NewTeeVee Live: How Television Is Reinventing Itself
At NewTeeVee Live, representatives from ActiveVideo Networks, Clearleap, Coincident, and Clicker as well as content producers like Phil DeFranco and Justine Bateman shared their thoughts on the future of online video. We’ll update this post with highlights from each presentation as the day progresses.
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Jeff Miller, President and CEO ActiveVideo Networks
Fragmentation in the online video space leads to developer and consumer confusion. Miller says that moving innovation to the cloud will be key to managing the distribution of content, apps, and services.
To watch video of the full presentations, see the clips on our video archive or livestream page.
I think one key important step that needs to be done is the elimination of the “Broadcast Network”. The broadcasters are no longer king of the mountain and are simply just another button on the great media grid. Stop this whole retrans business and just become a cable channel already. It’s going to happen sooner rather than later – so get to it. So much denial and longing to live in an old media world. It’s like they’re living through the Five Stage of Grief from On Death and Dying:
http://mankabros.com/onmedea/2010/10/broadcast_networks_on_death_an.html
Smart comment from Phil DeFranco.