CLICK HERE TO RSVP
April Presenters:
Shorty Awards – The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media, recognizing the people and organizations producing real-time short form content across Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare, and the rest of the social Web. Greg Galant, CEO, will talk about how they curated and produced a lot of video with major celebs through ShortyAwards.com’s voting platform.
MyPod Studios – MyPod Studios launched in October, 2010 and was built to provide an alternative to the standard issue video networks that litter the Web, and take a slightly more unique approach to presenting online video. MyPod is a new video destination site for brands and professional content producers and Jason Miletsky, CEO, will demo their product.
Rocketboom – Andrew Michael Baron, CEO, will speak about Rocketboom, a daily vlog, which will be relaunching April 23rd. Baron will also discuss the state of online video business today and where he thinks it is headed. After selling Know Your Meme, he has been super busy and has a lot to share with us.
Digital Laundry – Digital Laundry produces a hyperlocal program called eHarlemTV that airs monthly on cable in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx and via satellite to the rest of the country on FreeSpeechTV. All episodes are also available on the web. George Rivera, CEO and Executive Producer, will show some examples of successful hyper-local programming.
Agenda:
6:30-7:00pm Networking (Pizza and Beer)
7:00-8:00pm Intros, Startup Demos & Group Discussion
8:00-8:30pm Networking
March Presenters:
Vimeo – Blake Whitman, VP of Creative Development and Justin Dickinson, Senior Web Designer, will be showing off a new version of Vimeo that is still in Beta mode. Vimeo was created by filmmakers and video creators who wanted to share their creative work, along with intimate personal moments of their everyday life. As time went on, like-minded people came to the site and built a community of positive, encouraging individuals with a wide range of video interests.
Umami – Scott Rosenberg, CEO & Co-Founder, will demo their companion TV app for the iPad that syncs to your TV program and gives you all kinds of content and conversation related to what you’re watching. Rosenberg will also present some recently launched social features that let you share an image of what you’re seeing (FreezeFrame’s) and gives you a visual dashboard of the conversation occurring around a show. Umami was founded in 2010 with a goal of giving consumers a deeper, more engaging experience around their favorite TV shows, while providing TV networks and advertisers with a powerful new platform to brand and customize those experiences.
Wiredset Trendrr - Mark Ghuneim, CEO & Founder, and Richard Glosser, an Advisor to Wiredset Trendrr, will demo their NYC based company that is a leader in the area of Social TV. Trendrr.tv takes data from the social conversations around television shows on Twitter, Facebook, GetGlue, Miso and others and uses a natural language processing platform to analyze it for volume, velocity, sentiment, gender and location to provide analysis to marketers and researchers at over 50% of the major cable and broadcast networks. In addition, Trendrr provides curation services to provide filtered social streams to media companies for use on-air, online and in-app.
SupersonicAds – Tal Even, Director of Business Development and Brand Advertising, will demo some examples of video units within games and some newly launched features of their business. Supersonic Ads is a market leading provider of in-social-game brand and direct response advertising solutions. They run video, brand engagement, and direct response campaigns across their network of over 500 leading games, publishers, and social networks.
Be part of the online video community and get your tickets while they are still available!
Agenda:
6:30-7:00pm Networking (Pizza and Beer)
7:00-8:00pm Intros, Startup Demos & Group Discussion
8:00-8:30pm Networking
