Web TV Workshop Pro-Panel Series: Mighty Fresh, McBeard Media, Distribber and IndieGoGo
On Monday November 1, 2010 TechZulu will present Web TV Workshop Pro-Panel Series live at 9pm PST. You will hear from some of the most successful professionals of the new media space. Checkout the line-up below:
Richard Frias – CEO/Founder Mighty Fresh
Richard Frias is the CEO & Founder of Mighty Fresh, an award-winning next generation talent management and production company that specializes in producing interactive media, music, web series, branded entertainment and live shows for innovative audiences. Mighty Fresh offers unique, forward thinking services in artist development/management, music & video production, social media marketing and consulting.
Mighty Fresh’s roster of artists and originally produced programming have generated more than 600,000,000 video views online. Mighty Fresh has produced branded entertainment for a number of Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Starburst, Sony, T-Mobile, JCPenney, Geico, Del Taco, Western Union, Taco Bell, Baby Ruth, the Walt Disney Company, Coors Light, MGM, Amp Energy, Six Flags Magic Mountain, TurboTax, SanDisk, Kraft, Kellogg’s, Colgate, General Electric, Unilever and more.
Interactive campaigns Mighty Fresh has produced have been recipients of the Anvil Award, Boomerang Award, Awar Award and the Addy Award in digital advertising in the U.S. and Asia. Originally founded in 2007, Mighty Fresh has represented-developed-produced the Internet’s most famous and successful personalities including KevJumba (1MM Youtube subscribers, Amazing Race), Michelle Phan (1MM Youtube subscribers, spokesperson for Lancome Paris), HappySlip (650,000 Youtube subscribers), iJustine (1MM Twitter followers, 900,000 Youtube subscribers), Esmée Denters (signed to Justin Timberlake), Rhett & Link, David Choi, Kina Grannis and more. Mighty Fresh has produced interactive projects with Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba, Baron Davis, Jalen Rose, Tyler Hilton, Jennette McCurdy, Carson Daly, Iyaz, Tiësto, Amy Kuney and Auburn Williams. Mighty Fresh has generated $2MM in online-business through client sponsorship deals, production deals, strategic partnerships and consulting & marketing services. Richard Frias has been helping artists monetize their creative work online since 2006.
Alec McNayre – Creative Director/Co-Founder McBeard Media
Alec McNayr is the creative director and co-founder of McBeard Media, a digital marketing agency. He’s led campaigns for 20th Century Fox, Disney Channel, Nokia, UCLA, and Pepperdine University. An expert in both creating content and distributing it across the Web, he recently worked with Fox to gather 1.3 million Facebook fans in 8 weeks for the feature film Vampires Suck. As a screenwriter, his mockumentary online series Flipper Nation was named a 2007 Webby Award honoree and was written up in USA Today, TV Guide, and BusinessWeek. He sold both an online and TV pilot to ABC in 2007 and has developed material for HBO. His popular humor blog HistoricalTweets.com was called “brilliant” by TIME and “LOL-worthy” by CNN, leading to a book deal with Random House. Historical Tweets: The Completely Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World is currently available online and in stores around the country. Alec also serves as an inaugural member of the International Academy of Web Television, the voting body for online video entertainment’s premier awards showcase, the Streamys.
Adam Chapnick – CEO Distribber.com / IndieGoGo
ADAM CHAPNICK oversees Film and New Media at IndieGoGo, where he serves as CEO of Distribber.com, a new-model flat-fee distribution service that places independent films on digital sales platforms such as iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu while allowing filmmakers to keep 100% of their revenue.
Adam speaks regularly on cutting edge distribution and audience engagement strategies at markets and festivals including Sundance, South By Southwest, Digital Hollywood, AFM, WestDoc, Distribution U, The Conversation, Social Media Week, American Cinematheque and elsewhere.
Adam also proudly serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the International Documentary Association.
