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EconCeleb: The Economics of Celebrity Content
Celebrity content seems to know no bounds. Each day seems to bring another Hollywood misfit or fashionista ripping through the headlines. Is Celebrity the new mass medium? It seems America’s appetite for gossip, the candid and manufactured images that grace tabloid covers, and now an endless array of celebrity blogs just can’t be satisfied.
Celebrity is a booming marketplace and all of this just adds up to good business for an array of old media and new media entrepreneurs. What drives the economics of celebrity content, supply or demand? What are the challenges of monetizing it? Who is creating, producing, and distributing the content? Where are investors seeing opportunities in this new mass and who is capturing the most buzzworthy M&A opportunities to be the biggest and best in the space.
Join us on July 23 at the Hollywood Roosevelt for EconCeleb, our conference that will cover these topics and more. We’ve got most of our program details finalized and most of our speakers confirmed…
Confirmed Speakers
- Henry Copeland, CEO, Blogads; Director, Sales and Technology, PerezHilton.com
- Nick Denton, Founder & Publisher, Gawker Media
- Bonnie Fuller, Former EVP & Chief Editorial Director, American Media, Inc.
- Karin Gilford, VP & GM, Yahoo! Entertainment
- Tyler Goldman, CEO, Buzznet
- Frank Griffin, CEO & Partner, Bauer-Griffin
- Sheeraz Hasan, Founder & CEO, Hollywood.tv
- Fran Hauser, President, People Digital
- Virginia Heffernan, Columnist, The New York Times Magazine
- Suzanne Kolb, Chief Marketing Officer, E! Entertainment and The Style Network; General Manager, E! Online
- Charlie Koones, Board Member, ContentNext Media; former President & Publisher, Variety & Reed Business Entertainment Group
- Harvey Levin, Managing Editor, TMZ.com; Host & Executive Producer, TMZ
- Mattias Miksche, Co-Founder & CEO, Stardoll
- Craig Peters, VP, Footage and Multimedia, Getty Images
- Stan Rosenfield, Founder, Stan Rosenfield & Associates
- David Samuels, Contributing Editor, Harper’s Magazine; Contributor, New Yorker and The Atlantic
- Rob Silverstein, Executive Producer, Access Hollywood
- Brian Sugar, CEO & Publisher, PopSugar
- Kara Swisher, Kara Swisher, Columnist, AllThingsD
- Andrew Wallenstein, Deputy Editor, The Hollywood Reporter
- R.J. Williams, Founder, Producer & CEO, YoungHollywood
