Peggy Miles
Encyclopedia
Peggy Miles was an early pioneer in webcast
ing and digital media commencing in 1995. Author of numerous books, she is a leading business strategist and founder of the International Webcasting Association
. She founded InterVox Communications in 1995 which provides digital media strategy and business development. Her books include the two version best-seller for the National Association of Broadcasters
entitled, Internet Age Broadcaster I and II.
She has been awarded most influential in streaming media for a number of years. Miles is a member of the International Academy of TV Arts and Sciences and other associations. Miles has facilitated a webcasting list since 1996. She also conducts senior executive media functions and networking through Digital Media VIP. She's an advocate for multi-lingual, and captioned digital media on the Internet and other IP Networks. This benefits the disabled, and provides critical information in the language of the user. Her company was started up in conjunction with EZ Communications broadcast group which was later sold to sold to Clear Channel.
She produced the first CBS webcasts of the All Stars Broadcasting Live, which included baseball interactive games. She was instrumental in working with a Korean company that built the first portable players, and video phone prototypes that Bill Gates displayed at his keynote at CES in 2001. She produced the first TV and Internet Web Auction with Home Team Sports benefiting the Leukemia Association. The auction was presented on the Net and on network broadcast stations at the same time following a Baltimore Orioles game. Her work in China includes promotion and development of a digital media training center. More than 10 years ago, Miles created with KCBS FM in Los Angeles (Dick Van Dyke) a now playing application that showed songs and program data on the Internet. Unique to this was the in-sync delivery of the songs that were playing on the air to billboards around Los Angeles as well as displayed Live on the station's webpage. Miles worked with multimedia BB, bulletin board services and interactive voice response systems (IVR.)
Her work prior to InterVox Communications included development of demographic, psychographic profiling combined with mapping, actual purchase behavior, and detailed segmentation for a project with Safeway. She headed up a division for an advertising agency regarding their CRM programs, loyalty programs by personalized direct marketing, telemarketing and contesting. She has worked at various broadcast stations, networks, both in front of the camera and behind the camera. She was awarded Billboard Magazine Promotion Director of the Year.
Miles has written numerous articles, reports and held the position of Executive Editor for Digital Media Magazine. Her covers stories have featured Bill Gates
, Rob Glaser
and many others.
Webcast
A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...
ing and digital media commencing in 1995. Author of numerous books, she is a leading business strategist and founder of the International Webcasting Association
International Webcasting Association
The International Webcasting Association is a non-profit organization that works to promote effective and efficient delivery of multimedia content, including webcasting and streaming media, over the Internet and other digital networks. The IWA serves as a forum for the ideas, people and issues...
. She founded InterVox Communications in 1995 which provides digital media strategy and business development. Her books include the two version best-seller for the National Association of Broadcasters
National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association, workers union, and lobby group representing the interests of for-profit, over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States...
entitled, Internet Age Broadcaster I and II.
She has been awarded most influential in streaming media for a number of years. Miles is a member of the International Academy of TV Arts and Sciences and other associations. Miles has facilitated a webcasting list since 1996. She also conducts senior executive media functions and networking through Digital Media VIP. She's an advocate for multi-lingual, and captioned digital media on the Internet and other IP Networks. This benefits the disabled, and provides critical information in the language of the user. Her company was started up in conjunction with EZ Communications broadcast group which was later sold to sold to Clear Channel.
She produced the first CBS webcasts of the All Stars Broadcasting Live, which included baseball interactive games. She was instrumental in working with a Korean company that built the first portable players, and video phone prototypes that Bill Gates displayed at his keynote at CES in 2001. She produced the first TV and Internet Web Auction with Home Team Sports benefiting the Leukemia Association. The auction was presented on the Net and on network broadcast stations at the same time following a Baltimore Orioles game. Her work in China includes promotion and development of a digital media training center. More than 10 years ago, Miles created with KCBS FM in Los Angeles (Dick Van Dyke) a now playing application that showed songs and program data on the Internet. Unique to this was the in-sync delivery of the songs that were playing on the air to billboards around Los Angeles as well as displayed Live on the station's webpage. Miles worked with multimedia BB, bulletin board services and interactive voice response systems (IVR.)
Her work prior to InterVox Communications included development of demographic, psychographic profiling combined with mapping, actual purchase behavior, and detailed segmentation for a project with Safeway. She headed up a division for an advertising agency regarding their CRM programs, loyalty programs by personalized direct marketing, telemarketing and contesting. She has worked at various broadcast stations, networks, both in front of the camera and behind the camera. She was awarded Billboard Magazine Promotion Director of the Year.
Miles has written numerous articles, reports and held the position of Executive Editor for Digital Media Magazine. Her covers stories have featured Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
, Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser is the founder of RealNetworks which produces RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix, among other products and services...
and many others.
Awards
- Streaming Media - Top 50 Most Influential
- Billboard Magazine Promotion Director of the Year
Books
- Internet World's Guide to Webcasting and Broadcasting on the Net (Available in English and Korean)
- Radio Advertising Bureau, Selling the Net Series
- National Association of Broadcaster - Internet Age Broadcaster I and II (N.A.B. Press)
Reviews
Miles reviews from time to time current and future technology innovations related to media which include portable media, TV, computer, mobile, digital signaga, location based service, contextual advertising, digital paper, digital fabric, digital displays, customized/contextual media, content distribution networks, immersive, LBM, LBS, Retail Media,intuitive video search live and on-demand, Media Environments, interactive toys, and media widgets.Speeches and Keynotes
- BCFM Broadcast Cable Financial Management - Keynote
- Canadian Music Week
- NIST - Keynote
- InfoComm Japan
- International Academy of TV Arts & Sciences
- National Association of Broadcasters
- Radio Advertising Bureau
- Web 2.0 Advertising - New York
- ITU - International Telecommunications Union - Geneva
- European Broadcasting Union
- World Wide Web Consortium
- VideoOnTheNet
- iBreakfast Tech Series
- iBreakfast@National Press Club Washington, DC Host
- ihollywood
- Digital Hollywood
- Streaming Media
- World Wide Web Women
- Interactive Toys - Barney - Microsoft Actimates
- MPEG Conference
- and hundreds of media related keynotes and presentations around the world.
Communities and Social Networks
- Digital Media VIP Founder
- Facebook Group - Digital Media VIP - hundreds of digital media executives from around the world.
- Webcasting List hosted by Broadcast.net
External links
- http://www.digitalmediavip.com
- Resume on NAB.org
- Biography on the Digital Media VIP home page
- International Webcasting Association