Televisionation

Leap Media Principal, Chris Pizzurro on Ad Agencies and ITV

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," Mark Garner, SVP of distribution, marketing and business development at A&E Television Networks, discusses that company's interactive TV plans for its various networks (including A&E, History and Lifetime), its tcommerce partnership with Delivery Agent, his views on OTT platforms, ranging from Google TV to the Apple iPad, and mu...

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," Mike Pohl, CEO of Jinni--a company that has developed a semantic search-and-recommendation engine which it bills as being based on "content genetics and user psychographics" and as enabling what it calls "mood-based" searches (note: the company has announced integration partnerships with OpenTV and SeaChange International, and l...

In this episode of Radio [i]tvt, we speak with high-profile interactive TV advertising industry figure, Tim Hanlon, who just recently joined Catalyst S+F, a company which bills itself as specializing in "providing mission-critical advice and execution to innovation-oriented start-ups, brands and investors," as a partner. According to the company, Hanlon, who was previously managing director of Pub...

Earlier this week (see the article published on itvt.com, May 12th), Delivery Agent, a company that specializes in developing what it calls "shopping-enabled" entertainment (i.e. ecommerce marketplaces) for entertainment/media companies (note: it claims to have developed such services for over 200 major entertainment properties, including broadcast networks ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, as well as Discov...

SWRV CEO David Del Beccaro on New 24-7 ITV Network

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In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," Braxton Jarratt, co-founder and CEO of Clearleap, an Atlanta-based company which offers a technology platform for bringing Internet-sourced video content to television sets, discusses his company's cloud-based approach to on-demand and interactive TV; its recently announced project with FourthWall which saw the companies develop...

Ladies of ITV: Ellis, Otto, Rusk Lim, and Swedlow Review 2009 and Predict 2010

Earlier this week (see the article published on itvt.com, November 24th),[itvt] reported on how the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (note: generally known as Calit2, the institute is jointly run by the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, Berkeley) is using JVC's GD-463D10U 46-inch 3D HD LCD monitors as part of its new 3D imme...

Earlier this week, Sezmi, a company that has developed a set-top box-based offering which it bills as "combining traditional TV content, movies and Internet video in a single, easy-to-use product and service," announced that it had secured $25 million in new funding and had launched a three-month public pilot in Los Angeles, in preparation for a nationwide launch next year. In this recorded episod...

In this episode of Radio [i]tvt, we speak with Robert Hayes, Senior Vice President, general manager of digital media at Showtime Networks and Andre Sala, who is behind the YouTube annotations projects. We discuss the launch of 2 applications on YouTube - one for their popular series with David Duchovny called Californication and the other for the Michael C. Hall vehicle, Dexter, in which they've c...

TV Commerce: ConciseClick's Nick Alt on Mattel Project

Earlier this week (see the article published on itvt.com, October 29th), 180Squared--a company best known for providing software and integration services for Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform--announced that SureWest Communications and Reservation Telephone Cooperative (RTC) had selected its v. Allegro solution set in order to plan, integrate and launch their implementations of the Mediaroom pla...

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," ActiveVideo president and CEO, Jeff Miller, discusses the company's work with Cablevision, as well as its work with Time Warner Cable; explains the company's concept of "cloud TV"; shares usage trends that the company has observed from its deployments; previews some of the alliances, deals and proje...

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," Adjust Your Set's founder and CEO, Chris Gorell Barnes, discusses the company's work for Marks & Spencer and the emerging interactive video commerce space in general. Read our daily news at http://itvt.com

BlackArrow Execs Discuss New Comcast On Demand Deal

Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, itvt.com, speaks to MONKEYmedia CEO, Eric J. Gould Bear about their controversial "telescopic" VOD Patents. Bear discusses the origin of the patents, defines them, describes partner strategy and pricing, and plans for monetization across all platforms. Read our daily news, blog, upload screenshots and much more at http://itvt.com

Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, speaks to Alcatel-Lucent Executives, Mark Janes and Stuart Waite. The two gentlemen speak about their end-to-end creation/delivery platform for ITV applications. They discuss their commitment to the American market, give opionions about the state of EBIF/tru2way and what Canoe Ventures is doing, and whether they're interested in the over-the-t...

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," David Burch, director of marketing at TubeMogul, a company that provides an analytics and syndication service for broadband video, provides an overview of that company and the space in which it operates. Topics discussed include the services TubeMogul offers, its various partners and customers, emer...

Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today[itvt], interviews Doug Knopper, Co-Founder/Co-CEO, of Freewheel. TV, a video ad management platform which claims its prime goal is the management of ad monetization on all platforms. Specifically, Freewheel manages the rights for specific ad content (even if these are distributed on any device), traffics the right ads for that content, and mana...

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," Hand Eye Technologies' founder and CEO, Jonathan Kessler, provides an in-depth overview of his company and its technology. Topics covered include the company's business plan, its funding, the advantages it claims for smartphone- over remote control-driven interaction, the current state of the smartp...

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," acrossair co-founder and managing director, Chetan Damani, provides an overview of the company's activities in the augmented reality space and discusses the current state of the emerging AR industry in general. Topics discussed include Nearest Tube and other augmented reality apps acrossair is curre...

Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today http://itvt.com , interviews Jan Steenkamp, VP Americas, Irdeto about the end-to-end ingest to delivery of video platform for multiplatform TV. The Irdeto platform offers advanced content management, billing, and transaction technology enabling t/v commerce for various broadcasters in North America and in Europe. Read our daily news, search, an...

Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today http://itvt.com , interviews BBC Open Source "Digital Revolution" Senior Producer, Russel Barnes about this new project of a series of 4 documentaries about the Web. What makes it "open source," who is participating, will it feature UGC video contributions and much more. Read our daily news, search, and blog at http://itvt.com