Speakers

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  JOHN MCINTYRE, CEO, Sightly

  John has more than 16 years of senior management experience in digital media, Internet marketing and telecommunications. Prior to founding Sightly (formerly known as PixelFish), John was CEO of Vmatrix where he led the turn around and rapid growth of a new media company focused on Internet video production targeted at businesses of all sizes.

  Previously, John was Co-Founder and CEO of Affinity Internet, one of the largest online marketing and web hosting companies in the U.S, serving more than 200,000 local businesses. He grew the business from start-up to more than $35M in annual revenue in three years, attracting $60M in investments. Affinity was sold to Hostway in 2007.

  Prior to Affinity, John led marketing and product development for Interliant, Inc., an online applications hosting provider, which he helped grow from start-up to IPO in 12 months. He also worked as a management consultant for PRTM focusing on designing and implementing product development processes in the telecommunications industry. John holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University. He has been a featured speaker at Internet and entrepreneurship conferences and trade shows.

  Twitter: @johncmcintyre

  Fri., Sept. 13, 9:30 am
  Video’s Starring Role in SMB Marketing Success

  About Sightly
  Sightly’s platform helps local businesses of all sizes reach customers in the most effective and engaging way by automatically creating and managing hyper-locally targeted video ad campaigns, essentially creating a new ad unit for local businesses.

  Sightly’s technology integrates seamlessly with YouTube and other video, social and mobile networks that support video ad units to create the only scalable platform for effectively and efficiently managing local video ad campaigns. Our platform is designed to dynamically monitor and optimize campaigns, automatically adjusting bids and reallocating budgets to the highest performing ad units while providing comparative analytics for benchmarking. Businesses can track campaign results, manage ad content and deals, and set their video campaign budgets via their Sightly online account center.

  As Google’s only local video partner, Sightly is pioneering the use of video in local search and discovery.

  Sightly is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego and is backed by a number of respected investors including Floodgate, Tomorrow Ventures, Bullpen Capital, and 500 Startups. For more information, visit Sightly.com.