Uri Levanon

Advisor on building & growing digital video businesses. Uri is the founder and CEO of Haste Media – a boutique digital entertainment and media advisory firm. Haste brings a unique full stack acumen in the field of digital video – covering a thorough knowledge across the various segments of the online video industry, together with hands-on product expertise. Haste specializes in defining growth strategies as well as advising on product, business development and investment opportunities throughout the digital video ecosystem. Among its clients are global entertainment & media companies, publishers, brands, investors and startups. Previously, Uri has founded watchMedia Network – an online video networks, with around 1m daily views across various curated content channels. watchMedia has been working with leading brands on YouTube growth strategies, generating record breaking multi-million views for various projects. Prior to that, Uri has been leading product development in Palore (2003), a local search big-data startup which had worked with Fortune 500 corporates and global leaders in the local businesses directories, and The Hyperbanner Network (1997, later renamed bPath), which was one of the world’s leading banner exchange networks at the time.