FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2008
by Nastassia Yalley

NATPE is a global, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of televised programming in all forms across all mature and emerging media platforms.

NATPE develops and cultivates opportunities, both commercial and educational, for buying, selling and sharing of content and ideas. NATPE provides its members with access to accurate databases of global information and trends. It also creates opportunities for its members to advance themselves and the industry through its annual Conference & Exhibition, regional workshops and seminars, demonstrations, gatherings and other means of overall support. Our team will be joining this year’s exhibition in Las Vegas in the hopes of building up our white label SBN sites. According to Bruce Philips, President and COO/CFO, “We want to meet with our biggest customers and begin gathering more content for next.tv and the HP initiative.”

This is a great opportunity to network with executives who are launching and pitching new television shows. “We will be making content partnership agreements for old and new clients,” says Doug Fulton, President of MIPCOM is the global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms. It provides the key decision-makers in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry with the only market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.

We are also attending this tradeshow to get a more diverse and hands on experience with different aspects of our field. Here are some more reasons we are attending:

• Reach more international TV mobile and internet professionals.
• Have Access to the broadest range of broadcasters, producers and distributors; discuss the latest trends with exciting new advertisers, advertising agencies and character licensers.
• Use the conferences and networking opportunities to think about our content in different way
• Benefit from the experience as a whole