Viva Las Vegas

Today was my day at New Media Expo. I woke up at 4AM and drove straight to the Las Vegas Convention Center. I got there at about 9AM and took a power nap to get the day rolling since I had been up to 2AM the night before. I went in and got some starbucks and waited for the doors to open.

Having come from Anime Expo and Comic Con this was a much different environment, a lot more networking, a lot less costumes.

Once inside I met up with LA New Media Group, my new friends and family. We hung out for a little while and then I started walking the floor. I had the most recent trailer on an iPod Touch and went around showing it people. I spoke to people at Sony, Panasonic, Mackie, Wizzard Media, Tubemogul, Podcastertuneup, etc. I think I made it to every booth in the hall.

Two amazing booths were there. Wizzard Media was incredibly helpful and had a lot of great ideas for the future. Check out their site, it’s really interesting.

The other amazing booth was Tubemogul. This concept is absolutely genius. They act as an intermediary to 20 major video hosting sites and aggregate all the statistics to one single site. I’m in the process of signing up tonight. I will keep you updated as it goes, but I would recommend everyone setup an account. It’s free and a massive timesaver.

I met a ton of other great podcasters, hosting sites, asset providers, etc. Handed out some posters and stickers and shirts as well.

Oh…and I met this girl

Didn’t really take a lot of pics

Oh, and BTW, Vegas is not a lot of fun during the day. There is a reason it’s always dark in Twinkle’s city (which is soon to be officially named)