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Fri June 06 2008
In Digital Podcast 52, Andrew interviews Jonathan Strietzel, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Big Stage, whose breakthrough technology allow...
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In Digital Podcast 52, Andrew interviews Jonathan Strietzel, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Big Stage, whose breakthrough technology allows users to create and integrate life-like 3-D avatars of themselves into movies, videogames, commercials and other digital video content using just three digital face photos. Imagine if you and your friends could star in a music video, famous movi... read more
In Digital Podcast 52, Andrew interviews Jonathan Strietzel, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Big Stage, whose breakthrough technology allows users to create and integrate life-like 3-D avatars of themselves into movies, videogames, commercials and other digital video content using just three digital face photos. Imagine if you and your friends could star in a music video, famous movie clip, or commercial as realistically as if you were around for the shoot. Jonathan describes the company and the potential that its technology has to transform advertising and the audience relationship with movies, television and videogames. In the interview, Jonathan describes his early start as a wunderkind discovered by SoCal VCs (0:00), his insight into the coming importance of personalization as he discovered the technology behind Big Stage (2:45), and how he helped move the technology to become consumer internet capable and fundable (7:05). He talks about the current business, his monetization model through brands and content partners based on the technologyrsquo;s dramatic impact on advertising effectiveness (11:35), and what the big media networks are seeing in terms of monetization and CPM rates (16:12). He also describes privacy considerations (17:40) and the other cool non-advertising stuff, like videogaming and short internet adventures, that Big Stage will be making possible (19:05). Jonathan Strietzel is co-founder and chief creative officer of Big Stage. He brings 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the entertainment and technology industries, including founding Stritz Studios, a boutique special effects studio. He has also invented multiple systems for delivering digital advertising and currently holds a U.S. patent for his work in particle-based advertising. In addition, Jonathan has worked with numerous TV studios and Fortune 500 companies, including developing the highly publicized online clue delivery system for NBCrsquo;s ldquo;Treasure Hunters.rdquo; Jonathan graduated from Chapman University with a Bachelor of Science degree. [tags]Digital Hollywood, Big Stage, Jonathan Strietzel, Virtual Reality, Avatar, 3D[/tags]
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Fri June 06 2008
In Digital Podcast 51, Andrew interviews Peter Hodge, CEO of Virsona, about Virsonarsquo;s new artificial intelligence technology that can bring any...
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In Digital Podcast 51, Andrew interviews Peter Hodge, CEO of Virsona, about Virsonarsquo;s new artificial intelligence technology that can bring any personality to life. Imagine if anyone could have a personal conversation with Iron Man, the Michelin Man, or their great-great-great-great grandfather. Peter describes his new company and technology that is about to make these lsquo;holodeckrsquo... read more
In Digital Podcast 51, Andrew interviews Peter Hodge, CEO of Virsona, about Virsonarsquo;s new artificial intelligence technology that can bring any personality to life. Imagine if anyone could have a personal conversation with Iron Man, the Michelin Man, or their great-great-great-great grandfather. Peter describes his new company and technology that is about to make these lsquo;holodeckrsquo; scenarios a reality ndash; at least the conversation part. In the interview, Peter shares how he founded Virsona after being inspired by his desire to continue conversing with a recently deceased friend (1:21), and why the internet will accelerate the development of artificial intelligence based on his meeting with David Levy, a foremost AI expert (4:10). He describes how wersquo;ll be able to interact with Virsonarsquo;s technology shortly (6:00), including re-creating our own personalities (11:05). Here are some screen shots of the site: Perhaps most importantly, Peter describes how Virsonarsquo;s platform can be leveraged by Hollywood, brands, and others to deepen relationships with consumers and audience (11:55). He even gets into some of the complexity and norms that may evolve with virtual personalities, especially the need to keep some information and aspects of our personalities more private, as well as the future capabilities we might see from virsonas (19:05). Peter Hodge is CEO of Virsona Inc. Peter has worked with and for some of the biggest names in the Technology, Telecoms and Media industries over the last 20 years both in the US as well as globally. He brings significant experience to Virsona with over 20 years in technology including development, sales and management experience. Peter holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Greenwich, London and lives in Boca Raton, FL. [tags]Digital Hollywood, Peter Hodge, Virsona, Interactive Media, Artificial Intelligence[/tags]
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Fri May 30 2008
In Digital Podcast 49, we interview Richard Cottrell, Chief Executive Officer of Accenture's newly formed Digital Media Services business about auto...
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In Digital Podcast 49, we interview Richard Cottrell, Chief Executive Officer of Accenture's newly formed Digital Media Services business about automating the digital supply chain. Richard describes Accenture's planned offerings and how acquisitions like Digiplug and Origin Digital play a role in building out the services. Our interest in the story was triggered by the announcement of the Orig... read more
In Digital Podcast 49, we interview Richard Cottrell, Chief Executive Officer of Accenture's newly formed Digital Media Services business about automating the digital supply chain. Richard describes Accenture's planned offerings and how acquisitions like Digiplug and Origin Digital play a role in building out the services. Our interest in the story was triggered by the announcement of the Origin Digital acquisition. We interviewed Origin Digitalrsquo;s CEO Darcy Lorincz last year at Digital Hollywood and learned a bit about their efforts to automate the value chain. Richard describes the new offering in Digital Podcast 49. This is a new line of business for Accenture that complements their professional services business. With Digital Media Services, Accenture is working to provide an end to end solution for the value chain. The services cover five key areas. Asset management, transcoding to new formats, distribution of the content, commercial intelligence and digital rights management are all parts of the value chain. Accenture's current offering covers the first three areas. They see the market as being a potentially $1 billion addressable market and the current providers are highly fragmented. Richard says that the major media companies are looking for people who can bring both market expertise, global reach and secure financial backing. Richard describes the benefits of the service being reduced investment costs, reduced complexity, reduced operating expenses and faster time to market. The entrance of major players like Accenture into the automation of the digital supply chain is indicative of the increasing maturity of the digital media business and the exciting opportunities to bring supply chain thinking and technology to maximize the opportunity of digital media. If you are interested in the real operations behind the digital media business this is a podcast worth listening to. In two to three years, these types of services have the ability to become the backbone of digital media as it grows into a significant business. [tags]digital supply chain, Accenture[/tags]
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