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Artist: Lucas Bertrand, co-founder and CEO of Looper Insights
Title: “Has Anyone Seen My Stuff?”
Release date: July 14 issue
Notes: Bertrand talked with Next TMT co-founder David Bloom about the influences and inspirations that led him to helping streaming companies merchandise their assets around the globe. With content fiercely competing for limited UX visibility on TVOS platforms, pay TV systems, digital storefronts and other gateways all over the globe, Bertrand explained why streamers need someone to answer the question, “Where’s my stuff?”

Artist: Matthew Henick, senior VP of Ventura, The Trade Desk
Title: “Ventura Highway”
Release date: June 16 issue
Notes: Bloom and Next TMT co-founder Daniel Frankel caught up with the former Meta technologist backstage at the StreamTV Show in Denver last month. The squeals and screams from gateway-OS-obsessed groupies were deafening. Henick was still able to explain to Next TMT the core reason for why The Trade Desk is launching into the CTV market another TV operating system, Ventura: In a connected TV world dominated by massive tech companies with their own dogs in the hunt (i.e. their own original content), CTV could use a truly independent, impartial arbitrator.

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Artist: Neal McDonough, actor
Title: “All Hat No Cowboy”
Release date: May 27 issue
Notes: The deceptively fleet-footed Bloom — who ran track alongside McDonough’s older brother at Cape Cod’s Barnstable High School — found common ground with the former Pirates pitching prospect. The former Yellowstone guest star, who spoke to us while junketing the new film he wrote, starred in and helped produce for Angel Studios, The Last Rodeo, is now on the forefront of a genre currently having its day — faith-and-family-themed films and TV shows aimed at Middle America. McDonough discussed the project at length here.

Artist: Colin Petrie-Norris
Title: “Paranoid Android”
Release date: May 19 issue
Notes: After producing his massive hit Xumo, which went 100x “platinum” after Comcast bought the startup in 2020 for $100 million, many fans wondered if Petrie-Norris would ever get back in the studio. But when Frankel caught up to the affable South Africa native at his Orange County, Calif. home in mid-May, he had just announced his latest project, generative-AI startup Fairground Entertainment. We got a sense from this conversation that Petrie-Norris, who got the drop on the video business with FASTs, might be ahead of the curve again.

Artist: Alessandra Catanese, CEO, Smosh
Title: “Smosh Sh** Up”
Release date: March 10 issue
Notes: In the words of (late?) New Jersey sanitation executive Anthony Soprano, the laconic David Bloom is like “Gary Coopa, the strong, silent type.” But nothin’ gets Dave more chatty and engaged than a good creator-economy discussion. Here, he chats with one of the more knowledgable folks on the topic, former Maker exec Alessandra Catanese, who now heads one of the more prolific YouTube channels.

Artist: Patrick Crakes, principal, Crakes Media
Title: “Boulevard of Broken Streams”
Release date: Feb. 18 issue
Notes: Just a couple of days removed from Super Bowl LIX on Fox, former Fox executive turned widely respected sports TV consultant and streaming gold-rush skeptic Patrick Crakes put into elegant context Tubi’s huge breakthrough streaming performance at the big game.