NAB Show

If we're talking old swag here, let's talk about the fact that one year we went to...

NAB or SIGGRAPH, I don't remember which one it was, but Michael Marr was working with us at the time.

And we were like, oh, let's bring shirts this year and give them out.

Not really thinking about the logistics of having to haul a giant box of shirts around the show floor.

anyway.

It's great to stay in one place when people know who you are and come up and get to hang out with all of you who do that.

And then for the randoms at NAB that are picking software for their news channel, they're like, I still don't know what you guys do.

That was fun.

So we'll try and work on that.

And then second, I'll just, since we're talking shows, I'll make a quick announcement about the NAB Show Streaming Summit for next year.

I'm already working on it.

I'll make a larger announcement next month, but for those listeners, and Mark will like this, he doesn't know about this as of yet, the show will be expanding next year.

We're not gonna cover things not tied to video applications, of course, but if it involves video and something is going on in the infrastructure side that'll include AI as well, we're gonna have a whole dedicated track for it, and I've already talked to multiple companies, both on the vendor side and on the content owner, broadcaster, distributor side, who's super interested in coming and talking about what they've built, how they've done it.

So I'm excited for that next year.

Uh, the other big piece of news here to, to release is that we are gonna make the NAB Show Streaming Summit free next year for qualified people, and by qualified people, I pretty much mean if you're in the industry and you're at a vendor, you're gonna be qualified to go at no cost.

Wow.

Um, and they're just a, just a, a, a great bunch of guys, and they have a, a US sales team, uh, as well, so, uh, and, and, and it's a, a gentleman that I know and admire, uh, from our industry.

I had a, had an opportunity to meet with him, uh, a, a, well, uh, the last, last NAB Show up in New York when we did the show up in New York.

Uh, I met with him, and we talked about, uh, their, uh, their ability to build us a new app, and, uh, we went for it.

So, um, it's been, it's been out.