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From The NATPE Budapest Floor

Today is NATPE Budapest’s last day. The four-day market began on the afternoon of Monday, June 27. There wasn’t any real excitement for the business at hand, but participants were (…)

By |June 30th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Live From NATPE Budapest

NATPE Budapest is back in the Pest section of the Hungarian capital after a two-year hiatus. VideoAge journalists last attended the 28th edition of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) (…)

By |June 27th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

VideoAge’s New Issue Will Rock & Rattle You

Proponents of a new television world without broadcast television are urged to read the June/July Issue of VideoAge, which, among other stories, includes a review of the recent in-person (and (…)

By |June 23rd, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Problems With Streaming (and Solutions)

There is never good news when discussing streaming platforms — at any and every level, at any and every event — at trade conferences, in print, in C-suites, and on (…)

By |June 20th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

NATPE Miami Becomes NATPE Global, and Faces Universal Challenges     

On May 25, NATPE reps organized a visit to a potential NATPE 2023 venue (as exclusively reported by VideoAge in December 2021) in Nassau, The Bahamas, for 11 people from (…)

By |June 16th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

An AFM Preview 140 Days Ahead

Last month, the American Film Market (AFM) marketing department sent a note to all potential exhibitors and participants to announce that, for its first in-person market since 2019 (before the (…)

By |June 13th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Q&A With MIP Africa’s New President Sisanda Henna

MIP Africa’s debut is set for August 24-26, 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa, thanks to RX Africa, part of the RX Group, which organizes, among other TV markets, MIPCOM (…)

By |June 9th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

A Book to Explain VideoAge’s New Front Cover Story

While reading the recent review of a new book in the New York Times Book Review, we at VideoAge‘s Water Cooler started relating it to the status of the current (…)

By |June 6th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Task of Replacing Old Media

In the past, new media could not replace or displace old media. Audiocassettes didn’t replace vinyl records. Even mp3 and streaming sound failed to fully replace vinyl discs, which are (…)

By |June 2nd, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

L.A. Screenings 2022 PhotoReport

The 15 photos in the carousel below don’t do justice to the hectic activities of the most recent L.A. Screenings, which started with the Upfronts in New York City on (…)

By |May 25th, 2022|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments