I spoke with Dakota Sullivan, the Vice President of Marketing at Adap.TV. Adap.TV is a new breed of video advertising platform designed to leverage different ad networks for Publishers as well as Ad networks to reach their target audience. One of the most well know placement is an in-stream banner overlay (max 468x66) which appears with a corresponding contextual link to an advertiser.

Company Site: Adap.tv

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I spoke with David Frigeri, General Manager & VP for Content Delivery at Internap about their CDN and managed hosting business. In addition to our conversation, I've listed some thoughts and issues in the marketplace also worth noting.
 

Adaptive Video Delivery seems to be an important trend for video distribution with next generation broadband video solutions and how it stacks up against true peer to peer delivery

Ad insertion models for media distribution are becoming vital, although there does not seem to be a lot of effort to target ads based on customer demographics

Recent activity in the CDN marketplace and who owns what intellectual property

Forward and store video is something CDN's do not seem to be talking about

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Mirco Pasqualini, Developer of CrossCast Systems was recently in the States and stopped by our New York office to demo their content management and delivery system. Geared for media companies, CrossCast is as robust as any system I have seen, this including BrightCove.

Having said that, without significant funding and adoption by large media outlets in the U.S or Europe, I think the company, located in Northern Italy is going to have their work cut out for them.

   
Recently I spoke to John Edwards, President and CEO of Move Networks. We spoke about a variety of topics including the companies business focus, why he considers their delivery network superior to tradition open networks, why the company is not a tradition CDN or P2P company, but a vertical in the end too end content delivery space, plus other topics.

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