Swisscom boosts IPTV and mobile TV

Swisscom boosts IPTV and mobile TV
TeleGeography
... line incumbent and triple-play service provider, Swisscom, has chosen its 'ProMedia Live' real-time multiscreen transcoding platform and 'NMX Digital Service Manager' to provide high definition (HD) video streams for IPTV and mobile TV services.

Over Half of Tablet, Smartphone Time Is Shared with TV Viewing -- New GfK Analysis
MarketWatch (press release)
Compared to young adults (ages 18 to 34), Baby Boomers (35 to 49) spent much more time using tablets and TV simultaneously -- 67% of tablet minutes, versus 39% for the younger group. Simultaneous use of smartphones and TV was about the same for both ...

KIT digital Powers Expansion of Sky Deutschland's Sky Go "TV Everywhere" Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, Apr 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- KIT digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:KITD) , a leading video technology and services company, today announced that it has been chosen by pay TV operator Sky Deutschland to expand the reach of its Sky ...

Charter Breaks Into Interactive TV Ads With FourthWall
Multichannel News
Once the Ad Widgets system is deployed, Charter Media advertising customers will be able to deliver a variety of ITV-enhanced commercials, targeted based on demographics or geography. The FourthWall interactive TV advertising solution is built on ...

New Study: How Are Grocery Shoppers Advancing Their Use of Digital Media?
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
BARRINGTON, Ill.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Connecting with Modern Grocery Shoppers, a new report developed by Brick Meets Click (BMC) in partnership with Grocery Shopping Network (GSN), will be released April 19. GSN took the lead in assembling the ...

Charter to Launch Interactive Television With FourthWall Media Ad Widgets
MarketWatch (press release)
"Interactive TV has proven to be an effective solution for advertisers and a good experience for customers," said Jim Heneghan, President, Charter Media. "It connects businesses with viewers in real time on their television.

UTStarcom Signs IPTV Broadcasting Control Platform Contract in Chongqing
MarketWatch (press release)
("UTStarcom" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:UTSI) , a leading provider of interactive, IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadband for cable and telecom operators, announced today that it has won a contract from Chongqing Radio and ...

Sony to cut 10000 jobs, turn around TV business
Access North Georgia
TOKYO - Faced with mounting losses, Sony Corp. said Thursday it will slash 10000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, and try to turn around its money-losing TV business over the next two years. New CEO and President Kazuo Hirai outlined ...

Whither the Podcast? In Defense of Digital Media's Great Creation
MediaPost Communications
The on-demand and portable audio show is to my mind one of the great and under appreciated products of the digital era. The regularity of the programming, its self-selected audience, the reliance on voice and often conversation -- all coalesce to create ...

New TV Behaviors Contributing to Advances in Interactive TV Advertising
Huffington Post
The sudden collapse of cable TV consortium Canoe Ventures a few weeks ago generated a lively debate among media and advertising experts on the future of making television an interactive experience for viewers. Media economist Jack Myers called the ...

Crowdfunding for Couch Potatoes: Mobcaster Wants to Democratize TV Programming
Forbes
Mobcaster TV is an online platform that matches unfunded television writers and directors with a passionate group of financial backers: television consumers. Aspiring TV show creators can post 150-second pitch videos and set their fundraising goals.

Public TV studio revives Met
Fresno Bee
By Rick Bentley - The Fresno Bee A new public-access TV station is bringing life to the former Metropolitan Museum building in downtown Fresno, which has been closed for more than two years and has served as a glaring reminder of downtown deterioration ...

Fresno Bee

Canadian Pay TV Services Still Growing, Despite Netflix
Hollywood Reporter
Showing HBO and Showtime series like "Game of Thrones" is helping sign new subscribers, with Astral Media to launch the HBO Go app in Canada this fall. TORONTO - Canadian pay TV is doing so well by its primetime HBO and Showtime series like Game of ...

Hollywood Reporter

Ford Launches Focus Electric Online with World's First Digital Road Trips for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Plug N Play in Electric City is Ford's latest foray into the social media arena and further illustrates how Ford is launching the new 2012 Focus Electric in a new and different way. Ford's electrified vehicle business is fundamentally different than ...

Android IPTV Extends to Hotel TV Market
Einnews Portugal
NetUP IPTV Combine 4x installed in hotel allows guests to access TV and Video on Demandcontent using user-friendly and feature-rich GUI of Android-based IP set-top boxes. The IPTVsolution is connected with MICROS Opera hotel property management ...

IMImobile and zeebox partner to drive deeper social media audience engagement ...
Business Standard
IMImobile, a leading global provider of technology infrastructure for mobile data, interactive broadcast, voice and video services to mobile operators, enterprises and media companies today announced the integration of its Multi-Media Console (MMC) ...

Stores Go Online to Find a Perfect Fit
New York Times (blog)
In March 2011, the pharmacy chain Walgreen acquired its online rival Drugstore.com for roughly $409 million. One month later, Wal-Mart Stores paid about $300 million for Kosmix, a social media start-up that now serves as the retailer's lab for building ...

New York Times (blog)

Average monthly pay-TV bill to hit $200 by 2020
Chicago Tribune
LOA ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - TV lovers may need to take out a loan when the cable bill arrives -- in 2020. By that time, the average monthly cost for pay-TV service in the United States is expected to balloon to $200, according to a new forecast by the ...

Digital Media awards comes to Asia
By Staff Writer
Lions Festivals, organisers of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has announced its intention to host Digital Media Awards for Asia. The 2012 Digital ... The festival will culminate in the awards celebrating the best work across media and entertainment, apps, gaming, online PR and online marketing categories, judged by a stellar line-up of industry professionals. ... Would businesses still achieve the same level of reach globally even withoutsocial media? Yes; No ...
Digital Market Asia

UTStarcom Signs IPTV Broadcasting Control ... - Digital TV News
By Digital TV News
(“UTStarcom” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: UTSI), a leading provider of interactive, IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadband for cable and telecom operators, announced today that it has won a contract from ...
Digital TV News

Appeals court reinstates Rosetta Stone's suit ... - Digital Media Wire
By Rich Scherr
The U.S. Court of Appeals has reinstated a trademark infringement lawsuit filed in 2009 by Rosetta Stone, a provider of language learning software and online services, against Internetsearch giant Google.
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Turner Owned Imagine TV To Shut Down - MediaNama
By Anupam Saxena
Hindi language General Entertainment Channel, Imagine TV, which is owned by Turner Broadcasting, is shutting down its business operations, with effect from 12th.
MediaNama: Digital Media in India

Fords runs reality TV series on Yahoo to promote Green Car - Digital ...
The car maker will promote its Focus Electric model during an online reality program called “Plugged In.” The online program will begin in May, when Ford's Focus Electric model will be available in some U.S. markets. It will be broadcast ... “Ford is launching the Focus Electric on Yahoo!, once again recognizing the power and reach of the Web as we continue to rely more ondigital media,” Matt VanDyke, director, U.S. marketing communications for Ford. “The electric vehicle market will ...
Digital Intelligence

Ben: Schwarz: IPTV is dead – long live OTTIPTV - Broadband TV ...
By Ben Schwarz
Shop. Country Profiles; Digital TV Eastern Europe; IPTV World Forecasts; Satellite TV Forecasts;Digital TV World Databook ... For the sake of clarity, in this piece, I'll use the term IPTV to describe TV delivered over managed networks with guaranteed quality of service as opposed to OTT delivery that has to go over networks not managed by the service provider. ... Before OTT can make managed IPTV delivery obsolete, we'll need a very different Internet from the one we have today.
Broadband TV News

The Best B2B Companies Get 230% More Leads From Social Media ...
By Sue Brady
Getting great results from digital marketing takes more than simply creating a social mediacampaign and hoping for the best—it takes a truly optimized solution that's measureable in hard metrics, tying social media and other digital efforts to ...
Leapfrog Online

£300K Digital Innovation Contest – TV and Film | Business Bootcamp
By The Bootcamps Team
£300k Digital Innovation Contest – TV and Film. A new £300k contest run by by IC tomorrow will provide participants with the opportunity to innovate with some of the TV and film industries' key players. The six business challenges, which have ...
Business Bootcamp

Tablets a TV friend: 85 percent of tablet owners use the device while ...
By Meghan Kelly
Given the many different avenues for streaming video, the natural conclusion is that tablets will eventually kill off the TV too, but Epps says tablets actually complement the TV watching experience. .... online media; the convergence of offline and online advertising; the impact of mobile devices like smartphones, superphones, and tablets; the networking of the living room from video-game consoles to set-top boxes to Apple TV, Google TV; and the emergence ofsocial media as a key ...
VentureBeat

Digital devices complement TV: News from Warc.com
Watch the creative that brings campaigns to life – TV and video executions from ... Daily bulletins on brand strategy, new markets, digital media and innovation.
www.warc.com/.../Digital_devices_complement_TV.content?...

Swisscom Expands Web and Mobile Television Services With ...
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT), a global leader in video infrastructure solutions, today announced that Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecom provider, has ...
digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/.../Swisscom-Expands-W...

Digital Media Designer at TV One, LLC in Silver Spring, Maryland ...
TV One, LLC is hiring! View and apply for the Digital Media Designer Job at TV One, LLC in Silver Spring, Maryland.
www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2837941...2

OneBeat aims to become leaders of digital media in EDM, online ...
We've just caught wind of an exciting new company that plans to launch an assault on the world of EDM fairly shortly. YouTube will be their primary platform to ...
www.dancingastronaut.com/.../onebeat-aims-to-become-leader...

Media Alert: Mobile Content Venture to Demonstrate Dyle(TM) Mobile TV at NAB ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Dyle Mobile TV is the consumer-facing brand launched by MCV to deliver live mobile television content from 15 major broadcast groups including Pearl LLC (Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, EW Scripps Co., Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ...

Marketron Introduces Its Mobile Marketing and Advertising Technology to the TV ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Already in extensive use by more than 2200 radio stations, KLWB-TV and KDCG-TV are among the first TV stations to adopt Marketron's mobile engagement and advertising platform. "Mobile advertising is taking on a larger role in the marketing mix for many ...

Regency Resources Announces Binding Letter of Intent to Merge With Digitally ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The business combination will target the distribution of content in the rapidly expanding internetbroadcast TV market. Greenwald has been a pioneer in the media distribution sector for over 30 years and believes that a move to internet television is a ...

Broadcast International's New CodecSys Media Server Enables Multi-Protocol ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CodecSys is ideal for OTT, IPTV, VOD, Mobile TV and Internet TV applications. Managed MediaServices (MMS) enables a turnkey solution comprised of all the tools necessary to meet marketing and merchandising objectives through digital signage, ...

DG and 24/7 Media Announce Strategic Partnership
MarketWatch (press release)
Under the agreement, 24/7 Media will endorse DG's MediaMind as a preferred vendor for third-party online ad serving and TV ad delivery for agencies and advertisers to their clients worldwide.24/7 Media, formerly 24/7 Real Media, is GroupM's technology ...

Digital TV Broadcasts to Be Offered By Year-End
AllAfrica.com
By Charles Gichane, 11 April 2012 Nairobi, Kenya — The government is optimistic that digital TVbroadcasts will be available to 70 percent of Kenya's viewing population by the end of the year. The digital signal is currently only available in Nairobi ...

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