Emil Rensing
Emil Rensing is Vice-President of programming and co-founder of Next New Networks, responsible for executing and growing the company's ongoing programming.
His career path has seen him emerge as a packager and creator of popular, successful media properties. In 1992, he took an engineering job at America Online. By 1999, he was a key member of the strategic development team. During his tenure at AOL, Emil helped develop and package technology into business firsts including Preview Travel (the first web-based travel service - now expedia.com), Love@AOL (the first online dating service - now love.com), The Motley Fool (The first online personal finance community - still fool.com), PlanetOut (the first gay & lesbian online community - now gay.com), and iVillage (the first online women's community - still ivillage.com.) Additionally, as a member of the product strategy team, he was critical to AOL's acquisition and integration of many products including Moviefone, Spinner and Winamp.
In 1999, Emil joined MTV's product strategy team focused on the development of MTVi, the online division of the MTV Networks.
In 2001, he and Fred Seibert left MTVi to become partners in Frederator Studios, a business dedicated to packaging and developing media properties. Frederator has serviced clients ranging from AOL Time-Warner to Ziff-Davis, Avon and the WWE.
Emil and Fred were the first movers in the video podcast world, launching VOD Cars and Channel Frederator in late 2005, both of which are now Next New Networks properties.