<![CDATA[ShareholdersUnite Forums - Destiny Media Forum]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:12:18 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[We see a new rationale for buying the stock]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=11689 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:37:59 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=11689 We have a new article out as we think few realize this has become a very favourable risk/reward situation:

  • Destiny Media struggled for years making a success of its streaming video solution, Clipstream. They're now trying a new approach that holds more promise.
  • The stock price is basically reflecting maximum market skepticism, but it isn't reflecting improving fundamentals, intellectual property and market opportunities.
  • We think the risks are much smaller than the potential gains, even if Clipstream doesn't become a success.

Second Chance For Destiny Media Investors - Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. (OTCMKTSBig GrinSNY) | Seeking Alpha

Essentially, their bread and butter business (PlayMPE, a secure way for the music business to send pre-release music) is growing revenues again, it's costs have been considerably trimmed and it is becoming more user friendly, opening up new users.

It is also highly automated hence additional revenue goes disproportionally to the bottom line.But that bottom line isn't very visible as the profits ($1M-$1.5M) are used to finance the development of the second product, Clipstream (a way to use javascript and HTML5 browsers to get streaming video over the internet).

While working well in controlled circumstances, it ran into problems in the real world, for instance by ISPs throttling streams (as these streams come from normal, not streaming servers ISPs don't recognize them as streaming video).

This is now being addressed by using a much more efficient codec, HVEC (or H.265) that uses much less bandwidth (increasing profit margins in the process). This works, but it ran into another problem, old computers and their CPU/memory limits (as javascript is a resource hog).

They hope to address this by offloading part of the processing to the GPU. In principle, this should work as the GPU is designed to handle massive parallel data. But the jury is still out, you can follow the progress on the Destiny website where they have demo videos. This is work in progress, but by the end of the first quarter we should know a lot more.

If it works well enough, they have a tremendous opportunity, because:

  • The company's market cap is just $8M
  • The video streaming market is a massive (multi-billion dollar) market with fast growth, just a tiny sliver of it would dramatically impact Destiny's finances.
  • They have ways to differentiate themselves with Clipstream, it's a software, not a hardware solution, it can do stuff that other solutions can't, it has the same top-notch security features as PlayMPE, it can lock streams to a host, it enables selling streams individually, it could make ads interactive, etc.
  • Just like PLayMPE It's also a highly automated, and hence a high margin business, although in the beginning this will be masked by marketing cost.
  • They have built a content delivery system (on top of the AWS system where it is hosted) that allows it to light up servers anywhare in seconds, only using AWS according to needs, hence always generating money, and the fast switching lowers downtime, so their hosting offering is more robust/reliable. It even opens the opportunity to individualize streams, that is, stream individualized versions of the same content to different users.

Even if Clipstream does not become a commercial success, the company has built a generic video hosting platform for it (on Amazon's AWS) that can function as a stand-alone business. While without Clipstream it doesn't have the same ways of differentiating this business, there are still ways of differentiating on the basis of:

  • The content delivery system, that is, reliability
  • Offering high-audio quality (twice CD) for music videos, with their contacts from the music industry this could be an attractive offering
  • Some security features.

So on the basis of improvements in PlayMPE and the fact that they already built a generic hosting platform, we think there is music in these shares even in case Clipstream won't be a commercial success, considering the fact that the share price is at an all-time low, reflecting maximum skepticism.

The upshot

This can be a multi-bagger if Clipstream turns out to be a commercial success. But even if it doesn't, the shares can still double in a year on the back of improving fundamentals at PlayMPE and the generic hosting business, the platform of which is already built. And all this while the downside risk seems limited to us, considering the crash in the share price.

]]> We have a new article out as we think few realize this has become a very favourable risk/reward situation:

  • Destiny Media struggled for years making a success of its streaming video solution, Clipstream. They're now trying a new approach that holds more promise.
  • The stock price is basically reflecting maximum market skepticism, but it isn't reflecting improving fundamentals, intellectual property and market opportunities.
  • We think the risks are much smaller than the potential gains, even if Clipstream doesn't become a success.

Second Chance For Destiny Media Investors - Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. (OTCMKTSBig GrinSNY) | Seeking Alpha

Essentially, their bread and butter business (PlayMPE, a secure way for the music business to send pre-release music) is growing revenues again, it's costs have been considerably trimmed and it is becoming more user friendly, opening up new users.

It is also highly automated hence additional revenue goes disproportionally to the bottom line.But that bottom line isn't very visible as the profits ($1M-$1.5M) are used to finance the development of the second product, Clipstream (a way to use javascript and HTML5 browsers to get streaming video over the internet).

While working well in controlled circumstances, it ran into problems in the real world, for instance by ISPs throttling streams (as these streams come from normal, not streaming servers ISPs don't recognize them as streaming video).

This is now being addressed by using a much more efficient codec, HVEC (or H.265) that uses much less bandwidth (increasing profit margins in the process). This works, but it ran into another problem, old computers and their CPU/memory limits (as javascript is a resource hog).

They hope to address this by offloading part of the processing to the GPU. In principle, this should work as the GPU is designed to handle massive parallel data. But the jury is still out, you can follow the progress on the Destiny website where they have demo videos. This is work in progress, but by the end of the first quarter we should know a lot more.

If it works well enough, they have a tremendous opportunity, because:

  • The company's market cap is just $8M
  • The video streaming market is a massive (multi-billion dollar) market with fast growth, just a tiny sliver of it would dramatically impact Destiny's finances.
  • They have ways to differentiate themselves with Clipstream, it's a software, not a hardware solution, it can do stuff that other solutions can't, it has the same top-notch security features as PlayMPE, it can lock streams to a host, it enables selling streams individually, it could make ads interactive, etc.
  • Just like PLayMPE It's also a highly automated, and hence a high margin business, although in the beginning this will be masked by marketing cost.
  • They have built a content delivery system (on top of the AWS system where it is hosted) that allows it to light up servers anywhare in seconds, only using AWS according to needs, hence always generating money, and the fast switching lowers downtime, so their hosting offering is more robust/reliable. It even opens the opportunity to individualize streams, that is, stream individualized versions of the same content to different users.

Even if Clipstream does not become a commercial success, the company has built a generic video hosting platform for it (on Amazon's AWS) that can function as a stand-alone business. While without Clipstream it doesn't have the same ways of differentiating this business, there are still ways of differentiating on the basis of:

  • The content delivery system, that is, reliability
  • Offering high-audio quality (twice CD) for music videos, with their contacts from the music industry this could be an attractive offering
  • Some security features.

So on the basis of improvements in PlayMPE and the fact that they already built a generic hosting platform, we think there is music in these shares even in case Clipstream won't be a commercial success, considering the fact that the share price is at an all-time low, reflecting maximum skepticism.

The upshot

This can be a multi-bagger if Clipstream turns out to be a commercial success. But even if it doesn't, the shares can still double in a year on the back of improving fundamentals at PlayMPE and the generic hosting business, the platform of which is already built. And all this while the downside risk seems limited to us, considering the crash in the share price.

]]> <![CDATA[Dale Borland fired]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=8616 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:45:31 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=8616 Destiny just fired Dale Borland, who was only recently made COO (at the end of Feb this year), before which he was commercial leader for Clipstream.

He did reorganize Destiny, and only last week he was granted options, so it must have been something sudden.

We're also waiting for the new contract with Universal, but it's unlikely the two things are related as Borland wasn't involved in the negotiations, as far as we know.

With the new Clipstream version finally able to beat most ISP problems and market research companies participating in third party testing, it finally looked like Destiny could turn the corner, but this put a considerable damper on things. Pity, as this one was already taxing our patience..

]]> Destiny just fired Dale Borland, who was only recently made COO (at the end of Feb this year), before which he was commercial leader for Clipstream.

He did reorganize Destiny, and only last week he was granted options, so it must have been something sudden.

We're also waiting for the new contract with Universal, but it's unlikely the two things are related as Borland wasn't involved in the negotiations, as far as we know.

With the new Clipstream version finally able to beat most ISP problems and market research companies participating in third party testing, it finally looked like Destiny could turn the corner, but this put a considerable damper on things. Pity, as this one was already taxing our patience..

]]> <![CDATA[Conference Call Transcript Link]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=8424 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:57:54 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=8424 Here's the Q2-2015 CC transcript.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3070766-...art=single

Sounds like the organization has gone through a major reconfiguration and talent addition.  The new team appears to be taking substantial, if measured, action to reset the company's culture and marketing approach.  Confident while humble seems an appropriate characterization.  There should be a good read on Destiny's future in 6 months.

]]> Here's the Q2-2015 CC transcript.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3070766-...art=single

Sounds like the organization has gone through a major reconfiguration and talent addition.  The new team appears to be taking substantial, if measured, action to reset the company's culture and marketing approach.  Confident while humble seems an appropriate characterization.  There should be a good read on Destiny's future in 6 months.

]]> <![CDATA[Relaunch of Clipstream]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=8385 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:01:48 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=8385 News about the death of Clipstream have been greatly exaggerated..

Destiny Media Technologies (DSY.V) (DSNY), announced today its newest Clipstream® video hosting service. The Clipstream® service includes a number of technology developments allowing for greater consistency in video delivery and quality for businesses requiring ease of use, control, and security in their video hosting needs. The website at www.clipstream.com, has all the updated information and details. The company also announced a new pricing plan and a 30-day free trial program.  Customers can purchase Clipstream® video hosting service packages, which are priced in minutes, giving transparent and predictable billing. Plans start from as little as $29 per month.

Destiny Media Technologies Releases Newest Clipstream® Video Hosting Service and Pricing Plans - Yahoo Finance

]]> News about the death of Clipstream have been greatly exaggerated..

Destiny Media Technologies (DSY.V) (DSNY), announced today its newest Clipstream® video hosting service. The Clipstream® service includes a number of technology developments allowing for greater consistency in video delivery and quality for businesses requiring ease of use, control, and security in their video hosting needs. The website at www.clipstream.com, has all the updated information and details. The company also announced a new pricing plan and a 30-day free trial program.  Customers can purchase Clipstream® video hosting service packages, which are priced in minutes, giving transparent and predictable billing. Plans start from as little as $29 per month.

Destiny Media Technologies Releases Newest Clipstream® Video Hosting Service and Pricing Plans - Yahoo Finance

]]> <![CDATA[Destiny appoints COO for Clipstream]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=7229 Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:07:39 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=7229


Destiny Media Technologies Names Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Clipstream® Business


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Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.10 hours ago

VANCOUVER, Aug. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - Destiny Media Technologies (DSY.V) (DSNY) today announced the appointment of Dale Borland as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for its Clipstream® business.  In this position, Mr. Borland will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Clipstream® business, including the strategic plan, personnel, sales and marketing, and product strategy.

Mr. Borland brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in successfully commercializing new technologies in multiple international markets.

Mr. Borland joined Microsoft Corp. in 1989 and during his 17-year tenure, he held senior management and executive roles in a number of fast growth divisions, with accomplishments that included:

  • Revenue growth in excess of 400% in each of the business units he led
  • In Global Operations and IT Services across EMEA, he was responsible for supporting 28 countries, over 7,000 clients and $4B in revenue and sales operations
  • Mr. Borland headed up strategy, sales, marketing and channels development for Microsoft's pursuit of the home market during the time of initial commercialization of the MSN Network, Digital Media products and Xbox, achieving annual revenues of $200 million.

Mr. Borland has served in leadership roles in medium size enterprises as well as early stage entrepreneurial ventures. In 2006, he was appointed to the role of President & CEO of Marqui Inc., where he led a strategic change in product, sales and services into a SaaS operating company, which culminated in an acquisition in the fall of 2009. From 2010-2012, Mr. Borland served as Chief Operating Officer at Wantsa Media Inc., an online transaction solution for digital media and social content, focused on OEM licensing for clients such as Yahoo, AT&T, and Chicago Times Media Group.  In addition, Mr. Borland was Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer of Colligo Networks and Technical Director at Bytech Limited.

"We are very excited to bring Dale into our senior management team. His global operations, strategic planning and marketing background, combined with a demonstrated ability to lead organizations to meaningful growth are an excellent match for the needs of this position," said Steve Vestergaard, Chief Executive Officer of Destiny Media Technologies. "His extensive background and leadership will also be instrumental as we build out the sales, marketing and support team for Clipstream®."

"With its multiple applications and ability to play across every major browser, Clipstream® offers something unique in today's online video technology landscape. The opportunity for this solution is significant in both size and scale," said Mr. Borland. "I look forward to leading this effort and contributing to the success of Destiny Media Technologies."

]]>


Destiny Media Technologies Names Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Clipstream® Business


RNewswire;" href="http://www.prnewswire.com/yahoo/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(50, 79, 225);">PR Newswire 
Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.10 hours ago

VANCOUVER, Aug. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - Destiny Media Technologies (DSY.V) (DSNY) today announced the appointment of Dale Borland as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for its Clipstream® business.  In this position, Mr. Borland will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Clipstream® business, including the strategic plan, personnel, sales and marketing, and product strategy.

Mr. Borland brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in successfully commercializing new technologies in multiple international markets.

Mr. Borland joined Microsoft Corp. in 1989 and during his 17-year tenure, he held senior management and executive roles in a number of fast growth divisions, with accomplishments that included:

  • Revenue growth in excess of 400% in each of the business units he led
  • In Global Operations and IT Services across EMEA, he was responsible for supporting 28 countries, over 7,000 clients and $4B in revenue and sales operations
  • Mr. Borland headed up strategy, sales, marketing and channels development for Microsoft's pursuit of the home market during the time of initial commercialization of the MSN Network, Digital Media products and Xbox, achieving annual revenues of $200 million.

Mr. Borland has served in leadership roles in medium size enterprises as well as early stage entrepreneurial ventures. In 2006, he was appointed to the role of President & CEO of Marqui Inc., where he led a strategic change in product, sales and services into a SaaS operating company, which culminated in an acquisition in the fall of 2009. From 2010-2012, Mr. Borland served as Chief Operating Officer at Wantsa Media Inc., an online transaction solution for digital media and social content, focused on OEM licensing for clients such as Yahoo, AT&T, and Chicago Times Media Group.  In addition, Mr. Borland was Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer of Colligo Networks and Technical Director at Bytech Limited.

"We are very excited to bring Dale into our senior management team. His global operations, strategic planning and marketing background, combined with a demonstrated ability to lead organizations to meaningful growth are an excellent match for the needs of this position," said Steve Vestergaard, Chief Executive Officer of Destiny Media Technologies. "His extensive background and leadership will also be instrumental as we build out the sales, marketing and support team for Clipstream®."

"With its multiple applications and ability to play across every major browser, Clipstream® offers something unique in today's online video technology landscape. The opportunity for this solution is significant in both size and scale," said Mr. Borland. "I look forward to leading this effort and contributing to the success of Destiny Media Technologies."

]]> <![CDATA[Keubiko]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=7210 Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:56:59 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=7210 You might have noticed that a guy called Keubiko has written several articles on Seeking Alpha, arguing that Destiny's PlayMPE and Clipstream are no good and the company is worth virtually nothing. We have refuted many of his claims, but since quite a number of these articles are not accessible without subscription to SA Pro and the discussion is scattered in comment sections of numerous articles, we'll deconstruct his claims here one by one, in an orderly and numbered fashion.

1) PlayMPE is a bloated dinosaur

Keubiko's claim: PlayMPE is a bloated dinosaur full of problems, for which much cheaper alternatives exist and switching cost are negligible.

I view PlayMPE as the bloated expensive dinosaur in the space.

Panic Selling In Destiny Media Is Unwarranted - Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. | Seeking Alpha

Reality: The studios keep on using it, extending it over the world, renewing its contracts, and cooperating with Destiny to improve functionality..

  • PlayMPE is used by all three big studios, Universal, Warner, Sony
  • Universal renewed its contract last May and has renewed its contract since the beginning, every single time
  • The Universal contract signed last May replaced a host of local contracts rationalizing them. They cooperated intimately with Destiny to get all the features they wanted in PlayMPE
  • Sony Australia signed a contract this year
  • Where the studios go, independent labels usually follow, PlayMPE is used by a thousand of them

You might notice that Keubiko actually agrees with the fact that where studios go, others follow:

The studios have been effectively stuffing PlayMPE down the throat of the industry.

Panic Selling In Destiny Media Is Unwarranted - Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. | Seeking Alpha

]]> You might have noticed that a guy called Keubiko has written several articles on Seeking Alpha, arguing that Destiny's PlayMPE and Clipstream are no good and the company is worth virtually nothing. We have refuted many of his claims, but since quite a number of these articles are not accessible without subscription to SA Pro and the discussion is scattered in comment sections of numerous articles, we'll deconstruct his claims here one by one, in an orderly and numbered fashion.

1) PlayMPE is a bloated dinosaur

Keubiko's claim: PlayMPE is a bloated dinosaur full of problems, for which much cheaper alternatives exist and switching cost are negligible.

I view PlayMPE as the bloated expensive dinosaur in the space.

Panic Selling In Destiny Media Is Unwarranted - Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. | Seeking Alpha

Reality: The studios keep on using it, extending it over the world, renewing its contracts, and cooperating with Destiny to improve functionality..

  • PlayMPE is used by all three big studios, Universal, Warner, Sony
  • Universal renewed its contract last May and has renewed its contract since the beginning, every single time
  • The Universal contract signed last May replaced a host of local contracts rationalizing them. They cooperated intimately with Destiny to get all the features they wanted in PlayMPE
  • Sony Australia signed a contract this year
  • Where the studios go, independent labels usually follow, PlayMPE is used by a thousand of them

You might notice that Keubiko actually agrees with the fact that where studios go, others follow:

The studios have been effectively stuffing PlayMPE down the throat of the industry.

Panic Selling In Destiny Media Is Unwarranted - Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. | Seeking Alpha

]]> <![CDATA[Q3 2014 CC Transcript]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=7076 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 02:21:05 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=7076 Sounds like this company is still a "go".  Here's the link:  http://seekingalpha.com/article/2314505-destiny-media-technologies-dsny-ceo-steve-vestergaard-on-q3-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

The last questioner asked about the stock price.  To quote CEO Steve Vestergaard, "I’ve been purchasing pretty heavily myself the last few months, so I’m kind of putting my money where my mouth is".

]]> Sounds like this company is still a "go".  Here's the link:  http://seekingalpha.com/article/2314505-destiny-media-technologies-dsny-ceo-steve-vestergaard-on-q3-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

The last questioner asked about the stock price.  To quote CEO Steve Vestergaard, "I’ve been purchasing pretty heavily myself the last few months, so I’m kind of putting my money where my mouth is".

]]> <![CDATA[Primer on streaming media]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=7007 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 03:38:39 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=7007
The Online Video Ecosystem Explained — Who Holds The Real Power In Video Streaming?
  • APR. 29, 2014, 8:01 AM

Slide1

BII

Netflix's recent peering agreement with Comcast has ignited a firestorm of debate about the relationship between video companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ISPs operate the "last-mile" of fiber that connects the final segment of the Internet — including bandwidth-intensive video — with end users. 

Unfortunately, there's been a lot of misinformation over how peering agreements, including the Netflix-Comcast deal, relate to the wider debate over net neutrality.

To make matters worse, all sides in the debate — transit providers, CDNs, ISPs, and content providers — are guilty of distorting the conversation.

In a new report from BI Intelligence, we take a close look at the online video ecosystem, unpacking how content gets from video service providers like Netflix and Hulu, on to consumers' screens, and determine who holds the real power in video streaming. We also look at what's really going on between Netflix and Comcast, and in the broader net neutrality debate, as it relates to video streaming. 

As consumers' appetite for streaming video keeps ballooning, the debate over how to best get content onto screens, and who should foot the bill, will keep bubbling up.

Access The Full Report And Data By Signing Up For A Free Trial Today >>

Here are some key takeaways from the report: 

The report is full of charts and data that can be easily downloaded and put to use. 

In full, the report:



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-online-video-ecosystem-explained--who-holds-the-real-power-in-video-streaming-2014-4#ixzz36NBw6Kkb

]]>
The Online Video Ecosystem Explained — Who Holds The Real Power In Video Streaming?
  • APR. 29, 2014, 8:01 AM

Slide1

BII

Netflix's recent peering agreement with Comcast has ignited a firestorm of debate about the relationship between video companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ISPs operate the "last-mile" of fiber that connects the final segment of the Internet — including bandwidth-intensive video — with end users. 

Unfortunately, there's been a lot of misinformation over how peering agreements, including the Netflix-Comcast deal, relate to the wider debate over net neutrality.

To make matters worse, all sides in the debate — transit providers, CDNs, ISPs, and content providers — are guilty of distorting the conversation.

In a new report from BI Intelligence, we take a close look at the online video ecosystem, unpacking how content gets from video service providers like Netflix and Hulu, on to consumers' screens, and determine who holds the real power in video streaming. We also look at what's really going on between Netflix and Comcast, and in the broader net neutrality debate, as it relates to video streaming. 

As consumers' appetite for streaming video keeps ballooning, the debate over how to best get content onto screens, and who should foot the bill, will keep bubbling up.

Access The Full Report And Data By Signing Up For A Free Trial Today >>

Here are some key takeaways from the report: 

The report is full of charts and data that can be easily downloaded and put to use. 

In full, the report:



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-online-video-ecosystem-explained--who-holds-the-real-power-in-video-streaming-2014-4#ixzz36NBw6Kkb

]]> <![CDATA[The short position almost disappeared]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6726 Fri, 23 May 2014 19:47:04 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6726 In just two weeks (April 15-30), it went from 580K to just 101K



.jpg   DSNY short count.jpg (Size: 68.7 KB / Downloads: 38) ]]> In just two weeks (April 15-30), it went from 580K to just 101K



.jpg   DSNY short count.jpg (Size: 68.7 KB / Downloads: 38) ]]> <![CDATA[CEO bought 125K shares Friday]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6489 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:15:54 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6489 http://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingHtml?FilingID=9917079

Pretty big vote of confidence..

]]> http://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingHtml?FilingID=9917079

Pretty big vote of confidence..

]]> <![CDATA[Sony contract]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6076 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:46:11 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6076


Sony Music Australia Chooses Play MPE®


CNW Group
Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. 9 minutes ago

Play MPE® Signs Sony Australia to Exclusive Distribution Agreement

VANCOUVER , Feb. 27, 2014 /CNW/ - Destiny Media Technologies (DSY.V) (DSNY) is pleased to announce that, effective March 1, 2014 , Play MPE® will be the exclusive supplier of digital distribution services to Sony Music Entertainment Australia for promotional delivery of audio content in Australia .

Play MPE® is the promotional music distributor for Universal Music Australia, EMI Australia, Warner Music Australia, and now Sony Music Australia, as well as many independent record labels in Australia .

"We are very pleased to sign our first contract with Sony Music in Australia ," said Fred Vandenberg , Chief Financial Officer for Destiny Media Technologies. "With this agreement, we expect that virtually all major radio music distribution in Australia now flows through Play MPE®, benefiting our record label customers and recipients."

]]>


Sony Music Australia Chooses Play MPE®


CNW Group
Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. 9 minutes ago

Play MPE® Signs Sony Australia to Exclusive Distribution Agreement

VANCOUVER , Feb. 27, 2014 /CNW/ - Destiny Media Technologies (DSY.V) (DSNY) is pleased to announce that, effective March 1, 2014 , Play MPE® will be the exclusive supplier of digital distribution services to Sony Music Entertainment Australia for promotional delivery of audio content in Australia .

Play MPE® is the promotional music distributor for Universal Music Australia, EMI Australia, Warner Music Australia, and now Sony Music Australia, as well as many independent record labels in Australia .

"We are very pleased to sign our first contract with Sony Music in Australia ," said Fred Vandenberg , Chief Financial Officer for Destiny Media Technologies. "With this agreement, we expect that virtually all major radio music distribution in Australia now flows through Play MPE®, benefiting our record label customers and recipients."

]]> <![CDATA[Marketing capmaign starting]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6039 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:13:12 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6039
North American Marketing Campaign for Clipstream® Cross-Platform Playerless Streaming Video Solution Begins this Week

VANCOUVER, Feb. 25, 2014 /CNW/ - Destiny Media Technologies (TSXV: DSY) (OTCQX: DSNY) announced the first of a series of marketing initiatives for its new disruptive Clipstream® streaming video technology.

The campaigns will highlight two streaming video ads describing Destiny's Clipstream® video cloud service. The video ads will play in the Clipstream® format across the front pages of a number of web developer and streaming media properties.

The initial ads will target partners in the web developer and streaming media space. The Company intends to expand advertising to websites in other verticals, including market research, advertising, web hosting and large corporate websites. When foreign language translations of the software are complete, the solution will also be marketed to non English speaking sites in international markets.

These ads in the new Clipstream® format are compliant with Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standards and are integrated with Google Doubleclick and Google Ad Manager. The ad serves as a proof of concept for other advertisers that may want to reach a larger cross-platform audience with a single video format.

The initial campaign is scheduled to deliver over three quarters of a million impressions. Destiny is working with Quinstreet Enterprise to reach web developers through IT Business Edge, Ziff Davis Enterprise, Internet.com and Developer.com. According to Quinstreet, its network of forty sites reaches sixteen million unique visitors per month. Destiny is also partnering with Streamingmedia.com, which reaches 1.3 million unique visitors annually. Typical site visitors are C-level decision makers, representing companies with an average of 1,500 employees all which have absolute qualified budgets for online video products and services.

The ads will initially run across the front pages of the following properties: http://www.webdeveloper.com, http://www.developer.com, http://www.devx.com, http://www.codeguru.com, http://www.htmlgoodies.com, http://www.flashkit.com and two e-newsletters for new web development technologies.

"Our initial targets are broad-based content providers, including advertising agencies, marketing professionals and web developers. The technology works well and there is a clear value proposition for our customers to get a much simpler solution, which costs less and provides much higher value," said Steve Vestergaard, Chief Executive Officer of Destiny Media Technologies. "We are excited to begin exposing our proprietary and disruptive technology to a much wider audience."

Clipstream® is the only streaming technology that will play cross-platform without transcoding. Coming versions will also feature extensive security features and interactivity, not available in HTML 5 video streaming formats. Unlike other technologies which are continuously being updated, Clipstream® encoded video will play into the future without re-encoding.

The Clipstream® solution is completely automated. With the tagline "Drag, drop, done", customers are able to self-serve to create their own Clipstream® videos with a simple uploader tool. This tool delivers a video, which "plays everwhere" including devices such as TV's and e-readers where competitive technologies don't play well.

About Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.

Destiny Media Technologies provides services that enable content owners to securely display and distribute their audio and video content digitally through the internet. The Company's two major services are Clipstream and Play MPE®. Clipstream (http://www.clipstream.com) is a video format that plays on any modern smart phone, tablet, internet, TV, or computer. With Clipstream, there is no player to configure or install, videos never go obsolete, and there are up to 90% cost savings by reducing the use of transcoding, infrastructure and bandwidth. Play MPE (http://www.plaympe.com) provides a standardized method to securely and cost effectively distributes pre-release music to radio stations and other music industry professionals, before it is ready for sale. More information can be found at http://www.dsny.com.

SOURCE Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.

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North American Marketing Campaign for Clipstream® Cross-Platform Playerless Streaming Video Solution Begins this Week

VANCOUVER, Feb. 25, 2014 /CNW/ - Destiny Media Technologies (TSXV: DSY) (OTCQX: DSNY) announced the first of a series of marketing initiatives for its new disruptive Clipstream® streaming video technology.

The campaigns will highlight two streaming video ads describing Destiny's Clipstream® video cloud service. The video ads will play in the Clipstream® format across the front pages of a number of web developer and streaming media properties.

The initial ads will target partners in the web developer and streaming media space. The Company intends to expand advertising to websites in other verticals, including market research, advertising, web hosting and large corporate websites. When foreign language translations of the software are complete, the solution will also be marketed to non English speaking sites in international markets.

These ads in the new Clipstream® format are compliant with Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standards and are integrated with Google Doubleclick and Google Ad Manager. The ad serves as a proof of concept for other advertisers that may want to reach a larger cross-platform audience with a single video format.

The initial campaign is scheduled to deliver over three quarters of a million impressions. Destiny is working with Quinstreet Enterprise to reach web developers through IT Business Edge, Ziff Davis Enterprise, Internet.com and Developer.com. According to Quinstreet, its network of forty sites reaches sixteen million unique visitors per month. Destiny is also partnering with Streamingmedia.com, which reaches 1.3 million unique visitors annually. Typical site visitors are C-level decision makers, representing companies with an average of 1,500 employees all which have absolute qualified budgets for online video products and services.

The ads will initially run across the front pages of the following properties: http://www.webdeveloper.com, http://www.developer.com, http://www.devx.com, http://www.codeguru.com, http://www.htmlgoodies.com, http://www.flashkit.com and two e-newsletters for new web development technologies.

"Our initial targets are broad-based content providers, including advertising agencies, marketing professionals and web developers. The technology works well and there is a clear value proposition for our customers to get a much simpler solution, which costs less and provides much higher value," said Steve Vestergaard, Chief Executive Officer of Destiny Media Technologies. "We are excited to begin exposing our proprietary and disruptive technology to a much wider audience."

Clipstream® is the only streaming technology that will play cross-platform without transcoding. Coming versions will also feature extensive security features and interactivity, not available in HTML 5 video streaming formats. Unlike other technologies which are continuously being updated, Clipstream® encoded video will play into the future without re-encoding.

The Clipstream® solution is completely automated. With the tagline "Drag, drop, done", customers are able to self-serve to create their own Clipstream® videos with a simple uploader tool. This tool delivers a video, which "plays everwhere" including devices such as TV's and e-readers where competitive technologies don't play well.

About Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.

Destiny Media Technologies provides services that enable content owners to securely display and distribute their audio and video content digitally through the internet. The Company's two major services are Clipstream and Play MPE®. Clipstream (http://www.clipstream.com) is a video format that plays on any modern smart phone, tablet, internet, TV, or computer. With Clipstream, there is no player to configure or install, videos never go obsolete, and there are up to 90% cost savings by reducing the use of transcoding, infrastructure and bandwidth. Play MPE (http://www.plaympe.com) provides a standardized method to securely and cost effectively distributes pre-release music to radio stations and other music industry professionals, before it is ready for sale. More information can be found at http://www.dsny.com.

SOURCE Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.

]]> <![CDATA[Netflix slowing down?]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6030 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:32:31 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6030
Is Netflix Slowing Down? Good Luck Finding Out Why.

The FCC wants to force ISPs to show whether delays are due to unavoidable congestion or created to extract fees from content providers.


Even when they’ve made sure to sign up for more-than-adequate plans with their Internet service providers, many customers of popular cloud services such as Netflix encounter glitches such as frozen screens on streamed movies.

Indeed, in its latest update to its ISP speed reports, Netflix notes a trend of slower speeds from some providers, including Verizon and Comcast. But why? ISPs blame unavoidable congestion at various points in the network. Yet some critics believe it’s part of a calculated plan by ISPs to force content providers to pay.

Getting the answer means getting the data, but ISPs do not reveal the data, nor are they required to. Changing this was one of Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler’s goals when he urged the FCC yesterday to try again to write new rules, popularly called “net neutrality” regulations, that generally ban ISPs from blocking or slowing different forms of data or charging extra to deliver it more quickly.

His call comes one month after a federal appeals court blocked the FCC’s most recent attempt to craft such regulations (see “Net Neutrality Quashed: New Pricing Schemes, Throttling, and Business Models to Follow&rdquoWink. At the moment, it is legal for ISPs to try to collect fees from parties like Netflix to ensure fast data delivery, though they do not do so in practice.

The topic exploded earlier this month when an engineer at a Texas security firm collected data showing extremely slow service from his company’s site, which relies on Amazon Web Services, despite robust Internet connections at his home and office. He accused his provider, Verizon FIOS, of slowing the Amazon service deliberately. Verizon denied this, saying congestion was to blame.

Netflix declined to comment to MIT Technology Review, though previously it has not blamed active slowing, or throttling, for the slow speeds experienced by its customers.

In fact, it’s hard to determine whether slowdowns are caused deliberately or just by too much traffic. The Internet is a collection of smaller networks, which connect with one another at junctions often called peering points. Depending on traffic patterns at any given time, some such interconnections can get clogged.

Today, critics complain, it’s hard to monitor this because the arrangements between Internet providers are not regulated, the agreements that govern them are not public, and the data is kept private. “We have a gigantic problem in that the FCC doesn’t currently have access to data,” says Susan Crawford, a visiting professor of law at Harvard University and a co-director of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. “You want to be able to show that all other explanations for inadequate Netflix experience—or YouTube experience, or Amazon Web Services experience—can be ruled out, and that the reason for the bottleneck lies within the control of the network operator.”

Wheeler seemed to directly address that problem, calling for “genuine transparency in how Internet service providers manage traffic.” His statement added that the data should be detailed enough to give content providers “the technical information they need to create and maintain their products and services as well as to assess the risks and benefits of embarking on new projects.”

Ben Scott, a researcher working on measurement data from M-Lab, a research consortium that tracks global Internet performance and throttling, says researchers are trying to do their own sleuthing in the meantime, but no results are yet available.

A Verizon spokesman said in a company statement earlier this month: “We treat all traffic equally, and that has not changed. Many factors can affect the speed of a customer’s experience for a specific site, including that site’s servers, the way the traffic is routed over the Internet, and other considerations.”

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Is Netflix Slowing Down? Good Luck Finding Out Why.

The FCC wants to force ISPs to show whether delays are due to unavoidable congestion or created to extract fees from content providers.


Even when they’ve made sure to sign up for more-than-adequate plans with their Internet service providers, many customers of popular cloud services such as Netflix encounter glitches such as frozen screens on streamed movies.

Indeed, in its latest update to its ISP speed reports, Netflix notes a trend of slower speeds from some providers, including Verizon and Comcast. But why? ISPs blame unavoidable congestion at various points in the network. Yet some critics believe it’s part of a calculated plan by ISPs to force content providers to pay.

Getting the answer means getting the data, but ISPs do not reveal the data, nor are they required to. Changing this was one of Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler’s goals when he urged the FCC yesterday to try again to write new rules, popularly called “net neutrality” regulations, that generally ban ISPs from blocking or slowing different forms of data or charging extra to deliver it more quickly.

His call comes one month after a federal appeals court blocked the FCC’s most recent attempt to craft such regulations (see “Net Neutrality Quashed: New Pricing Schemes, Throttling, and Business Models to Follow&rdquoWink. At the moment, it is legal for ISPs to try to collect fees from parties like Netflix to ensure fast data delivery, though they do not do so in practice.

The topic exploded earlier this month when an engineer at a Texas security firm collected data showing extremely slow service from his company’s site, which relies on Amazon Web Services, despite robust Internet connections at his home and office. He accused his provider, Verizon FIOS, of slowing the Amazon service deliberately. Verizon denied this, saying congestion was to blame.

Netflix declined to comment to MIT Technology Review, though previously it has not blamed active slowing, or throttling, for the slow speeds experienced by its customers.

In fact, it’s hard to determine whether slowdowns are caused deliberately or just by too much traffic. The Internet is a collection of smaller networks, which connect with one another at junctions often called peering points. Depending on traffic patterns at any given time, some such interconnections can get clogged.

Today, critics complain, it’s hard to monitor this because the arrangements between Internet providers are not regulated, the agreements that govern them are not public, and the data is kept private. “We have a gigantic problem in that the FCC doesn’t currently have access to data,” says Susan Crawford, a visiting professor of law at Harvard University and a co-director of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. “You want to be able to show that all other explanations for inadequate Netflix experience—or YouTube experience, or Amazon Web Services experience—can be ruled out, and that the reason for the bottleneck lies within the control of the network operator.”

Wheeler seemed to directly address that problem, calling for “genuine transparency in how Internet service providers manage traffic.” His statement added that the data should be detailed enough to give content providers “the technical information they need to create and maintain their products and services as well as to assess the risks and benefits of embarking on new projects.”

Ben Scott, a researcher working on measurement data from M-Lab, a research consortium that tracks global Internet performance and throttling, says researchers are trying to do their own sleuthing in the meantime, but no results are yet available.

A Verizon spokesman said in a company statement earlier this month: “We treat all traffic equally, and that has not changed. Many factors can affect the speed of a customer’s experience for a specific site, including that site’s servers, the way the traffic is routed over the Internet, and other considerations.”

]]> <![CDATA[High Volume]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6015 Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:23:10 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=6015 Is there some news out I don't see?  What's with the high volume this morning? 1.4 million shares in the first hour of trading.

]]> Is there some news out I don't see?  What's with the high volume this morning? 1.4 million shares in the first hour of trading.

]]> <![CDATA[Fred V. Planned Sale]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5954 Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:59:54 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5954 Not sure how Steve can ask institutions to buy shares while Fred offloads this many...makes for a tough sales pitch.

Any thoughts on how this might be a positive? Some are saying the timeframe may indicate a potential increase in the near term stock price due to the impending uplist.

 http://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingHtml?FilingID=9756272

]]> Not sure how Steve can ask institutions to buy shares while Fred offloads this many...makes for a tough sales pitch.

Any thoughts on how this might be a positive? Some are saying the timeframe may indicate a potential increase in the near term stock price due to the impending uplist.

 http://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingHtml?FilingID=9756272

]]> <![CDATA[An interesting opportunity]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5900 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:11:32 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5900 Read the article below carefully, and realize what Destiny's DRM solutions could bring to the table here while content providers are alarmed at the possibility to annonymously stream their content beyond license areas. But formatted in Clipstream could offer a solution here.


REINVENTING THE WEB: A New App Lets You Watch Whatever TV Program You Want, Including The Olympics, Anywhere In The World



Jan. 25, 2014, 8:04 AM 74,721 28


Mike Nudelman/Business Insider


Of all the Olympic match-ups happening in Sochi next month, perhaps the most momentous will be the epic game of whack-a-mole that the International Olympic Committee will be playing with content pirates around the world.


If the history of the 2012 summer games offers any indication, the Web will be awash in shady live streams and guerrilla torrents, enabling winter sports devotees to slalom right past the array of international distribution deals that have been carefully engineered to squeeze the games for every last drop of revenue.


The committee recently issued a letter to Russian authorities requesting that a digital “rapid response team” be created to thwart Olympic pirates. Networks will have their own countermeasures, and the outcome is far from certain. But if BI's initial tests are any indication, a new circumvention tool will present a formidable challenge to license holders.


The Web application, called Hola, which promises to make it easier than ever for global Web-surfers to watch the Games — not to mention the latest episodes of “Sherlock,” “Downton Abbey,” and just about anything else on TV — at their whim, is experiencing a surge in popularity after a year of beta testing.


With Hola, US web users can view 'Sherlock' on the BBC's iPlayer.


Like most television networks around the world, official Olympics broadcasters like Russia’s Channel One, Canada’s CBC, China’s CCTV and Great Britain’s BBC — who have all forked over hefty license fees for the right to air the Games — utilize “geoblocking” tools to prevent anyone outside of their home territories from viewing their Web programming. Geoblocking allows content providers to sell off lucrative distribution rights region by region, a revenue stream that has long made up a critical chunk of each network’s bottom line. (The IOC netted $775 million this year from NBC alone, who then turned around and pulled in $800 million in advertising.)


Now that whole system is under attack by Hola, a free virtual private network (VPN) proxy that soars over digital borders with the grace of an Austrian ski jumper.


“We call it better Internet,” Hola’s CEO Ofer Vilenski explains in a Skype call from his office in Netanya, Israel.


Hola is available for Chrome, Firefox, Windows and Android, but not the iPhone or iPad, just yet, due to challenges posed by Apple’s walled-off system.



Hola isn't the only VPN proxy available, but it is free (most charge by the month) and unusually intuitive. “It’s a very practical application of what has until now been a very occult technology,” says Douglas Rushkoff, author of “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now.”


While the application’s flaming smiley-face mascot is presumably a reference to the way it promises to speed up users’ download times (more about that later), the logo hints at more incendiary potential, at least from the point of view of established media brands, the data companies that help power the Web, and government regulators. If the startup’s founders and its deep-pocketed investors are right, Hola may actually manage to rewire the inner workings of the Internet as we know it.


But first it will rewire our TV viewing habits: For instance, the app unlocks an array of international Netflix sites with an easy click. U.S. patrons of the popular streaming service squealed in agony Jan. 1, when “Platoon,” “Top Gun,” and the original “True Grit,” along with nearly 90 other movies, vanished from their queues due to expiring licensing deals. Turns out many of those movies are still on Netflix Brazil. Meanwhile, Chile has an impressive assortment of Hitchcock classics, including “The Birds,” “Psycho,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” and “Vertigo,” none of which are available to U.S. subscribers. Canada offers the first four seasons of “Community.” And Ireland has just about every episode of “The Good Wife.”


A Netflix representative declined to comment about Hola, except to note that “crossing borders virtually violates our terms of use and we take measures to prevent it.”


So far, if our own tests are any indication, these measures don’t seem to be doing much good.


Meanwhile, Internet users in other countries are utilizing Hola to access Web applications that are not yet available in their regions at all, such as Hulu, Spotify, and Pandora. And employees of companies that block social networks from office workstations can use it to while away their afternoons on Instagram.


For citizens living under repressive regimes such as Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia, Hola’s potential is considerably more transformative: Once optimized, it will allow them to view sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, as well as Wikipedia, The New York Times and other news and information outlets that are otherwise blocked by their respective governments.



And because the app changes a device’s IP address — its unique Web signature — it makes it easier to evade government surveillance, helps shield computers and phones from hackers, and sidesteps location-tracking software. Finally, it renders the recent court decision striking down net neutrality rules essentially meaningless. After all, if an ISP can’t see what content is flowing to your machine, they can’t throttle your bandwidth.


Indeed, grandiose as it may sound, Hola could effectively transform the Internet, restoring the open Web and disrupting any number of existing industries. The best part? It does all this by tapping a plentiful resource nobody else seemed to realize was there.


NEXT: How to use Hola to access Netflix Ireland.


 The Birth of Hola


One day in December 2006, two Israeli software developers lay in separate hospital rooms about 15 miles apart. They’d just sold their company, Jungo, to NDS Group for $107 million, and after years of coding and hustling, they were literally falling apart. For Ofer Vilenski, it was shingles. For his partner, Derry Shribman, pneumonia.


Who knows how long they’d both been sick without realizing it. Maybe it was adrenaline that had kept them going as they finalized the deal, or a trick of the mind that kept their symptoms at bay. Whatever — they needed a rest, and they got one.


They decided to stay on with NDS for a year helping to integrate Jungo into the larger company and refine their software, an operating system for routers (it now powers FiOS, among other networks). Vilenski, who lived in a house in Netanya with his wife and children, and Shribman, a Tel Aviv bachelor, weren’t quite sure what they’d do after that, but they were in agreement on one key point: Neither of them would ever work another day for the rest of their lives.


“I played golf the first day, and then I took my kid skiing for a week,” Vilenski recalls. Shribman took up piano.


But it soon became clear that neither founder particularly liked the view from the sidelines. “I said, ‘So what now? We just sit here and wait for death?’” Vilenski remembers.


A few weeks later, the two were talking. A question had been nagging at Shribman: How much more awesome would the Internet be if we could invent it from scratch?


Shribman looked at the Internet as it currently exists and saw some glaring inefficiencies. As Vilenski explains it, picture the Web as a system of pipes. If you could somehow peer inside, you’d see the same data flying by all day long as different users accessed it. “Justin Bieber puts out a new video, and you’d say, ‘Here it is’ again, again, again, again…” Vilenski explains. “That’s a big redundancy and waste.”


And it’s getting worse. As the number and size of files whizzing around the world has grown, the response has been a surge of investment in ever larger pipes, to the tune of billions of dollars a year.


Whatever one’s opinion of teen pop, it was hard not to wonder: Did all that data really need to travel all the way from YouTube’s servers to a Belieber’s computer or phone every time it was viewed? Couldn’t it be stored locally?


To illustrate the problem, Vilenski, sitting in his office in Netanya, pointed his browser to the Business Insider home page and counted slowly to 11 while he waited for it to load. That’s because the content must travel so much farther to his machine in Israel than to a device in the states. The typical solution to this problem is called a CDN or content delivery network. CDN providers like Akamai, Amazon Cloudfront, Rackspace, and Google build massive, electricity-gobbling server farms around the world to cut down the distances. And if BI decided to make a push for increased readership in the Middle East, we could pay our CDN for a piece of that far-flung network.


It’s a fix, but an expensive one. What’s more, the electrical power required to run such server farms around the clock is pumping ever-increasing amounts carbon emissions into the atmosphere. As Vilenski and Shribman kept talking, they realized there was a better way.


How Hola Works


Rather than making use of CDNs, the developers’ scheme was to build an entirely new Internet running on top of the existing system — an “overlay,” as they call it — by making use of the invisible reserves of technological firepower that have been quietly building up under our noses — and in our pockets — for years.


Perhaps we never quite noticed it before because it’s so ubiquitous: It’s the spare storage space and processing power sitting unused in billions of personal computers, tablets and mobile phones around the world.


The hack devised by Vilenski and Shribman, Hola’s chief technology officer, was impressively elegant: Hola turns every device on the network into a router that can warehouse and serve up packets of information (pieces of that Bieber video, chunks of the BI home page, whatever) as needed — thereby vastly shrinking the distance data has to travel.


“It redirects your traffic through other peoples’ devices in an encrypted and secure manner,” Vilenski explains, “and it creates multiple routes. You have maybe 10 connections in parallel serving the information, so things go faster.”


According to Rushkoff, the principle underpinning Hola is based on a technological sea change: “Our processing power has increased so much faster than our networking speed that it’s easier to piece together stuff from all these nodes than to get a coherent piece of media from far away on the network,” he explains.


Crucially, the whole process is designed to be perfectly invisible to the user. The packets are encrypted, so you’ll never know what’s being stored on your device. And when you need the storage space, Hola steps aside instantaneously. As the software scans the network for usable nodes, it only makes use of devices under certain conditions: The device must be plugged in (so Hola won’t to drain your battery), connected to Wi-Fi (to avoid racking up data charges), and not in use.


“Your computer is idle 90 percent of the day, even when you’re working on it,” Vilenski points out. The second you tap your keyboard, Hola backs off and doesn’t go near your machine for 20 seconds.


As the user base grows, the system organically speeds up. As Vilenski and Shribman put it on their website, “The ultimate goal is to make the Internet 10 times faster!”


It’s an ambitious target, and initially, that’s all they really hoped to do. It wasn’t until they got the system built and fired it up that the founders realized their project was potentially more disruptive than they’d originally hoped.


NEXT: 'We Had to Make It Not Crappy'


‘We Had to Make It Not Crappy’


Investing in Hola was an easy call for Moshe Levin, a prominent Israeli venture capitalist, who along with Draper Fischer Jurvetson, Trilogy and Magma put up $7 million “back when there was nothing but Ofer, Derry and a piece of paper.”


Reinventing the Web is not a simple task, but Levin insists that Vilenski, a longtime acquaintance who served in the Israeli Air Force as a combat pilot, has the talent and drive to pull it off. “Ofer is probably the best I’ve seen in this industry,” he tells Business Insider. “He is, on the one hand, very visionary. But at the same time, he’s very practical and determined. I have never seen anyone as focused. He sees the target and he’s not going to let it go.”


Vilenski says his military service was useful preparation for his current endeavor. “Building a startup is like a battle every day,” he says. “But nobody gets killed, so it’s a fun thing. It’s stressful, but it’s not that stressful.”


More funding followed from Horizons Ventures Ltd., the VC firm backed by Hong Kong business tycoon Li Ka-shing, Asia’s wealthiest individual, and others, for a total of $18 million.


The partners began recruiting engineers and started coding, releasing the first iteration more than four years later, in December 2012, to an underwhelming response.


“We knew initially that as more users installed it and our tech matured, we could make the Internet noticeably faster,” Vilenski recalls. “But initially we were just getting 30 percent increases, and nobody cared. The Internet fluctuates anyway.”

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REINVENTING THE WEB: A New App Lets You Watch Whatever TV Program You Want, Including The Olympics, Anywhere In The World



Jan. 25, 2014, 8:04 AM 74,721 28


Mike Nudelman/Business Insider


Of all the Olympic match-ups happening in Sochi next month, perhaps the most momentous will be the epic game of whack-a-mole that the International Olympic Committee will be playing with content pirates around the world.


If the history of the 2012 summer games offers any indication, the Web will be awash in shady live streams and guerrilla torrents, enabling winter sports devotees to slalom right past the array of international distribution deals that have been carefully engineered to squeeze the games for every last drop of revenue.


The committee recently issued a letter to Russian authorities requesting that a digital “rapid response team” be created to thwart Olympic pirates. Networks will have their own countermeasures, and the outcome is far from certain. But if BI's initial tests are any indication, a new circumvention tool will present a formidable challenge to license holders.


The Web application, called Hola, which promises to make it easier than ever for global Web-surfers to watch the Games — not to mention the latest episodes of “Sherlock,” “Downton Abbey,” and just about anything else on TV — at their whim, is experiencing a surge in popularity after a year of beta testing.


With Hola, US web users can view 'Sherlock' on the BBC's iPlayer.


Like most television networks around the world, official Olympics broadcasters like Russia’s Channel One, Canada’s CBC, China’s CCTV and Great Britain’s BBC — who have all forked over hefty license fees for the right to air the Games — utilize “geoblocking” tools to prevent anyone outside of their home territories from viewing their Web programming. Geoblocking allows content providers to sell off lucrative distribution rights region by region, a revenue stream that has long made up a critical chunk of each network’s bottom line. (The IOC netted $775 million this year from NBC alone, who then turned around and pulled in $800 million in advertising.)


Now that whole system is under attack by Hola, a free virtual private network (VPN) proxy that soars over digital borders with the grace of an Austrian ski jumper.


“We call it better Internet,” Hola’s CEO Ofer Vilenski explains in a Skype call from his office in Netanya, Israel.


Hola is available for Chrome, Firefox, Windows and Android, but not the iPhone or iPad, just yet, due to challenges posed by Apple’s walled-off system.



Hola isn't the only VPN proxy available, but it is free (most charge by the month) and unusually intuitive. “It’s a very practical application of what has until now been a very occult technology,” says Douglas Rushkoff, author of “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now.”


While the application’s flaming smiley-face mascot is presumably a reference to the way it promises to speed up users’ download times (more about that later), the logo hints at more incendiary potential, at least from the point of view of established media brands, the data companies that help power the Web, and government regulators. If the startup’s founders and its deep-pocketed investors are right, Hola may actually manage to rewire the inner workings of the Internet as we know it.


But first it will rewire our TV viewing habits: For instance, the app unlocks an array of international Netflix sites with an easy click. U.S. patrons of the popular streaming service squealed in agony Jan. 1, when “Platoon,” “Top Gun,” and the original “True Grit,” along with nearly 90 other movies, vanished from their queues due to expiring licensing deals. Turns out many of those movies are still on Netflix Brazil. Meanwhile, Chile has an impressive assortment of Hitchcock classics, including “The Birds,” “Psycho,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” and “Vertigo,” none of which are available to U.S. subscribers. Canada offers the first four seasons of “Community.” And Ireland has just about every episode of “The Good Wife.”


A Netflix representative declined to comment about Hola, except to note that “crossing borders virtually violates our terms of use and we take measures to prevent it.”


So far, if our own tests are any indication, these measures don’t seem to be doing much good.


Meanwhile, Internet users in other countries are utilizing Hola to access Web applications that are not yet available in their regions at all, such as Hulu, Spotify, and Pandora. And employees of companies that block social networks from office workstations can use it to while away their afternoons on Instagram.


For citizens living under repressive regimes such as Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia, Hola’s potential is considerably more transformative: Once optimized, it will allow them to view sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, as well as Wikipedia, The New York Times and other news and information outlets that are otherwise blocked by their respective governments.



And because the app changes a device’s IP address — its unique Web signature — it makes it easier to evade government surveillance, helps shield computers and phones from hackers, and sidesteps location-tracking software. Finally, it renders the recent court decision striking down net neutrality rules essentially meaningless. After all, if an ISP can’t see what content is flowing to your machine, they can’t throttle your bandwidth.


Indeed, grandiose as it may sound, Hola could effectively transform the Internet, restoring the open Web and disrupting any number of existing industries. The best part? It does all this by tapping a plentiful resource nobody else seemed to realize was there.


NEXT: How to use Hola to access Netflix Ireland.


 The Birth of Hola


One day in December 2006, two Israeli software developers lay in separate hospital rooms about 15 miles apart. They’d just sold their company, Jungo, to NDS Group for $107 million, and after years of coding and hustling, they were literally falling apart. For Ofer Vilenski, it was shingles. For his partner, Derry Shribman, pneumonia.


Who knows how long they’d both been sick without realizing it. Maybe it was adrenaline that had kept them going as they finalized the deal, or a trick of the mind that kept their symptoms at bay. Whatever — they needed a rest, and they got one.


They decided to stay on with NDS for a year helping to integrate Jungo into the larger company and refine their software, an operating system for routers (it now powers FiOS, among other networks). Vilenski, who lived in a house in Netanya with his wife and children, and Shribman, a Tel Aviv bachelor, weren’t quite sure what they’d do after that, but they were in agreement on one key point: Neither of them would ever work another day for the rest of their lives.


“I played golf the first day, and then I took my kid skiing for a week,” Vilenski recalls. Shribman took up piano.


But it soon became clear that neither founder particularly liked the view from the sidelines. “I said, ‘So what now? We just sit here and wait for death?’” Vilenski remembers.


A few weeks later, the two were talking. A question had been nagging at Shribman: How much more awesome would the Internet be if we could invent it from scratch?


Shribman looked at the Internet as it currently exists and saw some glaring inefficiencies. As Vilenski explains it, picture the Web as a system of pipes. If you could somehow peer inside, you’d see the same data flying by all day long as different users accessed it. “Justin Bieber puts out a new video, and you’d say, ‘Here it is’ again, again, again, again…” Vilenski explains. “That’s a big redundancy and waste.”


And it’s getting worse. As the number and size of files whizzing around the world has grown, the response has been a surge of investment in ever larger pipes, to the tune of billions of dollars a year.


Whatever one’s opinion of teen pop, it was hard not to wonder: Did all that data really need to travel all the way from YouTube’s servers to a Belieber’s computer or phone every time it was viewed? Couldn’t it be stored locally?


To illustrate the problem, Vilenski, sitting in his office in Netanya, pointed his browser to the Business Insider home page and counted slowly to 11 while he waited for it to load. That’s because the content must travel so much farther to his machine in Israel than to a device in the states. The typical solution to this problem is called a CDN or content delivery network. CDN providers like Akamai, Amazon Cloudfront, Rackspace, and Google build massive, electricity-gobbling server farms around the world to cut down the distances. And if BI decided to make a push for increased readership in the Middle East, we could pay our CDN for a piece of that far-flung network.


It’s a fix, but an expensive one. What’s more, the electrical power required to run such server farms around the clock is pumping ever-increasing amounts carbon emissions into the atmosphere. As Vilenski and Shribman kept talking, they realized there was a better way.


How Hola Works


Rather than making use of CDNs, the developers’ scheme was to build an entirely new Internet running on top of the existing system — an “overlay,” as they call it — by making use of the invisible reserves of technological firepower that have been quietly building up under our noses — and in our pockets — for years.


Perhaps we never quite noticed it before because it’s so ubiquitous: It’s the spare storage space and processing power sitting unused in billions of personal computers, tablets and mobile phones around the world.


The hack devised by Vilenski and Shribman, Hola’s chief technology officer, was impressively elegant: Hola turns every device on the network into a router that can warehouse and serve up packets of information (pieces of that Bieber video, chunks of the BI home page, whatever) as needed — thereby vastly shrinking the distance data has to travel.


“It redirects your traffic through other peoples’ devices in an encrypted and secure manner,” Vilenski explains, “and it creates multiple routes. You have maybe 10 connections in parallel serving the information, so things go faster.”


According to Rushkoff, the principle underpinning Hola is based on a technological sea change: “Our processing power has increased so much faster than our networking speed that it’s easier to piece together stuff from all these nodes than to get a coherent piece of media from far away on the network,” he explains.


Crucially, the whole process is designed to be perfectly invisible to the user. The packets are encrypted, so you’ll never know what’s being stored on your device. And when you need the storage space, Hola steps aside instantaneously. As the software scans the network for usable nodes, it only makes use of devices under certain conditions: The device must be plugged in (so Hola won’t to drain your battery), connected to Wi-Fi (to avoid racking up data charges), and not in use.


“Your computer is idle 90 percent of the day, even when you’re working on it,” Vilenski points out. The second you tap your keyboard, Hola backs off and doesn’t go near your machine for 20 seconds.


As the user base grows, the system organically speeds up. As Vilenski and Shribman put it on their website, “The ultimate goal is to make the Internet 10 times faster!”


It’s an ambitious target, and initially, that’s all they really hoped to do. It wasn’t until they got the system built and fired it up that the founders realized their project was potentially more disruptive than they’d originally hoped.


NEXT: 'We Had to Make It Not Crappy'


‘We Had to Make It Not Crappy’


Investing in Hola was an easy call for Moshe Levin, a prominent Israeli venture capitalist, who along with Draper Fischer Jurvetson, Trilogy and Magma put up $7 million “back when there was nothing but Ofer, Derry and a piece of paper.”


Reinventing the Web is not a simple task, but Levin insists that Vilenski, a longtime acquaintance who served in the Israeli Air Force as a combat pilot, has the talent and drive to pull it off. “Ofer is probably the best I’ve seen in this industry,” he tells Business Insider. “He is, on the one hand, very visionary. But at the same time, he’s very practical and determined. I have never seen anyone as focused. He sees the target and he’s not going to let it go.”


Vilenski says his military service was useful preparation for his current endeavor. “Building a startup is like a battle every day,” he says. “But nobody gets killed, so it’s a fun thing. It’s stressful, but it’s not that stressful.”


More funding followed from Horizons Ventures Ltd., the VC firm backed by Hong Kong business tycoon Li Ka-shing, Asia’s wealthiest individual, and others, for a total of $18 million.


The partners began recruiting engineers and started coding, releasing the first iteration more than four years later, in December 2012, to an underwhelming response.


“We knew initially that as more users installed it and our tech matured, we could make the Internet noticeably faster,” Vilenski recalls. “But initially we were just getting 30 percent increases, and nobody cared. The Internet fluctuates anyway.”

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]]> <![CDATA[Destiny Media Technologies reports Q1 EPS]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5817 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:56:45 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5817 Q1 SERVICE REVENUE WAS $922,541, VERSUS $1,063,867 DURING THE PRIOR YEAR QUARTER.

Q1 earnings per share $0.00

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Shares up 28% in early trading

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Q1 earnings per share $0.00

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Shares up 28% in early trading

]]> <![CDATA[Reverse split 5:1]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5765 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:47:42 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5765 To assure a better exchange (that is, NASDAQ) listing:

Destiny Media Proposes Reverse Split for Proposed Listing,on NASDAQ Capital Market
January 8, 2014

VANCOUVER, Jan. 8, 2014 - Destiny Media Technologies (TSXV: DSY) (OTCQX: DSNY) announces that its stockholders will be asked to approve a proposed reverse stock split of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock at a ratio of up to five (5) pre-reverse split shares to one (1) post-reverse split share (the “Reverse Split&rdquoWink at the Annual General and Special Meeting of Stockholders to be held on February 25, 2014. The purpose of the Reverse Split is to assist Destiny Media Technologies in meeting the minimum listing requirements of the NASDAQ Capital Markets. Destiny Media Technologies applied to list its shares of common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Markets on August 27th, 2013 and has received initial comments back. It will provide an update to its stockholders on the status of the listing application following approval of the Reverse Split.

If the Reverse Split is approved, the Board of Directors will have the authority to implement the Reverse Split, and, if enacted, to determine the Reverse Split ratio required to meet the minimum price per share requirements on the NASDAQ Capital Markets. Currently, the Board of Directors intends to implement the Reverse Split as soon as practicable following approval by the stockholders and the TSX Venture Exchange. Notwithstanding approval of the Reverse Split by the stockholders, the Board of Directors, in their sole discretion, may abandon the Reverse Split without further approval, action by, or prior notice to stockholders.

Destiny Media Technologies currently has an aggregate of 52,099,327 shares of common stock issued and outstanding. If the Reverse Split is undertaken at the ratio of 5 to 1, the issued and outstanding shares of common stock would be approximately 10,419,865. Destiny Media Technologies does not intend to change its name in conjunction with the Reverse Split.

The Reverse Split is subject to approval by the Company’s shareholders, the TSX Venture Exchange and FINRA.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Steve Vestergaard

Destiny Media Proposes Reverse Split for Proposed Listing,on NASDAQ Capital Market | Destiny Media Technologies

]]> To assure a better exchange (that is, NASDAQ) listing:

Destiny Media Proposes Reverse Split for Proposed Listing,on NASDAQ Capital Market
January 8, 2014

VANCOUVER, Jan. 8, 2014 - Destiny Media Technologies (TSXV: DSY) (OTCQX: DSNY) announces that its stockholders will be asked to approve a proposed reverse stock split of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock at a ratio of up to five (5) pre-reverse split shares to one (1) post-reverse split share (the “Reverse Split&rdquoWink at the Annual General and Special Meeting of Stockholders to be held on February 25, 2014. The purpose of the Reverse Split is to assist Destiny Media Technologies in meeting the minimum listing requirements of the NASDAQ Capital Markets. Destiny Media Technologies applied to list its shares of common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Markets on August 27th, 2013 and has received initial comments back. It will provide an update to its stockholders on the status of the listing application following approval of the Reverse Split.

If the Reverse Split is approved, the Board of Directors will have the authority to implement the Reverse Split, and, if enacted, to determine the Reverse Split ratio required to meet the minimum price per share requirements on the NASDAQ Capital Markets. Currently, the Board of Directors intends to implement the Reverse Split as soon as practicable following approval by the stockholders and the TSX Venture Exchange. Notwithstanding approval of the Reverse Split by the stockholders, the Board of Directors, in their sole discretion, may abandon the Reverse Split without further approval, action by, or prior notice to stockholders.

Destiny Media Technologies currently has an aggregate of 52,099,327 shares of common stock issued and outstanding. If the Reverse Split is undertaken at the ratio of 5 to 1, the issued and outstanding shares of common stock would be approximately 10,419,865. Destiny Media Technologies does not intend to change its name in conjunction with the Reverse Split.

The Reverse Split is subject to approval by the Company’s shareholders, the TSX Venture Exchange and FINRA.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Steve Vestergaard

Destiny Media Proposes Reverse Split for Proposed Listing,on NASDAQ Capital Market | Destiny Media Technologies

]]> <![CDATA[Earnings on Jan 14]]> http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5757 Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:29:00 +0000 http://shareholdersunite.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5757 Destiny Media Technologies Schedules First Quarter Fiscal 2014 Earnings Release and Conference Call
January 6, 2014

Vancouver, BC ・January 6, 2014 ・Destiny Media Technologies (TSXV: DSY) (OTCQX: DSNY), the global standard for the secure distribution of pre-release music to radio and the developer of a new cross-platform playerless video streaming format, today announced that the Company will hold a conference call on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) to discuss financial results for its first quarter ended November 30, 2013. The Company plans to release financial results for the quarter in a press release after the market closes on January 14, 2014.


Destiny Media Technologies Schedules First Quarter Fiscal 2014 Earnings Release and Conference Call | Destiny Media Technologies

It's a little early perhaps but nevertheless interesting to see whether they can report any progress with Clipstream G2.

]]> Destiny Media Technologies Schedules First Quarter Fiscal 2014 Earnings Release and Conference Call
January 6, 2014

Vancouver, BC ・January 6, 2014 ・Destiny Media Technologies (TSXV: DSY) (OTCQX: DSNY), the global standard for the secure distribution of pre-release music to radio and the developer of a new cross-platform playerless video streaming format, today announced that the Company will hold a conference call on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) to discuss financial results for its first quarter ended November 30, 2013. The Company plans to release financial results for the quarter in a press release after the market closes on January 14, 2014.


Destiny Media Technologies Schedules First Quarter Fiscal 2014 Earnings Release and Conference Call | Destiny Media Technologies

It's a little early perhaps but nevertheless interesting to see whether they can report any progress with Clipstream G2.

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