Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, October 27-30, 2008 Monday, October 27th 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM Track I - Money, Media, Entertainment & Technology Celebrity Media Transforms Broadband, Mobile, Social Media and TV Sibyl Goldman, VP, Yahoo! Movies, TV, omg! and Shine David McMahon, Director, Digital, NBC Universal Television Distribution Tyler Goldman, CEO, Buzznet Todd Gold - Managing Editor, Fancast.com, Comcast Interactive Media Adam Curry, President and Co-founder of Mevio Bill Jensen, Director of New Media, Village Voice Media Bambi Francisco, CEO, Vator.tv, Moderator Sibyl Goldman, Vice President, Movies, TV, omg! and Shine,, As vice president of Yahoo! Entertainment, Sibyl Goldman oversees the continued growth and success of Yahoo!’s Movies, TV, omg! and Shine, properties. Under her leadership, these properties have experienced all time highs in unique users, trailer streams and premiere partnerships. Sibyl was at the helm of the development of omg!, Yahoo's celebrity news and gossip site. omg!, which was just launched in June 2007, has become #1 in its Comscore category and has received over 16 million unique visitors in some months, making omg! the number one entertainment news destination on the Web (beating TMZ and People.com). Sibyl played a key role in differentiating omg!’s celebrity news format by aggregating unique, light-hearted, and up-to-the-moment content. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Sibyl ran Lifetime Television's interactive group. She worked closely with studios to produce video diaries on behalf of Lifetime's movies, as well as tapped into the powerful and often ignored audience of female gamers with a series of original Flash-based games that promoted Lifetime's slate of shows. Sibyl also created Girls on Film (Girls On) in 1995, a ground-breaking website featuring fan friendly perspectives on pop culture, which was acquired by Oxygen in 1999. Sibyl co-authored Girls On Film: The Highly Opinionated, Completely Subjective Guide to the Movies published by Harper Collins in 1999. Todd Gold - Managing Editor, Fancast.com, Comcast Interactive MediaTodd Gold brings 25 years as an entertainment journalist, bestselling author and TV producer to Fancast as the site’s managing editor. Starting in the mid-1980s, he began writing articles for People magazine and later US magazine. His byline appeared on major news stories and profiles about Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Drew Barrymore, Madonna, Michael J. Fox, Bruce Willis, Michael Jackson, and many more. He collaborated on No. 1 NY Times bestsellers with Valerie Bertinelli (“Losing It”) and Sharon Rocha (“For Laci: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss and Justice”). In addition, he has co-authored (or ghosted) books with Drew Barrymore, Jerry Seinfeld, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, the Osbournes, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross M.D., Burt Reynolds, and Ann-Margret. He was a senior producer on Roseanne Barr’s daily talk show, and he executive produced The Thin Green Line, an acclaimed investigative news series about the environment for the Outdoor Life Network. He has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, MSNBC, CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, and numerous biographies on E! and A&E. Bambi Francisco is the co-founder and CEO of Vator.tv: Vator was a side project of hers that was a mere concept with four video pitches in her Webmail box in June 2006, while she was a columnist/correspondent at Dow Jones MarketWatch. She left in April 2007 and launched Vator.tv in June 2007. At Dow Jones, Bambi covered Internet trends and investments across the public and private sectors. She was a morning business anchor for KPIX (the local CBS affiliate in San Francisco), and reported on MarketWatch's business magazine show on CBS. In the 'mid-90s, she worked as a producer at CNN's financial news network, where she created, launched and produced business shows, including one on IPOs and new ideas. Adam Curry, President and Co-founder of Mevio: Adam Curry is the President and Co-founder of Mevio, Inc. (Mevio.com), the place where over 6 million monthly viewers go to find entertaining videos online. At Mevio, Curry, along partner Ron Bloom, work on all aspects of the business, giving particular attention to shaping both the programming and talent featured on the Mevio Network. A heavily syndicated broadcaster and pioneer in reality TV and Internet content production, Curry has produced and created radio and television programming that has been enjoyed by millions of people around the globe. Beginning as a teen, Curry was considered a radio prodigy by the time he joined MTV as a host of the channel’s most successful music video programming segments. His work after MTV includes pioneering the Internet Solutions Provider, On Ramp, developing the world's first Cybercast for the 1995 Grammy Awards, and taking On Ramp public as Think New Ideas in 1996. Serving as CTO of Think, Curry developed publishing, commerce, and database solutions for Fortune 100 companies. In the summer of 2004, Curry developed the original podcast concept earning him the moniker PodFather. Curry steered his idea to an estimated universe of over 6 million listeners in the first six months. In 2005, Curry and Bloom launched PodShow, Inc., featuring the top audio and online directories, a production suite and content delivery network, and a network of top podcasts distributed through PodShow properties and Sirius Satellite Radio. Curry is a valued contributor on both the lecture circuit and as an expert source, having been featured for his technology innovations in almost every conceivable medium. He spends his time between London and Mevio’s headquarters in San Francisco. Tyler Goldman, CEO, Buzznet: Tyler Goldman brings a wealth of experience launching and heading up innovative technology companies to Buzznet. Prior to joining the company, Goldman served as acting President of Feedster, a leading RSS Search Engine. From 2002 to 2005 Goldman was Senior Vice President, Business and Corporate Development at Movielink, a joint venture among Warner Bros. Studios, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM, for the digital distribution of video content. In this role, he was responsible for guiding the corporate growth of Movielink, including all of its strategic partnerships. Under his leadership, Movielink became the leading Internet provider of film content, with distribution partners that include Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, AT&T and AOL. In 1998, Goldman founded Broadband Sports, Inc. (BSS), a pioneering internet publisher and syndicator of sports content, which was funded by leading venture capital, technology and media companies, including DirecTV and Clear Channel Communications. As CEO and President, Goldman built a team of 300 and was responsible for the company's $18 million in annual sales and was instrumental in developing partnerships with a network of syndicators across satellite, cable and Internet platforms, including DirecTV, Fox Sports, Yahoo!, ESPN, AOL and eBay. Prior to BBS, Tyler was one of five members of Steinberg & Moorad, the country's premier sports and technology law firm. He was also an attorney at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, where he focused on corporate matters for venture capital firms and high-tech companies. Goldman holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business, Northwestern University, where he received the Dean's Award for finishing first in his class, a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. Goldman currently resides in Los Angeles with his family. Bill Jensen, Director of New Media, Village Voice Media: Bill Jensen is transforming weekly newspapers The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Phoenix New Times and 12 others into daily online publications. He runs all content and development for a stable of more than 20 media websites, including Nikki Finke’s DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com and Toplessrobot.com, along with 15 city sites. He was formerly the editor of the Boston Phoenix and the Village Voice.