MIKE HUDACK, CEO BLIP.TV

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Mike's pitch to the attendees at OMMA Video in NYC last Thursday. After presentations from Blip.tv, Brightcove, Revver, ManiaTV and Soma Management there was an informal vote for crowd favorite...guess who won? Blip.tv. Now this is an audience of ad people, and they voted for the company with the least amount of ad revenue, a company that claims it will never force pre, post, or any other form of in-video advertising on it's producers; a company formed as a service to videobloggers. So did the ad people vote Blip.tv #1 because of it's support for independents, because of it's lack of advertising, or because they think it really has the best model? And if they like the model, then why is Brightcove the one with 100 big name advertisers on board?