The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) announced the election results for the 20 inaugural office seat positions including the Executive Board (Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer); eleven (11) Advisory Board seats, Chairs for: Advertising Standards Committee, Education & Outreach Committee, Measurement Committee, Membership Committee and the Terminology Standardization Committee.
Set to provide leadership in measurement standards, research, education and advocacy to all those involved in portable media, the ADM is committed to advancing its charter of creating a landscape that facilitates the commercialization of this growing audience. The ADM’s focus includes revenue generation from advertising and sponsorships of podcasts, vodcasts (aka vidcasts, video podcasts, or vlogs), and other audio/video digital content distributed via RSS, ATOM, peer-to-peer, mobile devices, downloads from Web sites and other platforms to come. The organization has been formed to focus specifically on any content downloaded by consumers, and will work in collaboration with related industry associations.
“The ADM members have spoken, and I’m humbled by the confidence and trust of our group. With that trust comes a duty to serve all members, and I will do my best to fulfill that duty every day as the Chairman. Because we have accomplished considerable groundwork, we are able to enter a fruitful period of productivity. We will continue our membership drive. We will reach out to existing organizations to provide support and assistance. And we will strive to become the preeminent information resource for efficacy and measurable results in the downloadable media space,” Chris MacDonald, EVP Business Development and Operations Libsyn PRO Enterprise Platform, founder of Indiefeed and newly elected Chairman of the ADM said.
“Our leadership team and our 188 members are ready to populate the committees and get to work. Expect great strides in actionable industry guidelines from this experienced group,†Susan Bratton, CEO of Personal Life Media, newly elected Vice Chairman and progenitor of the organization added.
Elected individuals for the 4 Executive Committees (Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer), 11 Advisory Board seats and 5 Committee Chair positions are:
Chairman – Chris MacDonald, EVP Business Development and Operations Libsyn PRO Enterprise Platform and Founder of Indiefeed
Vice Chairman – Susan Bratton, CEO, Personal Life Media
Secretary – Matthew Snodgrass, VP Digital Marketing, Porter Novelli
Treasurer – Duncan Perry, COO, Podcast.com, Treedia.com
Advisory Board
CC Chapman, Podcaster and Partner, The Advance Guard
Jonathan Cobb, Founder and CTO, Kiptronic Inc.
John Furrier, Founder, Podtech
Rob Greenlee, Podcast Programming Lead, Microsoft Zune
John Havens, VP, Business Development, BlogTalkRadio
Risto Koski, Business Manager, Multimedia/Nokia Music, Nokia
Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3
Mark McCrery, Founder and CEO, Podtrac
Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, Publisher, PodcastingNews.com
Kent Nichols, Principle, AskANinja.com
Tim Street, Principle, French Maid TV
Committee Chair: Advertising Standards – Brian McMahon, CEO, National Podcasting System
Committee Chair: Education & Outreach – Rob Walch, VP, President Podcast Relations, Wizzard Media
Committee Chair: Measurement – Angelo Mandato, CIO, Raw Voice
Committee Chair: Membership Committee – Bryan Moffett, Sponsorship Operations Manager, NPR Digital Media
Committee Chair: Terminology Standardization – David Rowley, VP Engineering, Kiptronic, Inc.
Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 10:22 am