The Business Of Online Video

Does Anyone Care About The Business Of Live Events, Or Just The Traffic?

Dan Rayburn — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:01:00 -0400

In the past 36 hours, I've seen 37 stories in my Google reader about the the MJ webcast and unless I missed it, not a single article talked about anything pertaining to the business side of live broadcasting. Every time a large webcast takes place on the Internet, the industry wants to speculate about the Internet breaking or failing in...

Online Video Platform Summit Now On Twitter

Dan Rayburn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:23:59 -0400

Larry Kless and Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, co-chairs of this year's inaugural Online Video Platform Summit, are posting updates about the event as well as news about the online video platform space on Twitter. Check it out -- Twitter name is @ovpsummit, and the event hash tag is #ovps09.

Announcing The Passing Of Neal Page, Co-Founder and CEO Of Inlet Technologies

Dan Rayburn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:02:03 -0400

Late last night, Neal Page, Co-Founder and CEO of Inlet Technologies passed away after a year-long battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). A few months back, Neal and I were chatting about the industry and he mentioned that he was stepping down from the day to day side of things to take care of some medical issues, but I didn't...

Thomson Reuters Acquires Webcasting Platform Provider Streamlogics

Dan Rayburn — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:19:17 -0400

In a deal that had been in the works for some time, it was announced today that effective last week, Thomson Reuters has acquired Canada based Streamlogics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and I don't have any details on the valuation but will update the post if I find out. This is a nice deal for Streamlogics who...

Many Vendors Need To Refine Their "Who We Are Pitch"

Dan Rayburn — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:54:37 -0400

Over the holiday weekend I started going through all of the speaking submissions for the Streaming Media West show and after looking at a few hundred submissions, it's clear that many companies in this space can't describe in one sentence what they do. I've always been one to believe that it's crucial that every person in your organization be able...