I attended Streaming Media East yesterday for the third year and it was the best attended show yet. Standout companies Akamai and Feedroom were there and Keynotes from Beth Lewand of Comedy Central and Jeremy Allaire of Brightcove got the conference off to a great start.
In the afternoon I attended the Broadband Video Advertising: Ad Agency Buyers Speak Out session and it was a sham. The most short sited, narrow minded, pig headed panel I have ever been to.
Greg Stuart of the IAB was the moderator and the panelists were Louis Jones of Media Contacts, Mitch Oscar of Caret Digital and Amanda Richman of MediaVest. They only discussed television, as far as they were concerned the Internet is there only to bring people to television shows. Finally I raised my hand and asked them what are you doing here?
18 - 34 year old males have abandoned TV, the Internet is swallowing television!
They never answered my question and the smirk I got from Mitch Oscar indicated to me that he knew something that I didn't, he must be getting backhanders from the TV shows he buys....
A streaming video of Streaming Media East will be up on the Web soon...the Internet revolution will not be televised.