Some random thoughts from day one of the Mobile Entertainment Marketplace conference in London.
— A trade show just on mobile entertainment? How novel. Only 90 percent of them are all doing the same thing….90 percent of them won’t survive.
— Everyone is here except the big portals: Never saw anyone from the biggies in online portals businesses in US or Europe: Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Tiscali. None of them bothered to have a booth. Not many of the media companies too…unless you think of Marvel Entertainment as a media company.
— Ran into Angel Gambino, the outgoing head of Emerging Platforms at BBC…she’s leaving in about two weeks (it was publicly announced a month ago) and is joining an as yet unknown mobile-related venture. Of course you’ll hear about it here first…
— Also ran into Sean Ryan, the former CEO of Listen.com (Rhapsody), who has started his own mobile content company called Donnerwood…nothing much to report yet, except that it will have some gaming component, but it should formally launch its products/services in fall this year. It is venture funded…
— The mobile music companies are feeling a bit neglected…for the last two years, everyone was talking about mobile music, but now everyone here is talking about mobile video, as I mentioned in a post earlier. Some of the exhibiting companies are not too happy…
— More to come…
The MEM Conference coverage is sponsored by AG Interactive & Def Jam Mobile
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