Background
Alan Saperstein was born 1 February 1959 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States.
Founder of Visual Data Corporation
Alan Saperstein was born 1 February 1959 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States.
He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1981 with a degree in Cinematography and went to work for NFL Films as Director of the Entertainment Division, employing the off season American football cameramen to cover large multi-camera arena rock performances by artists such as Journey, Billy Squier, Cyndi Lauper, and Bruce Springsteen for major record labels and Music Television.
Visual Data Corporation was the first company to feature streaming video on the Internet in June 1993 with HotelView, a travel library of 2 minute videos featuring thousands of hotel properties worldwide. By 1998 they created an online webcasting software as a service (SAS) product called VisualWebcaster that is responsible for over 150 thousand webcasts to date, and is used by many major public companies to broadcast their earnings calls every quarter. In 1999, Saperstein and Selman, seeing the coming of both internet video media services and user generated video, developed tools to help non-Information Technology staff manage and stream digital video for their websites.
Several companies were purchased with various technologies and the company hired government contractor Science Applications International Corporation to help build and integrate the core infrastructure of a Digital Media Services Platform.
The Company was renamed Onstream Media in 2004.