NYC Web Video Marketplace Expands to 15 Participating Companies

NYC Web Video Marketplace Expands to 15 Participating Companies
Earlier this month at the Beet.TV Executive Retreat in Vieques, we spoke with Paul Kontonis, VP/Group Director at Digitas and one of the key architects of the Digital Content NewFronts, about the upcoming program and the emerging opportunities for brands around Web original programming.The Digitas NewFronts day is April 26. Participants include AOL, Microsft Advertising, Yahoo, YouTube, Hulu, Vevo, Web video shops including Alloy Digital and Direct Broadcasting Group and others. Digitas is the only advertising agency hosting a NewFronts program.Andy Plesser
The one-day marketplace for Web original videos in New York, called the Digitas NewFront, an annual event over the past five years, has greatly expanded this year to become a two-week program with the participation of the major video portals along with top Web studio creators and syndicators.The new industry-wide program is called the Digital Content NewFronts.

Dropcam ships smallest Wi-Fi monitoring camera
It offers 720p video quality and is powered through a USB port…. The Dropcam HD is paired with a free Android (free, Google Play) or iOS (free, App Store) app that lets users see what it sees from wherever they are, as well as through any browser. Dropcam, makers of the Echo wireless camera home monitoring system we had a chance to review earlier, has now shipped what it calls the smallest HD Wi-Fi video monitoring camera.