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[phpslash-users] Invite: Content Management Summit, Oct. 10th New York City
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From: Venture R. <ne...@ri...> - 2002-09-12 19:06:00
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Venture Reporter 307 West 36th Street, 10th Floor New York, New York 10018 Phoe: 646.473.2222 The online content business.</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#000099" vlink="#990099" alink="#000099"> <p><font class="body"><font size="3" class="title"><img src="http://www.cmsummit.com/images/right_02.gif" alt="CMS" width="127" height="110"> <img src="http://www.cmsummit.com/images/cms_title.gif" alt="CMS" width="350" height="85"> <br> </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Dear Friends,<br> <br> <font color="#009900"><b>The online content business is doing fantastic.</b></font></font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Sound crazy? Perhaps. With advertising,<span lang="en-US"> online </span>and off, taking it on the chin for the past two years, online content sites have been shutting down, laying off staff and pulling back on their offerings.</font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">However, this horrible environment has resulted in an undeniable trend: content businesses are challenging people to pay for content. Finally, after five years of free, people are<span lang="en-US"> beginning </span>to understand that online, as in the real world, you get what you pay for and they are taking out their credit cards. U.S. consumers spent $675 million on paid online content last year, a 92 percent increase over 2000 spending levels, according to Online Publishers Association, and that figure is expected to increase exponentially this year. Look at these success stories:</font></font></font></p> <ul> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">New York Times Digital has been steadily increasing its paid content services over the last year, and registered a 16 percent increase in its total revenues for the latest quarter.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">TheStreet.com brought over $3 million in subscriptions last quarter, an increase of almost 50 percent over the year-ago quarter.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">ConsumerReports.com will reach over a million paying subscribers by the end of this year.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">RealNetworks' consumer multi-media subscription service has more than 750,000 subscribers, bringing in $17.8 million in the last quarter.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">The Wall Street Journal Online added over 6,000 new paying customers last quarter, bringing its subscriber base to 646,000.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">FT.com has signed up 17,000 subscribers in three months since it launched its premium site in May.</font></font></font></div> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">In recognition of this trend we're hosting the third installation of our innovative <a class="" href="http://www.cmsummit.com">Content Management Summit on October 10, 2002</a>. The event charts the changes in the content industry from free to paid subscription services, and the technologies that are<span lang="en-US"> enabling </span>the management and monetizing of content.</font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Our previous Content Management Summit (aka Digital Rights Summit) on October 18 last year in New York City and January 29 in Los Angeles were unqualified successes.</font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">The Content Management Summit III, taking place in New York at the Millennium Broadway on October 10, 2002, will bring together the 100 executives from the leading content and distribution firms for a focused day of networking and discovering practical solutions.</font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">The event will feature presentations from software and services<span lang="en-US"> companies </span>providing services and solutions for selling, distributing, managing, and protecting content.</font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">We're<span lang="en-US"> thrilled </span>that Microsoft, TeleKnowledge, eMeta, and Liquify will all be demonstrating their latest products and services.</font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">The event will also feature six intimate<span lang="en-US"> round tables </span>focusing on various aspects of online content. These panels are meant to provide an informal forum to discuss the challenges facing these specific vertical markets, the changes in the sectors since the dot-com downfall, and best practices in the industry. The panels will feature leading practitioners in each sector, and will also include an interactive question and answer session with the audience.</font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Among the<span lang="en-US"> round table </span>topics will be:</font></font></font></p> <ul> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Weblogs: how they are affecting big media companies, editorially as well as in content delivery/production mechanisms.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Financial news and information companies: how they are using technologies to deliver content to users, and how the economics have changed since the stock market downfall.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Business information services such as Hoovers, Lexis-Nexis and others: best practices in the industry, niche product launches and revenue streams.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Daily news/newspaper companies publishing online: how speed dictates technology choices, and the move towards paid content and its implications, among other issues.</font></font></font></div> </li> <li> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Consumer and entertainment publishers: how do publishers determine the value of entertainment content, the push towards paid subscriptions, online advertising and other issues.</font></font></font></div> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Join us on October 10<sup>th</sup> for this very important event. If you are directly<span lang="en-US"> responsible </span>for content management at a major content site you may qualify for a VIP ticket. Please e-mail your request with your name, title and bio to <a href="mailto:in...@cm...">in...@cm...</a>. If you are with a software or services provider, or anyone not directly responsible for the purchase of content management software or solutions, you can purchase a ticket to this event for $1,200 at <a href="mailto:in...@cm...">in...@cm...</a>. </font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Best Regards,</font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font class="body"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Jason McCabe Calacanis<br> E</font></font><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">ditor-in-Chief & CEO, </font></font><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Venture Reporter & Silicon Alley Reporter </font></font></font></p> <hr width="100%" size="2"> <p class="body"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This email is being sent to php...@li.... </font></small></p> <p class="body"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you would rather not receive these infrequent updates simply click <a href="http://venturereporter.net/myaccount/k.asp?E=php...@li..."> here</a> and you will be removed instantly. </font></small></p> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You can also click the link here or cut and paste it into your browser:<br> <a href="http://venturereporter.net/myaccount/k.asp?E=php...@li..."> http://venturereporter.net/myaccount/k.asp?E=php...@li...</a> </font></small> <p class="body"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> </font></small></p> <div align="center"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Venture Reporter </font></small><br> </div> <div align="center"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 307 West 36th Street, 10th Floor</font></small><small><br> </small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">New York, New York 10018</font></small><small><br> </small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Phoe: 646.473.2222</font></small></div> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br> <font class="body"><br> </font></p> <br> <br> </body> </html> |
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