R/GA and Nike Football Live Streaming Interview with Troy Polamalu and DeSean Jackson

R/GA, digital agency of the decade as named by Adweek, and their client, Nike Football, will use Kyte LivePro to broadcast two professional-grade, high quality, live streaming interviews with NFL Superstars, Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and DeSean Jackson of the Philadelphia Eagles. These two exclusive interviews, live from the Nike 7on Tournament from the Nike Campus in Portland, Oregon, will give football fans an inside look into the minds of two of the league’s most exciting talents.

Join in on the action under The Huddle tab on Nike Football’s Facebook page on these two dates:

July 8th at 1:30 PM EST/10:30 AM PST – Troy Polamalu
July 9th at 12:30 PM EST/9:30 AM PST – DeSean Jackson

If you are unable to attend the event live, the videos will be automatically archived for immediate on-demand viewing. In addition to these two interviews, there is also a recent interview with Head Coach Mack Brown of the Texas Longhorns.

This an excellent opportunity to showcase the live streaming capabilities of the Kyte Platform. We are looking forward to this exciting event with R/GA and Nike Football and many more to come!

Kyte at Videoschmooze and OMMA Video

Today, Kyte is speaking at two different events on opposite sides of the country.

This morning, from 8:00 AM to 10:15 AM, Gannon Hall, COO, is at VideoSchmooze in Los Angeles at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, sharing customer success stories and best practices on the panel “How Hollywood Succeeds in the Digital Distribution Era.”

All the way on the other side of the country, the OMMA Conference began in New York at the Millennium Broadway Hotel. Our Chief Revenue Officer, Dan FitzSimons, is presenting a demo of our platform on the panel “Five Companies That Are Changing Online Video” today at 4:30 PM.

Hopefully you get a chance to see one of them speak!

Kyte at digiday: VIDEO UPFRONT LA

We’re at Digiday: VIDEO UPFRONT in Los Angeles at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills today.

Gannon will be speaking on the “Diving into Distribution: How to Choose the Right Syndication Platform” Panel at 4:00pm.

You can also meet us at our tabletop, so please come by and say hi. We’ll be posting interviews from the event to the Kyte Conversations player. Feel free to share the channel by clicking the Get & Share button below.

Kyte at CTIA Wireless

CTIA Wireless Spring kicks off tomorrow, March 23rd and continues until Thursday, March 25th, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. We anticipate it to be three days of intense business, learning, and networking for all attendees again.

Gannon will be there, speaking on the Mobile Video Production and Distribution panel on March 24th at 3:00PM, at the PGA Mobile Panels & Cocktail Mixer. Hopefully, he'lll get a chance to see you at the panel. But just in case he misses you, or you’re not going to be at CTIA, check back on Wednesday to see the interviews he'll post from the event!

SXSWi: Departing Dispatch

The most impressive thing about this year's "South By"? Connectivity. Incredibly good AT&T 3G coverage and the best public Wi-Fi I've ever experienced at a conference. Period. The AT&T coverage didn't surprise me given last year's disaster (I wonder if AT&T's additional infrastructure costs came out of their PR budget), but the Wi-Fi quality certainly did. Great connectivity, coupled with charging stations throughout the convention center made for some very happy (though exhausted and hungover) geeks.

We spent a good portion of our time camped out in the Blogger Lounge, where I had the chance to speak to several people about their experience and key takeaways from the conference. For many, the key theme was location based services, and in particular the perceived (real or media manufactured?) Gowalla / Foursquare rivalry. I agree that "LBS" is incredibly exciting, and it's one of several trends that signify a broader, more fundamental and pervasive industry shift towards all things social (and mobile). In speaking with people it occurred to me that the "interactive" or "digital" industry is now indistinguishable from "social media," the "social web" or whatever you want to call it. No longer is it about a digital strategy including social capabilities. The principals that were once the exclusive domain of social media practitioners (authenticity, transparency, community, engagement, etc.) have become core and essential to any digital initiative. 

One of the more interesting conversations I had was with Allen Weiner from Gartner. Allen is something of a media legend,  having covered the space for over 25 years. Allen talked about the opportunities happening at the crossroads of social, apps and new, Internet connected devices - topics of particular relevance to the work we're doing at Kyte in helping businesses to deliver multi-platform social video experiences. 

Here's Allen's interview below:

The Internet connected devices Allen mentions, such as Boxee, Internet connected TVs, Internet tablets, etc. represent an opportunity for video publishers as potentially revolutionary as blogging was to text-based publishing. While "TV Everywhere" is fundamentally concerned with getting super-premium cable content to the PC, far more interesting is the potential for video publishers of all types to get online video content to the living room. These are exciting times for media publishing and in particular for those of us involved in helping to build the enabling technologies. And by "media publishing" I don't just mean content produced by media companies. Make no mistake, brands are media publishers (see Homeaway or Armani Exchange), but I'll save that topic for another post.