OMMA Video Panel: The Format Wars

Moderator: Steve Smith
Philip Braden, ScanScout
Eric Hadley, CEO, Heavy
Rebecca Paoletti, Yahoo
Chris Allen, Starcom

Panel starts with some show-and-tell.

ScanScout Philip Braden shows overlays. Plays in-stream while the video is playing. From that point on, the ad experience is completely user initiated. New example that Philip showed was a video-in-video overlay. Cool demo alert: There was video playing [...]

Heavy Getting (slightly) Heavier

One day (and one post) after announcing the layoffs of 25 staffers, online video portal Heavy.com announced that it has opened its doors in Canada. Heavy launched Husky Media Canada with Corus Entertainment, a Canadian media and entertainment company, as their anchor partner. Heavy Canada will distribute programming across its radio sites in a customized [...]