Posts Tagged ‘bbc’

On Monday morning 9.30am GMT online video specialist video blog/site Beet.tv will be in London hosting an executive roundtable that will be streamed live. I’m one the participants in the panel together with a bunch of good people from the industry. The panel will be lead by PaidContent’s Robert Andrews and Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser. It’ll be very interesting to see where the discussions will lead us.

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Here’s the line up:
Steve Allison, Technical Evangelist, Adobe Systems EMEA
Greg Beitchman, Global Editor, Reuters News Agency
Emily Bell, Director of Digital Content, Guardian News & Media
Caroline Casey, Director, Digital Development, Turner Broadcasting
Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor, The Economist
Mary Hockaday, Head of BBC Newsroom
Stephen Pinches, Lead Product Development Manager, FT.com
Dewi Price, Head of Technology, Global Web Properties, BBC Worldwide Digital Media
Sorosh Tavakoli, Founder and CEO, Videoplaza
Jeff Whatcott, Senior Vice President, Brightcove

I just wanted to share a very good summary over Europe’s most interesting online video market. PaidContent UK has looked into its glass ball at the key VOD players in the UK and judged their success. Among SeeSaw, iPlayer, Canvas, Hulu, Youtube etc. they believe that the safest bet is still on the broadcasters own websites such as itv.com. I would agree.

I would also argue that one of the key success factors for the aggregators will be to make sure that the syndicators will be empowered to sell and serve their own ads, preferably through their own ad server.

2010 will be a very interesting year indeed!

July first will be an intersting day as I’ll be speaking and participating in a panel at the Future of Broadcasting in London. The event has quite an exciting line up of speakers (of course I say that :) ) that will discuss the future of broadcasting.

I’ll be presenting our take on how to monetise online video as well as you must and talk about how our Swedish broadcast clients are enabled to make as much money from online as from broadcast.

Here’s the agenda:

SESSION SIX: BREAKING INTO THE MAINSTREAM? OPPORTUNITIES IN VIDEO ON-DEMAND

• 11:15 –
  A remarkable year: the progress of iPlayer and the wider on-demand market
  Anthony Rose
  Head, Online Media Group, BBC
  
• 11:35 –
  A wider perspective: assessing ad-funded on-demand
  Michelangelo Volpi
  Chief Executive Officer, Joost
  
• 11:55 –
  Swapping analogue dollars for digital dollars: business models for successful online video monetisation
  Sorosh Tavakoli
  Chief Executive Officer, Videoplaza
  
• 12:15 –
  Bringing on-demand to your living room. Analysing the television on-demand marketplace
  Asanga Gunatillaka
  Head of Commercial & Strategy, TV, Virgin Media
  
• 12:35 –
  A US perspective: an insiders look at Hulu
  Johannes Larcher
  Senior Vice-President, International, Hulu
  
• 12:55 –
  PANEL DISCUSSION: examining the future for on-demand services

  A number of prominent figures in the world of on-demand discuss the future of on-demand services, the impact of technological advances and how to engage audiences who have an increasing number of services to choose from.

  Johannes Larcher
  Senior Vice-President, International, Hulu
  Anthony Rose
  Head, Online Media Group, BBC
  Michael Comish
  Chief Executive Officer, Blinkbox
  Asanga Gunatillaka
  Head of Commercial & Strategy, TV, Virgin Media
  Michelangelo Volpi
  Chief Executive Officer, Joost
  Sorosh Tavakoli
  Chief Executive Officer, Videoplaza