2008 CTAM Summit
Digital Media Lab Sponsors
ActiveVideo Networks
ActiveVideo Networks, which infuses TV with Web content and
interactivity, is demonstrating a new portal to an immersive
personal TV experience that includes: new ETV applications for
unparalleled video-rich interactivity via any digital STB;
user-generated content; Web-driven channels from CNN, HSN, TAG
Networks and other brands; VoD menuing that drives usage;
advertising showcases that lead directly to product information
and purchases; and applications that allow engagement with
programming in a social networking context. For more
information visit
www.avnetworks.com
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Anystream®
Anystream®, the leader in digital media production and
management solutions, enables content and service providers to
produce, manage and monetize content for multiplatform delivery
to any end-user device. Anystream’s media lifecycle platform
automates production workflows and centralizes asset management,
scheduling, distribution and reporting for advertising,
security, UGC and globalization.
Cable Positive
Founded in 1992, Cable Positive is a non profit
organization dedicated to unifying the talents, resources,
access and influence of the communications industry to raise
AIDS awareness; to fund AIDS education, research and care; and
to promote a more compassionate climate for people whose lives
have been affected by HIV and AIDS.
ClickSquared
ClickSquared is the premier interactive relationship
marketing provider of intelligent, multi-channel marketing
solutions creating perfectly timed, personalized interactions
across all online and off-line direct channels. Leveraging a
team of marketing and technology experts and an on-demand
marketing platform, ClickSquared develops and executes
accountable acquisition, growth and loyalty programs to help
build some of the world’s best known brands.
Ensequence
Ensequence, the interactive television company, is changing the
future of television. Ensequence partners with the world’s most
innovative programmers, advertisers and distributors to create
the most sophisticated interactive television experiences and
deliver these experiences across the widest range of platforms –
including television, broadband, mobile devices and Blu-ray
Discs. Ensequence clients include: Spike TV, Bravo, Nike, Major
League Baseball Advanced Media, Sony Pictures Home
Entertainment, HSN, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, QVC UK, DIRECTV and
DISH Network.
ESRI’s Geographic Information System
ESRI’s Geographic Information System (GIS) applications
enable cable enterprises to think, analyze and act
geographically. With ArcGIS Business Analyst you can combine
business and network data with customer profiles and marketing
analytics to identify your best customers and find more like
them.
ESRI's ArcGIS Business Analyst software, coupled with telecom
data, provides unique insights into market dynamics and help
develop strategies to analyze the competition and execute
targeted marketing campaigns.
To learn more visit
www.esri.com/telecom
EWTN Global Catholic Network
EWTN
Global Catholic Network is the world’s largest Catholic media
network offering commercial-free, family-oriented programming
across a variety of genres. EWTN is the cable industry’s key to
reaching the country’s largest faith group. EWTN Espańol, our
dedicated Spanish language network, is now available throughout
the U.S. Come visit us in the Digital Media Lab (booth #2217)
to learn how EWTN can help you acquire and retain loyal
subscribers while being free of all license fees.
FamilyNet Television
FamilyNet Television is a cable channel that entertains and
equips today's family. FamilyNet provides safe, wholesome,
values-based programs that appeal to all ages, including, music
specials, children's programming, classic movies and original
shows.
Front Porch
Front Porch has provided direct-to-the-browser content
delivery services for Internet providers since 1998. Our
solutions and network appliances are deployed in over 33
countries on over 3,000 networks. Front Porch helps Internet
providers interact with their subscribers by delivering the
right content to the right user at the right time, anytime they
are browsing the Internet. Benefits include increased revenue
opportunities, improved customer satisfaction, and cost
reductions.
Hostway
Hostway is the largest Web hosting company in North
America and one of the top 3 hosting companies worldwide.
Through Hostway, cable companies can, under their own brands,
offer Web services to their residential and SMB customers
including: hosting, MS Exchange, ecommerce, online marketing,
site design and more. Operating more than 450,000 square feet of
state-of-the-art data centers, Hostway maintains a direct
presence in 11 countries with 15 worldwide operation centers and
over 700 employees.
Macrovision
Macrovision is focused on providing a uniquely simple digital
home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to
businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to
consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision’s technologies
are deployed by companies in the cable and satellite, CE,
entertainment, and online distribution markets to solve
industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more
robust user experience to their customers. Macrovision provides
IPGs; metadata on TV programming, movies, music and games;
connected middleware; and copy protection
MavTV
MavTV is a 24/7 linear cable and satellite television
network targeting the male demographic. Offering a full slate
of uniquely original content in SD and HD, MavTV features all
the themes relevant to men: “Insane Sports, Gadgets, Women,
Laughs, and Gaming.” Launched on October 1, 2004, the
independently owned and operated network is now available in
over 60 markets across the U.S., as well as, in Canada, the UK,
Australia, and Africa. For more information, visit
www.mavtv.com.
MediaScrape
MediaScrape is a digital “broadercaster” of global,
multi-lingual breaking video. Our licensed syndication partners
include BBC News; CBC News; Asia News International, and
Reuters.
Through our “REVbox” B2B embeddable widget,
MediaScrape distribution opportunities empower content producers
with a global outlet to further monetize video assets, while
offering web publishers a dynamic and consolidated source for
breaking news, complete with immersive value added services that
integrate all manner of contextual content. The resulting cross
distribution channels provide advertiser’s access to highly
targeted and measurable online and mobile audiences.
MediaScrape: Anyscreen, Anywhere, Anytime in Any
Language.
Net2Phone
Net2Phone is the original pioneer in VoIP solutions. Over
250,000 subscribers strong, Net2Phone is a full OSS/BSS
integrator and wholesale voice carrier that provides turnkey
private label residential, business and enterprise voice
offerings to cable operators, universities, utilities and other
service providers. Net2phone’s digital voice products come with
all the features customers expect, plus many more enhanced
features and smart tools that will exceed your client’s
expectations.
Openet
Openet, the leader in Transactional Intelligence,
provides advanced advertising solutions for cable, telco, and
mobile service providers.
Openet’s Audience Measurement –
the cornerstone for our suite of advertising solutions - enables
the standardization of real-time, subscriber usage data across
multiple platforms monitoring activity such as viewing behavior,
downloads, and browsing. Correlating that data with myriad
sources of public and private information further enables the
service provider to build demographic and psychographic profiles
of unprecedented depth and accuracy that will ultimately drive
real-time ad serving decisions.
With a
vast footprint and an established knowledge of how consumers
work and play, Openet is uniquely positioned to help MNOs garner
a better understanding of their subscribers and strengthen their
position in the advertising supply chain.
Openet has
long-running engagements with many of the world’s leading and
most innovative service providers, including AT&T, BT, Orange,
Verizon Wireless, and Telstra.
www.openet.com
PlumChoice
Since 2001, PlumChoice
has been the industry leader in technical innovation and
integrated services, providing customers with affordable
solutions to their technology problems anytime, anywhere.
Through its exclusive SAFElink™ platform, PlumChoice offers
comprehensive flexible service options for networking, software,
PCs, MP3 players, digital cameras, mobile devices and MORE.
PlumChoice’s U.S.-based, 100% industry-certified technicians are
available 24/7/365. PlumChoice’s Partner program helps business
partners add technical services to extend their connection to
both consumer and SMB customers and grow revenue quickly.
Rainbow Media
Rainbow
Media is a leading producer of targeted, multi-platform content,
creating some of the world’s most compelling and dynamic
entertainment brands, including AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel, WE
tv, IFC in Theaters, Festival Direct and VOOM HD Networks.
Visit booth #2116 for an array of innovative programming from
the world’s largest collection of HD channels, exciting original
HD VOD and HSI content and the latest in day/date theatrical
movies on demand.
RCH
RCH, is a cable exclusive field services provider. RCH
has served the cable industry for over 31 years interacting with
millions of customers. RCH's goals for our clients are: Acquire
new customers; Retain current customers. RCH upgrade campaigns
emphasize securing existing customers against the competition.
RCH retention specialists collect past due monies, save
customers and recover cable company equipment
ReelzChannel
ReelzChannel is the only television channel and website
dedicated to everything about movies and the people who make
them. We go beyond the other sources of information and
entertainment by taking movie fans deeper into the world of
movies and sharing information they won’t find anywhere else.
On air and online, ReelzChannel covers the movies wherever they
are playing – in theaters, on DVD, VOD/PPV and premium channels.
Renegade
For more than 20 years, Renegade has been redefining the agency
model. Advertising. Production. Training. All under one roof.
From market planning and strategy to off-the-shelf creative
campaigns, we fit the cable industry like no other advertising
or training partner. Our diverse team of artists and strategists
create messaging that resonates with audiences and get results.
Need to make your numbers? Then, you need Renegade. Visit us at
renegadeknowscable.com or call 1.866.4RENEGADE.
Siegel+Gale
Siegel+Gale is a global, strategic brand consulting firm,
founded on the notion that Simple is Smart. In fact, throughout
our 40 year history working in media and entertainment, we have
relied on ‘break-through simplicity’ to achieve our clients’
business objectives, by defining and expressing an
organization’s unique identity and then dramatizing their brand
promise across all communications, touchpoints and platforms,
including: broadcast media, digital cable & telephony, Internet,
mobile devices, emerging media platforms, telecom networks and
traditional media. Beyond media & entertainment or expertise
also spans financial services, healthcare, non-profit, consumer
packaged goods, and more.
TARGUSinfo
TARGUSinfo is a leading provider of on-demand information
solutions for US enterprises serving both consumer and
commercial markets. TARGUSinfo possesses a unique ability to
deliver precise, relevant and actionable information about US
consumers and businesses because it delivers a fully integrated
solution using 3 core capabilities - a uniquely accurate data
repository of US consumer and business information; an advanced
analytics platform that incorporates customer-defined rules and
data sources; and a true, real-time infrastructure that compiles
and delivers the most up-to-date and relevant information at the
moment it is queried - whether on the Web, over the phone or at
the point of sale.
Universal Electronics Inc.
Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) develops software, firmware
and turnkey solutions that enable consumers to wirelessly
connect, control and interact with an increasingly complex home
environment. UEI’s primary markets include OEMs in consumer
electronics, personal computing, as well as MSOs in cable and
satellite subscription broadcasting. www.uei.com
Valassis
Valassis, the nation’s leading marketing services company,
provides national and local targeting and trade area analysis,
print and online media services to cable MSOs, broadcast, cable
and affiliate networks and programmers nationwide. Offering
unparalleled reach and scale to more than 15,000 advertisers,
our RedPlum portfolio delivers value on a weekly basis to over
100 million shoppers across a multi-media platform – in-home,
in-store and in-motion.
Wilen Group
WILEN GROUP is a leading marketing communications, printing and
promotions company that provides strategy, creative resources,
data and analysis, state-of-the-art printing and end-to-end
fulfillment to a variety of clients nationwide.
