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Fora.tv, the San Francisco company which began as a free portal for influential conference videos, has gained traction with a pay model, charging to watch high-level conferences by organizations and publishers, including The Economist, Wired and The New Yorker.
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Gannett’s local sales staff is getting a $40 to $50 CPM for preroll ads
attached to online videos in several of its smaller market newspapers,
Senior Vice President for Video Kate Walters tells Beet.TV. The biggest
challenge is not selling the ads, but working with local small
businesses to create them, she said. Other panelists in the same video
interview say the most valuable video content is in narrow topic
verticals that draw a dedicated audience. Blaise Zerega, CEO of
pay-per-view video site Fora.tv, says people are most willing to pay for
content that targets their “pass...
If
you’ve searched “Atheist” or “Skeptic” on Youtube in the last couple of
years, chances are you’ve come across UK intellects Christopher
Hitchens (author, God’s Not Great, above right) and Stephen Fry
(actor/comedian/author, above left) in some sort of debate or
discussion. Both men have garnered fans and critics alike in England,
but remain mostly unheard of in the States.On November 9th, 8:30 – 10:00pm GMT, Hitchens and Fry wil...
By popular request, the entire conference is now available for online viewing on Fora.tv. (I will post some previews in the Video tab over the next few days).
Note to the many students who inquired about discounts: We have
subsidized the video recording, editing and hosting, and your cost to
view the entire conference online is $39.95 (versus $895 in person).
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I consider myself really lucky to have the job of writing up the interviews from the 2011 WIE Symposium. It's kind of a dream job to attend an event like the Symposium, talk to a bunch of the amazing women who spoke and then get to relive it all through writing. Hearing the stories of women who saw a need and got creative in filling that need is the kind of inspired discovery the WIE Network is all about. Alisa Volkman took part in the panel called "Moms for Social Change" along with moderator Catherine Connors, Christy Turlington Burns, Heather Armstrong and Mary Alice Stephenson. As a writer, mother and p...
2011 NEW YORKER FESTIVAL (Friday through Sunday) Some say talk is cheap, and it will at least be reasonably priced for a good number of the talks, panel discussions and other events that are part of the annual cultural festival sponsored by The New Yorker at locations around New York City. All things literary is the focus: a plethora of authors, including, above, Joyce Carol Oates and Jonathan Franzen, and, below, Junot Díaz, will take part in discussions with titles like “The Dark Side,” “Writing About America” and “The Reliable Narrator.” But there will also be screenings, a brunch and conversations on myriad topics with actors like Ralph Fiennes, Steve M...
San Francisco–based website FORA.tv, a major player in the videos-of-supersmart-people-saying-interesting-things-on-a-broad-range-of-topics market, has packaged five interviews between PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and men whose names you’ll recognize even if you don’t give one whit about dance: Mikhail Baryshnikov,Mark Morris, Trey McIntyre, Paul Taylor and Bill T. Jones. (You can read more about Jones, whose company visits Chicago in a month, in TOC’s
SAN FRANCISC0 - FORA.tv, a video publisher which aggregates academic, think tank and other sorts of thought leadership conferences, has recently expanded its business model with pay-per-view and subscription offerings, says CEO Blaise Zerega in this interview with Beet.TV. The company has offered PPV for a number of high profile events including The New Yorker Festival, DEMO and the Wired Business Conference. In addition, FORA.tv is offering a premium, advertising-free monthly subscription for $5. Zerega says the largely advertiser-supported site is nearing 4 million monthly video views, with most views happening off site, many being powered by a raft of new syn...
As the year unwinds, we thought it would be fun to spend the next couple of weeks reviewing some 2010 highlights. The Leadership Playlist has brought us down a winding and intriguing path, and who better to celebrate our experiences with than all of you. To kick things off, this week we put together a list of the top sites our writing and research has introduced us to. Enjoy and, as always, sling over your thoughts, comments and additions.
If you’ve reached your limit of watching cats play on YouTube, you may be ready for FORA.tv, a Web video platform with the tag line “Get Smart.” The site targets the intellectual couch potato with recordings and live streams of idea-oriented events held around the country, including dozens in New York. Programs at the Asia Society, the New York Public Library, the New School and the Graduate Center at CUNY are all represented in the current offerings. But New Yorkers can also expand their worldview by surfing into events held in San Francisco, Aspen and Washington, D.C. The high-minded ideals are even built into the name: fora is the plural of forum, referring to the Roman open public spa...
Looks like developer Justin Angel just finished up his app entitled 'Neurons', so named because it's quite the brainy resource allowing you to stream the ever interesting TED Talks, Science Dump, the RSA and FORA.TV for all of your sciency-nerdy media needs.
Fora.TV has always been playing a dangerous game—trying to sell long-form online video about intellectual ideas. That’s like trying to sell sunblock to the cast of Jersey Shore. Fora calls itself Hulu for “the Thinking Man’s Web.” (There’s a Thinking Man’s Web?) Eighteen months after closing its $6 million series A round and long time magazine editor Blaise Zerega took over as CEO, Fora seems to be grinding it out. The traffic has tripled and it’s now streaming about three million videos per month, mostly captured from conferences and high-level events. Those aren’t close to YouTube numbers, but considering the intellectually demanding content– think Timothy Geithner talking fo...
Almost a year to the day after dropping its daily print edition The Christian Science Monitor is taking the high-end of paid subscription business models, using online video as the wedge. Today it announced a new partnership with FORA.tv to debut online videos of the weekly Monitor Breakfast, a 44-year-old tradition that brings Washington newsmakers together with top journalists. Same-day highlights of The Monitor Breakfasts, are available free on CSM as well as at Fora.TV. Full-length videos of each Breakfast can be viewed for $14.95 monthly or $99.95 annually. Advertising sponsorship opportunities consist of pre-roll video within the videocasts on both Web sites and standard ...
"Blueprint for Accountability," a series of politically provocative events combining theatre, film and journalism that was created by the Culture Project, will have an encore presentation June 7 at 7:30 PM at NYU's Skirball Center for the Arts. The evening's focus will be on the nearly 200 detainees who remain in Guantanamo Bay a year after President Obama initiated efforts to close the Cuban detention center. Actor-director Fisher Stevens will screen archival footage and direct live performances of testimonies read by actors James Spader, Liev Schreiber, Juliana Margulies, Mariska Hargitay and Matt Dillon. The readings and film will punctuate a pan...
Miss TED or some other egghead confab? Watch it online! Inside the battle to build a Web-video destination for smart grown-ups.
Whoever said TV makes you stupid never heard of the website Jessica Duff talks about in today's Web Report.
FORA.tv is the place to turn to after spending hours watching TV re-runs or one too many viral videos and realize your brain itself is in danger of becoming infected.
Every day the site's programmers upload clips of scientists, authors, intellectuals, captains of industry and world leaders standing up and laying out what they think they know. Users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.
FORA.tv gathers the Web's largest collection of unmediated video. These videos are taken from live even...
“PUBLISH OR PERISH,” went the old admonition about success in academia. These days, “upload or downsize” might be more to the point. Although YouTube—with its clips of piano-playing cats and break-dancing babies—isn’t the most intellectual online destination, the site took a step toward changing that last March with the launch of YouTube EDU, a channel that organizes videos of educators and other heady content in one brainiac-friendly hub. The clips may not look like much—a professor, a blackboard, a laser pointer—but they’ve become wildly popular—and not just with class-skipping students. Thanks to YouTube EDU and similar sites (iTunes U, Academic Earth and Fora.tv among them), anyone able ...
I came across Fora.tv a few weeks ago and when I looked it up, I was pleasantly surprised to see a familiar name on the team. Blaise Zerega and I connected on Linked in a few years ago when we were both at Conde Nast. Blaise has a particularly interesting background and has created a niche for himself launching magazines and content properties. Prior to joining Fora.tv as the CEO, Blaise led the technology coverage at Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine. He was kind enough to chat with me for a few minutes on the phone yesterday and I want to share some of the interesting themes that popped up in our conversation.
If you haven’t checked out Fora.tv, do it now. Fora.tv is buildi...
There are numerous sites you could go to for current news in politics, technology, science and entertainment such as TIME or Cnet. However, FORA.tv is at the forefront of the online revolution with really interesting video interviews, talks, lectures, rants about politics, innovation and ideas from notable world leaders, political pundits, and industry leaders.
If you just want to feel like you learned something new today, check it out. You will understand a perspective that might have never occurred to you otherwise. It combines what will be the norm in a few years: TV style news and interviews with quality of newspaper articles. The coverage is often light-hearted in tone ...
The fantastic Adam Savage, co-host of the MythBusters television series on Discovery, gives FORA.tv a shout-out on an episode of Diggnation!
"The man, the myth, the legend (well, mostly myth)... Adam Savage from Mythbusters joins Kevin & Alex on this week's journey through the internets! Uncovering the impossible Klein Bottles, Disney's new entity- Marvel, super slow motion video of people sneezing, and alas, the unfortunate and tragic end to the beloved Reading Rainbow... this is Mythnation!"
Congratulations to Blaise Zerega and the crew at Fora.tv for being named one of the 50 best Websites by TIME.com.
Fora finds itself in mighty impressive company. We've published this video by TIME.com's Shea Hess who talks about Fora.tv and other winning sites.
Below is my video interview with Blaise done earlier this year in San Francisco.
Here is the list of the 50 winning sites.
Whoever said television makes you stupid never saw Fora TV. Every day the site's programmers upload clips of scientists, authors, intellectuals, captains of industry and world leaders standing up and laying out what they think they know. The feeds are piped in from Davos, the Entertainment Gathering, the World Economic Forum — all élite conferences where smart people gather to tell one another what they're thinking, planning and doing. Fora TV is the place to turn to after you've seen your nth viral video and realize your brain itself is in danger of becoming infected.
We are very glad to announce that videos from FORA.tv and UNICEF are now available on the Boxee App Box. FORA.tv curates high quality videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. They gather the web’s largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world’s top universities, think tanks and conferences. Many of the videos are long form, thought provoking, powerful, heady stuff.
When Richard Ludlow was struggling in a linear algebra class at Yale, he scoured the internet for answers and stumbled upon a full video course available online from one of MIT’s mathematics professors, Gilbert Strang. He realized that there was a...
Here at Beet.TV we like to chronicle how small media brands, with no legacy, emerge to grab attention. Fora.tv, launched in 2007, is a site which presents videos of thought leaders speaking in public forums. It's been gaining some traction over the past three months. According to Compete, Fora bested Charlie Rose online in traffic in December and January and was quite close in February. In the area of thought leadership, the big traffic winner is TED.com, the site that features presentations from the TED conferences. It is having an extraordinary run. Last week in San Francisco, I spoke with Fora CEO Blaise Zerega about the site and why it is getting so much attenti...
We know that news video is huge online, but it’s not just another vertical amid masses of TV clips, virals and personal video. That was one major takeaway from the Beet.TV roundtable I helped moderate this morning in San Francisco. Here are some quotes and notes: A good line about growth in news from Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher of MSNBC.com: “These times have caused people to realize what you don’t know could hurt you.” Olivia Ma, news manager at YouTube, said the site’s news and politics video views grew 600 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year. That’s in an election year and amid overall YouTube and web wide video-viewing growth (for which s...
RESERVE ANOTHER LAUREL for Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard, serial Pulitzer winner, and prominent intellectual: online celebrity. Forget Charlie Rose - Wilson has Google for a soapbox. Amid the amateur-hour piffle of YouTube "talent" and skateboarding dogs, the famed biologist stands in bold relief, with more than 500 Google video search results to his credit: Interviews ranging far afield of TV shows to a spate of appearances on several Web-only video platforms such as Meaningoflife.tv, Bigthink.com, Fora.tv, and the online home of the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference. It was through a TED presentatio...
Web video for intellectuals is a hard sell. The videos onFora.TV come from speeches given by intellectuals and business people. It competes with
A new video site featuring big thinkers from the worlds of politics, academia, science, and business launched today in beta. Called
The New York Times announced today the launch of TimesTalks On Demand, an on-demand video presentation of many of its TimesTalks interviews. Twenty TimesTalks will be made available as part of the first phase of a collaboration between The New York Times and FORA.tv. TimesTalks brings members of The Times’s prize-winning editing, reporting and writing staff together with today’s most celebrated talents and thinkers in thought-provoking and entertaining discussions. TimesTalks On Demand launches today with a series of conversations with celebrated chefs that will be followed, beginning November 28, by a ...
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) November 21, 2011 FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events, announced today that its new Conference Channel iPad app is available for free download from the iTunes App Store. FORA.tv's Conference Channel iPad app is the only app dedicated to streaming pay-per-view conference and event video programming on the iPad. The new app offers free previews and paid access to more than 1,000 full-length video programs curated from world-class events. Further, the new app extends FORA.tv's pay-per-view model for Premium Events to an additional platform and generates increased revenue for event or...
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 14, 2011At this historic Intelligence2 event on Wednesday, Nov. 9 – which was live streamed exclusively around the world onFORA.tv – Stephen Fry (who described Hitchens as ‘a hero of the mind’) was joined on stage in London by Richard Dawkins at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, Sean Penn was beamed in from LA, while Christopher Buckley, Salman Rushdie, Lewis Lapham, Martin Amis and poet James Fenton spoke live via satellite from New York.Complete video of this event event is available for viewing on demand on FORA.tv at:http://fora.tv/conference/hitchens_f...
Intelligence² and FORA.tv present: Stephen Fry snd Friends On the Life, Loves and Hates of Christopher HitchensFORA.tv and Intelligence² UK and FORA.tv announced today a program change to the upcoming conversation between famed public intellectual Christopher Hitchens and his good friend, actor and writer Stephen Fry, scheduled for live broadcast from London, on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 8:30pm GMT (3:30pm ET and 12:30pm PT).Hitchens has pneumonia and will be unable to participate in the event.Fry will now be joined on both sides of the Atlantic by clos...
Intelligence Squared U.S. works with FORA.tv to offer free live stream of a debate on the merits of religion, featuring Matthew Chapman and A.C. Grayling for the motion versus Dinesh D’Souza and Rabbi David Wolpe against, moderated by ABC News Nightline's John Donvan.
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) November 07, 2011On Tuesday, November 15th, FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world’s best conferences and events, will broadcast the lastIntelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) debate of the 2011 season. Intelligence Squared U.S., hailed as America’s premiere debate series...
FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the best conferences and events, has seen strong demand for a special event being produced in partnership with Intelligence² UK, the world’s premier debating forum. On Wednesday, November 9, 2011 FORA.tv will live stream an exceptional conversation between famed public intellectual Christopher Hitchens and his good friend, actor and writer Stephen Fry. The live stream broadcast will start at 8:30pm GMT (3:30pm ET and 12:30pm PT). This highly anticipated, sold out event will originate from Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, England. FORA.tv will serve as the exclusive online global distributo...
FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events, announced that starting October 26, 2011, it will live stream sessions from the third annual Buttonwood Gathering, The Economist’s flagship finance and economics event. The Gathering will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, October 26 and 27, at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Tickets for live stream and on-demand viewing of the Buttonwood Gathering can be purchased at FORA.tv. The event will begin str...
FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the best conferences and events, announced that it will team up with Intelligence² UK, the world’s premier debating forum, on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 to live stream an exceptional conversation between famed public intellectual Christopher Hitchens and his good friend, actor and writer Stephen Fry. The live stream broadcast will start at 8:30pm GMT (3:30pm ET and 12:30pm PT). This highly anticipated, sold out event will originate from Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, England. Beyond a closed circuit simulcast to a lim...
FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events, announced that starting October 20, 2011, it will live stream sessions from the third annual Science and Nonduality conference, which will gather more than 70 spiritual thinkers, philosophers, artists, teachers and psychologists to explore the concept and paradox of time from the perspectives of modern science, ancient traditions, philosophy, phenomenology, psychology and, of course, direct experience. FORA.tv’s Science and Nonduality offering enables viewers to watch the sessions of the four-day event live as the...
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 14, 2011 FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events, today announced a free live broadcast occurring tonight, Friday, October 14, that will feature hip hop pioneers and founders of Def Jam Recordings Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Simmons and Rubin will join in conversation with Paul Holdengraber from the New York Public Library this Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7:00pm EDT on FORA.tv. The conversation marks the publication of the new book, Def Jam Recordings, which looks at the first 25 years of the ground ...
FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events, today announced a live event occurring tonight featuring celebrated American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte. Belafonte will join in conversation with Paul Holdengraber live from the New York Public Library starting this Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 7:00pm EDT on FORA.tv (http://fora.tv/live/nypl/harry_belafonte). Belafonte will talk about his new memoir, 'My Song', in which he traces his journey from Jamaica and Harlem to the w...
FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events, announced that starting tomorrow, October 5, it will live stream sessions from 2011 Washington Ideas Forum, which will gather more than 60 policy makers, business leaders, and top journalists for a series of conversations and in-depth interviews about the direction of the country. The two-day forum, presented by The Atlantic, the Aspen Institute, and the Newseum, will take place on October 5 and 6, 2011 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C...
Top online destination for conference and event videos to offer live broadcast viewing of the 2011 New Yorker Festival all weekend long ...
San Francisco, California (PRWEB) September 06, 2011 FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences, conversations and events, today announced a return of its exclusive partnership with The New Yorker to offer live and on-demand viewing of select sessions from the 2011 New Yorker Festival. Now in its twelfth year, the New Yorker Festival brings together a distinguished group of writers, thinkers, artists, and other luminaries, and covers topics including film, music, politics, economics, architecture, fashion, and literature. This year's event takes place from ...
(San Francisco, CA) – JULY 20, 2011 – FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events, today announced the hiring of two executives: Rob Flynn as vice president of sales and marketing, and Eric Pfeiffer as vice president of content. Flynn, who most recently acted as vice president of communications and marketing at MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, will lead FORA.tv's sponsorship sales strategy. Eric Pfeiffer, a startup veteran who most recently served as editorial director at NileGuide, will take the lead in further developing FORA.tv’s editorial strategy. The company also announced plans to open an office in Washington, D.C....
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 16, 2011--Top online destination for conference and event videos to offer exclusive, live and on-demand viewing of this sold-out special event FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the world's best conferences and events, today announced that it will offer exclusive, live and on-demand viewing of the sold-out 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival taking place from June 27 through July 3. Early bird online event passes are available now for $199. After June 20 online event passes will be available for $249. "We're delighted to work with the world-renowned...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The agenda for the third annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design in Partnership with MDC Partners was announced today. The one-day symposium, which will be held on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City features presentations and conversations with select company and thought leaders, each known for innovation and a willingness to disrupt the status quo. Seats at the conference are sold out but sessions can be viewed live online at FORA.tv, http://wired.fora.tv. Additionally, CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, will be broadcasting live throughout the event with coverage of ...
92Y Archival Material to Stream on FORA.tv Includes Conversations with: Robert Duvall, Lucie Arnaz, Rosanne Cash, James Franco, Bill Gates, Christopher Hitchens, Jeffrey Immelt, and More. 92nd Street Y, New York’s renowned cultural and community center, and FORA.tv, the leading online destination for intelligent video programming, have teamed up to offer selections from 92Y’s renowned speaker series on FORA.tv’s global streaming platform. The two new series, 92Y: Arts & Entertainment and 92Y: Politics & World Events, feature in-depth conversations with Robert Duvall, Lucie Arnaz, Rosanne Cash, James Franco, Bill Gates, Christopher Hitchens, Jeffrey Immelt and more. ...
New partnership marks launch of curated educational video content hub NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dailymotion, one the largest Web video sites in the world, and FORA.tv, the web’s leading destination and distributor of intelligent video programs, today announced a partnership that will bring FORA.tv’s extensive video library of educational content to Dailymotion’s on-demand, curated content hubs. The education hub (http://www.dailymotion.com/hub/x1k6_education) has been added to the list of permanent hubs on Dailymotion, including Movie Trailers, Celebrity, Gaming and Music. In real time, the educational video content hub will deliver curated content that is relevant ...
New pay-per-view service showcases award-winning documentary films, provides novel distribution for independent filmmakers. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 2, 2011 FORA.tv, the leading online destination for intelligent video programs on the people, issues, and ideas changing the world, today introduced a new service: FORA.tv Films. The offering provides pay-per-view access to acclaimed documentary films and helps filmmakers reach passionate, engaged audiences worldwide. “The addition of documentary films to our video library strengthens our position as a hub for discourse and debate around the biggest issues and news stories of the day,” said Blaise Zerega, CE...
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 15, 2011 -- FORA.tv, the web’s leading destination and distributor of intelligent video programs, today announced a new, free video app for iPhone and iPod touch. The new application provides access to more than 10,000 videos on the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. “We are delighted to offer Apple iPhone and iTouch users an app that offers anytime, anywhere access to FORA.tv’s extensive video library,” said FORA.tv CEO Blaise Zerega. “The new app offers a user-friendly, curated viewing experience for provocative and big-idea videos.” FORA.tv’s extensive video library includes videos drawn from top conferences, universities an...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with FORA.tv, a leading Web site for videos about the people, issues and ideas changing the world. Under the terms of the agreement, more than 3,500 videos from FORA.tv will now be fully searchable and viewable at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against these videos and share resulting advertising revenue with FORA.tv. FORA.tv is the Web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from top conferences, universities and public forums. Conversations with today's...
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - October 18, 2010) - The Churchill Club, Silicon Valley's premier business and technology forum, today announced its evening event, James Cameron in conversation with Eric Schmidt. The event offers a rare opportunity to hear legendary filmmaker and technologist James Cameron in a candid discussion with Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt. A supremely accomplished director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor, Cameron has been described by one biographer as part-scientist and part-artist, as Cameron has also contributed to the development of underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. Technology is clearly a unifying force in the world of...
Top site for intelligent video programs to present live, online viewing of events featuring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison, culinary champion Ruth Reichl, and more than 10 others SAN FRANCISCO, CA –SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 – FORA.tv, the Web’s leading site for videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world, today announced that it will offer online subscriptions to LIVE from the NYPL's Fall 2010 Season. The opening night event features Justice Stephen Breyer in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen of The Atlantic and LIVE from NYPL curator Paul Holdengräber. The event begins at 7 pm EDT, September 20 and can be viewed live, as it happe...
CHICAGO, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- We all know that time is money and understand that Social Media Marketing is a real-time, targeted way of communicating with an engaged and active demographic, one that gives as much feedback to the company in question as it provides to the demographic; hence its usefulness and transcendent ability. Most companies, both on the business and consumer sides know and try to practice this, however success has not been equally quick for all enterprises. One of the reasons may be the lack of training within today's companies. The iStrategy Chicago conference, taking place at the Hotel Allegro this week, packages this expertise in a way that all marketin...
DEMO Fall 2010 conference to expand reach and showcase the first-time launch of 66 new technology products and prototypes to a worldwide audience DEMO, the world's top conference for emerging technologies, today announced that it has partnered with FORA.tv, the Web's leading site for videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world, to offer an online subscription to its upcoming DEMO Fall 2010. This conference will be broadcast live on FORA.tv September 14-15, 2010, from 9 am - 5 pm (PDT), and available for on-demand viewing for 60 days following the event. Event Passes are available now for $249 for those who pre-register, and for $299 starting Septemb...
FORA.tv, the Web’s top site for videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world, today announced the introduction of FORA.tv Plus membership. This new offering provides ad-free video watching, unlimited downloads to video programs, and HQ streaming for a monthly or annual fee. FORA.tv Plus memberships are available for $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. The new membership level includes: No Ads. FORA.tv Plus members enjoy the FORA.tv site without seeing third-party display or in-video advertisements. HQ Viewing. FORA.tv Plus members have the option to watch videos streamed at a higher-resolution bit-rate (768 kilobits). Downloads. FO...
BOSTON, MA, May 17, 2010—The Christian Science Monitor and FORA.tv today debut online videos of the weekly Monitor Breakfast, a 44-year-old tradition where Washington newsmakers meet unscripted and on-the-record with top journalists. This new partnership brings a pivotal resource to the public in a way that only online video can, and gives a wide audience the chance to get ahead of the news. Same-day highlights of The Monitor Breakfasts, which invite top journalists on short notice to ensure timeliness, are available free at www.CSMonitor.com/Mon...
Chicago (PRWEB) April 28, 2010 -- Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and FORA.tv have reached a marketing and licensing agreement in which they will exchange digital assets for mutual benefit, the companies announced today. Under the agreement, Britannica will incorporate relevant abridged videos from FORA.tv’s collection into its educational Web sites, and FORA.tv will have access to more than 25,000 articles from Britannica Concise Encyclopedia to incorporate in its site as background and additional information for its vast array of videos. FORA.tv, known as “The Smart Network” among online video provi...
Recognized for the web’s largest collection of video featuring “lectures, offbeat travel advice, trivia and mind-expanding” programs
SAN FRANCISCO – NOVEMBER 13, 2009 -- FORA.tv, the leading destination and distributor of smart video programs, has been honored by Britain’s Sunday Telegraph as one of the Web’s Best Education Sites.
“FORA.tv amasses video from public events and colloquia,” write the Sunday Telegraph editors, “from Alicia Silverstone talking about veganism at a bookshop to Noam Chomsky on language at the Commonwealth Club.”
"We’r...
Recognized for videos featuring top “scientists, authors, intellectuals, captains of industry and world leaders”
SAN FRANCISCO – AUGUST 24, 2009 -- FORA.tv, the leading destination and distributor of smart video programs, has been selected by TIME.com editors as one of the 50 Best Websites 2009 and featured in the 5 You May Not Know category.
“Whoever said television makes you stupid never saw FORA.tv,”
Agreement brings “smart video” to WIRED.com audience and advertisers
SAN FRANCISCO--(February 20, 2009)--FORA.tv, the Web’s top site for videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world, today announced a partnership for an online video channel with WIRED.com, the most influential source for tech news on the Web. The agreement creates a FORA.tv channel on WIRED.com: http://www.wired.com/video/foratv, and will feature videos about the day’s most important technological, science, business, and cultural issues – all gathered from leading thinkers, institutions and conferences.
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New design and social features make it easier to find and share video on the people, issues, and ideas changing the world
SAN FRANCISCO – February 4, 2009 – FORA.tv, the Web’s top site for videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world, today introduced a bold new design and the addition of social media features. The revamp enables an exploding audience of users to find, share, and interact with video content on the day’s most important political, business, technological and cultural issues – all gathered from leading thinkers, institutions and conferences. The new site is expected to further boost Fora.tv’s monthly traffic growth, which has inc...
