"Diversity" and "representation" aren’t just buzzwords, nor should efforts to achieve them stop in the boardroom and HR department. If you’re not reaching as diverse an audience as possible, you’re leaving money on the table; the LGBTQ market alone is estimated to represent $1.1 trillion in spending power in the U.S. alone. On this panel, representatives from niche video services join their wider-reaching counterparts to talk about the importance of diversity in OTT and how to achieve it.

Revry CEO Damian Pelliccione led a conversation on the power of LGBTQ-first media featuring Melissa Hobley, Global Chief Marketing Officer, OkCupid and the fabulous Miss J Alexander at Brand Innovator’s Media Buying Summit in New York City.

Damian Pelliccione, CEO of Revry on Community Building and Niche OTT Services from Streaming Media

Join us for an amazing fire side chat celebrating diversity. Panelist Damian Pelliccione, Alia Daniels, LaShawn McGhee, and Chris Rodriguez will dive into the topic of modern day founders, and the diversity they are bringing to the business world.

Recognizing the very best of brand marketing from around the globe, the 2022 BrandSmart Awards, presented by the American Marketing Association Chicago (AMA Chicago), announces an impressive list of judges for this year’s awards. This awards program was inspired by the “golden ratio” and created to celebrate the powerful relationship between beauty and measurement – the marriage of creativity and results.

Join NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) for a conversation with Alia J. Daniels, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Revry, a global queer streaming network. Alia will discuss her career and mission to “create avenues for authentic representation in media and business”, her experience with both business and media, as well as Revry and its focus on representation and its power in all forms of media.

Whether they’re defined by the type of content—science fiction, horror, romance—or the type of audience, niche services are the long tail of the OTT universe. But just because their audiences are limited doesn’t mean their revenue opportunities are. Partnerships with aggregators and “mainstream” services offer pathways to bigger viewership numbers, and innovative marketing approaches can turn small services into big successes. Join us as we talk about how.

10 Black Founders Share Their Biggest Entrepreneurial Challenges

In this episode, Rights Live host Mark Bliss and Jeannine Nembhard are joined by Damian Pelliccione, the CEO & Co-Founder of LGBTQ channel, Revry. We’ll learn about how Revry’s grown, the importance of having a seat at the table, how they’ve used social media in unexpected ways, and even hear some of the inspiring stories they have to tell about how representation on a media channel can actually save lives across the globe.

Digital Entertainment World on February 8, 2022 includes a Youth Marketing and Entertainment Marketing Mix panel of executives and experts in entertainment marketing to discuss the evolving mix of strategies, campaigns and platforms involved in marketing large scale entertainment events including releases of TV shows, movies and shows for Gen Z and Millennial audiences.

Lisa Balter Saacks and Selene Ng, from Edisen, leading experts in the entertainment space, will host a discussion on the state of video content. The discussion will be moderated by Caroline Giegerich, VP of Growth Strategy at MediaLink, with experience in growing loyal consumers for brands such as Netflix, Showtime and Smashbox Cosmetics as well as a featured speaker at TEDx and SXSW, and featuring Megan Cunningham, CEO and Founder of Magnet Media and Paul Kontonis, CMO of Revry.

The NextTV Summit, part of the Virtual: Fall TV 2021 returns on November 17, 2021 as the professional video industry’s authoritative benchmark for assessing the progress and debating the future of television’s digitally-driven transformation in content and distribution.

Rodney Wilson is the high school teacher credited with creating Gay History Month (later to become LGBTQ History Month) and is the subject of the film Taboo Teaching currently on Revry.  Wilson shared his story in a history lesson style format with the Yahoo LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group (Prism) which aims to be inclusive and supportive of their LGBTQ employees  He shared his real life experience during the 90’s as a teacher who came out to his class, later the world and told in the documentary Taboo Teaching streaming on Revry. 

The Media Insights & Engagement Conference is the annual event for media executives exploring the latest in content, viewership and research methodologies. The 2021 conference will be in Nashville from November 15-17 and features a presentation by Paul Kontonis, CMO of Revry. Paul will be joined by speakers from Hulu, Disney, Starz, WarnerMedia, AMC, ViacomCBS and more.

As a part of the 2021 QueerX Festival, Revry is hosting all of the festival’s “Official Selections” including international LGBTQ documentaries, dramas, comedies and music videos, with Lexus as the Grand Sponsor. The QueerX TV presented by Lexus always-on channel screens the festival selections and lets viewers vote on their favorites. via QR codes that appear on screen.

In this Brightcove and Parks Associate webinar, industry experts discuss the opportunities and challenges in today’s OTT marketplace, including best strategies to identify, acquire, and engage their customers and increase market share in this ultra-competitive and fragmented space.

On July 22, the Ad Age Town Hall brought together members of the LGBTQ+ community for a virtual discussion how brands can extend their Pride campaigns throughout the year and what successful representation really looks like.

The last day to submit to your film to The QueerX Film Festival is July 10, 2021. So far there is a record-setting slate of diverse and inclusive digital content submitted made by and for the global queer community. Selections will be notified by July 15, 2021.

As part of NAMIC’s month-long celebration of PRIDE, sister chapters NAMIC Philadelphia & NAMIC New England will present a panel discussion addressing how the media industry is actualizing PRIDE for their customers and their employees. event registration is free.

FAST, SVOD and AVOD are all different ways to bring programming to viewers with different costs to the viewer. All delivered over the internet, FAST is a service that unites live, linear TV with a VOD service whereas AVOD only has video on demand. Both FAST and AVOD are free to watch thanks to adverts whereas SVOD is usually advert-free as this is subscriber VOD where you pay monthly. This video from Streaming Media discusses the rise of FAST and its importance in the market.