March 26, 2007
Volume 17, Issue 2
VeriSign Most Admired Company
VeriSign, the leading provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world, has been named to Fortune’s list of "America's Most Admired Companies" for 2007.
VeriSign debuted as one of the top five companies in the Information Technology Services category and achieved high scores for the use of its corporate assets, its social responsibility initiatives, and the quality of its management team.
"We are honored to have achieved this recognition," said Stratton Sclavos, Chairman & CEO of VeriSign. "VeriSign has consistently invested in building an organization that delivers distinctive value to its customers and shareholders. Achieving this prestigious milestone demonstrates our success in doing so, and is a testament to the contributions of our employees whose strong support and contributions yield continuous improvements in our company."
P2P Music Goes Legit with Ads
Excerpted from Business 2.0 Report by Michael Myser
The next user to download a song from a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing service like LimeWire could be in for a surprise. Not a recording industry lawsuit, but a pop-up asking him or her to look at an ad – either text or video – in return for a free and licensed copy of the music.
For that, the record labels, which have been trying to monetize unauthorized traded music for years can thank a three-year old company called INTENT MediaWorks.
INTENT has figured out how to embed pop-ups in music and video files unobtrusively, and the company claims that 60 percent of users are willing to accept the resulting ads. "Consumers don’t want to rip people off," said Les Ottolenghi, President & Co-Founder of Atlanta-based INTENT. "They just want to get music as easily as possible."
INTENT is seeding the P2P networks at a rapid clip. In February its digital media files were downloaded 1.7 million times. By December it expects that number to grow to at least 10 million. At a cost to the advertiser of $5.80 per 1,000 ad views for text and $30 or more for video, that’s a healthy revenue stream. INTENT shares the money with the artists and their labels, which can also choose to serve up their own promotions within the pop-ups.
INTENT’s customers already include Nettwerk Music Group, which manages Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne, and Sarah McLachlan; and Chuck D’s Slamjamz Records. The company also expects to sign at least one of the Big Four music firms by mid-2007. Advertisers thus far have included Audi and Coca-Cola.
Since INTENT follows users no matter what the latest popular file-sharing service is – FrostWire and Shareaza, anyone? – advertisers will always be able to reach their eyeballs. The P2P audience is made of young, affluent, and technically savvy consumers, noted Mitchell Reichgut, Principal at The Jun Group. "That’s the kind of person you want to reach." He said. "If you do something on P2P and do it well, it’s marketing on steroids."
P2P represents a growing audience. Traffic on P2P networks has nearly doubled since 2002, with average simultaneous worldwide users growing from 4.9 million to 9.4 million by the end of 2006 according to DCIA industry data resource BigChampagne.
Report from CEO Marty Lafferty
 According to Nielsen SoundScan, music CD sales dropped a precipitous 20 percent in the first quarter of 2007 versus the same period in 2006, while un-monetized P2P file-sharing traffic of music tracks and videos continued steadily to increase.
We believe the trend lines of both phenomena are clear. Listeners are accelerating their pace of shunning plastic formats and abandoning record stores in favor of going online for music – where, predictably, they are seeking the greatest convenience and value.
Open P2P software programs by far deliver the lion’s share of that, while services offering music-industry-sanctioned business models, whether or not they use P2P technologies, represent only a small percentage of online music distribution. Overall sales of all music, both digital and physical, in fact are down 10 percent this year.
Part of this may be explained by the availability of unbundled singles as paid downloads online versus packaged albums as the sole purchase option offline. But the situation is also indicative of a larger phenomenon, which is the general lag in monetization of new digital media traffic versus traditional channels for content distribution.
At the P2P MEDIA SUMMIT NY conference last month, FTI Consulting’s Senior Managing Director Bruce Benson shared a chart depicting just how much "Ad Spending is Out of Whack." For example, the Internet now represents 33% of time spent with media but accounts for just 5% of ad spending, while TV represents 32% of time spent with media, but commands 38% of ad spending.
Given that two-thirds of Internet traffic is P2P and nearly half of that is music, this suggests that there are literally hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of un-captured advertising revenue represented by P2P music traffic.
In the past, when proposals for commercializing open P2P music distribution, rather than trying to criminalize this activity, have been presented to major players in the music industry, their response has been that this was premature.
Until litigation settlements could be reached with leading open P2P software developers and distributors, and the music industry could see the effects of the resultant conversions to authorized services, it was too soon to tell what else might be needed.
But like "whack-a-mole," when open P2P companies have shuttered, their software has gone on working and their applications have enjoyed resurgence as open-source derivatives. And as in "kill-a-dragon-and-get-a-many-headed-hydra," many more open P2Ps now proliferate, but – unlike iTunes – are increasingly interoperable, permitting cross-platform search and discovery.
And it should be intuitively obvious that targeting university students for infringement complaints in a stepped-up campaign to wean them from unauthorized file sharing will not make them want to buy CDs. It may even result in a backlash.
Industry observers have pointed to the prospect of developing business models for generating revenue from ever-expanding open unfiltered P2P usage as among the greatest upside opportunities for the music industry.
Such models can leverage the efficiency of viral P2P distribution to reward rights holders proportionately with the amount of plays their music enjoys; they can comprise a distribution system with one of its premises that more listening means generating more revenue.
They can also help balance the current strategic over-emphasis on enforcement of restrictive transactions – i.e., trying to get people to pay for access to music rather than encouraging them to listen to music.
We respectfully submit that the place to start this transition is with a wholesale conversion of open P2P music-sharing traffic into an advertising-supported medium.
This is in no way to scale back support for standalone P2P ad-supported models like QTRAX, P2P subscription models like iMesh, or P2P paid download models like Roo’s Peer Impact, or various forms of non-P2P online music distribution. Premium offerings should certainly be layered on top of free-to-user content.
Instead this will build on the work that INTENT MediaWorks has pioneered with progressive music companies like Nettwerk Music Group in addressing the open P2P environment.
The fundamental core of this model lies in the formalization of an ad-supported "sampling file" that has the ubiquitous transferability of an MP3 and that, when played in a networked device (or any device that can periodically connect to the Internet), will report its number of plays and refresh its advertising payload.
Music labels should want these sampling files to be distributed as widely as possible, both because rights holders make money with every play and also because they represent direct cross-promotion. As twentieth century radio drove CD sales, P2P sampling files will drive sales of higher-quality ad-free versions with value-added elements like digital liner notes, DVD video content, and user bonus points. Only much more efficiently.
P2P software providers should want to support sampling files because their basic business interests in popularizing respective applications will be aligned with music content owners, consumers, and their own opportunities to generate revenue.
The DCIA would like to offer our services to help drive adoption of INTENT’s solution and similar approaches for monetizing open P2P music traffic with advertising.
From a high-level, there are four questions we need to address: 1) What will the consumer experience be (banner, tile, flash, and other advertising formats for home-page, search window, download player, within-the-file, etc.)? 2) What will be the business obligations for participating P2P client distributors (licensing, integrating ads, tracking, reporting, etc.)? 3) What will be the opportunities for service-and-support companies (ad agencies, DRM providers, payment services, etc.)? 4) What will be the requirements for music rights holders (revenue share terms-and-conditions, streamlined licensing, payment allocations, etc.)?
The time is right to bring this new means for monetizing music mainstream in the digital marketplace. Share wisely, and take care.
CDs Sales Plunge as Music Shift Accelerates
Excerpted from MediaPost Report
In the tech circles, bloggers are shouting "hooray" at the news that CD sales for the first three months of the year declined 20 percent from a year earlier. This latest sign indicates that the seismic shift in the way consumers get music is accelerating. Sadly for the music industry, CD sales still represent 85 percent of all sales, despite the decline. According to the Wall Street Journal, music retailers are already going the way of the dinosaur: approximately 800 retail stores closed nationwide last year.
Even worse for music executives is the fact that the rate of decline is faster than the growth of digital downloads, which were supposed to save the music biz. The difference as we all know is being made up by copyright infringement, which can take various forms on the web. According to DCIA industry data resource BigChampagne, on average more than 1 billion unlicensed songs were traded monthly across file-sharing networks last year.
Universities Get Miffed with RIAA
Excerpted from the Inquirer Report by Nick Farrell
There are growing signs that US Universities are getting fed up with Recording Industry Association (RIAA) demands that they sort out copyright infringement on campus.
The RIAA has been running a high-profile campaign to get college students that it thinks have been involved in unauthorized file trading to settle lawsuits against them at a "discount."
The plan depends on the RIAA getting the Universities to identify and turn over the names of offending students so that they can send them the threatening letters.
However it seems that two universities are telling the RIAA to go forth and multiply.
The University of Wisconsin has told the RIAA that it has no obligation to give up its students unless it is ordered to by a judge.
The University of Nebraska has told the RIAA that it can’t help them at all because it changes computers’ IP addresses each time they are turned on. It says it only keeps this information for a month. After that month, the school has no way of associating an IP address with a computer or its user.
This last excuse has the RIAA fuming because it believes the University should keep its records longer. Of course the University does not have to keep records just to satisfy the needs of the RIAA, and just to indicate how cross they are that the record companies are about bothering them, they have sent them a bill for wasting its IT department’s time.
LimeWire Legal Battle Could Get Ugly
Excerpted from Digital Music News Report
The RIAA has hammered a string of file-sharing companies over the past eighteen months, and in each case, the group has extracted million-dollar settlements and a number of favorable concessions. The list of the conquered includes BearShare, Kazaa, Grokster, and eDonkey, once-proud destinations that are now shadows of their former selves.
The tirade has been incredibly effective, and backed by a favorable Supreme Court ruling in MGM v. Grokster. But standing above the wreckage is LimeWire, a fan favorite that continues to gain steam.
According to February application installation figures recently published by the Digital Music News Research Group, a whopping 18.3 percent of computer desktops worldwide contain the application, a number that easily eclipses its nearest rivals.
In a recent focus group panel at Music 2.0 in Los Angeles, John and Jane Does repeatedly expressed a heavy preference for the application, an unsurprising result that reaffirms the monitoring data.
So, if the application is so powerful, why has it taken the RIAA so long to sue parent company Lime Group, LLC? After all, the company first received a cease-and-desist letter from the RIAA in September, 2005, a distant memory in technology timetables.
In a discussion this week, the RIAA pointed Digital Music News to a protracted legal process, one that the group only has a certain level of control over. "They respond. We respond. They respond, etc. Then discovery. These things take a long time," said RIAA representative Jonathan Lamy during the Tuesday discussion.
That certainly sounds familiar to barristers everywhere, though more information suggests that the RIAA could be facing a more difficult legal challenge than most think.According to one insider, Lime Group chief executive Mark Gorton has been preparing for a fight for years, and a more secure defense could emerge.
One source close to the organization also noted that there were "no internal e-mails" and "no paper trail" indicating that the group knowingly encouraged copyright infringement, a critical component of the inducement test for the courts.
Meanwhile, earlier efforts by LimeWire to structure an amicable, licensed P2P system with major labels now appear dead, thanks to relative disinterest on both sides of the table.
Unintended Consequences of Unauthorized P2P
Excerpted from PC Magazine Report by John Dvorak
Some stories hitting the blogs recently seem to indicate that, as an unintended consequence of BitTorrent and other P2P systems, the business of organized piracy has been seriously hurt.
Let me outline the architecture and strategy that the music industry could deploy today. It would cost less than the horrible current strategy of lawsuits and futile threats.
First of all, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the RIAA have to let the online file sharing go nuts. Cut it loose. Let all the users do what they want. You won’t know the extent of the problem unless you let it surface and go crazy, just as happened with Napster years ago when millions of people were trading music on the system.
Let the rampant online file-sharing world impact and ruin the organized pirates who sell CDs, DVDs, and other purloined-content items. It should make their profitability fall enough that they will all disappear. Let’s face it: they are already working on a thin margin. A high-quality counterfeit DVD typically sells for $2 in Indonesia. This has to include pressing, smuggling, distribution, markup, and payoffs. How much profit can there be? They obviously make most of their money from sheer volume. Any impact on that volume, and these folks will be looking for better things to do.
The unintended consequences of unauthorized file sharing are thus witnessed.
Now this is the hard part, because while the hard pirates might be eliminated, the file sharers will be going nuts. This is the time for the industry to study the actual impact, since file swapping will be out of control. If it turns out that unauthorized P2P results in increased sales — as was the case during the Napster era — then you just let the situation continue unabated. At least you’ll know whether or not the Napster thing was just a fluke. If sales continue to decline and the movie industry, too, can see an impact, then you’ll know that file trading is bad for business, and now you can actually prove it. Until now, the industry’s complaints have been hot air.
I actually believe that allowing open file sharing to take place will indeed increase sales, and that people still like owning the real thing. Most file sharing is done in an effort to find out what is out there to buy. Radio stations used to provide this service, but they no longer do. But for the sake of argument, let’s say that the RIAA and the MPAA can show that this trading actually does hurt business. They could continue the process thus:
Let file trading do a market-share climax. Typically, if given a chance, a market will emerge, whereby one or two file-sharing systems will become dominant. It’s almost impossible for this not to happen. So you let it happen and let the dominant players emerge while the others just die.
You co-opt the leaders. You buy into the companies, or simply buy the companies. You can do this with all sorts of rationales. You can say that this is the future of the business and you need to be part of the action. Or you just form an investment consortium consisting of all the major players and the RIAA and MPAA, then start buying them out one after another until you own them all. Let’s face it: these people will sell.
Consolidate as many services as you can until you have one great program that everyone uses. Get patents. At this point, if any better providers crop up, you buy them out immediately or sue them if you have to.
Here is the point where you can fork this process into many variants now that the control is all yours. 1) You can evolve the mega site into an e-commerce site. This is the absolute best idea. 2) You can simply shut the site down and let the users scatter — although they will probably begin to build up again slowly. 3) You can pollute the site with lousy copies of everything. 4) You can choke the bandwidth. 5) You can create a database of users whom you can scare with cease-and-desist orders.
Something like this would put the music execs and copyright owners back in control and perhaps eliminate worldwide piracy altogether. But would anything like this actually happen? Not a chance.
CacheLogic Names Tony Illsley Chairman
CacheLogic, a global provider of online content delivery services, has appointed Tony Illsley as Chairman.
Mr. Illsley brings a wealth of top-level management experience of technology companies. He currently holds non-executive directorships with GCap Media, the UK’s largest independent radio company, Plastic Logic, a leading developer of plastic electronics technology, and AggregatorTV, which provides video-on-demand (VOD) services.
As Chief Executive of Telewest from 1998 until it merged with Flextech in 2000, Mr. Illsley managed its transformation from a cable company to a leading provider of broadband products and services.
Tony Illsley’s experience in online technologies is particularly significant. He has previously held non-executive or advisory roles in companies in both the content and broadband network delivery areas.
Mr. Illsley’s career began at Colgate-Palmolive in sales and marketing. He subsequently enjoyed a 14 year career with PepsiCo, holding senior marketing, operational, and CEO roles in the UK, Europe, and Japan going on to become President of Pepsi Cola International in the Asia Pacific region and President of Walkers Snack Foods.
"I am excited to be joining CacheLogic at a time when it is at the forefront of a rapidly-expanding industry," said Mr. Illsley. "CacheLogic is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the tremendous growth potential of online content delivery activity around the world."
Pat Chapman-Pincher, CacheLogic’s CEO, said, "Tony’s considerable media technology management experience and his long association with commercial success will be of tremendous value to us as our business continues to grow. I am delighted to welcome him as Chairman of the CacheLogic Board."
Raketu Debuts LaunchPad Interface
Raketu Communications, the global P2P, Internet communications, information, and entertainment company, introduced its LaunchPad interface, the first to integrate voice over IP (VoIP), IPTV streaming video, VOD, and IM/SMS service, in a single, easy-to-navigate desktop application.
Other Raketu services including podcasting, media player, and news/information feeds will also be accessible via their new LaunchPad interface. In addition, Raketu also introduced the first ever global chat capabilities around P2PTV, allowing thousands of consumers to chat simultaneously in a real-time, dynamic IPTV channel chat room, as they watch the same channel.
"We currently have over a million consumers using our VoIP, IPTV streaming video, and other services globally," said Greg Parker, President of Raketu. "We wanted to give them a single interface where they could access all their VoIP calling, IM/SMS exchanges, and IPTV streaming video viewing in a single application/service, while creating a global chat area where friends, family, and other Raketu service subscribers could have real-time interaction around the streaming video programs they are watching."
Through Raketu’s new LaunchPad interface, users are able to watch IPTV streaming video and VOD content from around the world while interacting with each other through Raketu’s VoIP and other P2P communications services, from a single integrated application.
Raketu uses a unique P2P technology, which allows the highest quality VoIP calling and the highest VoIP call-completion without the security issues associated with supernodes and other traditional VoIP services/P2P technologies. Specifically, Raketu does not use a consumer’s computer for routing the VoIP communications of other users.
Raketu VoIP and IPTV streaming video service runs over any Internet connection. Anyone on the Internet with a Windows PC and a headset can start using Raketu’s VoIP, IPTV streaming video, and other services immediately. Currently, all pre-paid customers of Raketu’s RakOut dial-out VoIP services enjoy free VoIP calling to over 40 countries. All VoIP calls to locations in these countries are free regardless of where the VoIP calls originate.
Raketu offers streaming video IPTV content from Media Global Intertainment (MGI), which includes exclusive content seen on the syndicated hit TV music video program Fearless Music and NamcheTV, a sports/adventure channel from the Czech Republic. Raketu’s VOD content includes pay-for sports, horror, extreme wrestling, Brazilian models, soccer highlights, extreme sports Brazil, medical minutes, and other entertainment.
Raketu’s new LaunchPad interface integrating VoIP, IPTV streaming video, and other services is available for download immediately from www.Raketu.tv and can be used in both Windows and Vista operating environments. Support for Macintosh is planned for the second quarter.
BitTorrent to Launch TV Service with Joost
Excerpted from Marketing Week Report
BitTorrent, the P2P Internet company, is looking to join Joost, the P2PTV service, in launching an ad-supported TV program service.
The US company already provides a pay Internet service where users can download movies, TV shows, and music videos.
Eric Patterson, BitTorrent Vice President and Consumer Services General Manager, said, "We see moving to an advertising-supported model at the end of the year so people can consume TV shows in the same way they consume programs on television."
One-third of all P2P traffic on the internet is downloaded from BitTorrent, and the company last month launched the BitTorrent Entertainment Network. The Network has rights to more than 3,000 films, 1,000 games, and 1,000 music videos; and has signed deals with Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., MGM, and Lionsgate.
The company is also planning to add a digital-rights-management-free music download service.
Joost recently signed a deal with Viacom that will see the US media giant provide the company with hundreds of TV shows.
Joost Scores a Dance Partner
Excerpted from CNET News Report by Caroline McCarthy
Sure, the Internet is abuzz with news about the "YouTube killer" that several major media companies just announced, but let’s not forget that other supposed YouTube killer, Joost.
The broadband P2PTV start-up from the founders of Skype and Kazaa, which announced a major content partnership with Viacom last month, has a new deal that’s sure to excite the party animal and nightclubbing crowd.
Joost, which is still in private beta, announced Friday that it’s partnering with dance music hub Ministry of Sound’s broadband video division, Ministry of Sound TV (MoSTV).
When Joost launches to the public, it’ll feature two branded MoSTV channels with dance music and lifestyle programming from all over the world. One of the two will feature exclusively music videos – take that, MTV.
Now that Joost will be offering a channel devoted to dance music videos, maybe it’ll gain popularity in a new sector as a tech-savvy party tool that you can play in the background of your next soiree. Who knows?
BitTorrent Client Available for Killer NIC
Bigfoot Networks, a research and development company, has introduced FN Torrent, a hardware offloaded P2P file-sharing application that allows users to download files with zero impact on CPU utilization. With FN Torrent, gamers have the power to download the torrents they want without impacting their online game play.
"The introduction of FN Torrent allows gamers to benefit from the full potential of the Killer’s Flexible Network Architecture (FNA)," said Harlan Beverly, CEO & Co-Founder of Bigfoot Networks. "While the Killer Network Interface Card (NIC) makes online gaming faster and smoother, the FN Torrent enables a whole new experience for gamers who want the freedom to download unlimited files from the Internet without slowing down the other things they want to do on their PC."
The FN Torrent is an easy to use Windows-based application that coordinates the Torrent downloader built into the Killer NIC. The user simply clicks on the torrent they want to download, and Killer does all the processing and downloading work of getting the specific file. FN Torrent adds to the growing list of programs built using Killer’s FNA Technology, an open source development environment.
Last November, Bigfoot announced FN Firewall, also developed using FNA Technology, which allows gamers to turn off their CPU burdening firewall and continue gaming with security and optimal performance.
FNApps are designed to allow users to run an application with minimal or reduced impact on the main system’s CPU, memory subsystem, caching and hard-disk. The possibilities of FNApps are limitless and can be anything from simple packet monitoring utilities, to full-blown VoIP programs and mini-game or chat servers. FNA can be used by developers or inspired gamers to write their own Linux-based applications and utilities that can further reduce the CPU utilization of the system.
Koffeeware Unveils Mobile Preview
KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing links pictures from its distributed P2P network down to the mobile phone.
KoffeeWare this week unveiled a preview version of its KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing. KoffeePhoto allows users to access and share photo albums on their mobile phone. Storage is free and unlimited thanks to KoffeePhoto’s unique private distributed storage technology.
Photo albums are available anytime anywhere. Pictures can be viewed interactively or using full-screen streamed slide-shows. The size of the screen is automatically detected in order to maximize the display and optimize the file download.
"We believe it is now the perfect time for such kind of applications as the combination of 3G/3G+ phones capable of high wireless data throughput and QVGA displays makes running photo sharing applications on mobile phones a reality," explained Carl Conrad, Marketing Manager of KoffeeWare.
"In early development stages of KoffeePhoto photo sharing in 2005, a mobile phone based client was already an obvious milestone on our product development roadmap. While the application runs well with a GPRS/EDGE connection, 3G(UMTS)/3G+(HSDPA) or WiFi connection are recommended for an optimal user experience." added Gilles Pommereuil, CTO of KoffeeWare.
The functions currently implemented allow users to browse photo albums.
Available as a J2ME application (a small Java mobile application), KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing can be easily installed on a wide variety of mobile phones and converging PDAs.
Time Saving P2P Calendar Tool Launched
Excerpted from PC Advisor Report by Juan Carloz Perez
Tungle is releasing a beta version of a plug-in application designed to let users create a P2P network of people for the sole purpose of simplifying the process of scheduling meetings.
Tungle, which plugs into calendar applications, allows users to view blocks of time their contacts are free in order to schedule meetings. That can help cut down on the back-and-forth that often happens when people try to coordinate meetings.
Currently, Tungle supports only Microsoft’s Outlook 2003, but it will work with all Outlook versions by the end of April and with Google’s Google Calendar in June. Support for IBM’s Notes will come later, said Marc Gingras, Tungle’s CEO.
Because Tungle is a PC application, Gingras foresees its adoption will be from the ground up, as opposed to prompted by IT departments. Also, initial users are likely to be individuals in small businesses, who usually lack the budgeted monies to purchase groupware servers, he said.
The company expects Tungle’s growth to be viral, given that people will encourage whoever they need to coordinate their schedules with to download it: family members, friends, co-workers, clients and the like.
As a P2P network, Tungle doesn’t store information on a central server. All data exchanges are encrypted.
Those interested in Tungle need to sign up for the beta program at the company’s website.
Value in Content Deals for ISPs
Excerpted from Marketwatch Report
Will content distribution be a bigger business than media or hardware? Where market capitalization is the measure, content will always be king – just look at Google’s $140 billion valuation versus ISPs. They "risk becoming dumb pipes, unless they offer something exclusive or compelling."
Does that mean they should seek out partnerships with YouTube and MySpace? Time Warner Cable’s Mike Roudi, Vice President of Wireless, doesn’t think so. These marketing deals aren’t game changers, network upgrades are.
Meanwhile, voice, television, Internet and wireless services providers face subscriber defection unless they agree to offer competitors’ services. As a result, media distribution has seen some unlikely alliances, such as Time Warner Cable and Sprint Nextel, competitors in the VoIP and ISP businesses.
Almost all distributors these days offer triple-play bundles: voice, ISP, and TV service. Quadruple-play, usually the result of an alliance, is the addition of mobile wireless as a fourth service. Here you can expect to see more consolidation, as consumers demand that media distribution becomes more centralized. Please click here for more.
Coming Events of Interest
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National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) – April 16th–19th in Las Vegas, NV. Whether you’re making the transition to HD; looking to invest in new technologies like P2PTV; seeking new tools to create content and build revenue streams; or just trying to stay ahead of the competition, NAB 2007 is your essential destination. The DCIA is participating in the NAB Content Incubator.
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MUSEXPO – An unprecedented group of global entertainment executives will congregate in West Hollywood, CA April 29th - May 2nd for A&R WORLDWIDE’s international music and media forum. Designated "a united nations of the music industry," top tier music, media and technology global executives unite to participate in a series of timely industry forums kicked-off by a round-table keynote event moderated by Emmy Award-winning CNN host Larry King.
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Streaming Media East - The Business & Technology of Online Video - May 15th-16th at the Hilton New York, NY. Streaming Media East is the only trade show dedicated to coverage of both the business of video on the net and the technology of streaming, downloading, IPTV and mobile video delivery. The DCIA is a show sponsor, and DCIA Member BUYDRM’s Christopher Levy will speak on the P2P for Large Scale Video Delivery panel.
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P2P MEDIA SUMMIT LA – June 11th in Santa Monica, CA. This is the DCIA’s must-attend event for everyone interested in P2P. Keynotes, panels, and workshops on the latest breakthroughs. Held in conjunction with the new Digital Hollywood Spring conference and exposition.
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International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) – September 6th-11th in Amsterdam, Holland. IBC is committed to providing the world’s best event for everyone involved in the creation, management, and delivery of content for the entertainment industry, including DCIA Members. Run by the industry for the industry, convention organizers are drawn from participating companies.
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PT/EXPO COMM – October 23rd-27th at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing, China. The largest telecommunications/IT industry event in the world’s fastest growing telecom sector. PT/EXPO COMM offers DCIA participants from all over the world a high profile promotional platform in a sales environment that is rich in capital investment.
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