AlwaysOn uses Kyte Platform to live stream OnMedia conference

This week in NYC, AlwaysOn is using the Kyte Platform to live stream keynote and panel sessions at their third annual OnMedia conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park.

The conference, billed as, “Where Madison Avenue Meets Silicon Valley” features top venture capitalists, leading advertising firms, and senior executives from the media and entertainment industry discussing "which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries."

AlwaysOn is using two professional, high quality, video cameras to live stream content to two Kyte channels on their site. The AO community, always very passionate, is taking advantage of the Kyte Platfom's multimedia chat feature so that they can leave comments about what they're hearing from the presenters on stage.

Great example of how a conference can leverage the Kyte Platform to drive traffic and engage with online viewers.

Extra serves ads with Kyte shows

Celebrity entertainment show Extra has begun serving ads with their Kyte shows, demonstrating how a brand can monetize their content on the Kyte Platform.

The ads are being served from Extra’s Lightningcast ad server. In addition to Lightningcast, the Kyte Platform also supports DoubleClick DART and AdTech HeliosIQ ad servers, and ad networks such as Google AdSense for Video.

To learn more about how to monetize your Kyte channel, click here.

Tech blogger Robert Scoble Kytes interview with Paulo Coelho

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, tech blogger and Fast Company.TV managing director Robert Scoble Kyted a great interview with world famous author, Paulo Coelho and TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington.

As many of you know, Coelho wrote, The Alchemist, which has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. In the interview, he talks about his new novel, The Winner Stands Alone, and the innovative way in which he is publishing the book. Each week, Coehlo will publish a chapter from the book on his blog, with the entire book to be released in March. Very cool.

Scoble used Kyte Mobile Producer to broadcast the interview — great example of how Kyte enables you to easily produce raw, authentic content.

Kyte Dashboard Now Available!

Today at the NATPE 2009 conference, we are announcing the general availability of Kyte Dashboard, a comprehensive, enterprise-class, content management and analytics solution for the Kyte Platform. Kyte Dashboard is available to Kyte Premium and Professional customers and provides video uploading and management capabilities, multi-level content moderation, and in-depth analytics reporting and visualization. You can view the press release here.

Also at NATPE, we are exhibiting in the “What’s Next Technology Pavilion” along with our strategic investor, Nokia. For those of you that can’t attend NATPE, we’d like to show you a cool video that will be played at the conference which highlights two of our partners in the television industry -- celebrity entertainment show Extra, and the leading broadcast news station in Germany, N24.  Both Extra and N24 have armed their reporters with Kyte-powered Nokia phones to provide audiences with authentic, on location, coverage of major news events, including last week's Inauguration ceremony.

Midem Roundup

Hi Everyone - Several of us from Kyte just returned from the Midem conference in Cannes, France.  The event was a big success for us, starting off with our Universal Music Group announcement, and culminating with an equally exciting Sony Music deal that we announced today. Here are a few additional highlights from the event:



Michael Robertson of MP3.com, who couldn't be there in person due to legal problems with EMI, came in live from San Diego to Cannes via Kyte for the MidemNet keynote panel. This gave everyone a first hand glimpse of the technology and created quite a buzz.... after all, seeing is believing:

Daniel's panel, "Connecting artists & fans – A showcase of services," gave us the opportunity to explain what Kyte for the music industry is all about - connecting artists with fans. Given that the theme of the conference was artist-fan engagement, this was a perfect forum for us.

We were surprised and flattered when several speakers acknowledged Kyte on stage during their various talks, including Courtney Holt, president of MySpace Music, Michael Doernberg, CEO, ReverbNation, and Tero Ojanperä, Nokia's EVP Entertainment and Communities. Thanks guys!

We met a lot of interesting people. One of the most inspiring was JYP, the most successful artist/entrepranuer in Asia. JY is not only one of the biggest stars in Asia, but he puts together super stars like Rain and Wonder Girls. Of course we'd love for him to start using Kyte:

The Midem organizers used Kyte to power their MidemNet vblog and artist video channel. It was great working with them and we look forward to a continued partnership.

Our booth provided the perfect meeting place for folks to get to know us and our technology:

Thanks everyone for all your support!