Netimperative Directors Dinner: The next chapter for video sharing sites
- When:
- May 21, 2008 from 18:30 to 22:00
Topic: Video sharing sites have soared in popularity, accounting for one in every 45 UK Internet visits in Febuary 2008, according to Hitwise.
But how can we best monetize this hunger for internet video? This month’s Directors Dinner will be hosted by Kate Burns, Managing Director,
UK of Dailymotion.This event will give you a chance to discuss the latest trends in video sharing with industry peers. What ad formats perform best on video sharing sites? Is enough being done with the technology available? And how can we harness the relationship between video sharing and social
networking?.
Date: Wednesday May 21st 2008
Timings: 6:30pm -10pm
Venue: Ristorante Biagio, 2nd Floor Private Room, 189 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9ES
Cost: £95.00 + VAT per person
Speaker: Kate Burns, Managing Director, UK, Dailymotion
Sponsor: Weboptimiser
Guests Attending:
Kate Burns, Dailymotion
Davina Lines, Netimperative
Charlie Lines, Netimperative
Conrad Swailes, Weboptimiser
John Guria, Weboptimiser
David White, Weboptimiser
Melina Jacovou, Propel London
James Webb, Propel London
Craig Hill, Digital Outlook
Patrick Stirling, Advertising.com
Jarrod Robinson, Tourdates Limited
Kate's Biography: Kate Burns, Managing Director, UK
As Managing Director of Dailymotion UK, Kate Burns has overall responsibility for directing Dailymotion in the UK, reporting to CEO Mark Zaleski. This includes growing the user base to increase visitor traffic and add more user-generated and official content to the site, as well as building an advertising sales operation and creating commercial partnerships with brands and advertising agencies. Kate Burns has played a leading role in the development of the UK’s digital media industry for over a decade with experience of launching and leading several businesses to success including Google and Doubleclick. She joined Google in 2001 as its first employee outside the US and went on to develop the company’s most profitable and fastest growing, region rising to become Director, UK, Ireland and Benelux. At Google, Kate pioneered a new sales structure that was adopted globally and built a significant team to localise and promote new products. She left to offer consultancy services to internet businesses such as SearchRev, Signature, AdLink and buy.at as well as launching her own ventures such as building Ibiza’s first holistic, five star retreat opening later this year. Prior to joining Google, Kate was Pan-European Sales Director for Altavista and before that she spent three years at Doubleclick joining as their first sales person in the UK. She has also worked for Ziff Davis and News International.
About Daily motion
Dailymotion A top 30 website worldwide, Dailymotion is the world's largest independent provider of premium user generated and licensed online video
entertainment (Source: Alexa and ComScore) with 2billion page views per month. Every day, 15,000 new videos are uploaded into Dailymotion's global
network of localised video entertainment sites, where a programming team turns the user generated and licenced content into a high quality, entertainment experience for the 3.32 million monthly unique visitors. Using the most advanced technology for both users and content creators, Dailymotion provides a
high quality video in a fast, easy to use website that also automatically filters infringing material using technical finger-printing technology.
Dailymotion's mission is to provide the best possible entertainment experience for users and the best business experience for content owners.