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For the
second year, Parks
Associates is hosting the Digital Den at the Third Annual
Entertainment Supply Chain Academy event, being held June 23-24 at
the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles. The Digital Den presentations
will focus on the different models being presented by companies
looking to monetize and find their footing in the emerging world of
digital content delivery and home entertainment. |
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Following an introduction
from Parks Associates, an exec from the participating
companies presenting will join the main stage for a
5-7 minute presentation regarding the transition of content
delivery from the traditional physical distribution model.
Roll mouse over company name for a bio. |
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1:30 |
Blair Westlake
Corp. VP, Media & Entertainment Group
Microsoft
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About
Microsoft
Description Coming Soon
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1:35 |
Stuart Sikes
President
Parks Associates
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About Parks Associates
Parks Associates is a market research and consulting firm
focused on all product and service segments that are "digital" or provide
connectivity within the home.
Expertise
We study home networks, digital entertainment, consumer electronics,
broadband and Internet services, wireless connectivity, and home systems.
Goal
"Parks Associates provides competitor, technology, and consumer research
of superior quality and insight to help our clients deliver products and
services that improve the quality of lives for their customers."
History
Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies
ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, multiclient
studies, consumer research, workshops, and custom-tailored client solutions. |
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1:40 |
Ron Yekutiel
Chairman & CEO
Kaltura
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About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video
Platform, which presents a low-cost and flexible alternative to proprietary
video solutions in the market. With over 27,000 publishers, award-winning
Kaltura is growing rapidly, with hundreds of sites joining daily. Beyond
catering directly to web publishers, Kaltura's open framework provides
integrators and developers the ability to create custom video applications with
minimal time and effort. The Platform also includes unique interactive features
that increase user engagement and time spent on site.
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1:48 |
Paulette Pantoja
Founder and CEO
BluFocus
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About BluFocus
BluFocus (www.blufocus.com) is the entertainment industry's
first advanced testing and advisory service specialist for Blu-ray titles. The
company offers solutions and tools to studios, player manufacturers, authoring
facilities and tool developers to ensure a seamless, issue-free customer
experience that makes full use of Blu-ray's expanded capabilities.
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1:56 |
Diya Jolly
Product Director
Freewheel
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About FreeWheel
To video content owners, rights holders, and publishers,
FreeWheel provides the first Monetization Rights Management platform - a
technology solution that dramatically reduces the unique financial risks and
operational complexities of video ad management across syndication
relationships. FreeWheel combines the innovation of a start-up with the most
experienced and talented team of industry veterans. With decades of leadership
experience at leading ad serving and monetization companies such as DoubleClick,
Microsoft, Yahoo, and Visible World, FreeWheel's team is united in the
understanding that video is fundamentally different from graphical ad placements
and search, and needs a unique solution to deliver maximized revenue with
minimal complexity. |
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2:04 |
Brad Gleeson
SVP, Business Development
MOD Systems
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About MOD Systems
MOD Systems enables retailers to deliver digital
entertainment to consumers using interactive self-service kiosks for downloading
music and movies to portable devices and Secure Digital (SD) memory cards. The
company's growing entertainment catalog includes nearly 4,000 independent and
major video titles, and nearly 4 million music tracks. The catalog is part of
the MOD Retail Enterprise System which handles all aspects of securing,
ingesting, and fulfilling digital content in retail stores. With digital
distribution, consumers browse and purchase the entertainment they want in the
places they already shop, and retailers are empowered to fill customer needs at
the point of sale while eliminating the need to order, stock, or return
traditional pre-packaged media. |
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2:12 |
Arnaud Dudemaine
VP Sales and Business Development
Audionamix
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About Audionamix
Audionamix
(aka Mist Technologies) is a start-up company in the quickly growing field of
new usages of high definition and 5.1 sound. It has developed the first and only
technology able to turn any mono or stereo recording into a perfect multi-track
sound file (5.1, 6.1, 7.1). Based in Paris, London and New-York, the company
employs over 15 people with a diversified background in media, entertainment and
research–and it is continuing to expand. Audionamix won the first prize of the
Annual Competition of the Ministry of Research. Its research team works together
with the best laboratories in the world, such as Telecom ParisTech in France and
the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel. The company offers two
products.
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2:20 |
Tyler Goldman
CEO
BuzzMedia
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About BuzzMedia
Bio coming soon. |
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2:28 |
James Segil
President
Edgecast
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About Edgecast
EdgeCast offers a superior, cost-effective global content
delivery service that gives our customers competitive advantage in the delivery
of digital media. Our world-class content delivery platform provides customers
the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery
network while freeing them from capital investments and operational hassles. |
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2:36 |
Eric Morris
Vice President of Sales
Ooyala
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About Ooyala
Ooyala (www.ooyala.com) is a video technology company that
provides an integrated platform enabling the delivery, management,and
monetization of high quality video content. Ooyala's mission is to empower
companies to create profitable businesses using online video through intelligent
technology, solid infrastructure, and constant innovation. Ooyala's partner
portfolio includes 1000s of media companies including Bebo, TV Guide, Glam, and
Electronic Arts. For more information please visit www.ooyala.com.
Ooyala is Headquartered in Mountain View, CA and has sales
offices in New York City and London. Prior to starting Ooyala, Bismarck, Sean
and Belsasar (Ooyala's founders) held senior product and engineering roles at
Google. |
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2:44 |
Bryan T. Biniak
CEO
Jacked, Inc.
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About Jacked, Inc.
Jacked, Inc. is the leading producer of interactive
broadcasts. Jacked is the creator of the first customizable WebTop that
dynamically synchronizes online content with live television programming. The
company’s first product, the Jacked SportsTop™, currently supports all NBA, MLB,
NFL and NHL games, as well as NCAA Football and Basketball games, with
real-time, contextually-generated, synchronous programming. Jacked has partnered
with numerous broadcasters and sports leagues including NBC Sports, CBS
Television, Versus, Comcast Sports Net, Big Ten Network, Boston.com, LA Times,
Raycom Sports, New York Giants and the NHL.
Jacked was recently recognized by media company AlwaysOn as
both one of the OnMedia 100 and OnHollywood 100 winners and was also selected as
one of 30 leading technology companies to join the Microsoft Startup Accelerator
Program. Jacked is a venture-backed company with funding from Provenance
Ventures, Core Capital Partners and Gabriel Venture Partners. Jacked was founded
in June 2006 and is based in Santa Monica, Calif. www.jacked.com |
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3:00 |
Alex Castro
CEO and co-founder
Delve Networks
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About Delve Networks
Founded in 2006, Seattle-based Delve Networks makes it
possible for organizations of any size across any industry to realize the
potential of online video. Delve’s next-generation, easy-to-use and highly
customizable online video platform offers all the tools necessary for publishing
video online including video hosting, encoding, content delivery, content
management, semantic search, metrics, advertising and syndication. By leveraging
the power of cloud computing, Delve gives its customers the ability to quickly
adapt as demand for content increases allowing for greater overall scalability,
efficiency and reliability. Delve is backed by DFJ Frontier, Intel Capital and
Labrador Ventures. For more information, visit www.delvenetworks.com.
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3:08 |
Yangbin Wang
CEO
Vobile
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About Vobile
Vobile® is the leading provider of video content
identification and management services. Its core VideoDNA™ technology enables
fully automated identification, tracking and management of any video and audio
content with high performance, accuracy and scalability. Vobile operates the
VideoDNA Database (VDDB®), which is the most comprehensive database of
authorized video fingerprints, metadata and business rules from major movie
studios, television networks and record labels. Founded in 2005, the company is
headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in China and
the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit the company website at
http://www.vobileinc.com.
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3:15 |
Closing Comments |
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ABOUT ESCA |
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The
third annual Entertainment Supply Chain Academy (ESCA) is focusing
its two-day annual conference this year on "Maximizing Home
Entertainment Sales & Profits in Turbulent Times." The ESCA event
hosts 250-350 executives from the entertainment studios and has
become the home entertainment industry’s annual business conference
responsible for driving efficiencies in the delivery of physical and
digital entertainment.
This
year's program will be organized into three individual sessions:
* Build Blu:
will present ways to increase sales and profitability of the new
format while growing consumer satisfaction for the HD media buying
experience. Paul Scott, Executive Vice President, Sony DADC is
conference chair for this session.
* Go Green:
will identify how sustainability is both an ecological and
economical issue that impacts the entire physical media supply
chain. Larry Wilk,Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Walt Disney
Studios Home Entertainment, is conference chair for this session.
* Focus on the
Future: will explore opportunities
that utilize existing and emergent technologies to generate ROI for
partners in both physical and digital home entertainment. Darcy
Antonellis, President, Warner Bros. Technical Operations, is
conference chair for this session.
The
entertainment supply chain is center stage in Hollywood and this
year’s ESCA is more important than ever as a platform for proven
solutions, new directions and innovative developments.
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