Mipcom

@ Mipcom: Broadband Content Bits: Joost To Do Live TV; Other Distributors Scale Up - 3 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 09 Oct 2007 10:56 AM PST

Joost plans to begin testing add test live TV shows alongside its on-demand content in the first quarter of 2008. In an interview with paidContent:UK, content strategy and acquisition EVP…

@ Mipcom: CBS Sees TV Communities In Last.fm; High-Level Talks This Week - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 08 Oct 2007 11:35 AM PST

[by PCUK editor Robert Andrews, in Cannes] CBS (NYSE: CBS) president Leslie Moonves will visit Last.fm in London this week - and is likely to emerge having developed plans to…

Next Week: Coverage from Mipcom Conference, Cannes - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 05 Oct 2007 11:10 AM PST

[By Robert Andrews, UK Editor] So it’s back to the south of France. Mipcom may have been conceived to help TV producers sell shows to broadcasters but, in this day…

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From Mipcom: Interview: Mark Selby, VP-Multimedia, Nokia - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Wed 18 Oct 2006 06:12 PM PST

I had a quick chat with Mark Selby outside the conference and asked him about the infamous GooTube deal, or whatever we’re calling it now. Selby is VP of multimedia…

@ Mipcom: Interview - Martin Blakstad, Head of New Media, Granada International - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Tue 17 Oct 2006 03:12 PM PST

The end of Mipcom is in sight! My last interview was with Martin Blakstad, formerly of Sony Music, Columbia Tristar and Altavista amongst others and now heading up new media…

@ Mipcom: Cashing In On Those 15 Terabytes Of UGC Fame - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Mon 16 Oct 2006 10:12 PM PST

This was the session I’d been waiting for. Great line up, great title - “Unleashing Mass Creativity.” It wasn’t so much unleashing mass creativity as monetizing it, perhaps inevitably. Heavy’s…

@ Mipcom: What’s Coming - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Thu 12 Oct 2006 05:12 AM PST

I’ve been flat out meeting people, listening to things and writing stuff and there’s loads more to come. For those of you that haven’t been to Mipcom, it is vast:…

@ Mipcom: Mobile TV Awards - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Thu 12 Oct 2006 04:12 AM PST

The UK did pretty well in the mobile TV awards last night scoring two of six awards, which is pretty impressive considering the range of countries represented. 3 won best…

MIPCOM: Parsons Likes Google-YouTube Deal; European Acqusitions Possible - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 Oct 2006 09:12 PM PST

This one comes from a friendly camp, so you know how to take it: “A tip of the hat to those guys,” said Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons at Mipcom…

@ Mipcom: Voice Of The Handsets - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Wed 11 Oct 2006 06:12 PM PST

Nokia multimedia VP Mark Selby knows how to command the attention of an audience. I’m not sure I’d agree with him though that the mobile industry has always been about…

@ Mipcom: The iPod Curse - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Wed 11 Oct 2006 07:12 AM PST

I love Apple, but my iTalk/iPod combo just seriously let me down, again, by recording 20 minutes of silence while I interviewed Dan Whilley, CVP of MTV Networks International. It…

@ Mipcom: Tips For Producing Mobile TV Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Wed 11 Oct 2006 07:12 AM PST

Even expert navigation by Yahoo’s Mitch Lazar, VP business development couldn’t steer this session towards any weighty conclusions - or at least any new observations. He launched with an excellent…

@ Mipcom: Interview With The Pirate King - Ashwin Navin Of BitTorrent - 1 Comment
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Wed 11 Oct 2006 04:12 AM PST

[By Jemima Kiss] OK, so I’m being a bit dramatic but the sea air is getting to me. BitTorrent (BitTorrent.com) - the home of illegal movie downloading - is going…

@ Mipcom: Todd Wagner: “Hollywood Isn’t Going Anywhere” - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Tue 10 Oct 2006 10:12 AM PST

”Serial entrepreneur” Todd Wagner speaks with the kind of authority you’d expect from someone that made a lot of money by doing pretty innovative stuff early on. None of what…

@ Mipcom: Pics - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Tue 10 Oct 2006 08:12 AM PST

All credit to my Sony Ericsson W800i, though it doesn’t quite do Cannes justice. My Flickr stream is up, tagged mipcom2006.

@ Mipcom: Festival Of The Pirates - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Tue 10 Oct 2006 07:13 AM PST

This was an absolutely cracking session with a really polarised panel - specifically Rick Sands, COO of MGM, leaning way back in his seat away from Bit Torrent co-founder and…

@ Mipcom: Centers Of UGC Gravity - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Mon 09 Oct 2006 11:12 PM PST

This is my first Mipcom and the sheer scale of the place is daunting. It is absolutely rammed. The strapline as the world’s audiovisual content market really does mean it…

@ Mipcom: Piracy Is A Business Model, Says Disney Co-Chair Anne Sweeney - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Mon 09 Oct 2006 11:12 PM PST

So this is the first day’s keynote by Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group. Ultra-slick corporate stuff, but some good next-step observations about…

Coming Next Week: Extensive Coverage From Mipcom - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Oct 2006 09:12 PM PST

Coming next week from Cannes, France: extensive coverage of Mipcom, one of the biggest TV and broadcasting conferences in the world. We are the official blog out of there, and…

Index Launches U.S. New Media Rights Fund - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 20 Oct 2005 09:12 PM PST

Index Corp, the big Japanese mobile content provider, has tied up with fellow-Japanese media rights firm Sojitz to launch a $2.2 million New York City-based fund to obtain and exploit…

Less Deals At Trade Shows As TV Business Goes Year-Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Thu 20 Oct 2005 02:12 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] [Hollywood Reporter] Gradually, less deals are being made at MIPCOM, and media trade shows generally, as the global content market turns into a year-round business.…

@ MIPCOM: News Wire - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 18 Oct 2005 08:12 PM PST

Stories from other sources, besides our own dedicated blog: -- Rainbow, Singapore’s Media Development Authority in $20mn deal: Rainbow HD Holdings, Mega Media and the Media Development Authority of Singapore…

@ MIPCOM: Some Pics on Flickr - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 18 Oct 2005 08:11 PM PST

Some pics from the Mipcom conference happening in Cannes this week. Our London-based journalist Mike Butcher has been covering it in our dedicated blog here.

@ MIPCOM: AOL Emerging As Strong Contender In Kids Programming - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 18 Oct 2005 01:12 PM PST

AOL’s children’s TV channels are proving to be big hits with youngsters, says the story...about 3.5 million children watch AOL’s two children’s channels every month. AOL’s monthly audience rate is…

Blogs And Podcast To Provide Stars Of The Future - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 10:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] We have some video of a session panel recorded today at MIPCOM. Unfortunately the sound is rather low (we’ll sort out the problem in future…