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PRESENTERS:
1. Zencoder – Matt McClure, Developer Evangelist
Zencoder (The Complete Cloud Service for Live and File Encoding) will be presenting their newly launched, first of its kind Live Cloud Transcoding API, which enables anyone to create adaptive bitrate live streams from a single input stream.
http://zencoder.com

2. vidIQ – Rob Sandie, Co-Founder/CEO
Rob, former founder and CEO of Viddler, will be presenting vidIQ – the first YouTube audience development and management suite that helps brands and agencies grow their views and subscribers. vidIQ is an end-to-end solution that assists YouTube marketers at every step of their workflow, including uploading their videos at the best time of day, connecting brands with their top influencers, YouTube SEO, monitoring viewer and engagement analytics across Twitter and Facebook, bulk description editing, comment moderation, and Facebook fan page syndication.
http://vidiq.com/

3. batteryPOP – Greg Alkalay, Co-Founder
batteryPOP is a new cross-platform kids network founded by two Nickelodeon veterans, Greg Alkalay and Taso Mastorakis. batteryPOP features original, aggregated and branded content for the 6-13 year old audience, with animation, live action, puppets, and more. batteryPOP is a creator driven network.
http://batterypop.com/

4. Watchitoo – Hila Raz, Partnerships and Sales Director and Marilyn Daly, Director of Marketing
Watchitoo, our interactive streaming partner will be on-site to announce an exciting new integration partnership, and previewing the integration for the first time with some remote guests. This hot new start-up social collaboration platform aimed at getting things done more socially and productively is a welcome addition to the growing partnerships Watchitoo has established with Bravo, Pearson, HP and more. Additionally, Watchitoo will share exciting new features and products to an already robust multi-streaming collaboration platform including unveiling ClassInteract – which makes education and training solutions more engaging, interactive and impactful for both students and faculty.
http://watchitoo.com

5. Hitting Rock Bottom – Corey Snyder, Director/Co-creator and JJ Ko, Producer and Co-creator
Hitting Rock Bottom is an interactive docudrama/web series about Darryl Brown and his struggles with addiction and recovering against all odds. The show is a series of re-enactments of real life stories that engage the audience through various transmedia and marketing projects.
http://hittingrockbottomshow.com/

Agenda:
6:30-7:00pm Networking
7:00-8:00pm Presentations and Q&A
8:00-8:30pm Networking

Presenters:

1. Saul Hansell, CEO and Founder, Sii Media, Inc.
Saul Hansell is a long time member of the NY Video Meetup, and the former Technology Reporter for the New York Times. Saul has jumped over to the startup side of the world, founding Sii.TV to revolutionize video newscasts.
As the CEO and founder of Sii.TV will give the first public demo of the company’s interactive, on-demand video newscast. It should be a great premier.
http://sii.tv

2. Eric Feinstein, Regional Manager, Deltatre
Deltatre believes everyone should be able to experience the thrill and electricity of live sporting events. Deltatre is striving for the next level of interaction and by using pioneering technologies, are able to offer global audiences immersive, multi-dimensional sporting coverage that delivers a level of engagement never before experienced.
www.deltatre.com

3. Adrienne Schmoeker, Talent Solutions Lead, Catchafire
Catchafire matches professionals who want to give their skills with nonprofits and social enterprises that need their help. Catchafire organizations identify their needs as short-term, discrete, and individual-based projects. Their projects are structured in this way to make it easy for professionals to help in the midst of their busy daily lives. Check out some of their projects here.
www.catchafire.org

4. Ryan Rapp, CEO/Co-founder, Instreamia
Instreamia is creating a video-based learning platform. It has the most comprehensive set of tools for using videos as vehicles to learn languages. From interactive subtitles to adaptive exercises and thousands of interlinked example sentences, Instreamia gives learners everything can to help them understand videos and retain what they learn.
http://about.instreamia.com/

Agenda:
6:30-7:00 Networking
7:00-8:00 Presentations and Q&A
8:00-8:30 Networking

Presenters:

Vidaao
CEO, Justin Park, and CTO, Jim Hohl, will demo Vidaao, an online marketplace for custom video production and animation services. They will be demoing the easiest and most cost-effective way to shop for your next video project!
www.vidaao.com

EMG Live Fitness
Owner and Founder, Joyce E. Wells, who left Microsoft two years ago to start EMG Live Fitness, will demo this technological breakthrough for the fitness industry. The evolution of Live Streaming has made it possible for EMG to give the former DVD exerciser access to a wide variety of daily live and on demand classes. Classes being held in New York City and Los Angeles, and Amsterdam are streamed from various locations.
www.emglivefitness.com

Clinch
CEO and Co-Founder, Oz Etzioni, will demo Clinch, an app where you can mix your videos and photos with others around you to automatically create a new kind of movie.
www.clinch.co

Ochre
DeVon Harris, CEO, will be demonstrating the company’s interactive video platform. Ochre’s technology allows viewers to choose the action taking place in videos as they watch – seamlessly and in real time – making content more relevant and fun. Content makers benefit from higher viewer engagement: greater retention time, product recall and purchase intent. Creators then have access to analytics regarding which viewers are choosing which content and concretely quantifying engagement.
www.theochre.com

Agenda:
6:30-7:00 Networking
7:00-8:00 Presentations and Q&A
8:00-8:30 Networking

Happy New Year! We’re more excited than ever for what 2013 has in store for the video space and we’re geared up for the next meetup! We’re switching things up this time around and will be meeting January 24th at Columbia University, Warren Hall in the Feldberg Space. So mark the date down on your calendar and plan on joining us.

Also, as always, we’re putting a call out to all potential presenters. We’ve already got a great line up coming together, but we’re interested in knowing of anything new coming together. So let us know if you have a great product you’d like to show off or if you have a unique content offering that our audience should see.

If so, please email Brittany@magnify.net with some information about your company, the demo you are interested in presenting and who you would like to present and I will be in contact with you.

Agenda:
6:30-7:00 Networking
7:00-8:00 Presentations and Q&A
8:00-8:30 Networking

December Presenters:

DRIVE
Christian Schnedler, COO, and Josh Vietze will be talking about DRIVE, one of the leading channels for automotive enthusiasts created as part of YouTube’s Original Content Initiative. They are launching the first-ever exclusive Live Stream of a major sporting event December 15-16 that will not be broadcast through traditional media in any form, so don’t miss the announcement at NYVM!

Boxee
Liz Delheim, Press Relations Manager, and Will Robinson, will be demo’ing Boxee TV, a groundbreaking new DVR with unlimited cloud storage and the ability to grab over the air local signals (free!). Boxee TV is turning heads in the set-top-box space, providing a new way to ‘cut the cord’ and get more control over your digital life. Boxee’s future, so this one is definitely a must see!

Vuier
Mark Rybarczyk, Co-Founder, will be introducing us to Vuier – an online video platform that is changing the way Content Creators monetize their videos with micro-pay-per-stream™, their proprietary embeddable e-commercie video player. Their tools provide a simple way to self-distribute and sell video streams to supporters – so if you’re in the video production space you’ll want to check this out.

Shelby.TV
Reece Pacheco, Co-Founder and CEO, and Chris Kurdziel, will be back to demonstrate a whole bunch of new advancements from Shelby TV – a smart way to view and share video. Shelby gives viewers a personalized stream of leanback video, and curators a way of building their own .TV network. Download the iPhone app or explore online at http://shelby.tv/explore.

Vantageous
Tim Novikoff, CEO, and Aaron Cohen, Product Evangelist, will be giving us a sneak peek at Vantageous, which is an iPhone and Android app, as well as a web-based editor. Together, they allow you to make multi-angle videos — videos that cut from one vantage point to another — using any collection of iPhones, iPods, iPad, and Androids. It’s very simple to use and is launching soon! You will definitely want to see this.

Vonvo
Max Ringelheim, Co-Founder and President, will demo Vonvo.com, a unique video chatting site dedicated to discussing news and current events in a valuable and meaningful manner. Vonvo recently launched and Ringelheim will be showing us what the company has done so far and what they have planned for the future.

Quip Video
David Valdman, CEO and Founder, will demonstrate the cool tools of Quip Video. Quip Video is a widget that allows viewers of online video to upload their own content (text, images, etc.) and sync them to the video’s timeline. This is a great tool for editors, as well as people in general who want to have conversations over online video. Come check it out!

Camera Ready
Manoushz Zomorodi, freelance reporter, moderator, media consultant and author of CAMERA READY: How to Present Your Best Self and Ideas On Air or Online, will share with us how she breaks down the basics of good on-camera work for journalists and non-profit folks and helps them strategize ways of integrating video into their content.

Agenda:
6:30-7:00pm Networking & Food/Drinks
7:00-8:00pm Intros, Startup Demos & Group Discussion
8:00-8:30pm Networking

Jest.com – Jeff Rubin, Editor in Chief and Paul Briganti, Director, will be showing off the latest updates to Jest.com. Jest is run by Internet comedy experts, and features a real-time feed of the funniest content on the Internet as it starts to pop. Their staff of award-winning writers and producers also creates original videos that react to what the Internet is talking about right now. Come hear more about what Jest is up to.

www.jest.com

Zentrick – Pieter Mees, Founder and CEO of the interactive video platform Zentrick, will demo how their product maximizes the video call-to-action. Zentrick offers an integrated set of services centered around maximizing the effect of online video and through their advanced streaming services and interactive video solutions, they give customers and viewers a great video experience. To learn more about what Zentrick has to offer, come see them demo their product.

www.zentrick.com

Spreecast – Robert Hunt, Co-Founder of Spreecast, a live group video company, will demo his product and show us how thousands of people are chatting, watching and engaging in live group conversations. With Spreecast, you can interact live with your favorite writers, celebrities, bands, etc., discover conversations about topics you are interested in, and even create your own videos. Come find out more about Spreecast at the NY Video Meetup.

www.spreecast.com

Storyplanet.com – Bjarke Mythu, CEO & Founder of Storyplanet.com, which is currently in private beta (but will be going public shortly), will demo his new product which can be described as a Wordpress for visual content. With Storyplanet’s online toolbox, you can easily turn video content into beautifully designed interactive experiences that can be used for things like presentations, portfolios, e-learning, marketing and presentations.

www.storyplanet.com

Agenda:

6:30-7:00pm Networking & Food/Drinks

7:00-8:00pm Intros, Startup Demos & Group Discussion

8:00-8:30pm Networking

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

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

January Presenters:

Sharethrough – Dave Ford works in sales and marketing strategy for Sharethrough. Sharethrough, is the first ad tech company built exclusively for brand video content and “native advertising.” Sharethrough enables publishers to generate new revenue through non-interruptive, “native” ad placements and original brand video content, such as short fims, webisodes and music videos. Before Sharethrough, Dave was an emerging media consultant specializing in introducing branded content opportunities and emerging technologies to fortune 500 brands. Sharethrough’s CEO Dan Greenberg was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

Landline TV – CEO, Jared Neumark, will talk about the challenges of 24 hour high production value video and the potential benefits to being that timely. He will also demo some of their independently produced sketches and give us a look inside their New York-based production company that specializes in comedy. Landline has been written up in a number of major blogs and media outlets, being called “brilliant” (Andrew Sullivan), “well-done satire” (Washington Post), “smart, witty” (CNBC), and “pants-wettingly funny” (Huffington Post). In May 2009, Wired named Landline TV as one of seven “Webotainers Worth Watching”. Landline’s creative team also develops content for web serials, television and film, as well as offering professional services for branded content and advertising.

Mobcaster – Co-Founders, Aubrey Levy and Sander Kooijman, will discuss their website, mobcaster.com, the first-ever crowd-funded television channel who helps independent TV creators take their show concepts directly out to market, giving the audience, as opposed to network or studio executives, the ability to decide which shows end up on their screens. If viewers like a show, they can fund it, and those shows with sufficient support to reach their funding goals, get made and broadcast on Mobcaster TV (online channel). It creates the first and only independent market for TV shows.

Attend LLC – Chuck Storman, CEO, and Mike Bittle, COO, will be demo their MediaCloud service which makes storage, secure file sharing, proxy transcoding, team & client review, online screening/streaming and publication of large media files effortless on mobile, tablet or private webpages all within a collaborative and secure environment. Chuck Storman will also be giving away 5 copies of his book, “Start Fast! Accelerate Your Software, Internet or Mobile Startup” (www.startfast.net).

Agenda:
6:30-7:00pm Networking (Pizza and Beer)
7:00-8:00pm Intros, Startup Demos & Group Discussion
8:00-8:30pm Networking

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