Vidzu is launching from Creative Producers Group, a St. Louis-based marketing communications firm with over 20 years of experience serving Fortune 500 companies, associations and organizations.
Vidzu’s executive team has a vision for the future of micro TV networks and a proven track record for delivering quality, professional programming.
Keith Alper, CEO, co-founder of and executive producer at Creative Producers Group 
(CPG) Inc. Keith co-founded CPG an Inc. 500 corporate communications and marketing agency that serves clients including Wal-Mart, General Motors, American Airlines, Ernst & Young, Nike and Coca-Cola. Hope Reports has ranked CPG in the "Top 100," out of 11,000 corporate communications companies. Today Keith remains the driving force in the company as its chairman. Recognized both locally and nationally for excellence in his field, Alper’s awards include “Top 100 Multimedia Producers,” “Founders 30 or Younger,” Hope Reports Top 100 and the St. Louis Business Journal “40 Under 40” distinction. He also served as a national judge and presenter for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Alper has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, INC, and Fortune magazine.
Jean Whatley, Executive Producer, Jean brings more than twenty years and a rare 
mix of experience and tools to Vidzu TV. She has worked on both sides of the media--as a practitioner and pitchman; broadcast, on-line, video, corporate, print. Whatley’s 17-year broadcast career ranges from writing, reporting and producing from Albuquerque / KOAT-ABC,
to C-SPAN in Washington, D.C., to an anchor slot on KDNL-ABC in St. Louis. Whatley was also Communications Director for Missouri Governor Bob Holden. The combination of media and political experience garnered a director’s position with Public Strategies, Inc. a nationally recognized strategic communications firm based in Austin, Texas, where her clients included AT&T, Texas Instruments, and Diebold. Jean then started and managed her own Video/Marketing/consulting firm, Whatley Media Group, where she managed several client accounts. Whatley has now joined forces with Vidzu TV where she is applying her background to help Vidzu clients create on-demand, original broadband TV programming which is meaningful, relevant and compelling.
Among those with video-enabled handheld devices, about 35% watch video on their devices at least weekly and 62% do so at least monthly, translating to 18% of Internet users overall who watch video content on a handheld device at least monthly. This figure is up from 8% just one year ago.
(Experian Research)