All Things Video

Oscar Hoglund is the Co-Founder & CEO of Epidemic Sound, which provides production music licensing to more than 85,000 customers across 200 countries. He also co-founded the Scandinavian MCN United Screens and serves on the board of children’s entertainment company Toca Boca. In this episode, we explore Oscar’s path to entrepreneurship, the importance of tactics in addition to strategy, and the Scandinavian startup scene...

Alejandro Burato is the Co-Founder & CEO of FAV! Network, one of the fastest growing Latin American MCNs. Alejandro worked in management consulting and venture capital for many years, so he has great perspective on many different industries. Now in his first startup operational role, Alejandro is mastering new skills and working with a great team to create the future of entertainment for Latino audiences...

Steve Levy is the Co-Founder & CEO of BPM Media and the BPM Network. Steve is a serial entrepreneur who started Moonshine Music to introduce electronic music to mainstream America in the nineties. The company was partially acquired by what is now Entertainment One in 2002, and Steve went on to launch BPM Media, which includes a music lifestyle ad network and YouTube / SoundCloud multi-channel network...

Ben Lister is the Chief Operating Officer, USA at Rightster. Ben began his career in digital roles at traditional entertainment companies (Warner Music Group, Viacom, Channel 4) before jumping into his first startup experience, running EMEA business development for Base79. He left London for sunny Los Angeles around the time Base79 was acquired by Rightster for $85M and now leads the company’s North American operations...

Phil Ranta is the Chief Operating Officer at Collective Digital Studio (CDS). Prior to CDS, Phil was employee #9 at Fullscreen, where he spent 3 years growing the creator network until the company’s acquisition by Otter Media. He’s as hilarious as he is insightful, having spent years on various comedy projects and working as a professional comedian. In this episode, we learn more about Fullscreen’s humble beginnings and rapid growth...

Parker Jones is the Head of International at AwesomenessTV. Parker worked at YouTube during the early days of the partner program before moving over to build and manage the creator network at AwesomenessTV, which quickly grew to one of the world's largest MCNs with over 90,000 channels.

In this episode, we discuss the proliferation of online video platforms, and the resulting competition for creators, audience, and advertiser budgets...

Glasgow Phillips is the Co-Founder and former SVP Creative of Maker Studios. Prior to his time at Maker, Glasgow worked in Hollywood as a television writer on such iconic shows as South Park, published three books, and helped launch businesses in the brand strategy and digital production industries. He is now an angel investor and is busy working on the next big thing...