David Kaplan
Jul 12, 2011 8:43 AM
Ad industry veteran David Verklin says he will step down as CEO of Canoe Ventures, the interactive TV joint venture backed by the major cable companies, at the end of the summer. COO Kathy Timko will take over his post on an interim basis. There is no executive search going…
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David Kaplan
Feb 19, 2010 8:53 AM
Pali Capital’s Rich Greenfield opened the paidContent 2010 conference at the TimesCenter with a note of skepticism about the recent spate of media joint ventures, such as Hulu or the recently-launched YouTube music video channel Vevo. Moderator Quincy Smith, ex-CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) exec now partner, Code Advisers, put the…
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Staci D. Kramer
Feb 15, 2010 3:02 AM
Hulu started the new wave, now Vevo, Next Issue Media, Epix, Canoe and others are following: companies in the same vertical banding together for joint ventures and consortiums. What happens when companies that haven’t been able to crack the code on their own combine for scale, reach and sales power?…
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Staci D. Kramer
Feb 11, 2010 4:40 AM
What can you expect at paidContent 2010: Discussing the Economics of Content? Just what we promised when we announced our first namesake conference: a forward-looking discussion of the major issues and opportunities facing us, staying away from the religious arguments that often arise when discussing the topic of paid content,…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 16, 2008 7:12 PM
Last week at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Canoe Ventures CEO David Verklin gave an impassioned plea to a room full of online video converts to not count the TV/cable industry out, and to look at TV as a platform, which by the sounds of it, they have…
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David Kaplan
Sep 24, 2008 6:39 AM
Back in February, six of the largest cable companies in U.S.—Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), Cox Communications, Charter Communications (NSDQ: CHTR) and Bright House Networks—came together to create a separate company that would allow national advertisers to buy customized and targeted ads. In August,…
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David Kaplan
Jun 9, 2008 9:48 PM
As widely expected, outgoing Aegis Media Americas CEO David Verklin will head the new Comcast-backed cable ad targeting company Canoe Ventures—previously known as “Project Canoe,” WSJ reports. Introduced back in February, Project Canoe is a joint initiative by six major cable companies to sell targeted ads across their systems; backing…
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David Kaplan
Apr 21, 2008 3:38 PM
After a decade at ad holding company Aegis Media, David Verklin will leave his post as CEO of Aegis Media Americas at the end of the year, AdAge reports. He will be succeeded by Sarah Fay, who is currently CEO of both Carat and Aegis search marketing unit Isobar US.…
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