Jake Ludington

Current

• Publisher at Ludington Media West, LLC

Past

• IPTV Consultant at Microsoft
• Business Development / Editor at Lockergnome.com

Education

• Peking University
• Iowa State University

Recommended

15 people have recommended Jake

Connections

179 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Jake Ludington's MediaBlab
• Camcorder Answers
• Software Downloads

Jake Ludington’s Summary

Optimizing video content for Web delivery and high definition IPTV. Following and predicting consumer trends in software and gadget oriented markets. Identifying consumer demand for audio and video content. Jake publishes daily answers to common video and audio problems faced by everyone from home movie makers to professionals tasked with delivering video content to a Web audience.

Jake Ludington’s Specialties:

Evangelist for consumer technologies in the areas of multimedia creation and entertainment.

Jake Ludington’s Experience

• Publisher

  Ludington Media West, LLC

  (Internet industry)

  January 2001 — Present (9 years )

  Publisher and principle creative force behind Jake Ludington's MediaBlab.
  Reach over 1 million unique reader's monthly through a combination of Web searches, email, and RSS.
  Annual software sales in excess of $1 million
  Industry expert on video compression, video editing, and consumer video cameras.
  Consultant on live streaming and on demand audio and video delivery.

• IPTV Consultant

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Consultant and subject matter expert developing standards and best practices for video encoding and streaming for the Microsoft TV IPTV product adopted by AT&T U-verse, Bell Canada, and a number of other telecommunications firms around the world.

• Business Development / Editor

  Lockergnome.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 2000 — August 2003 (3 years )

  Acted as contributing editor to Lockergnome's Digital Media and Apple Core channels, while also managing contributions from other writers, writing on topics . Developed ebook business from launch, taking it to 20% of the company's annual revenue. Managed affiliate advertising campaigns, assisting in pioneering affilate wrapped software downloads.

Jake Ludington’s Education

• Peking University

  Chinese Language 2007 — 2007

• Iowa State University

  BS , Marketing , August 1991 — December 1995

Additional Information

Jake Ludington’s Websites:

• Jake Ludington's MediaBlab
• Camcorder Answers
• Software Downloads

Jake Ludington’s Interests:

IPTV, Podcasting, video blogging, video on demand, gadgets, China, Chinese cinema, Korean cinema, snowboarding, kayaking, speaking putonghua

Jake Ludington’s Groups:

•    Association of Shareware Professionals

Jake Ludington’s Honors:

Author - Easy Digital Home Movies (ISBN 0789731142)
Author - Podcasting Starter Kit
Author - Converting Vinyl LPs to CD
Author - Converting VHS to DVD

Microsoft Digital Media MVP

Jake Ludington’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch