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A reminder that early bird discounts will end next Fri, Feb. 20th for VideoNuze's next event, the Broadband Video Leadership Evening on Tuesday, March 17th in New York City. If you're trying to make sense of the noise and excitement of the rapidly-evolving video landscape, this event is a must-attend. But why pay full fare - register today to get the early bird discount!

The evening will start with a "VideoSchmooze" cocktail/networking reception from 6pm - 7:30pm, followed by a panel discussion I'll moderate from 7:30pm - 9pm titled, "Broadband Video '09: Building the Road to Profitability." We have panel of top-tier digital media executives including:

• Albert Cheng, EVP, Digital Media, Disney/ABC Television Group
• Greg Clayman, EVP, Digital Distribution & Business Development, MTV Networks
• Karin Gilford, SVP, Fancast and Online Entertainment, Comcast Interactive Media
• Curt Hecht, President, VivaKi (Publicis Groupe)
• Tom Morgan, Chief Strategy Officer, Move Networks

Click here to learn more and register for the early bird discount

All of these companies are industry leaders, pushing the edge of the broadband envelope. Among their recent initiatives, ABC just released consumer research about ad frequency in its player, VivaKi has launched "The Pool" with high-profile brands and content providers to improve video standards and Move just powered a live pre-telecast of the Grammy awards.

I've set up a Facebook group so you can start meeting other attendees and also keep up to date on all the recent broadband news we'll discuss on the panel. Friend me on Facebook and you can join!

Note this event is on the evening before the start of the McGraw-Hill Media Summit in NYC; if you're coming in for that, plan accordingly to join us as well!

Click here to learn more and register for the early bird discount

A reminder that early bird discounts are available for another 2 weeks for VideoNuze's next event, the Broadband Video Leadership Evening on Tuesday, March 17th in New York City. The evening will start with a "VideoSchmooze" cocktail/networking reception from 6pm - 7:30pm, followed by a panel discussion I'll moderate from 7:30pm - 9pm titled, "Broadband Video '09: Building the Road to Profitability." We have an all-star panel including:

• Albert Cheng, EVP, Digital Media, Disney/ABC Television Group
• Greg Clayman, EVP, Digital Distribution & Business Development, MTV Networks
• Karin Gilford, SVP, Fancast and Online Entertainment, Comcast Interactive Media
• Curt Hecht, President, VivaKi (Publicis Groupe)
• Tom Morgan, Chief Strategy Officer, Move Networks

Click here to learn more and register for the early bird discount

The event will be held at the Hudson Theater, a beautifully-renovated venue on West 44th Street just off Times Square. I'm pleased to have NATPE, VideoNuze's partner since launch, on board for the event. And I'm extremely grateful to lead sponsor Move Networks and supporting sponsors ExtendMedia, mPoint and PermissionTV who are making the evening possible. Note, additional sponsorship opportunities are still available, contact me to learn more.

I've set up a Facebook group so you can start meeting other attendees and also keep up to date on all the recent broadband news we'll discuss on the panel. Friend me on Facebook and you can join!

Note this event is on the evening before the start of the McGraw-Hill Media Summit in NYC; if you're coming in for that, plan accordingly to join us as well!

Click here to learn more and register for the early bird discount

As just one metric of the busy summer of '08, approximately 600 broadband-related news items have been posted to VideoNuze since Memorial Day. Each of these items (available here fyi) is tied to a specific product announcement, partnership deal, financing, content initiative or other industry activity. And these 600 are just from the finite number of relevant publications from which VideoNuze aggregates its industry news. There was no doubt more news as well.

In addition, VideoNuze's contributors and I have made almost 100 original analyses/posts on the industry's key trends, products/technologies and research data during this busy summer. Demonstrating the sheer breadth of broadband video's growing influence, consider examples of just a handful of this summer's posts:

• Growth/challenges of pre-roll advertising
• Trends around short vs. long-form video programming
• Broadband ISPs' ongoing struggle to maintain their networks' viability
• Push by aggregators to differentiate themselves and gain market share
• Launch of a fashion magazine's original video series
• How a law firm is using video as a recruitment tool

VideoNuze remains laser-focused on broadband video as a unifying theme of all our analyses and posts. My world view - as most of you are no doubt painfully aware of by now - is that we are in the early stages of a relentless and inevitable shift to an open, broadband-centric era of video delivery, characterized by massive creativity and innovation, fierce competition and unprecedented consumer value.

As we say goodbye to a busy summer, I'm preparing to say hello to an even busier fall. Industry participants have a full plate of product announcements and partnerships pending and I expect the pace of activity will only quicken. VideoNuze will be there to separate the wheat from the chafe, helping all of you better understand what the flurry of news and data should mean to you.

Importantly, this fall also brings an exciting expansion of VideoNuze's mission, as we begin a push into focused, high-impact events. This is a natural progression of VideoNuze's overall value proposition and one which I've been eager to pursue for a while now.

Kicking things off will be our inaugural VideoSchmooze, a first-of-its kind industry networking event to be held on Tues, Sept. 9th in Boston. There are already 200+ people registered, representing virtually every VC firm in the area, all video-focused startups and established companies and loads of entrepreneurs and others tied to the industry. Space is still available for this free event and registration is here.

Then on November 10th I will moderate VideoNuze's first Broadband Video Leadership Breakfast on the first full day of the annual CTAM Summit. Having moderated at dozens of industry conferences over the years, I've tried to bring together best practices I've observed, and have also personally recruited a blockbuster A-list group of executives for what I think will be a must-attend event. I'm excited to share more details later next week and hope you'll be able to join us.

In the meantime, I wish you a safe and restful Labor Day weekend. See you on Tuesday!

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As many of you know, there are countless early stage and established broadband video-related companies in the Boston area. For a while I've been eager to get this community together to mix it up. VideoSchmooze will be a premier opportunity for executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other decision-makers to meet up and swap ideas. And yes - out-of-towners are welcome!

VideoSchmooze is generously underwritten by Flybridge Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Goodwin Procter and Silicon Valley Bank.