The challenges facing connected TV

The challenges facing connected TV
The Guardian (blog)
Netflix ruffled LoveFilm's feathers with its UK launch, Apple's television is rumoured to be on the way and consumers began to see the potential of tablet and smartphone TVapplications like Sky Go. There are however, still some substantial challenges ...

The Guardian (blog)

New Vice President of Sales Joins the Bulk TV & Internet Team
MarketWatch (press release)
RALEIGH, NC, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Bulk TV & Internet, a leading provider of DIRECTV services for commercial properties nationwide announces the addition of Vice President of Sales, James H. Jessel to their management team.

LIN TV Corp. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Interactive revenues, which includes revenues from RMM, the Company's online advertising and media services business, and Nami Media, the Company's digital advertising management and technology company, increased by 54% to $8.4 million, ...

Carlos Slim's US internet TV venture
GlobalPost
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will be financing an internet television network, which will include an interview show with Larry King. It was announced on March 13, 2012 that Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is planning to finance an internet television ...

Wal-Mart to bridge online gap with disc-to-digital
KLEW
By RYAN NAKASHIMA AP Business Writer Wal-Mart pledged to help introduce Hollywood's emerging online movie locker system to its customers, many of whom have never owned anythingdigital in their lives. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wal-Mart pledged to help ...

TV guide a bit behind schedule
Sydney Morning Herald
While the new Freeview guide claims ''you'll never miss the beginning or end of recorded programs'', a test on TV show Top Gear shows it hasn't yet reached its goal. Adam Turner tests the Freeview claim its electronic program guide stays on track.

Sydney Morning Herald

Juice Design on Using Digital Rich Media for Online Advertising
What They Think
A common online definition of rich media is “a broad range of interactive digital media that exhibit dynamic motion, taking advantage of enhanced sensory features such as video, audio and animation.” The key word here is 'interactive' and the fact that ...

AdRise rolls out connected TV ad distribution platform
FierceOnlineVideo
The company says it has Starz Digital Media's Manga Entertainment as a cornerstone client. AdRise said the service can give content owners near complete connected TV coverage at no charge, and it said it can "monetize premium content with TV-like ...

- Company Makes Public its Uniquely Comprehensive View of the Tracking Ecosystem
MarketWatch (press release)
The report will provide all market players with unprecedented insight into this fundamental segment ofdigital media. "There's a reason so many of the leading companies online choose to work with Evidon," said Herman. "Having worked with their team to ...

Airtel Digital TV starts service for competitive exams preparation
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Direct-to-home service provider Airtel Digital TV today launched an interactive service -- iExam --designed for students preparing for competitive examinations. "Till now television was only a medium of entertainment, but with the launch of ...

Heavy Hand of Media Control in China -- and Here?
Huffington Post
The media explosions of the world's two biggest economies could bear some clear-eyed comparisons. It's especially worthwhile to compare the American and the Chinese peoples' vastly expanded access to digital media, both as consumers and increasingly as ...

Aereo brings live TV to the Web in New York…for now
Yahoo! Contributors Network
By Geoff Duncan | Digital Trends – 10 mins ago The legal battle is almost certainly just beginning, but for now Barry Diller-backed Aereo is bringing New Yorkers broadcast television via the Web, claiming that the airwaves are public property and the...

Yahoo! Contributors Network

P&G's Marketing Chief Looks to Go Digital
Wall Street Journal
He spoke with The Wall Street Journal about the company's digital-media and other marketing plans. Edited excerpts: WSJ: How is P&G staffed to support digital media? Mr. Pritchard: I took a small group of people when I first got here to learn ...

Intel to launch online TV service?
Stuff.co.nz
Even more importantly, a move to IP TV by Intel could also serve to give online TVcontent a much needed shot of legitimacy. The recent explosion in fast internetconnections has seen a growing number of people using the internet as their VCR.

Stuff.co.nz

Net Insight wins significant order for nationwide sports contribution network ...
Reuters
Swisscom Broadcast also offers a complete service portfolio in the field of IP-based TV and video distribution ranging from the capturing and encoding of TV programmes and video content, to complete, multi-screen IPTV solutions.

Connected Brazilians, Mexicans Prefer Internet to TV; Online Penetration Climbs
AdAge.com (blog)
Latin American internet users are already known to be voracious consumers of social media and online video, and their ranks online are sharply rising. A new Forrester report says that online adoption in Brazil and Mexico will reach 57% and 48%, ...

AdAge.com (blog)

TV: Fox Digital to Air Original Se…
Adweek
Fox Digital Studio will debut on March 28 a 7-episode original comedy series distributed exclusively through Myspace, and Taco Bell is partnering with the two companies as a sponsor with the brand heavily integrated into the program.

Walmart Launches Disc To Digital Service
Billboard.biz
By Ryan Nakashima, AP LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Wal-Mart pledged to help introduce Hollywood's emerging online movie locker system to its customers, many of whom have never owned anythingdigital in their lives. People who own DVDs or Blu-ray discs from five ...

Connected TV: the holy grail for content and advertising
The Guardian (blog)
Large-screen TV is the last uncharted frontier for the digital world and this year marks the turning of a corner in its evolution. Connected or "smart" TV has taken centre stage, and with research groups such as Informa claiming that consumer use of ...

The Guardian (blog)

Streaming TV station puts the 'social' in media for Hispanic audience
MiamiHerald.com
The channel already reaches 3.3 million households in 15 major media markets, but it made its official launch on Tuesday. SOI (Sistema de OpiniĆ³n Interactiva) is taking audience participation and interactivity to an entirely new level.

Civolution Delivers Innovative Advancements in Media Interaction, Intelligence ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Media Interaction - Civolution's state-of-the-art Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology solutions allow for advanced interactive media services that run on companion devices or connectedTV platforms. Civolution's latest ACR offering SyncNow ...

TV hit 'Homeland' returns to Israel
Worcester Telegram
“Homeland” is one of several American TV shows inspired by Israeli programs in recent years. The network says the second season of “Homeland” will premiere on Sept. 30. Small parts of the first season were also shot in Israel.

PromoterBee's Enterprise Solution Streamlines Online Content Management and ...
Small Business Trends
Asheville, NC (Press Release – March 5, 2012) – Social media and online marketing is predicted to play an increasingly important role for restaurant and retail consumer outreach in 2012, and many businesses are succumbing to demand for hyper-local ...

NYC ad agency to turn Glens Falls TV station into 'media lab'
Albany Business Review
WNCE/Channel 8, a low power television station in Glens Falls, New York, is becoming a “medialab” for a big New York City advertising agency. Horizon Media will use WNCE, better known as “Look TV,” to test programming and marketing concepts, ...

Netflix, LoveFilm drawn into pay-TV movies probe
Digital Spy UK
The commission, which has been reviewing the pay-TV movies market since it was referred the task by Ofcom in 2010, said that it will now publish its final report in July, after opting to run further investigation of key changes in the digital movies ...

adRise Launches "adRise Connect" That Instantly Creates and Monetizes Video ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Moreover, adRise Connect leverages adRise's market-leading video advertising platform to monetize premium content with TV-like advertising revenue. Starz Digital Media's Manga Entertainment turned to adRise to deliver a complete Connected TV app ...

The Participation Divide: Separate and Unequal in Digital Media?
Texas Observer
It was her early experience with “the participation divide,” she says, a term researchers use to describe the differences in how African Americans and Latinos and whites use digital media and access information online. “We have to change how we talk ...

Mapping Digital Media: Digital Television, the Public Interest, and ...
By mediapolicy.org
After assessing some obvious benefits of digital TV (extra channels, converged communications, enhanced interactivity and mobility), he argues that the public interest outcomes from the introduction of new technologies like the internet and ...
Media Policy

Wal-Mart And Vudu Plan Digital Conversion Service - internet TV
By admin
American retail giant Walmart have announced their plans to launch a new cloud storage-based method of selling movies, by offering customers the chance to convert titles they already own onto a Vudu account (the online streaming company ...
World Internet TV on PC

Intel Looking To Get Into The Internet TV Business | WATBlog.com ...
By Denzil
Intel is in the process of talking with various US media companies as it plans to use its processors in the Internet powered TV segment. This is not their core. ... Intel's Media Group is the reincarnation of the Digital Home Group which was dissolved following a consensus that Smart TV's would no longer be a target for its Atom Microprocessors. The first Google TV ... Internet Protocol television or IPTVhas already started in India with Airtel and MTNL leading the charge. It is currently only ...
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Amino's new Freedom Live media gateway makes ... - Digital TV News
By Digital TV News
Amino (AIM: AMO) will give a European debut to its new Amino Freedom Live media gateway at the IP&TV World Forum 2012 at London's Olympia later this month. ... At the Amino stand – no.41 – show visitors can see how content from a range of sources – including the open Internet – is formatted into a high quality “televisual” experience for TV, tablets and smartphones. The device also delivers 3D gaming, user generated content plus on-demand, traditional broadcast and, uniquely, ...
Digital TV News

CEA names Rep. Chaffetz and Sen. - Digital Media Wire ...
By Staff Report
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) as its 2012 Digital Patriots for their support of innovations in technology. ...  Digital Media Wire | connecting people & knowledge — ...
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Kantar Media Reports U.S. Advertising Expenditures Increased 0.8 ...
By Dealer
“The contrast of resilient TV spending and waning budget allocations to other traditional media was plainly evident at the end of 2011,” said Jon Swallen, SVP Research at Kantar Media Intelligence North America. “Some mature digital media formats were also touched by the year-end tide of reduced spending. Whether this is an .... The ten largest Internet advertisers invested a total of $2360.6 million in paid search and display campaigns, up 10.0 percent versus a year ago. Despite ...
Dealer Communications

Can Intel succeed as a pay-TV provider? - Digital Trends
By Geoff Duncan
Read 'Can Intel succeed as a pay-TV provider?' on Digital Trends. Reports have Intel in talks to offer live television programming via the Internet. But is... ... Digital Trends Technology news and Product Reviews · Home · Product Reviews More ...
Digital Trends

MediaNama Discussion: The Future Of Online Video, March 23rd ...
By Nikhil Pahwa
MediaNama invites you to apply for a curated discussion on the monetization and future of online video in Mumbai on the 23rd of March 2012, as a part of an.
MediaNama: Digital Media in India

Webinar - New Media, Social Media, Digital Media
Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and author of “Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marke…
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Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Storytelling Institute
By Andrew Hida
Getting stories to the world demands having the ability to use emerging digital media in an increasingly complex information ecosystem. The KDMC Multimedia Storytelling Institute is a unique opportunity to ... Social Media for reporting, content distribution and community engagement. Each participant takes home an iPad with the complete training curriculum. Register online, or for more information contact Vicki Hammarstedt. This entry was posted in MediaStorm Announcements.
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Unforeseen Dangers Of Social Networking | AccuraCast Digital ...
By Nilu
Those who invented applications like geo-tagging and timeline for the various social media services available to us surely never intended that these features.
AccuraCast Digital Media News

Mapping Digital Media: Digital Television, the Public Interest, and ...
The Open Society Media Program has commissioned background papers on a range of topics that are important for understanding the effects of new technology ...
www.soros.org/.../mapping-digital-media-tv-public-interest-20...

Carlos Slim backs digital TV venture - Entertainment News, TV News ...
It's going to take a lot more than Larry King to get a new digital-only TV ... Carlos Slim backsdigital TV venture. ... The net aims to launch some time this year.
www.variety.com/article/VR1118051385.html?cmpid...

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