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Business Feature - Monaco Media Forum 2011
Visit the
Monaco Media Forum YouTube Channel
to see the roundtables, debates and conferences from
this years event and click on the logo to the left to visit the
official web-site. We have selected the most important news and
videos from this years
Monaco Media Forum below.
Bahrainian blogger wins Monaco
media prize
huffingtonpost.com 11 Nov 11
Bahrainian blogger Esra’a Al Shafei, a key figure in the
social media activity around the Arab Spring, has been
awarded the Monaco Media Prize by Prince Albert II of
Monaco. The award was presented by the Prince at a gala
dinner here tonight. The ceremony was part of the
three-day Monaco Media Forum. Al Shafei founded Mideast
Youth in 2006 with the goal of harnessing digital
communication and social media tools to promote freedom
of speech to work against repression, persecution and
intolerance in the Middle East. She has played a central
role in creating Crowd Voice, an influential news
curation site for developments around the Arab Spring.
Ms. Al Shafei asked that her image not be shown. We
taped her in silhouette from a hotel balcony overlooking
the Mediterranean where a full moon provided
extraordinary back light.
Andy Plesser.
Video
Video Ad Choice Doubles Impact
beet.tv 11 Nov 11
Giving online video viewers the option to select an ad
improves the impact by 200 percent, says Tracey
Scheppach, EVP & Innovations Director at VivaKi/Starcom
MediaVest. Scheppach is a principal in an industy
standard around video choice know as ASq. She leads
The Pool, the VivaKi
inititative around these standards. We spoke with her on
Wednesday about progress with the Pool and the
collaboration of the industry.
Andy Plesser.
The media mobilises at the
2010 Monaco Media Forum 10-12 Nov 10
Video
Ushahidi founder wins Monaco
Media Prize
beet.tv 15 Nov 10
Ushahidi, the crowd-sourced mapping platform that
got attention this year for its mapping of the
floods in Pakistan and the earthquake in Haiti,
is now in seven languages and is becoming a
commercial venture, founder Ory Okolloh told
Beet.TV. The Nairobi-based start-up, which provides
its program for free, has launched a services
business for organizations. Okolloh, the Harvard Law
School-trained attorrney, gives an update on
Ushadidi and her thoughts about emerging technology
in Africa. She was the recipient of this
year's Monaco Media Prize awarded Thursday evening
at a gala hosted by Prince Albert.
Andy Plesser.
Video
MySpace surrenders to Facebook in
battle of social networks
telegraph.co.uk 14 Nov
10 MySpace has
finished being a social network and a direct rival to
Facebook, according to its chief executive, Mike Jones.
Talking The Telegraph at the Monaco Media Forum, Jones said
the bold statement: “MySpace is a not a social network
anymore. It is now a social entertainment destination.” The
troubled site, which saw its UK audience halve to 3.3
million monthly visitors in July earlier this year, is
pinning its hopes of renewed success with a return to its
music and content roots. Two weeks ago, the redesigned
MySpace, which focuses a lot more around content, rather
than social networking, launched in the US and will go live
in the UK in mid November. Everything has been changed;
right down to the logo – which is now the word 'My' and an
extended underscore to represent the ‘Space’.
Emma Barnett.
Monaco Media Forum 2010. Conversation "Ones & Zeros"
Making digital work with James Murdoch, Chairman & Chief
Executive, Europe & Asia, New Corp talks with Aryeh
Bourkoff, Vice Chairman, Joint Global Head TMT, UBS
Apps 'cannibalise' newspaper
sales, says James Murdoch
telegraph.co.uk 13 Nov 10
Paid-for newspaper apps for devices such as the Apple
iPad are "cannibalising" sales of physical newspapers,
according to James Murdoch, head of News Corporation's
operations in Europe and Asia. Speaking at the Monaco
Media Forum, Mr Murdoch's comments follow NewsCorp's
decision in June to put the websites of The Times and
Sunday Times newspapers behind a pay wall. Mr Murdoch
said he welcomed the opportunity to sell the papers'
content through Apple's iTunes online store, despite
Apple taking 30pc of the publisher's revenue.
Amanda Andrews.
Google says not building Facebook
rival
reuters.com 11 Nov 10
Internet search leader Google Inc is not building a
social network to compete with Facebook, a company executive
reiterated on Thursday, despite an intensifying rivalry between
the two leading Internet groups. "We're not working on a social
network platform that's just going to be another social network
platform," Google's head of mobile product development, Hugo
Barra, said in answer to a question at the Monaco Media Forum. "We
do think that social is an ingredient for success for any app
going forward, search and advertising being probably the best
two examples that I would mention. So that's how we're thinking
about the problem." Social networking has exploded in popularity.
Facebook, launched in 2004, has more than 500 million members.
Georgina Prodhan.
H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco Opens
5th Annual Monaco Media Forum
prnewswire.com 10 Nov 10
The fifth annual Monaco Media Forum chaired by HSH Prince Albert
II of Monaco, opened today, promising two-and-a-half days of
debate and conversation on the "mobilization" of media,
marketing and technology. "From smart phones to tablets, pads
and other new devices, mobile media intersects all our past
discussions: "Web 2.0," social networks, targeted advertising,
and the convergence of broadcast and the Internet," HSH Prince
Albert II said in his inaugural address to the forum. "In many
ways, what is happening today is as revolutionary as the
original explosive birth-barely 15 years ago-of the original
World Wide Web."
News Corp's James Murdoch, BBC's Daniel Heaf, Investor
Yuri Milner, Top Execs from Thomson Reuters, Google,
AOL, Microsoft Headed to Monte Carlo...and So is Beet.TV!
huffingtonpost.com 28 Oct 10
The overarching theme of this year's
Monaco Media Forum (Nov 10-12)
will be the "mobilization" of digital media, says event
programmer Spencer Reiss, an American journalist. It's
not about hand sets, but about how digital media
consumption is growing untethered, via apps and the
mobile Web, he explains. Spencer stopped by the
Beet.TV studios the
other day for this overview on the conference and its
remarkable line-up of media executives, financiers and
international journalists. The invitation-only event
accommodates just 300 attendees. It will be hosted by
Prince Albert of Monaco, who is deeply interested in
digital media. The conference is presented by
Publicis Live, a unit of
Paris-based Publicis Group. Andy
Plesser.
Riviera Life
Business Feature - Monaco Media Forum 2009
VideoMonaco
Media Forum
11-12 Nov 09 Now
in its fourth year, MMF brings together leaders of new and old
media for two and a half days of high-level discussions about the
future of online, broadcast and print communications. Hosted by
HSH Prince Albert II, the invitation-only event focuses on
emerging opportunities in technology, distribution and content,
along with related developments in marketing and finance.
Monaco
Media Forum: Springer CEO Clashes With Huffington
Business Week
12 Nov 09
Mathias Döpfner, CEO of German publisher Axel
Springer, and Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the Huffington
Post politics and news blog site, made sure the Monaco Media
Forum isn’t just a digital media lovefest. Döpfner, whose
empire includes Bild,
Europe’s largest newspaper, debated with Huffington whether
journalism published online should be free. The discussion before
a media industry audience at a seaside Monaco hotel on Nov. 12
quickly got loud. Jack
Ewing.
Rupert
Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google 'in months' Telegraph.co.uk
13 Nov 09
Jonathan Miller, News Corp's chief digital officer, said the media
mogul was ready to block Google's access to his sites soon and
that the company would lead the media industry in this direction.
He also said that News Corporation, which owns The Times and The
Sun newspapers in Britain, could survive both economically and
audience-wise without the search giant driving traffic to its
sites. Emma
Barnett.
The
Google conundrum
The
Independent 14 Nov 09 News
Corp is taking its media off Google as it prepares to start
charging. But more than half its traffic comes from search
engines. How do you solve that one, Rupert? At this week's Monaco
Media Forum, both issues – charging for online content and
blocking news aggregators such as Google – have been fiercely
debated. Nick
Clark.
Hyper-Local Online Video and the Future of
TV
Seekingalpha.com 01 Dec 09
Broadcasters are about to experience the equivalent of the Big
Bang, warns Akamai Technologies CEO Paul Sagan, a broadcast and
cable veteran whose company facilitates more than one-fifth of
the world's Web traffic. The ability to match high-definition TV
picture quality with Internet interactivity is creating a sea
change for online video that will begin rippling through the
television industry in 2010. Only TV station owners that leap to
the new arena, playing the strength of their hyper-local
connections, will survive. In his keynote address to the Monaco
Media Forum earlier this month, Sagan said local broadcasters,
content providers and advertisers are not embracing
interactivity to better connect with consumers and derive new
value. These points also were made during a panel on targeting I
moderated also at the Monaco Media Forum.
Diane Mermigas.
MIPCOM took place
in Cannes 4-8 Oct 10. Buyers and sellers of video content from
around the world gathered to trade TV content, and more and more
content for Internet based TV. To support programme sales stars
from many of the programmes attended including Mad Men's Jon Hamm and
Elisabeth Moss (pictured), Robert Redford, Oliver Stone, Sarah Jessica
Parker, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas, David Walliams and many more. Check out
news & video from the event here.
The 25th
anniversary
MIPCOM,
Cannes 5-9 Oct 09, was a star studded event. Content
producers pulled out the big guns to sell their programmes
in a reviving but transforming market. The Simpsons creator
Matt Groening
and Producer
Al Jean,
Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa
Kudrow
(Phoebe from
Friends),
John Nettles
star of UK drama
Midsomer
Murders and Joan Rivers
were in town. Watch our celeb
packed video report on the world's major TV market.
Television
executives from around the world gathered in Cannes 30 March
- 3 April 09 for one of the major markets for buying and
selling programmes, MIP
TV.
The content being traded however is no longer destined just
for 'the box.' Increasingly content is being shared, and
created exclusively, for the Internet and mobile devices
such as i-phones. RivieraLife.tv'sSusan
Hickey
reports from this years MIP-TV.
Its a wrap! This years
56th Cannes Lions Ad Fest ended with a web movie beating the usual TV
commercial for the Grand Prix prize. Check out the winning vid for
Philips Carousel and all the news that matters in our Cannes Lions News
Archive. The Obama For America campaign won the Titanium & Integrated
Grand Prix prize picked up by campaign manager David Plouffe, who was
one of many significant keynote speakers at this years ad bash.