TORONTO – Stacey Seltzer, senior vice-president of content strategy, acquisition and operations for Internet television company Joost, has been booked by nextMEDIA: The Future of Digital Content conference, running June 8 –10, 2007 at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Banff, Alberta.
He will provide an in-depth look at Joost, including the company’s business model, on June 10.
Stacey has played a key role in the company’s content strategy. Joost features more than 150 channels with programming across all genres, including cartoons and animation, entertainment and film, sports, comedy, lifestyle and documentaries, and sci-fi.
“This is a real coup,” said Mark Greenspan, director of Digital Media for Achilles Media Ltd., the company that organizers nextMEDIA. “The potential of Joost is huge and nextMEDIA delegates will be among the first in Canada to have insight into how Joost is bringing advertisers, content owners and viewers together in an online global TV distribution platform.”
Founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, Joost can be accessed with a broadband
Internet connection and offers broadcast-quality content to viewers for free.