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Wiredrive welcomes Paul Horn – Customer Advocate
At Wiredrive, we’ve always tried to address our customers’ needs by putting ourselves in their shoes. This year we went a step further and actually hired one of our customers! As a producer at Wojahn Bros Music, Paul Horn was an ardent Wiredrive user. He became such a champion of the application that we brought
18.01.2012
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Wiredrive/NY adds Frank Coppola to the account management team
Frank Coppola brings a combination of technical skills and passion for delivering great customer service to Wiredrive’s account management team. During his four-year tenure with Apple, Frank provided technical support, conducted trainings and delivered solutions to countless customers. As the East Coast account manager, Frank will be the first point of contact for support requests
12.12.2011
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New codebase and thumbnailer
We have launched the new Wiredrive infrastructure codebase, which includes a new thumbnail application. This was the second part of our infrastructure overhaul, the first being the hardware upgrades completed on Saturday, December 2. Benefits Better performance: Users should notice faster responses when using the system Greater scalability: The application is now optimized to provide
10.12.2011
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Variety Film Summit panel: Box office poor indicator of films’ financial success
Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO, Relative Media Hollywood has always been the epitome of creative financing. Movies may gross hundreds of millions of dollars but no one sees any money. A panel at the recent Variety Film Summit helped shed some light on movie funding. The box office is not a horse race Nothing says success better
30.11.2011
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PaidContent Entertainment conference: Technology is changing the business of TV and web content
I’ve attended quite a few conferences in the last few weeks about advertising, film marketing (part one and part two), TV, and Internet. Speakers at the film conferences grumbled that some of the best content was migrating to TV, specifically cable. But panelists at the paidContent Entertainment conference on Nov 3 argued that web content
18.11.2011
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AICP Summit NY: A look at industry etiquette
The 2011 AICP Production Summit in New York on October 26 and 27 stood apart from the standard have-a-big-idea creative conference by drilling deeper into concerns and changes in production. My favorite panel came at the end of the second day when people are normally burnt and ready to go home. The panelists focused on
14.11.2011
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Inaugural AICP West Coast Board Meeting at the Riot House
On Monday, the newly reshaped AICP West Coast Board came together for the first time at the Andaz West Hollywood hotel, formally known as the Riot House. Bands like Led Zepplin stayed there and threw insane parties–one resulted in TVs being tossed out the window. The hotel choice was fitting because we hope to harness
11.11.2011
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Evaluating and hiring developers: Our new ranking system
We are actively recruiting a few great developers to add to our growing team, which means reviewing many resumes, interviewing a few people and evaluating talent through code and conversation. We’re finding a delta between coders’ perceptions of their skill sets and their output, shown here from lowest to highest. This list seems out of
04.11.2011
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Lessons from the 2011 Variety Film Marketing Summit part 2: Marketing strategies
Going to the movies is expensive, especially if you have a family like I do. After adding up the cost of babysitting, dinner, tickets, popcorn and parking, I’m easily spending over $200. If consumers are expected to spend that kind of money, film marketers need to make a compelling argument for their movie. In part
