Jay-Z Rocks Crowd as YouTube Caps Internet's Answer to TV Upfronts

Jay-Z Rocks Crowd as YouTube Caps Internet's Answer to TV Upfronts
WNYC (blog)
(Photo: Stan Alcorn) The first ever digital newfronts — the Internet's answer to TV's upfronts, where new offerings are shown to advertisers — wrapped up at the Beacon Theater Wednesday night with Jay-Z performing "Empire State of Mind. 

YouTube and Kin Woo Marketers, Seeking to Siphon Dollars From TV
New York Times
The digital media events were held under the portmanteau Digital Content NewFronts — as in a new version of the upfronts, the presentations that broadcast networks and cable channels make each spring to marketers ahead of the fall TV season.

Demand for Digital Entertainment and Growing Internet Users to Drive Global ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Internet TV markets. Global market for Internet TV is forecast to reach US$81.2 billion by the year 2017, primarily driven by factors such as soaring demand for digital media entertainment, ...

STRATA Survey: Agencies Target TV; Social Almost Catches Online Display
MarketWatch (press release)
The top agency concern is client attraction, though that has always been a consistent struggle among those polled from the media industry. TV STRENGTHENS AMID CONCERNS The STRATA Survey found that TV is the top choice, according to 54% of agency ...

For TV networks, social is hugely important
USA TODAY
David Wertheimer, president of digital for Fox, is working on ways to encourage viewers to talk about the network's shows on social media. LOS ANGELES — In the heyday of television, networks and advertisers craved the hottest TV shows, those capable ...

USA TODAY

EchoStar Launches the World's Slimmest Digital TV Recorder
Sacramento Bee
By EchoStar STEETON, England, May 2, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS), a leading supplier of added-value, connected device solutions to the digital TV industry, has launched the world's slimmest digital TV recorder (DTR) for the UK's ...

New Horowitz Data Benchmarks TV-Related Web/Social Media Behavior; One In 5 ...
Sacramento Bee
The study is beginning to measure and track the "water cooler" effect of social media as an important vehicle to promote television shows and brands. According to the study, 19% of TVviewers with Internet access have started watching a show because ...

Veteran Media Executive Alan McGlade Launches DEV to Promote Next Generation ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Longtime digital media executive Alan McGlade, along with partner, venture capitalist and attorney Michael Yang, today announced the launch of DEV (Digital Entertainment Ventures), a New York-based firm that will ...

comScore report: How digital media is shaping the 2012 US presidential election
Bizcommunity.com
The report examines key trends shaping the current election cycle in areas such as social media, digital advertising, and paid search. To download a complimentary copy of the report, go to http://www.comscore.com/DigitalPolitico. "Digital media has ...

Drinking Liberally group finds life through social media
Boston.com
In order to continue growth and maintain existing projects, Krebs relies heavily on the Internet. “We use digital media to draw new people in and reinforce those relationships,” he said. Krebs said Drinking Liberally uses Facebook and Twitter on the ...

ABC Digital Guru Albert Cheng Heads to Banff
Hollywood Reporter
TORONTO – Disney/ABC digital guru Albert Cheng, who helped the US network become the first to stream primetime shows on the Internet, is to discuss social TV at the upcoming Banff WorldMedia Festival. Cheng, executive vp and chief product officer of ...

Digital Restoration Of 1970s TV Series Earns Award Nomination
4RFV
BBC Studios and Post Production's Digital Media Services team has digitally restored the complete series of the 1970s hit show, The Persuaders! for home entertainment label Network. Starring two great actors of the era, Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, ...

4RFV

DEV, NYC's New Seed Fund For Digital Media Startups, Announces First Investments
TechCrunch
Here comes money for media startups: former MediaNet CEO Alan McGlade and VC Michael Yang are announcing the launch of a new NYC-based firm called DEV (Digital Entertainment Ventures) whose early stage capital fund which will invest in next-gen digital ...

Which Is Better: Movies Or TV?
Moviefone
At that point, with the viewing experience digitized, flattened, squeezed, shrunk, re-shaped, and rescheduled for our convenience, the distinction between whether the story began as a movie orTV show won't matter anymore. That's why it's quaint to ...

Ad Spending Expected To Rise Says MagnaGlobal, With Digital And TV Seeing The ...
All Access Music Group
MAGNA described the US economy is in a "fragile" state, and wrote "the increase is entirely due to an upward revision in our digital media forecast, following a strong 4Q11 and a strong 1Q12."TV is the one traditional media MAGNA sees experiencing ...

Amazon Studios opens door to TV: Net retailer calls for submissions of comedy ...
Chicago Tribune
Each month, Amazon will option a TV script for $10000 within 45 days of submission and award an additional $55000 plus royalties, bonuses and a small percentage of merchandise if it chooses to produce the winning idea. Aspiring scribes need to submit a ...

The Government Would Like You to Write a "Social Media Will"
The Atlantic
By Rebecca J. Rosen Planning for your digital life after your physical life is no longer a strange niche behavior. If you have social media profiles set up online, you should create a statement of how you would like your online identity to be handled.

Amazon Looks to Produce TV Comedies, Kids' Shows
Wall Street Journal
By STU WOO Amazon.com Inc. has become the latest technology company to catch the Hollywood bug, announcing that it is soliciting scripts to produce its own comedy and children'sTV series. The online-retailing giant on Wednesday said anyone could send ...

Cuban and Lauder invest $1M in TV app platform Flingo
Digital Media Wire
Flingo has received $1 million from Mark Cuban and Gary Lauder, bringing the TVapp company's total Series A funding to $8 million and helping to bring connected television further into the mainstream. The previous $7 million was led by August Capital ...

Digital Media Wire

DALET : Wins Second Consecutive TV Technology STAR Award
4-traders
Levallois-Perret, France - May 2, 2012 - Dalet Digital Media Systems has been awarded a TVTechnology 2012 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award by the editors of TVTechnology magazine at the 2012 NAB convention in Las Vegas.

NBCUniversal: Digital ads can complement TV
Crain's New York Business
By Jeanine Poggi, AdAge.com The NewFront digital upfront presentations were conceived to mimic the traditional TV upfronts, where networks try to interest advertisers in buying huge amounts of ad inventory for the coming year. But NBCUniversal didn't ...

Live TV Flight
ClickZ
There was a lot of buzz last week about declining TV ratings. Amid ratings drops as high as 20 percent, some comments from network executives might even be described as bordering on "panic." The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, ...

$99 Subsidized Xbox 360 Would Widen Battle for Living Room
PCWorld
TV, and Vudu. Comcast and Verizon cable and Internet subscribers can also use Xbox Live to access their respective online streaming services including Xfinity On Demand and FIOS TV. Microsoft's plan, according to Jason Cross at TechHive, is similar to ...

TechBits: Olympics online; Dish's future; DirecTV digital division; Arizona ...
Washington Post
Fans can watch every Olympic event live online NEW YORK — Usain Bolt could be defending his Olympic 200-meter title on a Thursday afternoon in the United States. Fans will be able to watch the race live online for the first time during this summer's ...

Madhukar Sabnavis: Digital 'tipping point'
Business Standard (blog)
That's where digital media is today. One has been hearing about its emergence for the last decade – the noise has grown louder in the last couple of years – but commitments in terms of budgets remain small. It's often considered worthwhile to catch ...

Business Standard (blog)

The NewFronts before the Upfronts, What's in it for the Hispanic market?
Portada Magazine
The invite only affair brought together hundreds of advertisers and brand representatives to watch an enormous showcase of digital media properties and platforms. To grow the onlinevideo ad market also means to take ad market share from the TV market.

Yes Virginia, Media Companies CAN Monetize Online! | Digital ...
By Peter D. Csathy (Twitter name pcsathy)
Every single premium video provider (be it Internet TV or IPTV) must offer as deep a pool of content as possible so that customers do not become frustrated by "holes" in their content offerings (and then bolt to someone else). That means that ...
Digital Media Update

Beet.TV: Selling Online Video Ads Is Becoming TV-Like, AOL Video ...
By Daisy Whitney
Selling online video on the basis of total views, known as gross rating points (GRPs), common in the television business, will become increasingly important as consumers and the mediastop differentiating between online video and other forms of video and... ... Recently we spoke with Kelly Train of digital media shop PHD Media who says that the agency business is finally embracing GRPs as a means to buy onlilne video ads. ... Media Chief: "Video on the Internet has Come of Age" ...
Beet.TV

Media Startups, Rejoice: There's a New Digital Media Seed Fund in ...
By Jessica Roy
DEV's plan is to build up a portfolio with startups focused on new ideas in the music, TV, film, games, publishing and social media space, and they're especially interested in investing in companies building for Internet-connected TVs, ...
Betabeat -- News, gossip and...

In-Store Messaging Particularly Influential for Moms
Digital Media A Source of Deals. Results from the survey show that mothers turn to digital mediato find coupons at a far greater rate than the general population. They are 70% more likely to download coupons from retailer websites or from ... 23 %). Mothers are also roughly twice as likely to use social media sources to get coupons (22% vs. ... Similarly, 57% are making a point to search online for discounts before shopping, and 63% are sticking to brands and stores they can afford.
Marketing Charts, Stats, Facts & Trends

Wall Street Journal's social media editor Emily Steel joins FT | The ...
By Press Gazette
The Financial Times has poached Wall Street Journal's social media editor Emily Steel. She joins the FT as US media and marketing correspondent, covering content and distribution companies, digital media innovators and the wider ...
The Wire

iDubba Raises Angel Round Of Funding - MediaNama
By Apurva Chaudhary
Noida-based TV guide, iDubba has raised angel money from a group of angel investors including -- Rajan Anandan (Google India MD), Srikant Sastri (Vivaki India.
MediaNama: Digital Media in India

Solving Hyperlocal: ThinkNear CEO Eli Portnoy on Achieving Mobile ...
By AdExchanger.com
All of the RTB advantages that you would think of in the online display space, also apply in the hyperlocal mobile media space. Are you leveraging mobile data for ... If we can offer small businesses the opportunity to reach customers who are close by, that'll be a really unique opportunity, especially because no other digital channel can do that. Think about search and display ... Why not try to hit them when they're at their home watching TV with a new TV ad? Yes, we can keep trying to ...
AdExchanger.com: Exchanging Ideas...

Will The Apple TV Be Released In 2012 - Business Insider
By Seth Fiegerman
Summary. Apple TV is a digital media receiver made and sold by Apple Inc. It is a small form factor network appliance designed to play IPTV digital content originating from the iTunes Store, Netflix , YouTube, Flickr, MobileMe or any... More » ...
Business Insider

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