The Knowledge - Rex Wong
CSB has been working for months on an exciting project with film journalist Andrew Urban of Urbancinefile. We’re interviewing film and television practitioners about their business experiences.
Our aim is to develop a deeper understanding about the history of business decision-making in film and television and to share with our audience the wisdom from the accumulated mistakes, experiments and achievements of the contributors.
Rex Wong - biography
Rex Wong is the CEO of IPTV pioneer DAVE Networks, which powers online video social communities around brands including Disney, CBS, MGM, Endemol, Fremantle and Oxygen Networks. DAVE Networks also powers NEXT.TV, the revolutionary Internet TV service delivered to millions of HP notebooks. Rex is a successful Internet and IT entrepreneur and investor. His previous companies include Applied Semantics, the creators of AdSense, which was acquired by Google, and Accelertech/Einux, a server manufacturer where Rex was President and Founder, which was acquired in 2003.
Rex also serves on the Board of Directors of Adegy, China Genetics and Citation Publishing and is an investor in numerous technology startups. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Envision, a computer retail chain located in Southern California, Executive Vice President for Microcom Computers, Managing Director of the Bureau of China Trade and Investment, and Editor-in-Chief of China Watch and China Watch Online. He is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Interactive TV Alliance (ITA), Monte Jade and the Media Entertainment Technology Alliance (METAL).
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Chapter 1 - Providing digital content - 14 minutes
- Dave Networks – enables multi platform digital distribution
- Australian broadband and mobiles offer faster connections than in US
- Changing viewing patterns from large to small screen
- Release windows still valid – but shorter
- Serials coming back
- Now providing content to set-top box providers
- Installing a player on about 10 million HP consumer notebooks worldwide, growing at 1 million a month – hit a button and watch 50 channels of content (via broadband)
- Content producers should embrace digital technology – no shelf-space limits on the internet
- The Radiohead strategy - free online music release on ‘pay what you want’ model
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Chapter 2 - Opportunities in the digital space - 13 minutes
- Producers follow their (distribution) dream but reality is against them
- Need to think about all facets, pursue different opportunities
- Dave Networks enables content to be made available in as many places as possible
- There are 300 million users looking for good content
- Ad-supported and sell-through models – a wide gamut of digital distribution possibilities
- Different models for different types of content
- Dave Networks helps content creators and distributors connect
- Digital rights can be territorially controlled
- The Internet lowers the geographical barriers for Australia
- Expectations about MG deals have changed – even major studios have stopped asking for them for internet distribution
- Digital distribution has been proven to enhance other distribution activity
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