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MIPTV Cannes 2008

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MIPTV Cannes: Panel: What's the future of social networks? Will social advertising really work


The panel kicked of with a short , very elegantly done by Loi Le Meur. Next up was Wandrille Pruvot showing some slide about mobile http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifsocial networks. But too damn fast to write something about it. Currently Pascal Thomas from Orange explains how they are integrating community in marketing.

Loic hacking Sarah's panel, referring to the South by Southwest debacle. About 10 people in the room seem to be on Twitter, not enough to really get something going here though.

switced to live streamig

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MIPTV Cannes: Internet TV Keynote - Joi Ito: Share, Remix, Reuse - Legally Creative Commons and the sharing economy


Joi Ito on stage, starts of good. Passionate speaker.

"Traffic is the currency of the internet."

On artists:
Before, you had to interact with your fanbase through a small box inbetween thousands of others. Now you can do much more, get in real contact with fans who will pay for this. So give away the music to the masses as a form of publicity, and charge more to those people prepared to pay for it (e.g. sell them a signed DVD box like Nine Inch Nails did).

How to make sharing profitable:
Sharing is something young people want to do, they are the fans stupid! Don't sue them, help them to share, provide them with tools to share.

Sharing is not people stealing your content, it's people marketing your content.

By locking up content, you will lose young people's attention to e.g. video games.

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MIPTV Cannes: Social Networking Keynote - Joanna Shields: A new vision of the social web, combining community, self expressino and entertainment


Joanna Shields is President of Bebo, with an impressive CV. However not really a gifted speaker I'm afraid.

Most interesting learning: Content and Social Interaction are coming together. Bebo (and also MySpace) really see these two worlds come together online.

I totally follow this:
In social media advertisers have to think conversation. It's not about jumping in for a few weeks and then jumping out again.

Joanna is more interesting in an interview then in a speech:"social network innovation is not decided at Microsoft or Google, but at content companies"

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MIPTV Cannes: Social Networking Keynote - Travis Katz: Digital


Travis Katz is the General Manager for the international operations of MySpace.com and Fox Interactive Media. He's being interviewed by Stephen Armstrong, a UK journalist.

Travis mainly talks about all types of TY style content that is being distributed through MySpace. A 'special announcement' is that they signed a deal with some big production company to distribute content worldwide through MySpace TV.

How about 'fictional' characters that promote their own content. Travis thinks this is key to the success of MySpace and the media they distribute. People want to interact with both the real and fictional characters they admire. In case of music that's mostly real people, in TV shows the characters are fictional but people don't seem to mind.

Learnings for TV people: The new generation has been brought up with unlimited choice and control. They will still be compelled by content, but they will interact with it in a totally different way.

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MIPTV Cannes: Conversational Marketing: The Power Of Online Social Networks and 360 Campaigns

OK, gearing up for the next presentation but juice is running out. So I may have to stop blogging halfway this presentation.

We start with Caroline Slootweg, Director, Digital Marketing and New Media, Unilever. Looks like Unilever does get the idea of the social web, the internet as a communication channel. I also agree that some things never change, but I don't agree it's only about good products and good marketing. What doesn't change are the people themselves, and their hunger for social interaction.
So, adding a 'topic of discussion' to each campaign is not enough if you ask me. The way people communicate, the intensity, etc. changes fundamentally. And we have to learn to work with that.
Here comes the "campaign for real beauty". Great campaign, but why does Caroline have to over-do it? The video was not launched on YouTube, it was on a traditional microsite and damn difficult to share with friends. No embed codes, no direct links. It's a great campaign Caroline, but admit you learned a lot as you went, don't pretend you knew al about social media before you started the campaign.


Next up is Michael Tchao, General Manager, Techlab, Nike. He's the man behind Nike+.

Nice thought: "How can we turn information into inspiration?"

OK Michael, nicely prepared speech, but we know what Nike+ is ... The advertising campaign is nicely done, lot's of creative brand activation, cool ...

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MIPTV Cannes: The New Rules of Engagement for the Digital Consumer


Panel discussion with an spicy discussion going back and forth between panel members. Some old-fashioned TV is better, no internet is better discussions going on there. One thing NOBODY talks about is iDTV, as @jcaudron quoted on Twitter: "the red button is dead. Create emotion and traction on TV, divert them to the web to get them engaged"

What keeps on coming back in this conference is the mind-shift for video producers of all kind (TV stations, producers, etc.) to let go their content and even promote it on all kinds of platforms. So don't restrict content to your own little site, show it everywhere. Capture attention where it is.

The word "ecosystem" has fallen ... about time too.

"YouTube is the largest focus group in the world."

Cool campaign against drugs, make sure to check out the video's:
http://www.talktofrank.com

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MIPTV Cannes: Jeremy Allaire: "Beyond Aggregation: Unlocking the Value

Racing to keep up with presentations, Jeremy Allaire is CEO of Brightcove.

The fundamentals of a website have changed, it's no longer content only ...

Some stats showing that online content consumption is totally different then how people consume TV (surprise ...)

Things to remember with regard to business models:
- Capitalize on your community, not only on video.
- Capitalize on deep engagement between with your audience

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MIPTV Cannes: Internet TV Keynote - Sex, Lies and Online TV


Goodmorning Cannes, back in the Esterel room for the Internet TV Keynote by Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. Christel De Maeyer from Plugmedia sits next to me, we're in good company.

- cool little quote to set the scene -
Google paid more for DoubleClick then the Indian group Tata paid for Jaguar and Land Rover.

1. Strong trend
All indicators concerning online video have tripled over the last 24 months.

2. Atypical user experience

Three design principles:
- Not overloaded (should not look like Tokyo at night)
- My mother should be able to use it in 15 seconds without help
- Light & stylish

"There will always be more people on the internet who are not on Hulu.com, that is why we want to take this experience to as much as possible other sites." This is something we've been talking about a lot lately. Next to your own site, you have to build an ecosystem of sites around you where people can consume your content.
And Hulu.com also turns it around. If e.g. "Lost" is not available on Hulu.com, but it is available legally somewhere else on the web, Hulu.com offers this content too (links to those sites). So they actually 'promote' competitor's content for the sake of consumer comfort. That alone may just be enough to make Hulu a success.

3. What about content owners
A big plea for online TV as a form of 'sampling'. "We are in an impulse business". Give your content away online (with some advertising to pay for part of it) and when people like it, people will go buy your content to be consumed in other occasions (DVD, TV, etc.).

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MIPTV Cannes: TV Keynote - Elisabeth Murdoch: Creativity without borders

... not the most creative title to start with ...

Introduction about Elisabeth's history in Cannes ... yawn ...

OK, so this is officially the most uninspired, uncreative speech of the day. Elisabeth is actually reading her speech from a nifty system, a kind of auto-cue projected on two small pieces of glass that stand about a meter away from her. It looks as if she looks in the room, but in fact she's not. Old-skool TV habits I guess ...

Some quotes, for what it's worth:
- Creativity is not hierarchical
- Creativity is not linear

That was it, I leave you with a picture from the presentation so you have at least something interesting to close the day:

Update:
Apparently more people were live blogging, or not? This was up before the speech began ...
http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=1&article=40995

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MIPTV Cannes: Green Day - Keven Wall: Live Earth employs 360 content


While TV execs swarm around David De Rothschild (no joking, at least 30 fighting to exchange business cards) Kevin Wall gets on stage. I not a big promotor of the 360 thinking (I think one should use the media best fit to reach a goal). However, "Live Earth" is BIG and and it does a great job in generating awareness for environmental issues. Well does it really? Or is it just a cool event with popular music?
Kevin Wall is Chairman & CEO of Control Room and Founder & CEO of Live Earth
Let's hear it ...

Mark Halper (Journalist) is chit-chatting with Kevin Wall ... nothing really interesting yet ...

To what extent is Live Earth eco-friendly?
Rock concerts are not eco friendly by nature. Live Earth trained the organizations extensively to be as eco-friendly as possible and as result they were 1/3 more eco-friendly then the best example until now. As audited by PWC ... which does not really convince me I must say.

Cool quote, while praising MSN for giving them a HUGE audience, and the possibility to connect back with this audience afterwards:
"Wake up to the real world: People are not watching TV"

About bandwith and servers ... as expected they did not have too much trouble (thanks to Akamai), another quote:
"The internet is ready for large scale broadcasting".
No surprise for me there, but unfortunately for Mr. Wall broadcasting is not what makes the Internet so powerful.

Looks like Kevin Wall looks a the internet as some kind of interactive TV, not so much as a communication platform. There is a point of course in the 'on-demand' feature, the global reach and the lean forward aspect of being a bit interactive.

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MIPTV Cannes: Green Day - David De Rothschild: TV's big green


In the "Esterel" room at Cannes but not live blogging. I took a WiFi subscription at the hotel so will upload this later tonight. I don't have the illusion anyone is so interested in this they want to read it live. Moreover, if you read this through an RSS reader (like most), there's a big chance you will read this with some delay anyhow.

- update - just got a WiFi connection, so uploading near live now -

I don't know Mr. De Rothschild, but judging from his name I guess he's some rich guy with nothing on his hands except for a lot of money, trying to give sense to his life by giving an environmental twist to his adventures. But then again, this was somehow what I thought of Dixie Dansercourt (did I spell that right) before I actually met the guy. So, let's give David the benefit of the doubt ...

"Technically we are all adventurers, we create stories ..."

The world is in the 'dispair' phase of the Kübler-Ross model (the stages of grief) when it comes the ecological future of our globe. So how do we get away from the negative to the positive. The next step is 'acceptance'. The answer: KIDS. Kids are the future, so "Adventure Ecology" (David's company) put's kids in control of environmental things. Help them realize small things so they can discover there is a future and they can do something about it.

Nick's Big GREEN Thing, is a program David makes with/for Nicolodium where kids are challenged to take small steps towards a better world. It's done in a very interactive way, next to a really entertaining piece of TV there's all kinds of interactive features such as blogs for the kid and all kinds of other feedback mechanisms.

Great message if you ask me. I'm bringing up an 11 year-old and I want her to have a bright future, but she must learn that SHE is one of the people who will have to build her own future. In fact, this goes for all of us.

"The only thing an adventure ecologist needs is - passion!"

Keep an eye on the launch of the PlasTiki, a boat entirely build of used pet-bottles. It sets sail in december 2008.

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