Dan Rayburn

Co-Founder

New York, New York, United States32 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

30 years of streaming media expertise
Quoted over 2,000 times in media
Chairman of NAB Show Streaming Summit

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Streaming Media Expert with a focus on Digital Media and Conference Organization.

Contact

dan@danrayburn.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Conference OrganizationStreaming MediaMarket AnalysisDigital MediaContent ProductionBusiness DevelopmentLive StreamingTechnical SupportNetworking

Other Skills

Content DeliveryIndustry AnalystLive Video StreamingDigital VideoVideo EcosystemOTTConsumer ElectronicsVideo WorkflowCompetitive AnalysisVirtual MVPDsStreaming DevicesExperienced SpeakerMSOsTV EverywhereStreaming TV

About

Dan Rayburn is a 30-year veteran of the streaming media industry, considered one of the foremost authorities, speakers, and writers on streaming media technology and OTT business models. An avid blogger, author, consultant, and principal analyst, Dan is often referred to as the voice of the industry, having been quoted more than 2,000 times by the media, with regular appearances on TV, including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BBC News, and NPR, among others. Due to his expertise, Dan has also received invitations to testify as a witness at hearings by both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on topics related to net neutrality, telecom mergers, and content delivery architectures. Dan is conference Chairman for the NAB Show Streaming Summit, and his streamingmediablog.com is one of the most widely read sites for broadcasters, content owners, OTT providers, Wall Street money managers and industry executives. Dan has presented at over 200 conferences, authored/co-authored eight books, and taught at NYU. Dan founded one of the industry's first live webcasting production companies in the mid-nineties, which was sold to a telecom provider in the dot-com era. Due to his military background, Dan serves as a technical advisor to various DoD agencies and is a sought-after expert in patent cases involving video technologies. Blog: streamingmediablog.com Podcast: danrayburnpodcast.com Personal: danrayburn.com Twitter: /danrayburn Cell: 917-523-4562

Experience

Nab show

Conference Chairman, NAB Show Streaming Summit

Feb 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo · Greater New York City Area

Conference Chairman for the NAB Show Streaming Summit in Las Vegas each April. The two-day Streaming Summit features nearly 100 speakers from the broadcast, media, and OTT verticals, covering the technical and business challenges and opportunities in packaging, monetizing, and distributing online video. From ingestion and transcoding to media management and playback, attendees learn how to streamline their workflow and deliver the best quality experience. www.nabstreamingsummit.com

Conference OrganizationStreaming Media

Frost & sullivan

Principal Analyst

Jan 2008 – Apr 2022 · 14 yrs 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

Lead analyst in the Digital Media Group responsible for tracking the competitive landscape and market forecasts for vendors and services across content creation, ingestion, acquisition, storage, transcoding, management, protection, monetization, syndication, delivery, reporting and analytics of online video technologies. Covering SVOD, AVOD, FAST, vMVPD, pay TV, and all video platforms delivered to mobile, STBs, TVs, gaming consoles and streaming boxes.

Market AnalysisDigital Media

Streaming media magazine

EVP

Jan 2002 – Nov 2017 · 15 yrs 10 mos · Greater New York City Area

EVP and Conference Chairman for the longest-running media property for professionals seeking streaming and online video industry news, information, articles, directories and services. Produced the Streaming Media East and Streaming Media West conferences, selecting 300 speakers per year and creating and producing content across 100 sessions covering the business, technology and content of online video, across the media, broadcast and enterprise verticals. Was chairman for more than 50 conferences organized over 15 years in NY, CA and London.

Content ProductionConference Organization

Globix corporation

Worldwide Director, Streaming Media Division

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 · 4 yrs

Founded the streaming media services division inside a public ISP that provided corporate and media clients with live streaming production, signal acquisition, transcoding, media management and delivery. Clients included CBS, BP, MTV, Microsoft, MSN, Prudential, American Express, VH1, Vodafone, Warner Brothers, House of Blues, ITN, Pepsi, iFilm, Broadcast.com, Cisco, Grammys, ABC, 7th on Sixth and Yahoo. Overall, the company grew from 50 employees to over 1,000, raising $600M in a bond offering during the dot-com years.

Streaming MediaBusiness Development

Live on line

Co-Founder

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs

Co-founded one of the streaming industry's first live webcasting production companies, producing live streaming events and content for Apple, MTV, VH1, Arista, Atlantic Records, SonicNet, Comedy Central, Viacom, Warner Music Group, Sony Music, N2K, Virgin Records and Microsoft. Sold to telecommunications provider Digital Island for $70M in 2000.

Live StreamingBusiness Development

Apple computer/novaworks

Certified Systems Engineer

Jan 1994 – Jan 1996 · 2 yrs · Greater New York City Area

Provided on-site troubleshooting and repair of Apple equipment and networking systems for companies in the Fortune 500 and media and entertainment industries. Worked on some of the first live streaming media related events in 1995 and 1996 at the Macintosh New York Music Festival.

Technical SupportNetworking