From the Editor --
Advancing the art of advertising

This issue of iWay offers insight about cable's advanced advertising progression from two instrumental executives: Arthur Orduna from Canoe Ventures and Mike Hayashi from Time Warner Cable. Both are leveraging capabilities of the Enhanced Binary Interface Exchange (EBIF) platform to support new possibilities in interactive advertising that promise to improve advertising targeting and engage audiences more effectively than ever.

Editor: Stewart Schley
Veteran Industry editor and analyst
E-mail: stewart@stewartschley.com


iWay
Perspectives on Interactive TV

March 2009
Editor: Stewart Schley

Canoe Ventures - Ad-ing Valuecanoe
As the chief technology officer for the cable industry consortium Canoe Ventures, Arthur Orduna is paving the way for a new generation of advanced television advertising that promises to deliver more viewer engagement and more efficiency for advertisers. Among the mainstay tools in his kit: EBIF, the cable industry standard for interactive applications that will run over millions of digital set-top boxes. We spoke with Orduna, who was previously Advance/Newhouse's senior vice president of policy and product, about the role EBIF plays in supporting Canoe's ambitious agenda. Click here to read full article...

Time Warner - Taking Interactivity to Market time warner cable
Cable industry engineering veteran Mike Hayashi has been instrumental in some of cable's best-known interactive television trials and deployments, including Time Warner's Full Service Network in Florida. Now, armed with new industry standards including EBIF and tru2way, the Time Warner Cable SVP of advanced engineering and subscriber technology is readying Time Warner Cable's network for a new era of interactivity on an unprecedented scale. Click here to read the full article...







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Welcome to iWay, the online newsletter that brings you the perspective of the people creating and executing interactive television today. iWay is a forum for conversation about application development and business vision in a field that's poised to explode as new standards for iTV take hold.
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