nextMEDIA 2006 Event Highlights

Opening Keynote address by Stewart Butterfield of Yahoo! and the founder of Flickr. Butterfield's speech, "Content, Community and the Bottom Line" will explore how social networking tools and virtual communities can be used to leverage, monetize and contribute to existing and original content properties.

nextMEDIA will present a series of exciting panels, moderated by innovative industry representatives. Some topics include:

  • Social Networking and the value of connecting with your community. Find out how to connect with your audience through the new forms of digital distribution and how to grow your brand by better serving your community group
  • With The Audience You Don't Know, mavericks from the most active niche communities will provide the inside track on the audiences currently digesting multi-platform digital content and what kind of content they are consuming.
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised will help us to understand the characteristics of the main advanced distribution platforms - including IPTV, VOD, PVR, Mobile, Broadband and Video Podcasting - and how to leverage them to complement and monetize existing and future content
  • International industry leaders will discuss A Global Approach to a Mobile Phenomenon and will tell us which content models are working around the world.
  • There's a High-Speed Market Out There Just Waiting To Be Monetized will show us how broadcasters and independent content producers are using internet streaming to monetize existing content properties, create original ones and complement television broadcasts

Interactive Exchange Sessions provide one-on-one pre-scheduled meetings for delegates to meet with international industry leaders looking to expand their content property into interactive platforms.

Digital Delivery Briefings are an international forum for prominent multi-platform content aggregators to outline program specifics for content commissioning and licensing

Licensed to Thrill is a workshop that will present vital information on licensing your content over advanced media platforms.