Event Information

nextMEDIA is where the world's leading-edge content creators, aggregators, and most influential solution-providers meet to develop key business relationships. Set amid the spectacular Canadian Rockies at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Banff, Alberta, this event (June 9 - 11, 2006) once again links schedules with The Banff World Television Festival (June 11 - 14) to take advantage of the synergies connecting these two media communities. The theme of nextMEDIA 2006 is Multi-Platform Distribution of Digital Content.

Why attend nextMEDIA 2006?

  • Meet with content aggregators hungry for content to license across advanced digital platforms.
  • Form relationships with key industry stakeholders to gain access to new markets by enabling the digital distribution of your content and content libraries.
  • Gain understanding of how best to leverage new media technologies and digital distribution platforms in content creation and distribution.
  • Find funding sources and partners for projects in a diverse range of media.

Multi-Platform Distribution of Digital Content:

The theme of nextMEDIA 2006 focuses on Digital content that is seamlessly integrated into our lives and distributed across multiple platforms according to each user's schedule and demands.

Discover:

  • How content across a multi-platform universe is currently being produced, funded and distributed.
  • Which are the most effective and lucrative advanced media platforms for delivering content.
  • What kind of content is applicable to these advanced media platforms.
  • How a multi-platform universe affects content creation and distribution.

Community and Content:

nextMEDIA 2006 will examine how new media technologies are facilitating community-building opportunities around content. Google Video, Current TV, Flickr and My Space are banking on social networking tools, virtual communities and broadband distribution of content to create entirely new models around content aggregation and content distribution.

Find Out:

  • How creating a community around your content will lead to increased revenue.
  • What the most active content communities are and why they are working so well.
  • About the most effective content-building applications.
  • The difference between community building and marketing your content - and why this is a vital distinction.

The Evolving Role of the Producer:

What does creating content for multiple distribution platforms mean for the role of the producer,and for the structure of traditional and non-traditional media organizations?

Learn:

  • What new roles and skill sets producers will need to be successful in the advanced digital platform media landscape.
  • How traditional media companies are changing to facilitate experimentation in the digital realm.
  • What content producers and distributors look out for when signing licensing agreements across advanced digital media platforms.