Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders

About Phil Leigh

Prior to founding Inside Digital Media, Inc. Phil was a stock analyst. While at Raymond James & Associates, he became one of the first analysts in the securities industry to focus on the Internet. As the Internet evolved, his coverage gradually segued into Digital Media. Earlier Phil worked as a technology stock analyst at The First Boston Corporation, Reinheimer Nordberg, and Williams Securities Group.

He is best known for his larger industry-centered studies which are listed below. The primary objective of the research was to identify, before they were obvious, media and communications technologies that would ultimately become dominant. Two of the reports have been used as study materials at the Stanford Business School.

Phil has been invited to be a moderator or panelist at a number of industry conferences including Kagan World Media, Streaming Media, Webnoize, Comdex, Wharton Business School, Wainhouse, and Digital Hollywood, among others. He has had numerous television appearances on CNBC and other leading networks and has been cited in leading newspapers and magazines as an expert in Digital Media. Finally, he hosted a conference in New York City that provided institutional investors an opportunity to meet the management teams of ten of the leading video and web conferencing companies.

He holds a MBA from the Kellogg school and a BSEE from Florida Institute of Technology.

The following document provides more background on how Phil started Inside Digital Media, Inc.
In The Realm of New Ideas (PDF Format)

Notable Industry Research Reports:

Future Developments in Electronic Communications

June, 1978

Second Generation Television

December, 1979

Future Developments in Digital Media

September, 2000

Future Developments in Network Efficiency

April, 2001

Future Developments in Peer-To-Peer Networking

June, 2001

Future Developments in Electronic Conferencing

October, 2001

The Second Coming of Online Music

April, 2002

Future Developments in Electronic Conferencing - Version 2.0

October, 2002

Investment Opportunities in Digital Media

February, 2003