MContent Appoints Hani El Khatib as the New Chief Executive Officer of Blockchain & Web3 ACN Newswire

MContent Appoints Hani El Khatib as the New Chief Executive Officer of Blockchain & Web3

October 18, 2022
DUBAI, UAE, Oct 18, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - MContent, the world's first web3 decentralized content ecosystem is pleased to announce the appointment of Hani El Khatib as their new chief executive officer of blockchain & web3. The hiring of Hani El Khatib shows the commitment of the MContent board & its ambitions in becoming a leading global web3 company. As part of his new role, Hani will oversee the overall MContent blockchain decentralized platform, as well as all web3, NFTs, & crypto divisions. .Hani El Khatib"I am thrilled to join the MContent family, and work with the great leaders to help steer the company to global presence & success. Our objective is to make MContent the leading decentralized web3 content company that brings power back to the viewer. At MContent, with our Watch & Earn model, both the viewers & the content creators will be earning monetized cryptocurrency when any of the content is viewed on our platform. Being a firm believer in the power of blockchain & decentralization, I am confident that our business methodology will be beneficial for our members, our community, and for our business," says Hani El Khatib.Hani brings in a vast experience in terms of leadership, entrepreneurship, and business growth,having specialized in revenue growth and scaling up businesses, from global unicorn start-ups looking for regional expansion, to multi-nationals looking to grow their business, while also bringing in his entrepreneurial experience, having established his own start-up early in his career. Prior to MContent, Hani was Regional Director at Chainalysis, where he helped in building Chainalysis's presence in the region. Before that Hani held various regional roles in multinational companies including McAfee, and Forescout Technologies.About MContentMContent is the World's First Fully Decentralized Watch2Earn Content Eco System that is backed by Gargash Group as the lead investor. Designed to convert content viewers into content owners, the first-of-its-kind web3 video streaming platform enables crowdfunding of film production and capital-intensive content creators using Cryptocurrency, NFTs & Blockchain, as well as being the pioneers of web3 cinema with their Cineverse ( Cinema in the metaverse). In the past year, the project has seeded, funded, and curated more than 40 film & TV productions through its self-sustaining ecosystem. The MContent platform now has almost 1.2 million registered users from across the World with more than 100,000 user generated videos populated as well as a collection of MOriginals & premium exclusive content available for streaming on the app & web platform. Over 500 leading content creators from across the world have already signed up to be a part of the MContent revolution and many influencers continue to join. MContent digital currency is available on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC - BEP20) and Ethereum (ERC20) are trading on more than 7 leading exchanges. www.mcontent.net. Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)
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Manila Protection of Online Content Summit Builds Off High Hopes for Efficient and Effective Site Blocking Measures in New House Bill ACN Newswire

Manila Protection of Online Content Summit Builds Off High Hopes for Efficient and Effective Site Blocking Measures in New House Bill

September 2, 2022
MANILA, Sep 2, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) and the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) hosted a seminar earlier today in Manila to promote the protection of online content in a country that continues to have some of the highest levels of online piracy in Asia Pacific, levels that impede economic growth and pose serious risks to consumers. AVIA, and local industry partners involved in the seminar such as Globe and Kroma, held the event to highlight the need for the revised IP Code recently presented to the House to address rampant online piracy via the implementation of efficient and effective site blocking procedures. The seminar brought together some of the leading content industry and government players in the Philippines, including the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines' (IPOPHL) Deputy Director General, Teodoro C. Pascua, Congressman Joey Sarte Salceda, the Film Development Council of the Philippines and representatives from Globe Telecom, Disney, NBA and Kroma. Speakers at the seminar discussed the revised IP Code, the impact of online piracy in the Philippines, including the harm posed by piracy such as malware infections, as well as looking at best practices to combat online piracy, including reviewing what measures other countries in the region have taken to address online piracy. Matthew Cheetham, CAP's General Manager, noted. "We know from a recent YouGov survey that the Philippines has some of the highest online piracy rates in the Asia Pacific, with more than 60% of consumers admitting they watch pirate content online." The same survey shows that site blocking is the preferred method of reducing piracy. Added Cheetham, "More than 49% of consumers believe a government or court order for ISPs to block pirate sites would be the most effective measure to reduce piracy in the Philippines." However, the good news is that consumers are also being educated about piracy with more than 40% being aware of the negative impacts of piracy on the local creative industry, as well as the risks of malware infections from accessing pirate sites. Cheetham illustrated the stark reality of the consumer risks from pirate sites highlighted in their "Time to Compromise" report from earlier in the year with a video presentation showing a user being infected with fake ransomware within 30 seconds of searching for pirate Philippine movie content. There is some hope that the revised IP Code bill, HB0799, filed in early July, will address the rampant online piracy. However, while the bill does provide the potential for the government to block sites due to copyright infringement, the procedures for doing so are not clear. Cheetham noted that "Malaysia has some of the best site blocking measures in the region and it's no surprise that Malaysia's online piracy rates have plummeted by 60% since the Malaysian government implemented its rolling site blocking measures in early 2020." "The transformation brought about by the last two years has drastically changed the ecommerce landscape and technologies in all sectors have adapted accordingly. Protection and enforcement of intellectual property especially in the creative sector will perforce, adjust and adapt as the developments in ecommerce evolve and stabilizes. Failing to do so will drastically destroy the cadence of development already began and bring more loss than gains," said Teodoro Pascua, Deputy Director General, The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL). "Revising the Philippines' intellectual property code is urgently necessary to ensure that we protect the Philippines' creative industry and content users. To complement regulatory efforts, Globe has been implementing its anti-piracy campaign #PlayItRight since 2017 to educate customers on how to become responsible users of online content across the film and music industries, and the areas of digital literacy and education. We also vigorously monitor, and block validated illegal piracy sites. Adding teeth to the law will further boost these initiatives," said Yoly Crisanto, Chief Sustainability and Corporate Communications Officer at Globe. Added Ian Monsod, CEO of Kroma Entertainment, "Kroma is committed to develop world class entertainment as well as to elevate Filipino artistry and content to the world stage. We will continue to vigilantly work with industry stakeholders to uphold the IP rights protection as a backbone and path to the creator industry sustainability."About the Asia Video Industry AssociationThe Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) is the trade association for the video industry and ecosystem in Asia Pacific. It serves to make the video industry stronger and healthier through promoting the common interests of its members. AVIA is the interlocutor for the industry with governments across the region, leads the fight against video piracy through its Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) and provides insight into the video industry through reports and conferences aimed to support a vibrant video industry. For media enquiries and additional background please contact: Charmaine KwanHead of Marketing and CommunicationsEmail: charmaine@avia.orgWebsite: www.avia.orgLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/asiavideoiaTwitter: @AsiaVideoIA Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)
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Korean Content Powerhouse Shaping the Entire Asian Video Landscape ACN Newswire

Korean Content Powerhouse Shaping the Entire Asian Video Landscape

September 1, 2022
Singapore, Sep 1, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) welcomed over 200 delegates from across the region for its first ever Korean focused conference and its first in market event since 2019, with Korea in View, which took place on 30 August at the Westin Josun, Seoul. To set the scene, AVIA CEO Louis Boswell presented key highlights from AVIA's Korea in View 2022 Report. Ranking 10th among the world's largest economies and 4th in Asia, South Korea had risen from one of the poorest countries in the world to a developed, high-income country in just one generation. The pay TV market continued to show growth of 2.7% per year, now dominated by IPTV, while streaming services were accelerating at breakneck speed, seeing paid subscribers increasing from 20.4% of the population in 2020 to 34.8% in 2021. In his opening speech, keynote speaker, Vice Chairman Ahn Hyoung-hwan of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) shared that while OTT growth was an opportunity for the content industry to grow, it was also resulting in a sense of crisis for existing legacy media. Hence the KCC was preparing the Audio-Visual Media Service Act and was pushing for innovative deregulation of the existing regulations on advertising and programming.The day spanned multiple conversations about the strength of Korean content and how that was fuelling the success of both Korean streaming platforms as well as international, with Marianne Lee, Chief of Content Acquisition and Development, Viu and Junbeom Jeon, Chief Leader, Wavve, both agreeing that this investment in local content was the key to survival. Such demand, however, was also clearly fuelling a rapid escalation in content costs and while Hyun Park, Senior Vice President, Global Division of Studio Dragon commented that from a Hollywood perspective Korea still presented great value for money, there needed to be a cap on costs before they got out of hand. He also noted, "We are definitely not at the peak of production, we are only at the beginning." The roles of international and Korean streaming platforms were also examined with Esther Ahn, Vice President, Streaming, Korea, Paramount, explaining the recent introduction of Paramount+ to the market in partnership with CJ-backed TVING. The partnership spanned making Paramount content available within the TVING service in Korea as well as co-producing Korean content with a view to Korean and international audiences. TVING CEO Jay Yang also talked about the desire to be able to take the best Korean content overseas and deliver it through a Korean streaming platform, although he did not believe Korean content should only be on Korean platforms. But as in the same way Korean content was on international platforms, the Paramount+ deal also saw international content on a Korean platform. Ultimately streaming platforms wanted the best content no matter its origin. The advertising market was also seeing the traditional markets of TV, Print and Radio declining but there has been significant growth in digital. This was an opportunity that both Bong-Su Kim, Addressable TV Ad Team Leader, SK Broadband and Vijay Kunduri, Regional Vice President, OTT/CTV, APAC, PubMatic, felt needed to be exploited with the growth of ad supported VOD or streaming services, with both being confident that this space would evolve quickly in the next two years in Korea.Rounding up the day's sentiments, Louis Boswell highlighted the importance of the Korean market not just because of the impressive growth it had seen for video content, but because of the influence Korean content has had across the region, and also the early stages of Korean streaming platforms looking to enter other Asian markets. "It is not possible to look at the Asian video industry without looking at Korea," added Boswell. Korea in View is generously sponsored by Brightcove, BytePlus, Conviva, Google Cloud, Irdeto, NAGRA, Paramount and TV5Monde.About the Asia Video Industry Association:The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) is the trade association for the video industry and satellite ecosystem in Asia Pacific. It serves to make the video industry stronger and healthier through promoting the common interests of its members. The AVIA is the interlocutor for these industries with governments across the region, leads the fight against video piracy through its Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) and provides insight into the video industry through reports and conferences aimed to support a vibrant video industry. For media enquiries and additional background, contact: Charmaine KwanHead of Marketing and CommunicationsEmail: charmaine@avia.orgWebsite: www.avia.orgLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/asiavideoiaTwitter: @AsiaVideoIA Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)
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“Star City, Shining Bright” Traveler’s Forum (TF) to Kick Off in Changsha – The “City of Influencing” Will Focus on Vibrant Neo-Tourism Content SeaPRwire

“Star City, Shining Bright” Traveler’s Forum (TF) to Kick Off in Changsha – The “City of Influencing” Will Focus on Vibrant Neo-Tourism Content

August 18, 2022
This August, stars shine over Changsha as the aroma of bustle and hustle wafts amid this dazzling city. Over three days from August 18th to 20th, 2022, KOLs of culture &tourism industry, experts and academics, as well as content creators of culture & tourism works will gather in Changsha, also known as Star City, for the Traveler’s Forum (TF). Hosted by the Changsha Municipal People’s Government and Trip.com Group Limited, the TF is jointly organized by the Changsha Municipal Culture, Tourism, Radio, and Television Bureau, Yuelu District People’s Government, with the support of the Changsha Yuelu District Culture, Tourism and Sports Bureau, Hunan Huanian Culture and Tourism Investment Co., Ltd., and Huayi Brothers (Changsha) Film Town. The Traveler’s Forum comprises three major events, including the International Traveler’s Content Creation Conference, the TF Gala and the Traveler’s Lifestyle Festival. In recent years, Changsha’s innovative initiatives have promoted the high-quality integration of culture and tourism. With distinctive culture and tourism brands and an upgraded culture and tourism industry, Changsha offers a growing variety of tableaux of culture and tourism consumption. Furthermore, the city’s culture-and-tourism-friendly policies and initiatives to promote domestic consumption create diversified culture and tourism offerings for residents and tourists alike. Changsha has rocketed up the charts as a popular holiday destination. According to data released by Trip.com, the city ranked among the top ten destinations for short-distance tours during the Labor Day holiday, among the top ten most visited cities for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and one of the top ten destinations for graduation trips by Generation Z. In line with the Forum’s theme of “Star City, Shining Bright”, the culture and tourism IP events in International Traveler’s Content Creation Conference has been tailored for Changsha. Together with Trip.com Group’s TF Gala and Traveler’s Lifestyle Festival, the forum will integrate key elements of consumption, culture, and data traffic to demonstrate that culture and tourism is a comprehensive drive of socioeconomic development in the post-pandemic era. As for the landing of the TF in Changsha, thanks to government-enterprise effort to promote an upgrade of destination brands. With the leverage of Trip.com’s “Tourism Marketing Hub,” the forum will promote an all-round upgrade in Changsha’s culture and tourism marketing by using the group’s influential marketing resources, supporting to raise the comprehensive strength of the culture and tourism industry to new heights. Changsha, the “City of Influencing”, Will Undergo Brand New Upgrade and Focus on Creating Vibrant Neo-Tourism Content On the first day of the forum, the International Traveler’s Content Creation Conference will gather the opinion leaders in the culture and tourism industry, top creators of tourist content, experienced travelers, all together to shine brightly at the Travelor’s Forum. At the event, experts and academics will give keynote speeches on culture & tourism resources and development path. Content creators of culture & tourism works will reveal their soul cource and explore the development direction by sharing their travels in the year. TF Gala awardees will be invited to engage in a face-to-face session with all travelers. By combining sound, light, electronics and other scenario settings, the Forum will create a unique immersive experience for participants, allowing them to feel and witness the shift in culture and tourism from “photoing” to “storytelling”. Changsha will utilize Trip.com Group’s platform to export its culture and tourism brands to global markets in a diverse and sustainable way, boosting the revitalization of city image and further increasing its city brand influence. Star City’s “Star Program” Will Be Launched at the TF Gala Social Media Apart from the International Traveler’s Content Creation Conference, the TF Gala will present awards for Trip.com Group’s annual travelers. The nominees will be announced in livestream after a series of appraisals and votings, and the annual creator list will be released as most influential traveler of the year, annual MCN list at the TF Gala. The forum will showcase the vitality of Trip.com Group’s Community’s travel content creation to the world and endorse Changsha on diversified culture and tourism contents. Photo: Meixi Lake International Culture and Art Center Star City Changsha will provide the colossal stage to the TF Gala, at which Changsha’s traveler list will be announced as part of the “Star Program”. All social circles will join in and trigger heated dedate on practice and enlightment about Changsha’s culture and tourism model, paving the way for China’s development next decade in the content creation within culture & tourism industries and beyond. The fully-livestreamed events will invite cross-border travelers to share new concepts and goals that benefit both travelers and destinations, and the hottest topics of the year will also be announced, allowing enthusiastic travelers and content creators to explore trends of Neo-tourism content. The TF aims to promote Changsha’s rising popularity through content creation. Using innovative means, the internet events will capture tourists fast by forming positive perceptual impression on Changsha, helping Changsha’s culture & tourism industries to maintain a top differentiated brand-level trend in the long run. New Upgrade in Content Consumption Tableaux, Trip.com Group Accelerates a Shift in Culture and Tourism from “Photoing” to “Storytelling” The TF intends to explore and witness to the shift in culture and tourism from “photoing” to “storytelling”. With the coming of post-pandemic era, ways of travel become diversified with an upward tendancy to experience, immersion, links and public reputation. As an important content platform, the Trip.com Group Community is a leading hub for strategic content in the tourism industry. The community will integrate cultural entertainment and tourism with talk shows, concerts, music festivals, lifestyle festivals and other entertaining lifeways since Changsha Traveler’s Lifestyle Festival unfolds. Photo: Changsha night scene The Traveler’s Lifestyle Festival is called the “Kong · Music Carnival,” organized by Trip.com Group’s NOW, a new subsection of Trip.com Group Communities, in partnership with the Electric Jungle Music Festival, China’s leader in live experiences. Starting on August 19th, the two-day festival will embrace two grand stages and thirty four bands. Musicians will revel with travelers in the event music as accompaniment to their trips. Festival-goers will experience Changsha’s unique local attractions while enjoying a gentle and pleasant romance in the city’s late summer. Through showing all-round and dimensional unique experiences, the Traveler’s Lifestyle Festival aims to empower Changsha’s upgrades on culture and tourism model and travel content, conveying to travelers the concept of travel as a lifestyle. Trip.com Group’s Core IPs Will Help Promote Changsha’s Long-Term Popularity To date, over 100,000 travelers have actively participated in Trip.com Group’s core IP and the TF events, garnering over 10 billion impressions and more than a million online and offline participants. The events will further enhance Changsha’s popularity and influence and in turn will promote consumption and development in the culture and tourism sector. In recent years, Trip.com Group has been an important strategic partner in Changsha’s high-quality culture and tourism development. Leveraging Trip.com Group’s strong resource integration capabilities, Changsha has continuously rolled out culture and tourism combos, including building Changsha’s Star Hub, issuing culture and tourism consumption vouchers and subsidies, introducing Trip.com Group Country Retreats program and Changsha – Super Destinations program. The “Star City, Shining Bright” TF will be the ideal model for government-enterprise cooperation, Must-see travel IP, Festival IP and City IP. The forum will help the city develop into a young, international, trendy and entertainment-centric brand. It helps accelerate the recovery of Changsha’s culture and tourism market, unleash its consumption potential and break new frontiers to build a world-renowned tourist destination. Changsha will also take in Trip.com Group’s brand influence and tourism industry ecosystem strength. Centered on its cultural symbol as “Star City” , Changsha is aligning itself with the strategy of “strengthening the provincial capital” and further completing its ecological tour goal. The tailored International Traveler’s Content Creation Conference, as permanent culture and tourism event IP for Changsha, the year-end gala, buzz marketing and other events will elevate the city’s all-round influence in various aspects as a seed city in Trip.com Group’s Super Destinations, attracting tourists from across China and abroad to witness the “City of Influencing” for sustainable and long-run popularity. Photo: Changsha’s Huangxing Commercial Pedestrian Street
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Chosen One Launches its Decentralized Platform to Incentivize Content Creators

July 19, 2022
New York, NY, July 19, 2022 – (SEAPRWire) – Chosen One announced its decentralized content protocol launch. The protocol aims to solve dilemmas currently faced by for-profit content platforms and their billions of users. The decentralized blockchain powering content ecosystem aims to put ownership and control of Content in its users’ hands and incentivize content creation. The platform also aims to incentivize user participation by making each user’s contribution valuable. Talking about the launch and the vision of the Chosen One platform, the director and CEO, Mr. George Green, said, “At Chosen One, we envision building a decentralized digital content-based economy that allows Content to be freely produced, distributed, rewarded, and traded while protecting author rights and ensuring fair incentivization of both the authors and the consumers. We strive to incentivize authentic content creation while transferring the value of Content to users.” He added, “All accounts created during the launch of the content platform will be used as genesis accounts of the content protocol, getting decentralized identity system and allowing authors to truly own their data which deployed on a decentralized blockchain network. Authors and users will have a fair share of the generated revenue, which will be monetized through the issuance of CSO Tokens, an Erc20-based token distributed to the users or authors in proportion to their earnings. The CTO of Chosen One, Mr. Alex Yurkovich, present at the occasion, said, “If you look at the leading ten global corporations, 5 of those are directly related to Data, i.e., Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta. This gives an impression that the era we live in is the era of Data, of which the most crucial aspect is Content. It has become a staple for individual influencers, businesses, large corporate brands, and just about anyone else who’s trying to carve out their unique place on the internet. Now, although Content is King of the revenue it generates, almost all of the revenue goes towards the platforms. In contrast, the content creators and users have almost No or very minimal share from this revenue.” “At Chosen One, we aim to be at the forefront of evolution whereby content creators are the true owners of their curations, having share from the revenue, whereas community participation is also incentivized. Our native coin i.e. CSO, aims to position itself as the token of choice for the content creators and content consumers within the Chose One ecosystem,” continued Mr. Alex Yurkovich. The Chosen One platform’s ambitious goal is to build new systemic governance, economic, and social system that utilizes modern DeFi protocols, on-chain governance, and content platforms to demonstrate a viable alternative to a failing system. Its native token, i.e., SCO, runs on a permissionless blockchain network, drastically reducing the energy requirements of securing transactions and removing a central authority. CSO Token also serves as the fundamental constituent element of the economic system and an important incentive for encouraging Content. Everyone who contributes will receive a substantial token reward. People will continue contributing when they are recognized for their contributions, prompting the platform to grow positively. Chosen One believes it holds the key to the future of content marketing and advertising, creating a community of creators and influencers who are successful at engaging with their audiences. It creates an exceptional content experience for the influencers creating the Content and the followers consuming it. A key aspect of the platform is to create a culture of one-on-one influencer interactions where influencers and followers can mutually generate profits for themselves through creating and engaging with amazing Content. About the journey ahead, the CEO said, “The future content platform will become the underlying foundation, develop more practical applications, combine live broadcast and chat systems, connecting with strong demand functions such as entertainment and payment, and create a social entertainment ecosystem to allow each token users hold is more valuable and greatly increases the user experience and the usability of the platform.” About Chosen One Chosen One creates a rewards-based economy where creators who contribute the platform via token economy. It redistributes the value of content and giving it more layers of utility. 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