Peggy Miles

Peggy Miles was an early pioneer in webcasting, and digital media commencing in 1995 when she started her company, InterVox Communications--which provides digital media strategy and business development--and then founded the International Webcasting Association. Since 1996, Ms. Miles has facilitated a webcasting list which continues today. Her first two members were Mark Cuban and Howard Gordon.

She is considered a futurist and on the cutting edge. She produced the first CBS webcasts of the All Stars Broadcasting Live, which included baseball interactive games. She was instrumental in working with a Korean company that built the first portable players, and video phone prototypes that Bill Gates displayed at his keynote at CES in 2001. She produced the first TV and Internet Web Auction with Home Team Sports benefiting the Leukemia Association. The auction was presented on the Net and on network broadcast stations at the same time following a Baltimore Orioles game. Her work in China includes promotion and development of a digital media training center.

More than 10 years ago, Miles created with KCBS FM in Los Angeles a now playing application that showed songs and program data on the Internet. Unique to this was the in-sync delivery of the songs that were playing on the air to billboards around Los Angeles as well as displayed Live on the station’s webpage. Miles worked with multimedia BB, bulletin board services and interactive voice response systems (IVR).

She continues her role today as a leading business strategist, trainer, presenter and keynotespeaker. Ms. Miles is an author of numerous books, and has testified as an industry expert before the U.S. Congress. Her books include the two versions of a best-seller for the National Association of Broadcasters entitled, Internet Age Broadcaster I and II. She has been awarded most influential in streaming media for a number of years. Miles is a member of the International Academy of TV Arts and Sciences and other associations.

Ms. Miles conducts senior executive media functions and networking through Digital Media VIP, found at www.digitalmediavip.com. She writes a blog called Fast media Pod and is know for creating communities of people around the world interested in advancing communications through Digital Media. She’s an advocate for multi-lingual, and captioned digital media on the Internet and other IP Networks. This benefits the disabled, and provides critical information in the language of the user.

Her work prior to InterVox Communications included development of demographic, psychographic profiling combined with mapping, actual purchase behavior, and detailed segmentation for a project with Safeway. She headed up a division for an advertising agency regarding their CRM programs, loyalty programs by personalized direct marketing, telemarketing and contesting. She has worked at various broadcast stations, networks, both in front of the camera and behind the camera. She was awarded Billboard Magazine Promotion Director of the Year.

Ms. Peggy Miles is the President and Founder of Intervox Communications, considered the leading digital broadcasting company providing Internet interactive project management and implementation, Net broadcasting consultation and electronic commerce solutions. Ms. Miles is also founder of webcasters.org - International Webcasting Association and Executive Editor of Digital Media Magazine(formerly Streaming Magazine). In addition she has authored several books on digital broadcasting including Internet Age Broadcaster, Internet World Guide to Webcasting: the Complete Guide to Broadcasting on the Web and NAB Executive Technology Briefing - DTV and Digital Broadcasting(forthcoming).