nextMEDIA’s inaugural “Digital Hot List” competition recognizes emerging Canadian digital media properties and the talented individuals behind them, and helps build a bridge between those properties and potential advertising partners.

The Digital Hot List looks for digital products that are:

1. Emerging
2. Innovative
3. Defined
4. Niche
   … and provides awesome opportunities for product integration.

“After a nationwide hunt nextMEDIA and our advertising partners have managed to select five excellent finalists. The final decisions were based on key criteria as a uniqueness, targeted audience and a high potential for product integration,” comments Mark Greenspan, Achilles Media, VP of Digital Media. “As advertisers continue to play an increasingly important role in digital content production nextMEDIA will continue to offer opportunities to work with agencies.”

nextMEDIA Banff, organized by Achilles Media, is where the world’s leading edge content creators, aggregators, broadcasters, agencies, advertisers, and solution-providers meet to develop key business relationships.

The event is centred around the future of mobile technology and the influence of the social web and community building in the development of upcoming mobile devices. Nick was very pleased to be contacted by WOMWorld with respect to attending the workshop back in August, due to his experience with community building and social media-based applications. He’s is looking forward to attending and meeting other mobile technology and social media afficionados from around the globe.

More information about the event is available over at Nick’s personal blog, and Nick will be blogging (and Twittering) about his experiences at the Open Lab and around Helsinki later this week.