Monthly Archives: November 2011
Join KIT digital, Akamai and Haivision in NYC This Thursday
If you’re in the tri-state area this week, we’d love to see you at a free seminar we’re hosting in partnership with Akamai and Haivision. This Thursday, KIT digital’s own Chance Mason will be joining speakers from Akamai, Haivision and Forrester Research at the Hudson Hotel in New York City for a revealing look at how cloud-based video technology can help you extend your reach and capitalize on new business models and opportunities. Along with the ever increasing complexity, fragmentation, and quickly evolving technology of the online video arena are both challenges and opportunities. By attending our joint seminar on Thursday, you will learn: How current trends and evolving technology in online video are informing broadcasters video strategies today and tomorrow What live transcoding in the cloud means to the future of Internet media About real world examples of how this technology is opening up new business opportunities Seats are limited so register now for a look at the future.
KIT digital Paris Hosts “VIP Event” For Customers and Prospects
Last week, KIT digital Paris organized “VIP Event” that gathered our main customers and prospects in the area for an update on the benefits and improvements the KIT Cloud platform will bring to their projects. Attended by over 70 guests from all three of our key verticals – network operators, media companies, and large enterprises – the event was very successful in the quality of ideas exchanged and new business prospects initiated. The event’s content revolved around KIT Cloud product offering, and specific feature sets that address the needs and interests of the attendees. Through speeches, round table discussions and demos of KIT digital solutions, our guests left confident in our ability to help them offer cutting edge IP video technology and get ahead in the rapidly changing landscape of broadband TV. Short video below offers some highlights of the event:
Why Social TV Will Extend the Reach of Shows
Part 3 of 3 of a series on SocialTV by our strategy director Alan Wolk that originally appeared in DigiDay. Last week, I wrote about how social intermissions are taking the place of commercials in the television viewing experience. Today we’ll look at how social can impact the reach of a TV program. In the first two parts of this series, we reviewed Social TV’s role in the decision to watch shows and how the shows are watched. But what happens after the programming ends? The social experience continues in the third phase, the Reviewing phase. Once a user has watched a show, they’re inclined to share their thoughts. We’ve already seen an explosion of reviews when it comes to restaurants, hotels and other things. TV is ripe for the reviewer in every household. A well-designed social TV app can prompt that behavior, either by asking viewers to rate a show as it’s ending or creating a points and levels … Continue reading
Social Television Isn’t Necessarily Social
The term “social TV” has been thrown around a lot these days to describe any and all second screen experiences created around television shows. But it’s well worth noting that many of these apps and features have nothing inherently “social” about them: they are information sources that viewers may choose to share on social networks, but that is not the primary function. I’m talking about apps that provide statistics during football games or episode guides during dramas and cast bios during reality shows. That type of functionality is going to be more valuable to many viewers than something that allows them to have conversations during the show. It’s well suited for family viewing– only 31% of Americans watch TV alone – where we are more likely to share whatever we’ve learned with the other people in the room (as opposed to say, the entire Twitterverse.) It is also key insofar as creating any kind of buzz: the more content you … Continue reading
Video: The Future of Social TV
KIT digital’s Managing Director of Social Strategy, Alan Wolk was part of a panel at Digiday Video that included Sabrina Caluori, VP of Social Media & Marketing at HBO and Cinemax and Kimber Myers, Director of Partnerships at GetGlue. The panel was hosted by Digiday reporter Jack Marshall and the lively conversation contains great insights from three top professionals who are at the red hot center of the Social TV revolution.
The Yin and Yang of the TV/Internet convergence
The industry has been buzzing about this insightful analysis from our own Social Strategy Director Alan Wolk The Ying and Yang of the TV/Internet Convergence View more presentations from Alan Wolk
KIT digital Reports Record Earnings in Q3 2011
It’s an exciting day at KIT digital, as we released our quarterly earnings report this morning. From the press release: Revenue in the third quarter of 2011 increased 29% sequentially to a record $62.3 million from $48.2 million in the previous quarter, and increased 124% from $27.7 million in the same quarter a year ago. Excluding the effect of acquired companies during the comparable periods, the company estimates organic growth in Q3 was 11% sequentially and over 35% versus the same year-ago quarter Read the full press release → For those that are interested, a video of our earnings call will be streamed online this morning at 10:30 am EST. Click here to register and watch it online →
Watch our Investor Day presentation from Prague
As we’ve mentioned in this space before, KIT digital’s senior executive team recently hosted a two-day open house at our new Prague HQ for investors, customers and key members of the media. We’ve made a recording of a presentation from that event’s agenda viewable on our website – it offers a full view into KIT digital’s view on the market moving forward, and the progress we’ve made over the last few months in integrating and relaunching the brand. Click here to watch the presentation and video →