VEGAS, BABY! RTL Group’S Presence at the CES 2016
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RTL Group’s presence at the CES 2016 North America North America North America American Idol’s StyleHaul BroadbandTV’s final season announces new Major Lazer video kicked off online series clip passes a billion views Cover Montage with CES logo © Geoff Livingston - Las Vegas Publisher RTL Group 45, Bd Pierre Frieden L-1543 Luxembourg Editor, Design, Production RTL Group Corporate Communications & Marketing k before y hin ou T p r in t backstage.rtlgroup.com backstage.rtlgroup.fr backstage.rtlgroup.de QUICK VIEW American Idol’s final s e a s o n k i c k e d o f f FremantleMedia North America p.12–13 HUSTLE AND BUSTLE IN LAS VEGAS RTL Group p.4–11 StyleHaul announces new online series StyleHaul p.14 BroadbandTV’s Major Lazer video clip passes a billion views BroadbandTV p.15 RTL Belgium relaunches Mint radio station Big Picture RTL Belgium p.18 p.16 SHORT Enex welcomes a new member Enex NEWS p.17 p.19 PEOPLE p.20–22 HUSTLE AND BUSTLE IN LAS VEGAS Luxembourg – 14 January 2016 RTL Group Report on a visit to one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics shows, RTL Group’s reception and panel discussions Illustration of RTL Group at CES in Las Vegas 4 It’s January in Las Vegas. Now that the hullabaloo of New Year’s Eve has died down, few tourists remain in the city as the first visitors to the show start arriving. Very quickly, though, the tourists find themselves clearly outnumbered, because more than 170,000 decision-makers and managers from the consumer electronics sector are descending on Las Vegas to attend what may well be the world’s largest consumer electronics show: CES 2016. Over an area covering in excess of 220,000 square metres spread across the entire city, more than 3,600 exhibitors are displaying their latest innovations. In addition, at a wide range of CES panels and in keynote speeches, top managers like StyleHaul CEO Stephanie Horbaczewski, BroadbandTV CEO Shahrzad Rafati; StyleHaul Chief Content Officer Mia Goldwyn and Bertelsmann Marcel Reichart (right) with YouTube influencer iJustine at CES 2016 Digital Media Investments Managing Director Urs Cete report on their business activities. “CES is the first global tentpole and agenda-setting event for our industry and opportunity to connect to Although the show’s official start date is Wednesday key partners and clients. Together with the CEOs 9 January, by that time a fair number of events have of the RTL Digital Hub, we were thrilled to kick-off already taken place. And any visitors not already in CES 2016 with a joint invitation to our key business town by Sunday or Monday face a severe weather partners, industry peers and influencers and to problem, with Tuesday’s rain and fog causing major further raise RTL Group’s profile in the US digital and delays at Las Vegas’s McCarran International business community. We look forward to develop our Airport. Many flights are cancelled altogether, and presence in the next years,” says Marcel Reichart, those that aren’t face an average delay of around Executive Vice President RTL Digital Hub. four – and in extreme cases six – hours. This causes frustration not only for travellers, but also for those On Wednesday morning, things still seem relatively waiting. Many meetings have to be called off, and quiet. The queue for taxis in front of the hotel numerous events and receptions are attended by is relatively short and the drive to The Venetian fewer participants than anticipated. goes pretty smoothly. But at the entrance of the hotel, it becomes clear that hordes of people are Nonetheless, the cocktail reception organised by thronging to the opening keynote and finding a RTL Group and the RTL Digital Hub companies way to the fifth floor is like finding a path through a StyleHaul, BroadbandTV, SpotX and VideoAmp is maze. The venue can accommodate 7,500 people, warmly welcomed and hosts numerous high-ranking and it certainly looks like that number have turned managers (see page 8). A great opportunity for up, because the place is packed. networking. Next > Long queue forming at The Venetian to enter the opening session 5 The show itself draws huge crowds, especially to the stands of companies offering virtual reality products like Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Rift. Just next door, Virtuix is holding a virtual reality eSports tournament, and it’s really a rather strange – but also impressive – spectacle, watching the participants running on the spot and pointing their guns. Long lines were already forming in the early morning Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association which organises CES, welcomes the visitors: “CES represents innovation. Our industry is literally changing the world, a new world where intelligence and data is the new currency.” He goes on to introduce the various sectors presenting their latest wares at the show, Visitors were eager to check out Virtual Reality themselves revealing the innovations that will attract the most attention at the event: 8K TVs, virtual reality, On a huge stand, TV manufacturers are showcasing self-driving cars, drones, wearables and intelligent the latest trend in TV sets, where not only has the products. resolution risen to 8K (equivalent to 16 times full HD resolution), but the contrast has also become Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, kicks off his much richer, with more and more suppliers offering presentation with a little history, making his standpoint HDR (high dynamic range) TV sets with more vivid clear quite early on by saying that first there was images. There are also 3D TVs that work without radio, then came television, followed by cable viewers having to don 3D glasses, and a growing TV and now the Internet. Several times, Hastings number of TV sets featuring organic light-emitting stresses the Internet’s importance for television, diodes (OLEDs). promising: “We can now put consumers in the driver’s seat. Rapid innovations allow changing the An audible hum means that drones (or unmanned way of storytelling.” Supposedly, during Q4 of 2015 aerial vehicles, UAVs) aren’t far away. Luckily they’re alone, 12 billion hours of content were watched on all closed off behind nets and fences, because if Netflix, though Hastings stops short of saying which they weren’t, the chaotic situation in the exhibition shows are especially popular or how often they halls would descend into total mayhem. Nowadays, are viewed. What follows is like the presentation drones offer pretty much any features one might of a programme schedule by a TV channel: Netflix think of, including automatic collision-avoidance Chief Content Officer Ted Sarrandos calls a few systems and automatic target recognition routines. celebrities up onto the stage and shows trailers of There are even combat UAVs which friends can use the latest productions. Hastings then rounds off his to play their very own ‘game of drones’. keynote speech with another surprise, for during his presentation the service was extended to even more There isn’t much time to give everything a try countries and is now available worldwide, with the because everywhere visitors have to stand in exception of China. “You’ve witnessed the birth of line for the next panel, meeting, dinner or other the first global television network,” Hastings says. engagement. However, there’s still just time to head So, when all is said and done, it’s back at the start off to C Space, a side venue in the Aria Hotel, where and afterall it’s still about TV. VideoAmp has a stand of its own. Next > 6 VideoAmp booth at CES 2016 “WE WERE THRILLED TO KICK-OFF CES 2016 WITH A Click here to watch the Beet.TV series on CES 2016, JOINT INVITATION TO OUR KEY presented by SpotX BUSINESS PARTNERS, INDUSTRY PEERS AND INFLUENCERS AND TO FURTHER RAISE RTL GROUP’S PROFILE IN THE US” Marcel Reichart Next > Panoramic view at CES 2016 7 NETWORKING IN LAS VEGAS On 5 January 2016, the RTL Digital Hub and its partner companies hosted a cocktail reception in Las Vegas with more than 120 attendees – a fantastic way to round off the first day of the CES 2016 event. Together with StyleHaul, BroadbandTV, SpotX and VideoAmp, the RTL Digital Hub invited industry experts and business partners to join representatives from leading media and digital companies, such as Viacom, News Corp, AOL, Hulu, CBS Interactive or Ogilvy, and meet ‘CES Entertainment Matters Ambassadors’ iJustine and Joey Graceffa – vloggers signed with StyleHaul. 2 1 3 4 5 6 1: From left to right: Marcel Reichart, EVP RTL Digital Hub, with Krishan Bhatia, EVP Business Operations & Strategy at NBC Universal and Jimmy Maymann, President Content & Consumer Brands at AOL 2: From left to right: George Musi, Managing Partner, Analytics & Insights at Mindshare; Ross McCray, CEO of VideoAmp; Jay Prasad, Chief Business Officer of VideoAmp and Tom Russel, Partner & Managing Director at Mindshare 3: Sean Buckley (left), SVP Platform & Global Supply at SpotX and Randy Cooke, VP Programmatic TV at SpotX 4: Mike Shehan, CEO of SpotX with Scott Ferber, CEO of Videology 5: StyleHaul CEO Stephanie Horbaczewski (centre) with YouTube stars iJustine and Joey Graceffa 6: Jeremiah Bates, CFO of StyleHaul; Tracy Crane, Chief Marketing Officer at StyleHaul; Mia Goldwyn, Chief Content Officer of StyleHaul and Rob DeChiaro, EVP and General Manager of The SHop at StyleHaul 8 GET AN INSIGHT ON ‘MCNS BECOME MPNS’ “YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THAT CONVERSATION” In one of the first panels of the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), StyleHaul CEO Stephanie Horbaczewski spoke about multi-channel network (MCN) business and underlined the importance of talent, premium content and driving conversation.