Video & Ad Solutions

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Ashley
Still

Ashley Still is the director of product management for Video Solutions at Adobe. She joined the video solutions team in 2008, and is responsible for product strategy for Adobe's video publishing technologies (streaming + content protection), Adobe Pass authentication service, and recently acquired Auditude ad platform. Ashley holds a BA from Yale, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and as her Sicilian relatives will tell you, used to speak much better Italian than she does now. She's been hooked on how technology can personalize programming since bringing home one of the first demo TiVo boxes, which had to be covered in tinfoil to reduce interference with the cable box.
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Jeremy
Helfand

Jeremy Helfand is the vice president of Video Monetization at Adobe. He is an accomplished digital media industry veteran and has spent more than a decade guiding publishers in maximizing content revenue as the CEO of Auditude, president of United Online's Media Group and vice president and general manager of Advertising.com. True to form, Jeremy has more screens in his home than a small electronics store and, if they are playing, the Baltimore Ravens can be seen on every one of them.
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Jens
Loeffler

Jens Loeffler is a senior technical evangelist on Adobe's Media Solutions product management team focusing on online video and services. Equipped with a media computer science degree, Jens started his career in the agency world and has been living and breathing online video and mobile for the last decade. Currently Jens provides thought leadership as a public speaker and panelist at numerous industry events, and maintains a well-recognized blog covering industry trends. When he isn't working on secret projects at Adobe, Jens compensates with long runs, hikes and walks with his furry companion, and is an excellent guide to judge the authenticity of German cuisine in NYC.
Jul 12, 2012

Adobe and NBC Olympics Join Forces to Bring the Olympics to Mobile Devices

By Jeremy Helfand


Today, Adobe and NBC Olympics announced the official NBC Olympics apps for the iPad, iPhone and select Android tablets and smartphones. For the first time in Olympics history, mobile apps will give you the opportunity to view live broadcasts of all Olympic events in the palm of your hand. This is possible because of the partnership between Adobe and NBC Olympics, and Adobe’s ability to provide leading video technology solutions at scale. We believe the Olympics will be a defining moment for digital video and we are proud to play a role.

The “NBC Olympics Live Extra” and “NBC Olympics” apps will provide a huge variety of content – from live streams of all competitive events to short video highlights, medal ceremonies, interviews, news stories and more. We’re thrilled that both apps are powered by a series of products and technologies from Adobe, which made it possible...

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Gaming

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Emmy
Huang

Emmy Huang is the director of product management for Gaming Solutions at Adobe. Emmy’s background includes working in engineering and product management on a range of digital entertainment technologies at Sony Pictures Digital, Liberate Technologies and Intel. She has worked on interactive toys, interactive TV, a digital media sharing service, Macromedia Director & Shockwave Player, and most recently Adobe Flash Player. Emmy’s love affair with video games began with Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe, deepened while programming simple BASIC games on the IBM PC/AT and was secured while conquering the Legend of Zelda for Nintendo NES at least four times. She doesn’t have as much time to play games now, but at least she can at least say it’s for work!
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Diana
Helander

Diana Helander is currently the group product marketing manager for Gaming Solutions at Adobe, and has played a variety of games from Duke Nukem to Angry Birds to Dance Central 2. She has worked in the technology industry for more than 15 years and has held marketing positions on the Flash/AIR Runtime team, enterprise and Acrobat business groups, and represented Adobe in global standards organizations such as ISO. Diana was previously at Autodesk, is a graduate of Amherst College, and while her guitar is – admittedly – collecting dust in the closet, she still mourns the passing of Guitar Hero.
Jul 17, 2012

Q&A With The Away Foundation’s Rob Bateman

By Michael Hu

We recently sat down with Rob Bateman, managing director of The Away Foundation, who told us about the company’s new project, Away3D 4.0 Gold, that was launched earlier today. Away3D 4.0 Gold is first official project from The Away Foundation, an offshoot of Away3D. The company has been active for two months, but Rob had been involved in the  Away3D engine since 2007.

Enjoy the Q&A below and visit away3d.com to read more about the release and download tutorials, examples and source files.

Tell us a bit about The Away Foundation and how it came about.

The Away Foundation is a non-profit Community Interest Company based in the UK, focusing on building and maintaining free and open source software resources for online and mobile games and applications. Work within The Away Foundation is enabled by corporate sponsorship and the continued support of a large community of individuals and...

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Digital Publishing

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Zeke
Koch

Zeke Koch is the senior director of product management for Digital Publishing at Adobe. He oversees the strategy, planning and design for Adobe’s Digital Publishing products. Previously, he was the principal product manager for Adobe’s Platform Strategy and director of product management for Adobe’s Mobile and Desktop Platform Product Management teams. Zeke joined Adobe with the acquisition of Macromedia and spent a decade at Microsoft prior to that.
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Paul
Betlem

Paul Betlem is the senior director of engineering for Digital Publishing at Adobe. He joined the company with the acquisition of Macromedia and has spent more than 10 years leading the Flash Player agenda. Previously, Paul led the Director/Shockwave product team and spent many years developing software at a variety of start-up companies. Like his work with Flash, Digital Publishing allows Paul to pursue his passion for delivering exciting digital media content to millions of people around the world. It’s often rumored that Paul joined the Digital Publishing team so he can reduce the clutter on his coffee table and make sure his favorite magazines live on his tablet, but in reality he just enjoys working with publishers to increase the availability of engaging interactive content on mobile devices.
Jul 19, 2012

Scientific American Launched with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

By Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Team

By Teresa Demel

Tuesday night, I received the news from the Digital Publishing Suite team that Scientific American launched its publication on the iPad. I personally have always enjoyed Scientific American because it builds a bridge between the research community and science & technology enthusiasts such as myself, and provides an easily accessible way to see how the latest advancements impact our lives. The digital edition will surely please its existing readership.

Direct Entitlement When I downloaded the magazine, I got to experience direct entitlement as a customer. I used my account number from my print subscription, gave them my last name, and within a minute, the digital edition was mine. It was a seamless experience. 

Integrating Current Content with HTML The Scientific American website is constantly pulling in up-to-date content from its editors and blogger community. Current articles are incorporated into the tablet publication, allowing Scientific American to provide daily...

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