Mediahub, a convenient and cost-efficient e-platform for content providers and users to share, buy and sell programs, was officially launched today at the Asia Media Summit 2011.
This business-oriented video sharing website is a new service AIBD members can benefit by uploading, sharing, exposing their trailers, demos or pilots to more than 140 registered high profile customers ready for content acquisition.
Mediahub, a convenient and cost-efficient e-platform for content providers and users to share, buy and sell programs, was officially launched today at the Asia Media Summit 2011.
This business-oriented video sharing website is a new service AIBD members can benefit by uploading, sharing, exposing their trailers, demos or pilots to more than 140 registered high profile customers ready for content acquisition.
AIBD Director Yang Binyuan and Mr. Hughes D’Annoux, Chairman of Worldview Global Media Centre for Development and the Global Media Centre for Development graced the launching of Mediahub.
In his message, Mr. D’Annoux said Mediahub is an essential service for broadcasters to tap content from leading content providers across the globe. He said there has been excitement over this service that hopefully will lead to more face to face engagement and help secure business opportunities to buy and sell content between content providers and content users.
Mr. Binyuan urged AIBD members to take advantage of this service, which will add value to their programming for greater audience reach as well as open up new business opportunities, and expand their market share and maximize distribution revenues.
At the launch, participants had the opportunity to view a short video clip of the Mediahub profile, its benefits to subscribers and some trailers it has secured from some content providers around the world.
Mediahub also provides other services to include capacity building, marketing and promotion, and educational certification.
MediaHub is operated by the Kuala Lumpur-based Global Media Center for Development (GMCD), a joint initiative between AIBD and WGMH.
Mediahub Launched at the Asia Media Summit
Mediahub, a convenient and cost-efficient e-platform for content providers and users to share, buy and sell programs, was officially launched today at the Asia Media Summit 2011.
This business-oriented video sharing website is a new service AIBD members can benefit by uploading, sharing, exposing their trailers, demos or pilots to more than 140 registered high profile customers ready for content acquisition.
Responding to Digital Stresses
Who will survive and grow as broadcasters face digital stresses brought about by the speed of technological advances, audience fragmentation and changing viewing behavior, and the challenges of strong competition?
Mr. Herve Michel, Deputy Director, International Affairs, France Televisions, France, said the key to success is mastering programming, and developing strong brands.
Content Innovations for Richer Viewing Experience
Innovations in web documentaries and multimedia storytelling techniques are offering a more exciting and richer viewing experience to the public. They establish a new interactive relationship with the audience and may set precedence in content production made available in multiple delivery platforms.
AMS is Fun and Exciting
[img_assist|nid=1615|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=67]More than 20 students from three universities in Hanoi are having fun and learning much from their voluntary work during the Asia Media Summit 2011. Some said it can be tiring, but its benefits have been fulfilling.
Showing abundant warmth and hospitality common to many Vietnamese people, these students were assigned to assist at the registration desk, secretariat room, presummit workshops and welcome desk at the airport.
New Working Practices in the Broadcast Industry
[img_assist|nid=1592|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=67]The development of new digital technologies and new media have had an impact on working practices in the broadcast industry, particularly in production, journalism and documentation that necessitates critical training to manage change.
UN Secretary General Addresses AMS
Mr. Bang Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, has called on broadcasters and new media players to promote multiple languages in new media and ensure free access to the Internet and social media tools everywhere in order to bridge the digital divide.
Keeping Pace with Digital Technology Advances
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan says Vietnam has kept pace with global technological advances, introducing digital terrestrial TV services in 2005, one of the first countries within Asia Pacific and the world to digitize broadcasting transmission, and completing the transition process from analogue to digital by 2020.
All is Set for the Asia Media Summit Tomorrow
[img_assist|nid=1566|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=67]The Asia Media Summit 2011 that opens in Hanoi tomorrow has attracted more than 300 Vietnamese participants mostly senior officials from national and local radio and television organizations as well as working local and Hanoi-based foreign journalists.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan of Vietnam will deliver the keynote address before more than 500 delegates including invited members of the diplomatic corps who will attend the Summit’s inaugural ceremony at Melia Hotel.