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Digital EMA Forum (2015)
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Jason Kimball Peterson Santa Barbara, California, US |
Residence | Santa Monica, California |
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Website | About Jason Peterson |
Jason Peterson is an entrepreneur and Chairman of GoDigital Media Group. He is the youngest producer to have a feature-film accepted into the Sundance Film Festival. Concurrently, as an owner of Symbolic Entertainment, a boutique film production company, he has produced the award-winning music videos, "Stars" for Switchfoot in 2006, and TobyMac's "Boomin'", which won a Gospel Music Association Music Video of the Year in 2008. Peterson co-founded GoDigital, a video-on-demand (VOD) distribution company in 2008, where he served as CEO. In 2010, he moved to the position of CEO for ContentBridge, a digital media supply-chain management firm, serving content-providers such as: iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and iN DEMAND. Peterson is regularly invited to speak at industry events concerning digital-media production and distribution topics.
Peterson earned his bachelor's degree from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (2004) and holds a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law (2007).
Peterson holds the distinction of being the youngest producer in the history of the Sundance Film Festival to have a feature film in the competition, The Beat (2003). Peterson is a content expert in international media-rights and digital-distribution and has given several keynote addresses on the subject. He was voted one of the Top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal, at age 27, in 2009. Under Peterson's guidance, Content Bridge won the 2014 Digi Award for Industry Leadership from the Entertainment Merchants Association.