Gary Wang, Tudou.com: Net needs more cash
Thursday 2 October 2008
MIPCOM keynote speaker Gary Wang is founder and CEO of China’s leading video sharing site, Tudou.com, that launched in April 2005. He was previously with the Bertelsmann Group and BOL China.Wang is clear about the differences between internet services and traditional television channels, and believes there is a place for both. “We have seen just recently what advantages television has over other media, with the Olympics,” he said. “For live events like that, television is the right medium.”
The internet is there to satisfy consumers’ growing need for instant gratification. “It allows ...
Former Disney CEO and now - with 
MIPCOM keynote Philippe Dauman describes Viacom as “unique among the major media companies… a pure play
content company with a ton of great
brands”. Some of those brands are
well known and distributed
throughout the world, he said, while
“some are teenagers, and some are
infants with a lot of room to grow”.
As part of Reed MIDEM’s Going Green policy, October 13 at MIPCOM features a series of green-themed conferences.
Cyma Zarghami, president of Nickelodeon, is this year’s MIPCOM Junior keynote speaker. In her address she will draw on her considerable experience to offer her take on the state of children’s media around the world.
Chad Hurley, co-founder and CEO of 
The Creativity Keynote address on Tuesday, October 14 is given by Gary Carter (left), president, creative networks and chief creative officer, FremantleMedia, with web personality, comedian, public speaker and university lecturer, Ze Frank. Gary Carter spoke to the MIPCOM Preview's Julian Newby.
