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RealNetworks and the art of changing the bottleneck
The company that helped the internet find its voice now helps doors recognize faces. Its long detour through media, games and fraud prevention is a useful lesson in what survives when a market moves on.
Citizen Best makes brands travel
From Thai lettering for Netflix to a nonprofit’s donation page, Citizen Best tackles the awkward places where a brand has to work. Its business is making the big idea survive the small details.
Megan Imbres and the Fine Art of Moving People
She planned for finance, found marketing in France, and built a career around one deceptively difficult question: how should a brand make people feel? At Peloton, the answer now has to move both bodies and a business.
Meadowlark Media
Meadowlark Media is a New York and Miami based sports content studio and creator network founded in 2021 by former ESPN president John Skipper and longtime on-air host Dan Le Batard. It develops and produces premium, personality-driven sports storytelling across podcasts, radio, streaming video, and documentary film for third-party buyers such as Netflix, Apple TV+, and DraftKings. Anchored by The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz and a roster that includes Pablo Torre Finds Out and Nothing Personal with David Samson, Meadowlark blends daily audio programming with prestige documentary work like Good Rivals and The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox.
VideoElephant
VideoElephant is a Dublin- and New York-based video content company that sources, licenses, curates and programmes premium video for publishers, streaming services and screens worldwide. It runs a library of millions of rights-cleared video assets from thousands of content providers, and packages that content as single VOD assets, feeds and 24/7 FAST channels, layering on distribution, playout scheduling, monetization and advertising so content owners and buyers can operate video at scale without stitching together multiple vendors.
Jed Jeong
Jed Jeong runs OnDemandKorea, the first and largest legal Korean streaming service in North America, and is CEO of KOOLi Inc. and Head of OTT at ODK Media. He turned a single legal Korean OTT service into a multinational Asian media hub spanning OnDemandKorea, OnDemandChina, OnDemandViet and OnDemandLatino, plus digital magazines, e-commerce, content metadata production and international content IP distribution across 36+ countries. A Daum veteran from Korea's early internet era, he now builds streaming for diaspora audiences who want their stories in their language, wherever they live.