Ari Emanuel, the real life talent agent and CEO that Ari Gold is based off of, spoke at the Web 2.0 conference earlier this week in Silicon Valley. Normally, that is not an arena or platform for a talent agent to speak. But the fact is, the most powerful agent in the world (has his hands in movies, television, music, literary, and various businesses with a new Venture Capital division in the company) sees that the shift in his business is drastically changing to new media. Traditional media: movies, music, books, now need technology and media strategists to not only distribute their content, but help them find the proper distribution channels. There used to be very few TV networks, and a few movie production houses that were capable of distributing content on a mass level. Now there are millions upon millions of platforms for distribution. Watch the entire 45 minute long interview after the jump!
