NewFronts Return Headed by YouTube, AOL, Hulu

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The Digital Content NewFronts will return for a fifth year with two weeks of web video companies making presentations to media buyers and advertisers.

The two-week event is set to run May 2 through May 13 in New York. Founding partners AOL, DigitasLBi, Google/YouTube, Hulu and Yahoo are among those returning.

Other participants include: AwesomenessTV, Bloomberg Media, BuzzFeed, Collective Digital Studio, Condé Nast Entertainment, DailyMail.com/Elite Daily, DEFY Media, Federated Media, Fullscreen, HealthiNation, Hearst, Machinima, Maker Studios, Mashable, Mode Media, National Geographic, The New York Times, NowThis, Playboy, POPSUGAR, Refinery29, StyleHaul, TheStreet.com, Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, Trusted Media Brands, Vevo, VICE, WebMD, Whistle Sports Network, and Woven Digital.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.