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TVOT MONTREAL would not be possible without our sponsors. A very big and heartfelt Thank You to the following companies and organizations, which stepped up to the plate to support this event:
Presenting Sponsor:
Stingray, the world’s leading connected streaming media company, delivers the best curated audio and video content to consumers worldwide. As a pioneer in multiplatform streaming and distribution, Stingray’s vast digital content portfolio includes thousands of live audio and radio stations, premium music channels, concerts and music documentaries, karaoke products, as well as ambience and wellness channels. Its offering is distributed via connected TVs, smart speakers, mobile, connected cars and retail. Reaching hundreds of millions of consumers every month, Stingray’s products offer an unparalleled advertising reach, enabling brands to connect with an engaged audience across the world. Home to globally renowned brands such as TuneIn, Singing Machine, Stingray Karaoke and Qello Concerts, Stingray is powered by a worldwide team of more than 1,000 employees. For more information, visit www.stingray.com.
Silver Sponsors:
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Android, Google Play, Chrome, YouTube, Google Workspace, and Google Cloud, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. For more information, visit www.google.com.
LG Electronics USA, based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc., a leading smart life solutions company with annual global revenues of more than $60 billion. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and vehicle components. LG is an 11-time ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. For more information, visit www.lg.com.
Contributing Sponsors:
CCR Media provides the backbone for modern TV. The company connects streaming and broadcast content across live, FAST, VOD, and linear environments so you can measure, monetize, and scale with confidence. With the largest content capture catalog in the world, CCR Media serves global and Fortune 500 companies across media, ad tech, royalties, and AI-based analytics. For more information, visit www.ccr.tv.
The Content Code offers the ultimate short-form content system. The company provides high-end video ideation, scripting, editing, and posting for business owners who want to dominate social media without spending time on content creation. It helps brands, entrepreneurs, and creators consistently produce high-impact short-form content that drives massive visibility across social platforms. The Content Code was founded by entrepreneur, Braden Blacker, who previously founded Chosen, an influencer business with a roster of creators totaling over 45 million followers. For more information, visit www.thecontentcode.io.
Trophy Sponsor:
Based out of Akron, OH, TinyCircuits designs and manufactures tiny, open-source electronics to serve creativity in the maker community, build fun STEAM learning, and spark joy. TinyCircuits’ initial product line, the TinyDuino, launched on Kickstarter in September 2012 and raised over 1,000% of its desired goal. It’s since produced working electronic miniatures (Handheld Game Consoles, TinyTVs), Wirelings (tinier circuit boards), and TinyLily (e-textile applications). For more information, visit www.tinycircuits.com.
Giveaway Sponsor:
Sticker Camera was founded by Gavin Zamanian and Miles Wiesenthal, who first met in high school and have been best friends ever since. Living in the Bay Area, surrounded by incredible creativity and innovation, they noticed that most of our photos never leave our phones. We take thousands of pictures, but we rarely create something physical that we can actually share with the people we care about. The answer became Sticker Camera, a device that instantly transforms any moment into a piece of art you can hold, share, and stick anywhere. It’s their love letter to creativity, friendship, and the simple joy of giving someone something beautiful. Sticker Camera’s vision is simple: the company believes your life is a work of art, and it wants to encourage that feeling of seeing through the eyes of a child, when you express your moment in a way you never thought you could. For more information, visit www.stickercamera.com.
Audio/Video Sponsor:
Stagevision has been Canada’s leading audiovisual partner since 1984. For over 40 years, the company has simplified event planning and execution by delivering transparent solutions, creative innovation, and cutting-edge technology—empowering clients to craft seamless, immersive, and impactful experiences. Stagevision began as a local AV company with a big vision: to transform the way people experience events. Over four decades later, it has become the largest Canadian-owned and operated audiovisual company for live, virtual, and hybrid production—working with world-leading brands and organizations to deliver powerful, memorable moments. What sets it apart isn’t just its cutting-edge tech or creative design—it’s its people. The Stagevision team brings deep industry knowledge, technical precision, and bold ideas together to turn complex productions into seamless experiences. For more information, visit www.stagevision.com.
Exclusive Strategic PR:
Breakaway Communications is a results-driven tech public relations and marketing communications agency that embraces today’s rapidly changing PR and media environment, benefiting both clients and employees alike. Located in New York City, San Francisco and the UK, Breakaway represents a variety of leading companies in cutting-edge industries, including video and TV technologies, embedded systems, next-gen mobility, enterprise systems and solutions, and emerging markets. For more information, visit www.breakawaycom.com.
Trusted Partners:
Artist Presented Experiences (APEX) provides fans with artist curated content presented by their favorite stars. The network’s unique model pairs best-in-class content producers and studios with the world’s most influential artists to fulfill their unfiltered creative vision. For more information, visit watchapex.com.
BIA Advisory Services is a media consultancy specializing in local advertising forecasting, market data, and valuation services. The firm provides research, analysis, and strategic advisory support to media owners, advertisers, and investors across traditional and digital media. BIA’s work focuses on helping clients assess market conditions, evaluate opportunities, and support sales and decision-making in a changing media environment. Details on forecasts, products, services, and insights are available at www.bia.com.
Chris Pfaff Tech Media is a New York-area consultancy and advisory firm that supports the needs of global technology and new media entrepreneurs in the areas of market and business development, go-to-market strategy, strategic marketing and public relations and investment consulting. The company supports ventures from launch to re-launch, and from transition to spin-off. Its clients include self-funded start-ups, institutional venture capital-backed ventures, strategic/corporate ventures, incubation-stage companies, as well as global accelerators. For more information, visit: www.chrispfafftechmedia.com.
The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) is a non-partisan, pan-industry coalition focused on cultivating improvements, best practices and innovations in measurement and currency, new metrics and approaches to understanding the value of media, and data collaboration and enablement. CIMM’s members include leading networks, studios, streamers and programmers, MVPDs, TV OEMs and OS providers, major digital businesses, agencies, measurement and data providers, trade bodies and consultants. CIMM is a subsidiary of the Advertising Research Foundation and adheres to the ARF’s principles of scientific rigor, objectivity and evidence-based research. For more information, visit www.cimm-us.org.
datafuelX is a leading analytics and technology provider specializing in multi-currency, cross-platform optimization for the television industry. The company was created to help buyers and sellers unlock greater value from their data and transform advertising outcomes across linear and digital video. Through its full-service SaaS platform, M3, datafuelX enables improved revenue management for publishers, more precise and accountable results for advertisers, and a better viewing experience for consumers. For more information, visit www.datafuelx.com.
Founded by Lisa Heimann, Former EVP of Corporate Research and Strategy at NBCUniveral, Eagle Media Advising draws on over 30 years of experience, advocacy, guidance, leadership and expertise. The company offers a strategic bird’s eye view of the media measurement landscape with a passion for content and measuring its full value. For more information, email lisa.m.heimann@outlook.com.
Since 2013, Hub Entertainment Research has tracked how consumers discover, choose and consume entertainment content. Hub works with the largest networks, pay-TV operators, streaming providers, and studios. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.hubresearchllc.com and subscribe to its newsletter at hubintel.substack.com.
A global leader in comedy, Just For Laughs produces the world’s largest comedy festival, held in Montréal since its inaugural edition in 1983. The Group also extends its expertise through a series of festivals in Québec City, Toronto, Vancouver, Singapore, Sydney, and Bermuda, strengthening its worldwide footprint. Driven by passion, innovation, and excellence, the Just For Laughs team collaborates with top talent and partners across the entertainment industry. Each year, the Group entertains over 100 million fans through its digital platforms and media channels, which collectively have surpassed 100 billion views. Just For Laughs creates, produces, distributes, and broadcasts comedic content in all its forms: films, television series, theatre, musicals, solo shows, multi-artist shows, festivals. The Group also produces ComedyPRO as part of the Just For Laughs Montreal Festival every year: the world’s leading comedy industry marketplace which has, for decades, helped launch and propel the careers of numerous renowned artists through its landmark initiatives. For more information, visit www.justforlaughsdistribution.com
KnotSimpler is an independent consultancy founded by Josh Chasin to help businesses monetize data assets in the advertising analytics space. Recognized as an Ephron Award winner and Ad Age Media Maven, Josh has spent most of his career in the audience measurement space—inventing, designing, improving, and managing currency measurement services in network TV; local TV; network radio; local radio; newspapers; magazines; Out-of-Home; the Internet; and across multiple platforms. Josh is a media and advertising measurement, research, analytics, data, and storytelling executive, leader, and creator who is keenly adept at evaluating and steering proven strategies and methods for success. For more information, visit www.joshchasin.com.
Founded as the Los Angeles Venture Club on the inspiration of Robert Redford in 1984, the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) now represents the entire investment ecosystem in the region. LAVA fosters communication, creates programming and facilitates dealmaking among all the stakeholders in an interconnected network. These include: LPs, VCs, family offices, angel investors, founders, incubators, accelerators, universities, researchers, innovators, mentors, politicos, government agencies and a host of service providers in legal, accounting, marketing, PR, investor relations, and countless other supporting specialties. For more information, visit www.lava.org.
Magid is the leading media and customer experience advisory and solutions firm, helping brands understand customers and build strategies and workflows that help them win. Magid’s domain expertise spans Information Media, Retail, Travel & Hospitality, CPG, Games, Entertainment Media, and Sports. The firm was founded in 1957 by social psychology professor Frank N. Magid. For more information, visit www.magid.com.
The Marian Dupree Group provides professional and advisory services to enterprises in the media, entertainment, consumer, and technology sectors. The company’s offerings include long-term planning that focuses on the development of a successful brand; culture decoding, to provide insights to companies and brands; content testing, employing various qualitative and quantitative methods with an emphasis on research design; and working with emerging and established leaders to improve their skills in areas such as decision making, project management and strategy. For more information, visit www.themariandupreegroup.com.
The Media Rating Council is a non-profit industry association established in 1963 comprised of leading television, radio, print and digital media companies, as well as advertisers, advertising agencies and trade associations, whose goal is to ensure measurement services that are valid, reliable and effective. Measurement services desiring MRC accreditation are required to disclose to their customers all methodological aspects of their service; comply with the MRC Minimum Standards for Media Rating Research as well as other applicable industry measurement guidelines; and submit to MRC-designed audits to authenticate and illuminate their procedures. In addition, the MRC membership actively pursues research issues they consider priorities in an effort to improve the quality of research in the marketplace. Currently approximately 110 research products are audited by the MRC. For more information , visit www.mediaratingcouncil.org.
MediaBrain builds proprietary technologies that enable media buyers and sellers to analyze, plan, buy, and monitor media performance from a single console to efficiently transact in today’s cross-platform world. The company’s technology powers critical solutions, which empower organizations to operate with confidence utilizing AI-assisted automated intelligence, in tandem with advanced data storage, computing, and clean room technologies. For more information, visit www.mediabrain.io.
Parks Associates helps companies identify new opportunities, refine strategy, and accelerate growth in connected technology markets through data-driven insights and industry expertise. With more than 40 years of experience, the firm delivers proprietary consumer and industry research, market forecasts, and strategic analysis that guide business decisions across personal, connected home, small business, and commercial technology ecosystems. Parks Associates supports clients in navigating evolving markets including AI, security, smart home, broadband, entertainment, energy, multifamily, smart buildings, and connected health. The firm also fosters industry growth and collaboration by convening thousands of leaders each year through its flagship executive conferences, including CONNECTIONS, Connected Health Summit, Smart Energy Summit, Smart Spaces, and Future of Video. For more information, visit www.parksassociates.com.
Play Anywhere enables leagues and their broadcasters to provide viewers with enhanced interactive experiences while driving new revenue to the media ecosystem. The cornerstone of the Play Anywhere solution ensures preservation of production quality, adherence to regulatory guidelines and brand association through its compliance and clearinghouse platform. Viewers of major league competitions including LaLiga, ATP Media, Paris 2024 Olympics, UEFA, NBA and NHL experience approved interactive experiences through the Play Anywhere platform and the company’s partner Ease Live’s best-in-class interactive graphics. Through Play Anywhere’s unique interactive rights deals, stakeholders participate in new revenue streams from interactivity and contextual sponsorship. The system spans linear and OTT services, enabling mass consumer rollouts. Viewers can now watch the game the way they want. Play Anywhere partners benefit from an improved viewer experience with no up-front or operating costs. For more information, visit www.playanywhere.com.
Brennan Media was founded by Sherry Brennan, former SVP of Distribution at FOX Networks. Brennan has been helping media companies strategize and launch new services since the 1990s when she first envisioned SVOD channels on Cablevision’s lineup, developing “channel publishing portals” and launching “24” and “The Shield” with FOX as the US’s first show-specific SVOD channels. Subsequently, at FOX, she developed strategies for its many networks across a wide spectrum of emerging technologies, and also helped launch Hulu and negotiated all the latter’s licensing agreements with its broadcast owners. S. Brennan Media helps clients with product development, content licensing, business strategy, technical and business operations, team building and more. For more information, email sbrennanmedia@gmail.com.
Screen Engine/ASI is a premier research and data analytics firm that delivers custom solutions to brands across entertainment, media, gaming, technology, consumer goods, and other industries. The company specializes in audience intelligence, content testing, brand strategy, and marketing optimization. For more information, visit www.screenengineasi.com.
The Video Advertising Bureau (VAB)—whose members include the national TV networks alongside a broader community of influential media companies—plays a dual role in the video advertising industry. VAB is fiercely advocating for the changes that bring about a more innovative and transparent marketplace. VAB also provides the insights and thought leadership that enable marketers to develop business-driving marketing strategies. Visit VAB online and access its continuously growing content library at www.thevab.com.
