Patrick Koppula, CEO of ffwd, is rethinking television for its ubiquitous, on-demand and interactive future. Patrick holds a degree in environmental science and public policy from Harvard University and is a guest lecturer at MIT Sloan on the topics of crowdsourcing intelligence and innovation. Patrick also plays guitar for a San Francisco rock cover band called Bottoms Up.
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today [itvt] itvt.com, interviews Bee TV CEO, Rodolfo Hecht who calls in from Italy. They discuss the Bee TV offering. Read our daily news at itvt.com
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today itvt.com, speaks to Vic Odryna, the CEO of over-the-top company ZeeVee.com. ZeeVee is one of the leading companies offering a full platform that brings the Internet to your television. Odryna speaks about the "over-the-top" market and the challenges they face in order to keep the company competitive. Read our daily news, get reserach, search on archives and much more at itvt.com
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today itvt.com, speaks to CEO Dan Mechem of the new broadband TV user-generated site called The Gloomers. This site is unusual in that it not only showcases a serial cartoon featuring the funny and edgey Gloomers characters that spout doom and gloom, but anybody can upload video clips etc. featuring themselves doing the same. It's a brilliant concept. We speak to Dan to see how it works and why. Read our daily news and interviews at itvt.com
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today itvt.com, interviews Ed Skolarus, Fox Reality, VP, Business & Operations about their new interactive TV project at Time Warner's Oceanic cable network. Read our daily news at itvt.com
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today itvt.com, speaks to Dustin Calif, the Head of Digital Content for L.A.-based firm called Tool and Brian Latt, Executive Producer at Tool. They recently developed a very innovative broadband TV interactive video and music application for MTV featuring the Cold War Kids that enable the 4 band members (each of which was filmed against a darkly lit background in order to give the impression that all four members are playing on the same stage) to ...
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, speaks to Roku Vice President, Consumer Products, Tim Twerdahl about the current state of the Over-the-Top market for on-demand movies. Roku was the first to supply Netflix service to anyone that wanted to connect their PC to their television and bypass cable all together. Read our daily news, search the archives, set up a profile, blog and much more at http://itvt.com
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today itvt.com, discusses the news that ActiveVideo Networks is acquiring its competitor in Europe, Avinity Systems with AVN's CEO, Jeff Miller and Avinity's director, Ronald Brockmann. Check out our new site for daily news, search, screenshots, video, blogging and more.
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today ( http://www.itvt.com ), speaks to Brightline iTV CEO, Jacqueline Corbelli, about building award-winning ITV advertising applications, Canoe, EBIF, awareness levels of ITV, and challenges ahead. Read all our daily news, get interviews, upload media, blog yourself at http://www.itvt.com
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today [itvt], speaks to Livestream' CEO, Max Haot about his company's new efforts to re-brand and position their brand. A purveyor of live and on demand broadcasting technologies on the Web, Livestream has been able to build a suite of services that enable anyone to build their own TV channel on demand. Read daily news, search, upload, blog at http://www.itvt.com
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, speaks to Roger Demuth, SVP, worldwide services and support, at Ensequence, a company that provides a range of ITV development and software tools and services around the world. Roger speaks about their latest deal with the Welsh language broadcaster, S4C. The deal will be to create and deploy interactive TV services for the UK's Freeview free-to-air digital terrestrial and Sky pay-TV digital satellite platforms and it represents Ensequence's...
Alticast executives, Jeff Bonin (Alticast vice president and general manager) and Anthony Smith-Chaigneau, (senior vice president business development and managing director of Alticast Gmbh), are here to discuss the future of tru2way, DVB-MHP, GEM and other interactive TV enabling technologies. Will these technologies enable the rapid deployment of multiplatform ITV in our lifetime? We'll hear the inside scoop. Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, will ask the hard questions. R...
Visible World CEO, Seth Haberman, is here to speak to InteractiveTV Today's editor-in-chief, Tracy Swedlow, about important developments in the Addressable Advertising industry. Specifically, discussion covers why it's such an important topic now; whether trust can exist between the cable industry and the broadcasters through Canoe Ventures; the rise of online auctioning of ad units; how interactive advertising will work with addressable advertising - good and bad. Read more news, set up your ow...
Hotspotting on videos online is becoming popular all of a sudden after many years as an emerging technology. The CEO of hotspotting technology provider, Veeple, Scott Broomfield, will speak to editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, Tracy Swedlow, about their work, interesting trends, and the opportunities that lie ahead. Read daily news, start your profile, blog, comment on companimes, and more at http://www.itvt.com
Craig Woerz, co-founder and managing partner at Media Storm, speaks to editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, Tracy Swedlow about his ad agency , their interactive television campaigns, and their rapid growth in the industry. Access news and interviews, search, start your own blog and more at http://www.itvt.com
Zodiac Interactive executives, CEO Brandon Brown, and Alex Libkind, speak to InteractiveTV Today's editor-in-chief, Tracy Swedlow, about all the activities at the company where they are involved in the EBIF revolution and the emergence of interactive TV. Read more news, set up your profile, and upload media at http://www.itvt.com
Corey Ferengul, Executive Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, at Macrovision (the largest purveyor of EPG software and search/guide data in the world), will speak to Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today about their ongoing EPG and ITV strategy, new products, and the emerging market overall. For more news, interviews, research and media, go to http://www.itvt.com where you can also sign up, start a profile and a blog, upload videos and screenshots, and much more....
Avner Ronen, CEO of boxee, speaks to [itvt]s' editor-in-chief, Tracy Swedlow, about his company, new developments, forward strategy, the over-the-top market opportunity, and why company achieved cult status and is currently the focus of attention at every content studio, advertiser, and cable operator. Read ITV news, interviews, and create a profile at http://www.itvt.com
Starz' Rebecca Lim, senior director, advanced services, will speak to [itvt]'s Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief, about their new "Enteract Now," a new ITV application appearing on the Starz Network. She will also discuss her views, opinions about the most recent NCTA conference held in Washington D.C and how well interactive TV was received, discussed, or thrashed. Check out our new site at http://www.itvt.com You can register, create a profile, upload a photo, blog, comment and upload companies....
Tracy Swedlow, [itvt]' editor-in-chief, speaks to independent content developer and producer, Marque Cornblatt (also a digital artist), who talks about the challenges of producing an original on demand online series and getting distribution and what he thinks about social TV, interactive TV opportunities, and much more now that he's been to [itvt]'s TV of Tomorrow Show 3 times in a row. Read more news and blog yourself at http://www.itvt.com - our new site.
Concurrent, long known as a video server company, has recently announced it will embrace a multiplatform play. Tracy Swedlow, editor of [itvt], talks to James Brickmeier about this new strategy and what it means for delivering interactive video on demand, social and commercial services to the TV, and providing new ways to demonstrate real metrics.
Mitch Berman, CEO of Zillion TV, joins Tracy Swedlow, editor of InteractiveTV Today, to discuss his new company and why he is going to compete in the "Over the Top" market. Will Zillion TV be able to compete with other earlier entrants or find the need to collaborate with cable and satellite? http://www.itvt.com
Mike Ryan worked at Comcast's TVWorks R&D and develoment house in the Bary Area until just recently. We have the scoop on why he left and what he's going to do now. Editor, Tracy Swedlow, will talk with Mike about his TV of Tomorrow plans.
Geoff Katz, who is now at iWidgets, is also co-governor of the Interactive Media Peer Group of the Emmy's organization. But, what many people don't know is that he has worked at a number of companies in the Bay Area and, therefore, has a special perspective on how the interactive television industry works from the inside out. Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, talks to Geoff about his worldview and about the new widgets economy. http://www.itvt.com http://www.tvot09.com http:...
Kevin Chou is founder and CEO of an interesting company called Watercooler Inc., which provides a platform to enable and connect large networks of online fan communities around sports and TV entertainment on top social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and hi5.
Tracey Scheppach, SVP/Video Innovation Director at Starcom USA (a well-respected ad agency), talks to Tracy Swedlow, Editor-in-Chief of InteractiveTV Today, about her "5 Flashpoints for 2009." Scheppach, an expert on interactive advertising across all platforms (broadband TV, IPTV, cable, satellite, DVR, mobile, etc.), provides her insights on hot button topics and technologies that she believes will be "flash points" for change and dramatically impact the television industry in the months and y...
Dan Hassan, Co-CEO and Chairman (his title on the name of the show was incorrect) at Backchannelmedia, talks with Tracy Swedlow, Editor-in-Chief of InteractiveTV Today about their work to bring local TV news broadcasters into the interactive television present. Not many companies are doing this kind of work, so Hassan will provide an interesting perspective. For more: itvt.com and blog.itvt.com and www.itvt.com/tvoftomorrow
Mio Babic, CEO, and Randy Levine, SVP of business development for iStreamPlanet, join Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today to discuss how they streamed the Innauguration of President Obama for CNN in coordination with Microsoft Silverlight technology. Read more: itvt.com and blog.itvt.com
Invidi Technologies is in the center of all the action when it comes to developing the technologies and systems the cable operators are deploying through their Canoe Ventures joint venture. Howard Fiderer will talk about their new Advatar platform enabling EBIF interactive TV addressable advertising. Tracy Swedlow, editor of itvt.com, tvot09.com and blog.itvt.com, is your host.
Tracy Swedlow, founder of [itvt], talks with Steve Hawley, princpal of tvstrategies and expert in IPTV trends and technologies, about the newly formed joint venture called the [itvt] Industry Intelligence Program. This new Program offers in-depth research, analysis, insight and marketing benefits for companies interested in IPTV developments.
