YouTube’s live platform offers content owners a free toolset for broadcasting live events, opening up a huge opportunity to reach a large audience around the world. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 19-20 in Huntington Beach, Varun Talwar, Partner Product Manager at YouTube, will show you how YouTube’s platform can help build you a following and how tools, APIs and their scalable infrastructure make it very easy for you to do so.

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes and all the networking events, at no charge. #smwest

Despite the success of standout services including Netflix and Hulu, it’s generally been slow going for OTT and TV Everywhere in making consumer-desired TV programming widely available online. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 19-20 in Huntington Beach, we have a session that will discuss “The State of Over-The-Top Video and TV Everywhere Rollouts“. This panel will review the state of OTT and TVE rollouts, examine the reasons behind the “slow going” and explore how tech and business friction issues are being addressed. Learn what the OTT prospects are for TV incumbents vs. online enterprises such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Intel. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Bill Niemeyer, Senior Analyst, TDG Research
• David Schlacht, Senior Director, Technology Ventures, DIRECTV
• Brian Jaquet, Director, Marketing and Communications, Sling Media
• Matthew Durgin, Director, Smart TV Content, LG Electronics
• Campbell Foster, Director of Product Marketing, Video Solutions, Adobe

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes and all the networking events, at no charge. #smwest

With the emergence of TV Everywhere, consumers can enjoy the benefits of authenticated channels like FOX Now, TWC TV, ESPN, Xfinity, and others across a multitude of devices. Come join us at the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 19-20 in Huntington Beach, for a lively discussion with the experts behind the TV Everywhere movement.

Is TV Everywhere a success today? Are providers seeing increased retention? Are new revenue models emerging that might exist as extensions for the TV Everywhere experience? What will TV Everywhere look like in the next five years? These and other topics will be discussed with the following speakers:

• Moderator: Matt Smith, VP, Technology, Chideo
• Steve Shannon, GM, Content and Services, Roku
• Channing Dawson, Senior Advisor, Scripps Networks
• John Oliverius, VP, Distribution Counsel, Legal and Business Affairs, A+E Television Networks
• Dean Hadaegh, SVP, Broadcast Operations & Chief Technology Officer, The Tennis Channel

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes and all the networking events, at no charge. #smwest

With the deployment of 4G LTE and the emergence of yet another enhancement to video compression in the form of HEVC, is mobile video now at a tipping point? At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 19-20 in Huntington Beach, operators and content owners will discuss how they see the technical and business aspects of media over LTE unfolding and how the different implementation options and their respective business models evolve over time.

Learn how wireless on demand content and broadcast delivery of linear content by conventional means can come together in a hybrid broadcast/streaming service. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Vera Kenehan, Strategic Product Manager, LTE Broadcast, Ericsson
• Jack Arky, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Product Development, Verizon Wireless
• Cedric Fernandes, CTO, MobiTV
• Norman Tyrrell, Director Technical Marketing, Qualcomm Labs
• Theodore May, SVP, Strategy and Business Affairs, Synacor

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes and all the networking events, at no charge. #smwest

Over the past year, Yahoo! has been making a big push into the video market, (licensing Saturday Night Live videos from NBC Entertainment) as well as creating and syndicating original content. So I’m very pleased to announced that Erin McPherson, VP and Head of Video at Yahoo!, will be the keynote speaker on day two (Nov. 20th) of the Streaming Media West conference. Come hear what Yahoo! sees as the future of online video consumption and learn more about their video licensing and content creation strategy.

Erin will be joined by more than 100 speakers from leading media, broadcast and MSO companies discussing the latest business, content and technology subjects around online video. You can register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes and all the networking events, at no charge. And it’s not too late to get a full pass to the show, using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595. #smwest

The most recent video compression standard, HEVC / H.265, is expected to become the video standard of choice over the next decade. But as with each generation of video compression technology before it, there are key barriers to widespread adoption. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 19-20 in Huntington Beach, encoding guru Jan Ozer will outline how H.265 promises to reduce the overall cost of delivering and storing video assets while maintaining or increasing the quality of experience delivered to the viewer. His presentation will address what H.265 is, how it differs from previous generations of compression technology including H.264, key barriers to widespread adoption, and thoughts on when H.265 is likely to be implemented.

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes and all the networking events, at no charge. #smwest

At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 19-20 in Huntington Beach, we have a session that will discuss tips and tricks, best practices, and lessons learned regarding the technical setup of live streaming production. Learn how to stream multiple formats, use social networking overlays and leverage adaptive bitrate streaming. Hear how live streaming is now largely being fueled by businesses using live video as a socially-fueled communications platform. Speakers in this session are the ones in the trenches, producing some of the largest live events you see on the web today. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Jon Orlin, Executive Producer, TechCrunch
• Alden Fertig, Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, Ustream
• Bill McCandless, VP, Video Programming and Production, Bleacher Report
• Jack Ferry, Independent Director & Producer
• Chris Mangum, Sr. Digital Media Manager, Live & On-Demand Video Streaming, Yahoo!

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes and all the networking events, at no charge. #smwest