Responding to a demand Watch video live from Summit and at your leisure from anywhere BY THOMAS B. HAINES ideo has been a part of the Internet almost since the beginning, but back in the 1990s the only videos were short, grainy news clips that often took minutes to download. Today, though, video dominates the Web. Major television networks stream top-ranked broadcast shows as soon as they air. Almost 70 percent of all adult Internet users watch video online, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. There are now more video plays daily via the Web than Web searches through the major search engines. The power of streaming video and video on demand were not lost on AOPA President and CEO Craig Fuller when he took over as leader of the association in 2009. Looking for a way to expand the audience for the great content created at the association’s annual convention, he urged the streaming of interviews with industry leaders at the convention, which he dubbed AOPA Aviation Summit—and thus was born AOPA Live. V Center stage at AOPA Live during AOPA Aviation Summit 2009 (below). Broadcasts via the AOPA website of live interviews from the event reached thousands of viewers. AOPA PILOT • 93 • NOVEMBER 2010http://www.aopa.org/aopalive/