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Previews: meet the finalists of the SIIA digital content innovation showcase

September 4, 2013 By

Digital Content & Media Summit

Who are the companies who are transforming the digital content world? The Previews programme was designed by SIIA, with the support of Newstex LLC, to uncover the latest new innovative businesses in digital content. Over the last few years many Previews alumni have gone on to great things.

For 2013 for the first time, the Previews programme has come to Europe, and the six shortlisted businesses will be showcased at the SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit. 

Here’s a sneak peek at the six finalists who will be presenting on 24 September in London: [Read more...]

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Ten highlights of SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit

September 2, 2013 By

SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit

What are your hot issues around digital content and media?  With over 40 speakers, twenty panel sessions and workshops, over a dozen round tables and plenty of networking sessions, there’s sure to be answers at the SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit on 23-25 September at One Wimpole Street, London.

Here’s my personal top ten highlights of the programme, designed to provide new ideas on digital media survival skills, plus plenty of practical tips to grow your revenues across web, mobile, data, video, events and communities.

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SIIA Lights Up Time Square to Promote Early Stage East

July 29, 2013 By

Kathy Greenler Sexton, VP and General Manager of SIIA’s Content Division, and Ethan Eisner, Board Chair Content Division, were SIIA ambassadors at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange on June 25th to promote the Early Stage East Conference, one of the largest geographic venture conferences for promising young companies, that will take place on September, 26th in Philadelphia. This opportunity came as a result of the announcement of Innovation Ventures, LP and SIIA’s partnership on the upcoming Early Stage East conference.

Kathy Greenler Sexton, VP and General Manager, Content Division, and Ethan Eisner, Board Chair, Content Division, were SIIA ambassadors at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange

Early Stage East declared SIIA member ReportLinker the winner of a venture competition held at the SIIA’s Strategic & Financial Investment Conference in New York City.  ReportLinker, will also present at Early Stage East’s Club Pitch Commerce Venture Conference in Philadelphia on September, 26th.

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Digital Survival skills for publishers: preview of SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit

July 26, 2013 By

SIIA Digital Content & Media Summit

Publishing has changed forever, and media owners will have to learn a whole new set of digital survival skills to thrive in a world of digital content – before brands, retailers, government and start-ups eat their lunch.

What are these skills, and which media businesses are already putting them into practice? And what can publishers learn from organisations outside the media industry?

Showcasing excellence in these new digital skills from within and outside media and providing publishers with practical advice on how to apply them to their business is the focus of a new SIIA event  - the Digital Content & Media Summit, taking place 23-25 September at One Wimpole Street, London.

Carolyn Morgan previews the six key digital survival skills and some of the stories that will be told at the Summit…

If you haven’t time to read this article, listen to the recording using this link:

Digital Survival skills for publishers

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Meet Previews Presenting Company Delve

January 21, 2013 By

Sandeep Ayyappan, CEO, Delve

Meet Previews Presenting Company Delve, from the voice of the CEO, Sandeep Ayyappan.

What does Delve Do?
Delve helps organizations turn news into knowledge using a personalized news reader for each employee and a private social layer where anyone can recommend and discuss relevant stories with their colleagues.

What is your secret sauce that will make you successful?
We use our algorithms to identify and recommend the most relevant stories to professionals in a range of industries, and then we make it much easier to engage colleagues on what they’re reading and why it matters. Being able to find better stories and share them more easily creates better questions and conversations inside any organization.

What are you looking to achieve in presenting at IIS (Investors, Partners, Content)?
We’re currently working on our seed round and we’re looking for potential strategic investors, and we’d love to build relationships with publishers who might be interested in distributing content through our platform as well.

What would you say is your favorite breakthrough technology or company?
I don’t recall a technology that changed my life in as many ways as the original iPhone. I bought it a few months after the first one came out. It was painfully slow and often couldn’t get reception, but how much it allowed me to do and the simplicity of its interface changed the way I listened to music, talked on the phone, played games, and even surfed the internet.

Learn more about Delve, and the other 2013 Previews Presenting companies at IIS Breakthrough. Each presenting company will deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers during the IIS Breakthrough event being held from January 30-31, 2013 in New York City. Presenting companies will also have 5-minutes for audience Q&A and an opportunity to showcase their companies to IIS attendees during the SIIA Previews and CODIEs Showcase and Networking reception. To top things off, the IIS audience will vote on the company they believe is most likely to succeed.

About Previews
Over the past six years, SIIA Previews has showcased innovative content companies, including publishers, media, aggregators, and technology plays, and 2013 SIIA Previews will feature the 100th Preview Company!

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Meet Previews Presenting Company PublishThis

January 17, 2013 By

Meet 2013 Previews Presenting company PublishThis trough the words of Matt Kumin, the CEO & Founder.

In a sentence tells us what your company does.

PublishThis is a Cloud-Based Content Marketing Platform. Our easy-to-use content solutions help businesses better engage their customers, amplify their website traffic, automate content marketing, build thought-leadership, improve competitive intelligence, increase lead conversion, and reduce digital publishing costs. In short we do 3 things really well:

  1. Amazing Content Discovery: Our next-generation semantic and social technology organizes the world’s content into customized streams based on interests and relevancies in real-time.
  2. Dead Simple Publishing: We remove friction from the content creation and publishing process with sophisticated technology, tools, and systems.
  3. Fuel Audience Passions: With PublishThis be an authoritative publisher and drive deeper customer engagement through content and social in a matter of minutes.

What is your secret sauce that will make you successful?

PublishThis leverages patent-pending semantic search technology to discover the most relevant and socially trending content for over 250,000 topics across a multiple of industry categories from Business, Health and Autos to Travel, Politics and Entertainment Our core technologies include Semantic Search Engine: 250k+ topics semantically tagged across 20 million+ data points; Social Trending Algorithm: Monitor topics that are most retweeted, shared, and liked across social networks; Advanced Filtering: Create custom filters from over 250k+ top sources and twitter influencers; Powerful CUration Tools: Package any content type + add original commentary; Content Library Ingestion: Semantically tag your own content library and mix with real-time web content; Simplified Publishing: Powerful API’s, WordPress plugins & embeddable widgets What are you looking to achieve in presenting at IIS (Investors, Partners, Content)? We are excited to meet potential investors, develop new partnerships, and absorb the great programming.

Since theme is Breakthrough – what is your favorite breakthrough technology or company?

Not surprisingly Mobile/Tablet is an incredible growth opportunity for all us folks in the content ecosystem. Whether it’s Native Applications, HTML5 web experiences, or Responsive Design each area presents a wealth of opportunities and challenges. Here at PublishThis we’re thrilled to be rolling out products that allow Content Marketers to publish their custom feeds of content to Mobile/Tablet ready frameworks with little to no additional IT development effort

Learn more about PublishThis, and the other 2013 Previews Presenting companies at IIS Breakthrough. Each presenting company will deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers during the IIS Breakthrough event being held from January 30-31, 2013 in New York City. presenting companies will also have 5-minutes for audience Q&A and an opportunity to showcase their companies to IIS attendees during the SIIA Previews and CODIEs Showcase and Networking reception. To top things off, the IIS audience will vote on the company they believe is most likely to succeed. About Previews Over the past six years, SIIA Previews has showcased innovative content companies, including publishers, media, aggregators, and technology plays, and 2013 SIIA Previews will feature the 100th Preview Company! Each Presenting company has been selected after two rounds of Judging. To qualify, presenting companies must have less than $10 M in revenue, no more than series A financing, and real customers.

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Meet Previews Presenting Company Gust

January 17, 2013 By

Meet 2013 Previews Presenting company Gust through the words of David S. Rose, the Founder & CEO.

David S. Rose, Founder & CEO, Gust

In a sentence tells us what your company does.

Gust, winner of the 2012 CODiE Award for Best Collaboration/Social Networking solution, is the global platform for sourcing and managing early-stage angel and venture capital investments, connecting high-growth entrepreneurs with sophisticated investors and providing online support for all aspects of the investment relationship.

What is your secret sauce that will make you successful?

Gust’s secret sauce is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry. Today, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angel investors in the world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages. Gust is used as the exclusive collaboration platform by 85% of the world’s organized angel investors, by over 1,000 venture capital funds and angel networks, 200 accelerators and business plan competitions, and a host of national and transnational organizations. As a result, over 160,000 companies actively use Gust for investor relations, and over 40,000 Accredited Investors use Gust to manage their deal flow and portfolios. We have already facilitated and tracked over $1.8 billion dollars of seed and early stage investments.

What are you looking to achieve in presenting at IIS (Investors, Partners, Content)?

Partnerships! As the definitive infrastructure platform for the world of innovative startups, we are looking to partner with any organization that is involved with startups, innovation, investment, venture capital, economic development, early stage finance, entrepreneurial ecosystems, or financial data.

Fun Questions – Since theme is Breakthrough – what is your favorite breakthrough technology or company?

Comixology, one of the companies that presented at last year’s SIIA Previews (and that incidentally was funded through Gust), is the world’s largest digital comic book platform, an industry they created. Comixology powers over 90% of all digital comic book sales, and was the top-grossing non-Game application in the Apple App Store for 2012 (and #3 overall, out of 800,000 apps.)

Learn more about Gust, and the other 2013 Previews Presenting companies at IIS Breakthrough. Each presenting company will deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers during the IIS Breakthrough event being held from January 30-31, 2013 in New York City. Presenting companies will also have 5-minutes for audience Q&A and an opportunity to showcase their companies to IIS attendees during the SIIA Previews and CODIEs Showcase and Networking reception. To top things off, the IIS audience will vote on the company they believe is most likely to succeed. About Previews Over the past six years, SIIA Previews has showcased innovative content companies, including publishers, media, aggregators, and technology plays, and 2013 SIIA Previews will feature the 100th Preview Company! Each Presenting company has been selected after two rounds of Judging. To qualify, presenting companies must have less than $10 M in revenue, no more than series A financing, and real customers.

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