Jeff Richards' Demand Insights

If you'll be attending Digital Hollywood the next few days in LA, stop by the DCIA's P2P Advertising Upfront LA. I'll be speaking at 2:45 pm, and you can find my presentation on SlideShare.

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I often get asked what the best sources for information are on the digital media space. While I am sure there is a long list I could publish here, the following are the sources I read on a daily basis (all have RSS feeds or subscriptions available).

Dan Rayburn's the Business of Video

NewTeeVee

Beet.tv

Lost Remote

GigaOm

TechCrunch

Feld Thoughts

Mark Cuban's Blog Maverick

The Register Broadband News

The Online Reporter is a weekly publication and is a great read, but requires a paid subscription (you can sign up for a free trial)

You can also revisit the list Dan Rayburn posted on his site in August.

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It's official - the readers of Streaming Media have selected VeriSign's Intelligent Content Delivery Network as the industry's top Content Management Platform. An excerpt from the Streaming Media web site:

"By pairing Kontiki's technology with its own backbone and customer base, VeriSign has been able to achieve a level of awareness much higher than either it or Kontiki could have achieved alone."

For more info, read the article on StreamingMedia.com or the press release that went out this morning.

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...will be Net Neutrality. I don't think the average consumer really understood this topic when it was front and center in 2006, and it has somewhat stayed in the background away from mainstream media throughout 2007. However, as today's articles on Comcast's efforts to manage traffic running across its network point out, the rapid rise in video consumption (broadcast, live events, movies - not just UGC) over ISP networks will make this topic a very hot one as we head into 2008. Every player in the ecosystem has something to win or lose in this debate - consumers, media companies, carriers, cable companies, etc. Shouldn't be long before it hits Congress again :)

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Today on Brad Feld's blog I read a brief post about a couple of guys who have launched a company called J-Squared Media. Brad's post refers to a recent article about the company called "Who Wants to be a Facebook Millionaire?" If you enjoy reading "two guys in a garage" success stories, this is a fun read. It's also a great example of what is happening today on the early-stage company front - it doesn't take much to launch a company, what with cheap storage (Amazon S3), on-demand apps for sales, accounting, HR, etc. (see: Salesforce.com, NetSuite and SuccessFactors) and all manner of talent available on a per-use basis (developers, PR, etc.).

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