation to YouTube but that offer more controls and customer service, for a fee. Sorenson Media's 360, Fliqz and VideoBloom are among those aiming at the small and midsize business market."
As part of the article they interviewed Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey along with Sorenson Media President and CEO Peter Csathy and Fliqz CEO Benjamin Wayne who will both be participating as speakers for the Online Video Platform Summit session Redefining Monetization on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 2:00 p.m.
"Whether you're a hot-dog vendor in Boston or design firm in Santa Fe, you will be producing video for the Web. Video is how your customers will find you."
Benjamin Wayne who indicated that the adoption rate of online video platforms will take time said,
"About 2% of small businesses have begun to adopt video. They don't understand yet how it will drive their business. That will change in the next two years. That's because they don't know how to get the video produced. That's the hard part."
Mark will be speaking on the Online Video Platform Summit panel session Optimizing Video Search and Discoverability on Thursday, Nov, 19 at 10:30 a.m. Look for more on that session in the next few days.
Aside from the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards, there will be more parties! Dan Rayburn published the following post of the not-to-miss social events:
Several companies will be making a number of big announcements next week. Here's a sampling of some of the news coverage and press releases so far, keep up date with other Streaming Media - Industry Announcements:
Did you hear that Kevin (Nalts) Nalty will also be speaking on the Online Video Platform Summit session Redefining Monetization on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 2:00 p.m.? Don't miss his exclusive Bay Area appearance! ;-)
The deadline is fast approaching to vote for your favorite product or service in this year's Streaming Media's Readers' Choice Awards, the only awards program in our industry that lets end users decide what online video products and services they find the most valuable. Last year, more than 3,800 readers voted in the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards and with the growing online video market this year's awards program will be bigger and better, with even more categories.
The nomination process is simple. Just go to http://www.streamingmedia.com/readerschoice/nominate.asp and complete and submit the nomination form before August 31, 2009. Streaming Media's editorial team will evaluate all submissions to make sure they fit their categories, and final nominees are announced on September 7th when online voting opens. The top 3 finalists in each category will be announced in November, and the winners receive their Award at Streaming Media West in San Jose, November 17-18.
The editorial staff of Streaming Media will evaluate all submissions to make sure they're proper fits for the categories, and the final nominees will be announced on September 7th. Winners of the awards will receive at at a special reception/party at this year's Streaming Media West show in San Jose, November 18th, which attendees of Streaming Media West and the Online Video Platform Summit are welcome to join. Don't miss the best Readers' Choice Awards rocking party following the award ceremony sponsored by Kaltura, with open bar and entertainment by video remixing legends Eclectic Method which you can see in the video below.
Nominations can be made in the following categories:
Best Streaming Innovation 2009 - The first of two industry-wide categories, designed to acknowledge the product, technology, or service that most changed the streaming landscape in the past year.
Best Online Video Startup Company 2009 - Content
Best Online Video Startup Company 2009 - Technology
Another industry-wide category, designed to highlight the new companies that made the biggest splash and is poised for long-term success -- one company focused on content and another focused on technology.
Encoding Software (Under $1,000)
Encoding Software (Over $1,000)- It doesn't seem fair to pit enterprise-grade encoding solutions against single-workstation software, so in this year's awards we're breaking down encoding software into these two categories.
Enterprise Video Platform - Solutions that offer complete control over creating, publishing, managing, and distributing content within the Enterprise environment.
Hardware Encoder (HD)
Hardware Encoder (SD) - As with encoding software, it made sense to split this category into two this year, for hardware devices that capture and encode content in HD/SD and in SD only.
Live Video Streaming Platform - Platforms that allow users to easily stream live video over the web from a wide range of devices from mobile phones and webcams up through DV cameras.
Global CDN - Content delivery networks with truly global reach
Online Video Platform (Free)
Online Video Platform (Premium) - White-label or branded video publishing platforms, again separated into two subcategories: the free, consumer and prosumer-level platforms and the premium platforms used by SMB, enterprise, and entertainment organizations.
Portable Live Encoding Appliance - Hardware devices designed specifically for capturing, encoding, and outputting live video from the field and on-the-go.
Regional (North American) Delivery Network - Content Delivery Networks with a footprint that's confined to the U.S and Canada
Reporting and Analytics Solution - Solutions for delivering video viewership and/or network status reporting and analytics, whether standalone or as part of a larger offering
Search and Indexing Platform - Solutions that utilize metadata, speech/facial recognition, or other methods to help users easily find the video they're looking for
Server Hardware/Software - Solutions for delivering audio and video files to listeners and viewers, regardless of delivery protocol
Streaming Music Solution - Internet radio and other music streaming services
Video Advertising Network - Companies that help brands execute video campaigns via online publishers
Video Advertising Management Platform - Platforms that perform ad insertion and offer pre-built placement options and success tracking
Webcasting/Presentation Solution - Services or products that capture video and audio, combine with slides and images, and deliver to online viewers in an interactive environment, live and/or on demand.
