Tubefilter - Tales from the Filterfront

Lots of great things going on at NATPE this week — and the Tubefilter team is in the thick of it. Our CEO, Brady Brim-DeForest is moderating and speaking on panels with folks from ComScore, Blip, DECA, ICM, Digitas, and Mediums. He also had a chance to sit down with C21 media a few weeks ago to discuss the future of digital convergence. Some of his fellow interviewees are below, and you can watch the show here:

Rick Feldman, president and CEO, Natpe
Michael Kassan, chairman and CEO, Media Link
Gene George, exec VP of worldwide distribution, Starz Media
Kevin Beggs, president of television, Lionsgate
Terry Wood, president of creative affairs and development, CBS Television Distribution
Brady Brim DeForest, CEO, Tubefilter
Mort Marcus, co-president, Debmar Mercury
Noreen Halpern, president of dramatic programming, E1 Entertainment.

Jan 22nd

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At last night’s meetup we got ourselves a spot on Foursquare’s trending list. Thanks for showing up everybody! Lots of fun meetup photos from The Bui Brothers coming your way soon.

Jan 20th

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If you’re not familiar with the incredible work Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf have been doing in the world of web television and online video for the last four years, you should be! We’re hosting a very special event tomorrow evening, celebrating the relaunch of their show Epic Fu. We hope you can join us. And, because you’re special (and use Tumblr), we’ve got a special 20% off code for you to use: tubetumblr

The event kicks off at 7:30pm (Thursday, Jan. 21) at Busby’s here in Los Angeles. Grab your tickets before they’re gone!

Jan 18th

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Happy Martin Luther King Day from the Tubefilter Team (hat tip zadi)

Jan 17th

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The making of Vork (the Unbreakable Bank version, that is!)

Jan 14th

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Tubefilter’s COO, Jamison Tilsner, chatted Web TV at CES with Kodak CMO, Jeffrey Hayzlett, Blip.tv co-founder, Dina Kaplan, Rob Barnett of MyDamnChannel, and Andrew Kippen of Boxee.

Jan 12th

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NATPE 2010 is coming up in a few weeks (January 25 - 27), and we’ve got this cool video about paramecium and television executives to prove it. And in a long awaited change, NATPE is billing itself this year as a multi-platform video content conference.

Tubefilter is presenting a panel, Relevant Ratings in a Distributed Content Ecosystem on January 26, moderated by our CEO, Brady Brim-DeForest, who will be joined by:

Rafi Mamalian, West Coast Advertising Director at Blip.tv;
John McCarus, VP, Group Director, Brand Content, at The Third Act: a unit of Digitas;
Claudia Cahill, EVP Corporate Development, at Medium, Levity Entertainment Group; and
Dean Logan, Director of Research and Development, Video Products, at comScore.

A couple of these folks (John and Brady), will also appear earlier in the day on a second digital panel, Of the Web, By the Web, For the Web, produced by the IAWTV. They will be joined by moderator and IAWTV Chair, Michael Wayne, the Co-Founder & CEO of DECA, and George Ruiz, Head of New Media/SVP Business Affairs, at International Creative Management.

For those who haven’t yet snagged their tickets, you can get $100 off with this special Tubefilter discount code: NATPETF

Jan 12th

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It’s time for a party — but not just any party. It’s the Tubefilter Hollywood Web Television Meetup with Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf as they relaunch Epic Fu!

So, Tweet about it, blog about it, then grab your tickets and join us in Los Angeles on January 21. Can’t make it? You can watch live at Tubefilter the night of the event. Thanks to HP and Intel for sponsoring this month’s event!

Jan 11th

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We discovered some Blip.mas cheer from Dina Kaplan of Blip.tv when we got back from the holiday: a Roku—and you can watch the Streamy Awards on it! Thanks, Blip.tv!

Jan 11th

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These signs went up in Tubefilter HQ today: Sleep is the enemy. (via bradybd)