2006 Digital Media Conference

Mike May: Act Like A Publisher, Think Like An Agency

robert — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:15:43 -0500

Mike May, a moderator at last week’s Digital Media Conference, writes about a new style of online ad campaign mentioned by Shervin Pishevar, president & COO of Freewebs during the State of Online Advertising panel.

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Digital Media Conference Photos

robert — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:27:32 -0500

Here are more photos from the conference. Please excuse the formatting glitches in the thumbnail view. Enjoy!

Conference Photos (Thumbnail)
Conference Photos (by Name)

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Gary Arlen: Handicapping the Net Neutrality Vote

robert — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:12:48 -0500

Gary Arlen, a moderator at last week’s Digital Media Conference, provides his take-aways on the event, including Net Neutrality. Here is a choice extract: “While the policy sessions generated passionate arguments, the conference’s content and business panels underscored the revitalization of the interactive business itself.”

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Rohit Bhargava: Why Marketing to Millennials is not Impossible

robert — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:49:33 -0500

Here are Rohit Bhargava's reflections on the Millennials panel he participated on at last week's Digital Media Conference. A key point he makes is that this generation is not adverse to marketing, as some assume, but in fact they regularly seek relevant marketing information, that is not interrupting.

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DMC2006 Photos

todd_beals — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:55:58 -0500

Here's a LINK to a few photos from yesterday's event. Feel free to do with them as you wish with proper attribution...

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XM Chief: "Paranoia" Driving Industry Objections to New Technology

Mark Hefflinger — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:01:29 -0500

McLean, Va. - Hugh Panero, the president and CEO of XM Satellite Radio, told a crowd at Friday's Digital Media Conference, hosted by Digital Media Wire in McLean, Va., that his company's current battle with the recording industry over new radio features that allow subscribers to digitally store and replay content are unfounded.

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DMC2006: Panel 4 - Mobility Is The Message

todd_beals — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:15:19 -0500

[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]

Paul Towler: Mobile is an incredibly flexible distribution mechanism, but one of the key challenges that all the MVNOs have is that they don’t own their own infrastructure, so they’re forced to live at the whim of the mother network. To that degree on the data side, they’re not in full control. The key attributes of a successful MVNO (Virgin Mobile comes to mind) is that they capitalize on their marketing ability instead of their segmentation capabilities. Being consumer-oriented can also carry over to this space…

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DMC2006: Keynote #3 – Michael Kelly, President, AOL Media Networks

todd_beals — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:50:53 -0500

[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]

The market has enjoyed 3 plus years of quarter over quarter growth in online advertising, which is big and it's getting even bigger... and becoming a huge part of our business at AOL. Keeping up with the demand is a challenge. The 4 big players (Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN) control 50% of the advertising dollars. Each of these players enjoy over a 100M visitors a month. The spending gap between the 4 major portals and the non-portals is huge (i.e. a billion compared to 400k)

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DMC2006: Panel 3 - Television - The Future Is Now

todd_beals — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:58:56 -0500

[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]

Larry Gerbrandt: The digital genie has been let out of the lamp. Case in point: Google has recently surpassed 44 million streams a day…From a macro-perspective, we’re looking at 110 million households here in the U.S…User-generated content is clearly the hottest ticket of the day, but just how big of a game changer is it? The bottom line of this panel is “to follow the eyeballs….”

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DMC2006: Panel 2 – Music Matters

todd_beals — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:56:00 -0500

[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]

Aydin Caginalp: The Industry Perspective - The sale of music downloads (online/mobile) has doubled in the last year and has helped to offset the 7% drop in physical CD sales. Most iPods contain files which are 66% ripped from CD’s and most are only half-filled. The empowerment of the internet is the empowerment of the artist.

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DMC2006: Panel 1 – The Battle For The Digital Consumer

todd_beals — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:51:50 -0500

[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]

Ok, I missed the first part of this panel saying “HI” to a few people on the break, but here’s what I heard during the second half…In general, the consumer now has complete control over their television viewing habits and the advertisers need to respect that. The 1980-2000 generation is not really watching tv screens and is much more interested in dealing with content that they’ve generated and in sharing it thereby building community.

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DMC2006: Keynote #1 - Dawn McCall, President, Discovery Networks Intl.

todd_beals — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:18:24 -0500

[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]

DNI programs content for 704 million subscribers outside of the U.S. and it operates the largest international footprint in the industry. (i.e., consists of 17 brands, multiple continents, 100 unique feeds, 35 languages, 1000 employees in 24 offices throughout the world.)

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WSJ: Google Begins Streaming Commercial Videos for Free

robert — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:24:59 -0500

The WSJ reports that Google began streaming commercial videos, including movies and TV shows, for free on the Web as part of a trial of advertising support for its video offerings, yesterday. Free videos can be viewed here: video.google.com. Burger King and Netflix are two of the sponsors underwriting this experiment. And yes, I do find it to be ironic that Netflix is helping Google to condition consumers to expect even more for free in the digital world (though I recognize that Charlie Chaplin and Mr. Magoo DVD's probably do not make up a large percentage of Netflix's revenue). Daniel Blackman, Strategic Partner Development, for Google Video, will be on the Television panel at 2PM EST at the Digital Media Conference today.

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Who Wins the Title of Cleanest & Safest Search Engine?

robert — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:02:19 -0500

The AP reported today that a Long Island politician has dropped a federal lawsuit that had claimed that Google profits from child pornography, specifically through their paid links. The lawsuit was dropped because Google – who denied the allegations - was willing to discuss the issues raised with the politician in the near future. A related issue and trend is the perception, substantial or not, that search engines are not only having difficulty weeding out unsavory websites from their natural search results, but their paid listings, as well.

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Clickz: Advertising Placements by Industry and Types for May 2006

robert — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:02:57 -0500

Clickz provides May 2006 data from Nielsen//NetRatings in tabular form.

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DCIA Media Summit 2006 Photos

todd_beals — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:22:23 -0500

Here's a LINK to a few photos from today's DCIA event. They are unedited and a little dark, but still give you the vibe...See you all tomorrow at the Digital Media Conference!

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DCIA's INAUGURAL P2P MEDIA SUMMIT

todd_beals — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:09:03 -0500

Today, the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) held its inaugural P2P Media Summit which consisted of 7 panels and 5 keynotes by some very distinguished guests. Several awards were given out with the Pioneer Award going to MetaMachine (eDonkey), the Groundbreaker's Award to Arvato Mobile, the Trendsetter's Award to LTDnetwork (developer of Qtrax) and the Innovator's Award went to INTENT MediaWorks. The event was well attended with over 100 guests and I will post some photos soon...

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Conference Updates

Ned Sherman — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:52:23 -0500

Hi everyone,

A few conference updates:
Hilary Rosen (former CEO of the RIAA) joins the Music Matters panel setting up a lively discussion on the future of digital music. Since May 2005 she's been a consultant to companies in the media industry such as XM Radio, Viacom and Snocap. She is also a contributing blogger to the Huffington Post. For her recent blogs, go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen/for-the-record-for-what-_b_22177.html

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new panel:
"Net Neutrality and Net Competition: The Battle for the Internet Pipes"

Speakers include:
Scott Cleland, Founder & President, Precursor, LLC (Chairman, NetCompetition.org)
Christopher Wolf, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP (Co-Chair "Hands off the Internet")
Earl Comstock, President & CEO, COMPTEL
Christopher Putala, EVP, Public Policy, Earthlink
Sarah Lai Stirland, Senior Writer, National Journal's Technology Daily (Moderator)

There are currently 425 attendees registered for the event - looks like this will be a "sold out" event. Final headcount will be announced at tomorrow's event.

We'll keep you posted on updates throughout the day.

Sincerely,
The Co-Chairs

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Fortune: Google Goes to Washington

robert — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:19:18 -0500

An article from Fortune explains the stategy behind Google’s possible bid on upcoming wireless spectrum, and how it relates to the debate on Net Neutrality.

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The Ninja on Net Neutrality

robert — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:09:06 -0500

"That's what the Internet is all about, people in funny hats making things that people like."

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How to Join the Digital Media Conference Group

robert — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:21:33 -0500

Welcome to the official 2006 Digital Media Conference Group Blog! This private online community was created to enable attendees, sponsors, speakers, and partners to connect, communicate, and collaborate before, during, and after the conference.

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Videos Explaining the Two Sides of Net Neutrality

robert — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:53:10 -0500

Here are a few videos mentioned in today's Wall Street Journal piece that covers the grassroots and lobbying efforts of the two sides involved in the Net Neutrality debate.

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Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner

robert — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:28:12 -0500

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Digital Media Conference Website

robert — Mon, 5 Jun 2006 02:33:35 -0500