For those that missed it, the full-length version of KISS frontman Gene Simmons’ headline session was the most-watched MIP conference video ever. Not, one fears, for anything he said about his reality TV series « Family Jewels »; rather for his tirade against music pirates and the majors at the end of his session. « The music industry was asleep at the wheel. It didn’t have the balls to go and sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material. So now we’re left with hundreds of thousands of people without jobs » (and it goes on after that!). Result: video picked up by Ars Technica, NME, the Guardian & more; and Simmons’ site being taken down by internet anarchists Anonymous. Also read our liveblog report here.
Next up – but a long way behind – is Facebook’s Joanna Shields, who is effectively in charge of the social network’s European operations. Having affirmed in her presentation (liveblog & full video here) that “The most important word in the internet world today is not search: it’s share, » she added in this interview that the « check-in » capacity of Facebook Places could one day be added to TV shows. Promising stuff…
Third place went to Jumpwire Media’s Gavin McGarry, and his ever-popular cross-media wrap up of MIPCOM. Besides giving props to MIPBlog (yay!) he identified key industry trends such as Apps – MIPCOM sessions on this theme were « packed » – and web video, to name just two. And he reveals nuggets such as the fact that Dexter & Heroes are now more watched via illegal than legal channels. Full video and liveblog report here. Watch/read and learn!
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