Early bird ticket sales are now open for our exciting EconCeleb conference being organized on July 23rd at Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA. The conference, as the name suggests, is about the Economics of Celebrity Content Online. Celebrity is a booming marketplace and all of this just adds up to good business for an array of old media and new media entrepreneurs. Some of the issues we will discuss: What drives the economics of celebrity content, supply or demand? What are the challenges of monetizing it? Who is creating, producing, and distributing the content? Where are investors seeing opportunities in this new mass and who is capturing the most buzzworthy M&A opportunities to be the biggest and best in the space. More topics here.

Confirmed speakers: We have lined up a star studded roster of speakers till now:
—Nick Denton, Founder & Publisher, Gawker Media
—Bonnie Fuller, Former EVP & Chief Editorial Director, American Media, Inc. Lot more names after the jump…

—Karin Gilford, VP & GM, Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) Entertainment
—Tyler Goldman, CEO, Buzznet
—Frank Griffin, Owner, Bauer-Griffin
—Sheeraz Hasan, Founder and CEO, Hollywood.tv
—Fran Hauser, President, People Digital
—Virginia Heffernan, Columnist, The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Magazine
—Charlie Koones, former President &; Publisher, Variety Group
—Harvey Levin, Managing Editor, TMZ.com; Host & Executive Producer, TMZ
—Mattias Miksche, Co-Founder & CEO, Stardoll
—Craig Peters, VP, Media and Footage, Getty (NYSE: GYI) Images
—David Samuels, Contributor, New Yorker and The Atlantic
—Rob Silverstein, Executive Producer, Access Hollywood
—Brian Sugar, CEO/Publisher, PopSugar

If you have more ideas on topics or speakers ping me at rali AT paidcontent.org. For underwriting, ping our business side at advertising AT contentnext.com.