Election 2012: targeted online video ads redefine tactics

US presidential election 2012: targeted online video ads redefine tactics
The Guardian (blog)
Since the dawn of the television age, political advertising has been a mainstay of American presidential elections, from the infamous "Daisy" spot from Lyndon Johnson against Barry Goldwater (the first political attack ad) to George W Bush's ad ...

The Guardian (blog)

Icahn takes a stake in 'undervalued' Netflix
FierceOnlineVideo
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has added his two cents--OK, so maybe a little more than that, like $168.9 million--into Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), creating yet more intrigue about whether the company will be acquired at any time soon. Icahn has bought ...

Strong European preference for PC for online video, but business models ...
Rapid tv news
New research by Parks Associates analysing broadband and pay-TV services, business models, and consumer preferences has found that in some countries viewers prefer PCs over TVs for watching video, with a strong corresponding preference for free ...

The State of US Online Video Content and Advertising, Sept. 2012
MarketingProfs.com (subscription)
In Sept. 2012, Google Sites, driven by YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property, with 150.3 million unique viewers; Americans viewed 9.4 billion video ads, with each top 5 video ad property delivering more than 1 billion video ads; and ...

MarketingProfs.com (subscription)

Chinese web-video advertising revenues up 77.9 pct in Q3
Xinhua
1 (Xinhua) -- Third-quarter revenues of China's online video advertising reached 2.64 billion yuan (423.19 million U.S. dollars), a 77.9 percent year-on-year increase, according to an Analysys International report. Revenues for the three-month period ...

Six Ways to Make Your Video Strategy More Social
MarketingProfs.com (subscription)
Clearly, online video—whether the latest viral video or a professional development course—is hot. It's easy to see why. Online video can engage an audience, help viewers retain information, and—for businesses—assist customers in remembering a brand.

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Sorenson Media Wins Three Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"This recognition by the readers of Streaming Media validates our ongoing commitment to providing the highest-quality online video products and services. In the end, it's our customers' opinion that matters most," said Peter Csathy, CEO of Sorenson Media.

Testing Boxee TV: First impressions, screenshots and unboxing ...
By Janko Roettgers
Boxee's new Boxee TV device officially went on sale on Thursday, but we got our hands on one of the units early. Check out our first impressions, as well as some screenshots of the Boxee TV UI and an unboxing video.
GigaOM

comScore Releases September 2012 U.S. Online Video Rankings ...
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 181 million ...
www.comscore.com/.../comScore_Releases_September_2012_...

5 Cost Effective Ways To Drive Online Video In 2013 - Forbes
Bandwidth is growing, and video continues to find us on our tablets, smart phones and who knows what else. So why isn't video a bigger part of our marketing plan for 2013? Here are five video formats that ...
www.forbes.com/.../5-cost-effective-ways-to-drive-online-vide...

Roku looks beyond the box
CNN
Roku, based in Saratoga, Calif., makes puck-shaped devices that beam media -- television shows, movies, and sports -- from the Internet onto TVs. Since the first Roku player made its debut in 2008, the company has built up 650 channels, from Netflix ...

Tech Check: Unlimited DVR, Netflix all-in-one
KHOU (blog)
It has apps (Netflix, Pandora, etc.), streams video from the web, and lets you hook up an antenna to record your favorite shows in HD. If you have cable or satellite TV, you can hook that up, too. Hooking up these TV signals allows you to use what ...

Liam Payne Tattoo: One Direction Opens Up In Ustream Q&A (WATCH)
Huffington Post
The guys held an informal UStream live chat to answer their fans' inquiries, opening up touring, tattoos and "Take Me Home." A few interesting tidbits from the discussions: Harry's favorite song on the new album is "Little Things" (cue the swooning ...

Ustream Partners with Video the Vote to Power Live, Up-to-the-Minute Citizen ...
Sacramento Bee
1, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Ustream (www.ustream.tv), the leader in live online video, has teamed up with Video the Vote (www.videothevote.org) to power citizen reporters with a seamless platform to broadcast election hotspots across the country with ...

CBS Corp., Netflix Extend International Content License Deals
Hollywood Reporter
LONDON - CBS Corp. and Netflix said Thursday they have extended their international licensing agreements that allow Netflix to stream select CBS Corp. shows in Canada, Latin America, the U.K. and Ireland. our editor recommends. Analysts: Netflix Sale ...

Hollywood Reporter

Netflix stock soars on news of Carl Icahn's stake
Businessweek
Netflix 's slumping stock price and weakening financial performance has finally attracted an opportunistic and sometimes nettlesome investor in Carl Icahn. In a Wednesday regulatory filing, Icahn revealed he had used some of his $14 billion fortune to ...

Netflix Stock Soars as Icahn Challenges CEO Hastings.
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings is getting a scare today, and it's not a Halloween prank. Investor Carl Icahn disclosed today that he and entities he controls have acquired just under 10% of Netflixshares. The company's shares jumped more than 20% ...

Netflix: Thanks for the Advice, Carl - AllThingsD
By Peter Kafka
Yesterday, Carl Icahn announced that he was buying a big stake in Netflix, in the hope that someone would buy the streaming video company. Here's the Netflix response, relayed by spokesman Jonathan Friedland: “We have many ...
AllThingsD

CBS Extends Netflix Pact For Overseas Territories - Deadline.com
By THE DEADLINE TEAM
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1, 2012 – CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) and Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) announced today an extension of their international licensing agreements to stream select CBS Corporation shows in Canada, Latin ...
Deadline.com » THE DEADLINE TEAM

Netflix — When a Raider Owns More Than the Founder - 24/7 Wall St.
By 247wallst
As Netflix's streaming media model has come under pressure from companies such as Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube, Hulu and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Hastings may regret that when he took Netflix public he did not ...
24/7 Wall St.

Carl Icahn's Netflix investment bumps up its stock, rekindles sale ...
By Janko Roettgers
Carl Icahn has taken a stake in Netflix, and may now be looking to get the company to sell of to a bigger entity. Rumors that Microsoft is interested in Netflix were dismissed this week, but there are surely others who'd want a piece of the cake.
GigaOM

Icahn Takes About 10% Stake in Netflix - WSJ.com
Activist investor Carl Icahn disclosed a nearly 10% stake in Netflix, saying the ... a growing list of competitors—including Amazon.com Inc., Hulu LLC and Time ...
online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424052970203707604578091032...

Catalans fight libel fine with YouTube videos
Washington Post (blog)
(YouTube). When Catalan magazine editors Marta Sibina and Albano Dante created a YouTube video to publicly shame Catalan health-care adviser Josep Maria Via, they were fined 10,000 euro for defamation. Not to be shouted down by Spain's libel laws, ...

Black Ops 2 Zombies videos invade YouTube, show new enemy
Computerandvideogames.com
The leaked game could be from a number of sources, youtube partners getting early review copies or as i like to call them fake game jounalists!!! or somebody simply taking finished code from the developer via an outsourced testing company. A big game ...

1SwingThought.com Announces Its Growing 1SwingThought YouTube Channel
Equities.com
1SwingThought.com, is pleased to announce the creation of its 1SwingThought YouTube channel, featuring free professional golf lesson videos from their cache of professional golf instructor submissions. "So far we have nearly 40 instructional videos ...
PageRank Through YouTube | Networks
By Kirby
As I was considering what topic to discuss for this blog post, I found myself mindlessly clicking around YouTube from video to video, once again in a stuck in a. ... Other factors here are the views that your channel has, the amount of subscribers you have accumulated, and how well your othervideos rank on the site. The deep integration of all of these factors to provide recommended videos to its users shows just how much YouTube has incorporated the concepts of networks.
Networks

The Most Influential YouTube Videos Of All Time, Part One
By Matthew Manarino
Like any popular entertainment outlet, YouTube has had its own group of influential contributions that helped define it as a pillar of media. These are the videos that shaped YouTube into the modern network we now know.
New Media Blog | Social Media...

EastEnders' Whitney helps Police in anti-grooming YouTube video ...
By Public Service
The 20 minute video, featuring on the YouTube channel of Ceop – the government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre – follows a storyline of McGarty's EastEnders character Whitney. It looks at how children can become ...
Public Servant Daily - Latest...

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. to Present at BMO Digital Media Conference
DailyFinance
... the Company's Chief Operating Officer, and Lainie Goldstein, its Chief Financial Officer, plan to present at BMO Capital Markets' 2012 Digital Media Conference in New York City. The Company's presentation is scheduled for Thursday, November 8, 2012 ...

Netflix Can't Win the Streaming Media War
Investorplace.com
The battle over the delivery of streaming media is well under way. The three main players — Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), Coinstar (NASDAQ:CSTR) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) — are at each other's throats, so to speak. Each company has had major ...

Samsung Smart TV Online Campaign Wins W3 Gold
Broadway World
When Samsung Consumer Business Division (CBD), the consumer products division of Samsung Electronics, wanted to launch its ES8000 Smart TV at CES 2012 the global innovator turned to Austin-based digital-centric marketing agency nFusion to ...

Revision3: Why Netflix Will Thrive and Hulu Plus Will Suffer
StreamingMedia.com
Rather, it needs to think of each channel as a dialog with the viewers, said Colin Decker, vice president of audience development for Revision3, speaking at aStreaming Media West panel titled "Virtual Coffee Tables and TV App Graveyards." "Programming ...

StreamingMedia.com

In the Future, All TV Will Be Streamed, Declares Roku
StreamingMedia.com
That look 10 to 15 years into the future came from Steve Shannon, general manager and senior vice president of content and services for Roku, who delivered the second day keynote address at theStreaming Media West conference in Los Angeles, currently ...

How a Dance Company Designer is Helping UConn Set Itself Apart from the ...
UConn Advance (blog)
The head of the newly-created Department of Digital Media & Design began his career in the performing arts, before founding a cutting-edge experiential design firm based in New York City. A relationship with UConn began after Hunter started hiring ...

UConn Advance (blog)

City Diary: How Lord Sugar schooled Rupert Murdoch in digital media
Telegraph.co.uk
... electronic publishing to his newspapers worldwide. In a handwritten postscript to the letter, unearthed by Lord Sugar in an office clear-out, Murdoch recorded: “This took me 90 minutes!” If only all News Corp's digital media struggles were over so ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Lockheed Martin Makes the Case for Video In the Enterprise
StreamingMedia.com
A panel at the inaugural Enterprise Video Conference, held in conjunction with Streaming MediaWest, explored different perspectives on how to make the case for video communications in the enterprise. Moderated by Mark Sherwood, Cisco's senior director ...

Icahn takes 10% of Netflix, puts its future in play - Digital Media Wire
By Chris Marlowe
Netflix is in the NASDAQ spotlight following the news that Carl Icahn now controls 9.98 percent of the movie and television program rental company. Its shares surged so quickly that the activity triggered a halt, before resuming and reaching a ...
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Teachers Report Mixed Impact of Digital Media - Digital Education ...
By Ian Quillen
Teachers say digital tools used both inside the formal classroom setting and outside it in students' personal lives are having a mixed impact on students' academic and social development, according to two surveys released Thursday morning.
Digital Education - Education Week

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