Have you seen the line-up for next month’s NewTeeVee Live conference? You might have heard that the CEOs of Hulu and Netflix are coming, and also the creator of CSI. True! But did you know that we’ve also got a guy who brags that he’s still actively funding digital media deals — including a new one just last week? That would be Richard Wolpert, managing director of The Mail Room Fund, an investment partnership of William Morris Agency, AT&T, Accel and Venrock.
Another highlight should be David Verklin, who’s making one of his first public appearances since being named the CEO of Canoe Ventures, the joint addressable advertising project of the nation’s largest cable companies. Talk about friends in high places.
We’ve also got Alex Withers, managing director of digital media for the USGA. His team put on the biggest single day of live-streaming sports that we know of this year, delivering more than 2 million streams to more than half a million concurrent users who tuned in to watch Tiger Woods’ down-to-the-wire playoff victory at the U.S. Open. And that was on a Monday!
And for stats nerds like me (and anyone looking to prove their content is worth paying for), we have Tania Yuki of comScore, who will be launching some new online video measurement techniques that will lead to very helpful things like reporting on premium and UGC content separately, and tracking syndication and viral traffic.
Also, today is the last day to apply for our NewTeeVee News section, so if you have a major announcement burning a hole in your pocket, let us know about it and we’ll see if we can get you on the schedule.
I am so excited for it I wish I could just sit in the audience all day and watch. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what you can do if you bought your ticket.
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