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Daisy Whitney

By day, Daisy Whitney is a producer, on-air correspondent, podcaster and raconteur in the new media business.

At night, she writes novels for teens and is the author of The Mockingbirds, to be published by Little, Brown in Fall 2010. You can mark it on your “to-read” shelf on GoodReads!

When Daisy’s not inventing fictional high school worlds, she produces conferences for iMedia and provides strategy consulting to businesses on their online video presence and the online video marketplace. As a reporter, Daisy covers new media for NBC’s KNTV, ABCNews.com, Beet.TV, MediaPost and others. She is one of the first journalists to launch her own online newscast that covers the business of Internet video – the New Media Minute that is produced in partnership with NATPE. Her work is regularly read and watched by executives across the television, cable, advertising and Internet businesses. She also hosts the top-ranked iTunes audio podcast “This Week in Media,” which you should totally subscribe to.

She LOVES talking about books, shoes, chocolate chip cookies and the world’s most amazing dog, who happens to be named for a flower too, Violet (Daisy’s dog). You can follow her blog on writing, reading and editing on her site at DaisyWhitney.com.


Latest from Daisy Whitney

Ericsson Sponsors Mini-Documentary Series

Media company Alloy Entertainment has begun international deal-making for its digital series as it embarks on plan to launch four to six digital shows each year. Other digital studios like Take180 and Mondo Media are also cranking on foreign rights. In this …

Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute

Networks and media companies are inking deals left and right for location-based services like MyTown, FourSquare and GoWalla. Travel Channel has already found early success with its MyTown application to the tune of 17 million check-ins in one month, while FourSquare has …

Levi Strauss CMO on Using Online Video: Test, Test, Test

Advertising dollars are the foundation of the Web video business and those coveted bucks are highly sought after by networks, programmers and independent producers alike. So how do big brands allocate, measure and assess their spending in online video? Daisy Whitney caught …

3D Pops Up as Theme at This Year’s NAB

At this year’s National Association of Broadcasters show, you couldn’t miss 3D TV if you tried. The sets were on display on the convention floor and producers were abuzz about how to convert their projects to the new format. The other hot …

How Many Ads Will You Tolerate in Online Video?

Are you ready for more ads in your online TV? Because you’re going to get them since everyone from Comscore to CBS to ABC to CW says you want them. But will we as consumers tolerate them? Daisy Whitney has some exclusive …

Inline Product Placement Technology for Online Video

Remember when video was going to be interactive and we’d all click on Jennifer Aniston’s sweater to buy one for ourselves? Well, that day is gone, but hotspotting is finally taking off thanks to Web video. Hotspotting refers to clicking on an …

Top Ad Execs On Online Video Ad Spending

When asked the biggest challenges in online video advertising this year, top executives at media agencies like Starcom and MediaVest say they’re most eager to target audiences better and to access more sophisticated data around viewership. At last week’s 4A’s conference in …

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