Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Thursday, November 1st 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Track II: Video Aggregators - Next Gen Broadband, UGM and Mobile Entertainment, Social Networking and Personal Communication This session is about personal video. While video on TV will never lose it’s popularity, great comedies and dramas will be with us forever, the phenomenon of the personal video, from truly amateur videos to the highly produced personal videos that are the overnight national sensations, are not only important, they are impacting the national social and political conversation. In this session, we will bring together executives from companies that make these video streams and downloads available via the web and mobile platforms. How will this segment of the industry develop and what will it mean? This session will help to begin the conversation. David Clarke, VP Business Development, FUSA Capital Dina Kaplan, co-founder, blip.tv Mary Hodder, CEO, Dabble Rachel Sterne, Founder & CEO, GroundReport Max Haot, CEO, Mogulus Paul Kontonis, Chief Executive & co-founder, For Your Imagination Marissa Gluck, Founder and Managing Partner, Radar Research, Moderator Dina Kaplan is the co-founder and COO of blip.tv. Dina oversees business operations for the company, including media partnerships, distribution deals, PR, marketing, site and channel sponsorships and investor relations. Blip.tv is the double Webby-award winning video sharing site focused on shows. It enables independent producers to create their own TV shows for the Internet, from scripted sitcoms and dramas to journalists covering the war in Baghdad. In writing about online video sites, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal recently wrote, “My favorite is blip.tv.” Before blip.tv, Dina was a television reporter with several local NBC affiliates. As a news reporter, Dina won an Emmy and numerous Society of Professional Journalists Awards and Associated Press Awards. Before reporting, Dina produced stories for MTV News about politics, technology and a range of musical acts. She also helped coordinate MTV's political Choose or Lose coverage. After graduating from college, Dina worked at the White House as Director of Research for the White House Counsel's Office and then as Special Assistant to the Director of Presidential Personnel. During college, Dina worked at Rock The Vote, setting up a volunteer network of representatives registering college students to vote. Dina graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics, Government, Philosophy and History. She sits on the National Board of Wesleyan University and is a Founding Board Member of the Women’s Media Center and a member of the Producer’s Guild of America. Dina is a judge for the Webbies and the Interactive Media Awards and sits on the advisory board of the Socrates Society at the Aspen Institute. Dina also started the New York Founders Club, a gathering of Internet founders designed to promote entrepreneurship in New York City. David Clarke, Vice President, Business Development, SearchForVideo: David is responsible for Searchformedia's content acquisition, partnerships & new business initiatives as well as liaising with film, television, new-media companies, content producers and aggregators wishing to build out their online multimedia search strategies. The last 7 years has seen him working with Rocketinfo a leading RSS company providing aggregated news & weblog content search. Previously he has held senior positions with imaging & internet technology companies in the roles of Sales, Brand Management and Business Development. Searchformedia is a leading video search company, powering one of the Internet's most comprehensive video search experiences available through a network of portals including searchforvideo.com. The company's proprietary "learning" technology enables consumers to quickly find premium video content by removing search result links to files that are static, incomplete or broken. Its unique search results are the only type of its kind that direct consumers back to the content owner's website before playing the content, enabling providers and media creators to build their own traffic and better monetize content. The company's proprietary technology has five patents pending and draws upon millions of video clips from more than 10,000 independent sources. The growing popularity of Searchforvideo.com, part of the Searchformedia Network, is driving ever-larger numbers of international users to the online video search, intent on providing the user community with the best possible experience Searchforvideo has enabled Spanish and German users to search and discover video in their native language. Spanish and German language users will now be able to access freely available video links from over 10,000 English, Spanish and German language public video sources for a unified search experience. In addition to the inclusion of Spanish and German language online video sources, the site features a dedicated language channel page for each language that showcases timely video from a selection of popular sources. Content is available from popular mainstream English, Spanish and German video publishers as well as emerging user generated online video sources. Mary Hodder is CEO of Dabble, a recently launched company aiming to be 'the most comprehensive search and social search site on the planet', by helping users organize, search, tag, describe and promote video. An information architect and 'live web' search expert, she has worked with companies in open source, photo sharing and search services. She blogs at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and was an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy). She has a Masters from UC Berkeley's School of Information, researching digital media and information technology, with it's attendant issues of traditional journalism, information architecture, intellectual property, privacy, and online communities. Rachel Sterne is the founder and CEO of GroundReport. GroundReport.com is a dynamic user-generated news portal with democratic revenue sharing. GroundReport recently launched GroundReport.TV, and will produce DarfurLive.TV, a two-week live broadcast from Darfur refugee camps. Prior to founding GroundReport, Rachel worked in Business Development at file sharing company LimeWire and as a political reporter for the US Mission to the United Nations. GroundReport's honors includes awards at the Open Source Meets Business conference, endorsement by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and selection for the Waldzell Institute's 2007 Architects of the Future program. New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. describes GroundReport's mission as "putting yourself out there for the good of democracy." Rachel co-founded the New York Citizen Journalism Meetup and was a contributing blogger for Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.net. Marissa Gluck, Founder and Managing Partner, Radar Research: Marissa Gluck is a writer, speaker and consultant covering the marketing and media industries. Named one of the ten "Thought Leaders of 2000" by Hub Magazine, Gluck has often been quoted in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age and Business Week. Additionally, she has appeared on CNBC, CBS Marketwatch, CNNfn, and NPR. Gluck has spoken at major industry conferences in the United States and Europe including AAAAANA e-business Conference and Trade Show, AD:TECH, and JupiterCannes Lions Global Advertising Forum. She has also addressed several university audiences and professional organizations, including USC's Annenberg School of Communication, NYU's Stern School of Business, and the IAB. Gluck was formerly a senior analyst at Jupiter Research, where she advised clients including Interpublic, Doubleclick, CBS, AOL Time Warner, and WPP on online advertising and marketing. Prior to joining Jupiter, Gluck was the research and emerging technologies specialist at i-traffic, providing strategic analysis and oversight of partnerships for clients such as Eddie Bauer, CDnow and Disney. Before that, she worked in account management at the advertising firm Ammirati Puris Lintas (now Lowe). Gluck earned her bachelor’s from Binghamton University and two master’s degrees in global media and communication from the London School of Economics and the University of Southern California Max Haot, CEO, Mogulus: Based in New York, Max is presently the Founder and CEO at Mogulus (www.mogulus.com). Max is an expert in broadcast technologies and workflow, he previously founded ICF (www.icf.tv) a media asset management platform which was sold to Verizon Business in 2005. He held positions as VP of Digital Media at Verizon Business and Senior Vice President at IMG Interactive. Max is a recognized digital content industry pioneer and is regularly invited to speak and contribute at industry events/forums for the broadcast, broadband and mobile industry. Paul Kontonis, Chief Executive and a co-founder of For Your Imagination. As an interactive media veteran, Paul helps build brandcasts and marketing campaigns that reach out and engage an audience. Paul was the General Manager of Educational Marketing and Corporate Sales for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, the leading test preparation provider. Prior to joing Kaplan, Paul was the Chief Marketing Officer of btldesign, a 25-year-old marketing communications agency, specializing in business-to-business marketing communications for Fortune 100 global brands like MasterCard, Samsung, Pfizer, Major League Baseball and the FIFA World Cup. Paul's interactive experience began as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at SenseNet, a Web application development agency, and as the Director of Business Development for Silver Shock, a boutique interactive agency. He appears in a number of marketing publications, digital media books including the Documentary Filmmakers Handbook, and is a speaker at several industry conferences and seminars annually.