Marc Scarpa
Producer/Director
MySpace LIVE! series and some Verizon VCAST Mobile Performances for Live Nation
TOPIC: Media Communities - Everything is Live and On Demand >>MORE
BIO
Marc Scarpa is a veteran director and producer of live interactive media. His most recent directing credits include, MySpace LIVE! a seven hour live High definition transmission on MySpace that celebrated community through individual expression. The transmission featured Linkin Park along with 10 additional artists on the Projekt Revolution 2007 tour and was viewed by over 1 million people worldwide. A ground breaking first, mobile phones were used by fans to capture content and mixed live into the HD broadcast. He has also directed Grammy Award artist John Legend, Teddy Geiger, The Editors, Joe Satriani, 50 Cent, Gogol Bordello, Jonas Brothers and The All American Rejects for the LiveNation Verizon VCAST Mobile performance series.
During the early 90’s he founded JumpCut, which recently sold to Yahoo! The company pioneered live broadcast production over multiple distribution channels. With development of media communities as it’s focus, Marc emerged as one of the top progressive media architects in the industry. He produced and directed several “firsts” in the interactive programming genre including, “Townhall with President Clinton” (now apart of the permanent collection of the Clinton Presidential Library), Woodstock ‘99, The Tibetan Freedom Festivals, Vans Warped Tours, “The Lola Pandora Show”, “HSX/Excite Rocks the Oscars” featuring Beck; along with numerous live music events for artists such as the Beastie Boys, Elton John, Moby, Wyclef Jean, Primus and Pat Metheny.
Marc is the architect for New York City Hall’s Mayoral Blue Room multi-platform broadcast facility. Which enables press conferences to be distributed live over the web, TV and radio simultaneously and is in use daily by Mayor Bloomberg.
Simulcast credits (web & TV) include, “The A&E Live By Request series”, “Backstage at the Tony Awards” and an “Online Prayer with the Dalai Lama”
Prior to founding JumpCut, he served as the New York Bureau Chief for C|NET networks television where he Produced news segments for C|NET programs”TV.COM”, “The Web” and “C|NET Central”. He also co-developed C|NET’s early video on demand deployment strategy and produced C|NET’s first live webcast from the floor of the 1997 PC Expo.
Marc is a featured speaker with Internet World, Streaming Media East/West/Europe and Digital Hollywood where he serves as an Advisory board member for the OnDemand Content & Technology Consortium. He is recognized as one of Silicon Alley Reporters Top 100. Marc served as the founding Co-Chair for NYC Mayor’s Council on New Media with Deputy Mayor Tony Coles under the Giuliani administration. Currently he is a national board member and founding NY committee chair for the Producers Guild of America New Media Council. Personally Marc is a partner with Lifebeat - The Music Industry Fights AIDS. Scarpa received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1992
