Shahrzad Rafati / BroadbandTV
Photograph by John Keatley
"You're not going to stop piracy," says Shahrzad Rafati. "Fans think of themselves as fans who just want to share a great Kobe dunk." Rafati, who moved from Tehran to Vancouver in 2000 to study computer science, founded BroadbandTV to "take the fear out of the web" for content owners like Warner Bros., Sony, EA, and the NBA. Her technology identifies copyrighted content not just on YouTube but everywhere a user might upload video, then sells ads against it and shares the revenue with the owner. "We've claimed and monetized hundreds of thousands of videos for the NBA over the last two years," Rafati says.
A trailer for the latest Harry Potter film from BroadbandTV's YouTube channel.
"Our mission is to help content owners be successful in the Internet age."
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- Founder & CEO at BroadbandTV Corp | Vancouver, Canada Area
- Summary:
- BroadbandTV is a media & technology company that brings together content owners, network operators and advertisers to create economically sustainable online and mobile video business models. BroadbandTV specializes in the aggregation, optimization, protection and monetization of video content. BroadbandTV creates compelling distribution opportunities for its content partners and income generation opportunities for its network and advertising partners. BroadbandTV has aggregated and deployed tens of thousands of video assets, detected and reviewed millions of videos and monetized thousands of video clips generating billions of impressions and millions of ad dollars. BBTV capitalizes on state-of-the-art technologies to automatically generate optimal and relevant meta-information to represent its video assets, detect user uploaded copies of premium content online and drive maximum monetization for its partners’ video assets.
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