The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is pleased to announce a roster of partners for the first-ever Buffer Festival Industry Day. Taking place on Thursday, October 16, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Toronto, Buffer Festival Industry Day will bring together professionals looking to optimize YouTube as a content and development platform and a marketing and distribution channel. This one-day conference provides a unique opportunity to network with celebrity YouTube creators, Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs), advertisers, agencies and digital entertainment industry executives.
The CFC and title partner YouTube will present a number of informative sessions, from leveraging backend analytics to ensuring brand success on YouTube. Buffer Festival Industry Day Gold partners include shift2, an innovative agency that creates, manages and markets digital content targeting Generation C, and Blue Ant Media, a privately-held media company that creates and distributes content internationally in categories such as lifestyle, travel and music. shift2 will showcase the new Vampire series, Carmilla, and host Industry Day’s official closing reception.
Other industry partners include the CMPA, TWG, Stream Market, What’s Trending and a roster of supporting partners, including: Now Magazine, Stream Daily, IT Business, Cassie Stewart, Hackernest, IPF, InsideOut, Luminato Festival, Interactive Ontario, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, ACCT, TIFF, BlogTo, She Does The City and Tubefilter.
Produced by the CFC Media Lab in partnership with Buffer Festival, the industry day will precede three days of screenings and meetings. Presenters include top YouTube creators including Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time and Mitchell Moffit of ASAPScience, plus influential industry speakers Ezra Cooperstein, Chief Operating Officer, Fullscreen, Kendall Rhodes, Talent Manager & Producer, Digital Production Division, Untitled Entertainment and Ali Adab, Vice President of Content and Partnerships, BroadbandTV.
For more information about Buffer Festival Industry Day, please visit http://www.cfccreates.com/programs/63-buffer-festival-industry-day. Ticket entry is $199, and to purchase tickets, click here.
Google Gets A Slap On The Wrist For Collecting Children’s Data On YouTube And Making Money By Doing So
Posted in Commentary with tags Google, YouTube on September 4, 2019 by itnerdUS regulators need to learn that the only way to alter the behavior of billion dollar companies is to serve up fines that hurt. A case in point is this report from the New York Times that has Google cutting a $170 million cheque to the FTC because it was caught collecting children’s data on YouTube and making money off that data:
Google on Wednesday agreed to pay a record $170 million fine and to make changes to protect children’s privacy on YouTube, as regulators said the video site had knowingly and illegally harvested personal information from youngsters and used that data to profit by targeting them with ads.
The measures were part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and New York’s attorney general. They said YouTube had violated a federal children’s privacy law known as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.
The fact is $170 million is a rounding error to a company that had revenues of almost $40 billion dollars last quarter. Meaning that this will do nothing to send a message that such behavior is unacceptable. If the FTC and others really want to send that message, I would say fines have to be in the same range as the GDPR which really hurt companies who run afoul of it.
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