You know an industry is on a serious growth trajectory when a conference is created to support it. We’ve all seen the numbers; 41% YOY growth in online video views as reported by Nielsen last month, and more than 168 Million U.S. viewers watched online video in September, streaming nearly 26 Billion total views according to ComScore. Online Video Platforms (OVPs) continuing to receive funding, and open source and mobile video trends are making headway, just to name a few catalysts further validating the space.
In just a few short weeks the Online Video Platform Summit will take place in sunny San Jose highlighting the OVPs, and providing them with a much needed platform to demo their services, discuss important trends and topics, and to meet their users. Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen and Larry Kless, co-chairs of OVPSummit, have been working hard to orchestrate a stellar line up of panel topics and panelist. A bevy of industry thought leaders, and executives will address hot topics such as video monetization, ROI, syndication, and video analytics as well as a panel that I will be sitting on entitled, Defining Online Video Platforms with Ron Yekutiel, CEO of Kaltura, Bismarck Lepe, Co-Founder and President of Ooyala, and Alex Castro, CEO of Delve Networks.
As stated by Eric himself regarding the great need for the OVPSummit, “There have never been more people publishing online video, and there have never been more online video platform solutions on the market. But with choices comes confusion, and the new Online Video Platform Summit is a two-day event designed to help organizations of all types, not just those for whom video is their core business”.
The inaugural OVPSummit will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, November 18-19 in conjunction with Streaming Media West at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Be sure to register right away to save $100! If you plan on attending please let me know so we can set up a time to meet (kdrey at vidcompare.com).
See you there!
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