Posts Tagged ‘paidcontent’

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!