NAB 2013: Avid Everywhere

Creative COW by Debra Kaufman

"Avid Everywhere" was the core of this Burlington, Massachusetts-based company's message and meaning at NAB 2013. As a strategy moving forward, Avid Everywhere signifies an end-to-end workflow from input to output that acknowledges the increasing ways that media is created, distributed and consumed.

This year's new product introductions were made by the new Avid President/CEO Louis Hernandez, Jr., a board member for five years and lead director for the last 18 months. Hernandez was previously Chairman/CEO of Open Solutions, a financial services technology provider.

"I like Avid's huge install base, the emotionally engaged client base and a technology platform with a rich heritage combined with innovative technologies," said Hernandez, enumerating why taking the lead position at Avid appealed to him.

"The industry is changing quite a bit in how content is created and distributed, and we now have an opportunity to directly connect two people -- the creator and the enjoyer -- in many ways," he continued. "Though we have historically been on the editorial, creative side, we want to control and participate in everything from creation to consumption." Hernandez noted a second trend: how consumers pick when and how to consume content. "These two macro trends are changing our clients' work and they need to address it without spending a lot more money," he said.


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