Adobe Transformation, The Move to Go Digital (video)

Adobe’s Transformation: The Move to Go Digital -

Adobe Systems Asia-Pacific President Paul Robson discusses Adobe’s transformation, moving from a licensing to a cloud-based subscription model. He speaks to Bloomberg’s Rishaad Salamat on “Trending Business.”

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Why Facebook Wants to Share Video-Related Ad Revenue (video)

Why Facebook Wants to Share Video-Related Ad Revenue - Facebook will begin sharing advertising revenue with companies that post videos on its social network, a step toward luring more premium content away from sites like Google’s YouTube. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw reports on "Trending Business." (Bloomberg, July 2, 2015)

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The Algorithm Taking On Rap's Finest (video)

The Algorithm Taking On Rap's Finest - Big-data researchers in Finland created an algorithm they say composes rap lyrics with 21 percent more rhymes than any human rapper. Bloomberg West put the program to the test against Chicago speed-style rapper Twista. (July 2 Bloomberg)

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Digital Media, Internet Television, Tweets

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Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game, Alan Turing, Sony Hack (video)

Morten Tyldum, director of "The Imitation Game," discusses telling the untold story of Alan Turing and comments on the Sony hack. He speaks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg 1/15)

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Broadband, High-speed Internet Access, FCC, MVPD, OTT

Tech Transitions, Video, and the Future | FCC.gov: "... Opening up program access will also stimulate the high-speed broadband buildout.  In September, I detailed how limited today’s competition for high-speed fixed broadband in the United States is – about 75 percent of American homes have either zero or only one broadband network delivering speeds of 25 Mbps downstream/3 Mbps upstream or better.  Those seeking to deploy new competitive broadband networks tell us that it’s hard to provide new high-speed Internet access without also being able to offer a competitive video package as well.  An updated definition of MVPD would permit a new broadband competitor to offer customers the ability to reach a variety of OTT video packages without necessarily having to enter the video business itself. We have passed from an era where it was necessary to build a purpose-specific pathway to deliver video.  The innovation of Internet Protocol (IP) has freed video from these closed pathways and single-purpose devices.  The proposal put forth today will update FCC rules to recognize this new reality and, as a result, expand competition and consumer choice."

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Yahoo Labs, Algorithm Identifies Creativity, 6-Second Vine Videos

Yahoo Labs' Algorithm Identifies Creativity in 6-Second Vine Videos | MIT Technology Review: ".... They then analysed each video with various algorithms. For example, they looked for compositional features such as the rule of thirds and shallow depth of field. They used an algorithm for analysing the content of video scenes that studies the contours and layout in an image. They also looked for any evidence that the videos were stop motion animations or designed to run on a seemingly endless loop by looking for similarities between the first and last frame. And they assessed the novelty of each video by comparing its properties against a randomly selected group of others. They then looked for correlations between the features found by machine algorithms and the videos identified as creative by human volunteers. It turns out that the scene content is most strongly correlated with creativity, followed by compositional features and video novelty. In a final step, they trained a machine learning algorithm to use these features to find creative videos in a dataset it had not seen before. That algorithm was able to correctly classify videos as either creative or noncreative 80 per cent of the time. That’s an interesting result that opens the possibility of automatically filtering the Vine livestream for the most creative content. “This allows us to study audio-visual creativity at a fine-grained level, helping us to understand what, exactly, constitutes creativity in micro-videos,” say Redi and co. And if it is possible for an algorithm to identify creativity accurately, why wouldn’t it be possible for a computer to generate creative content? In fact, spotting the difference between human-produced creativity and computer generated creativity may one day be an interesting Turing test-style exercise." (read more at link above)

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Netflix CEO Prediction, Broadcast TV Will Be Dead By 2030

Netflix CEO: Broadcast TV Will Be Dead By 2030 | | Betabeat: ",,,For Nielsen, this might look like modernization, but for those of us ready to enter 2015, it’s more like a move from the Mesozoic to the Paleozoic Era. “It’s kind of like the horse, you know, the horse was good until we had the car,” Mr. Hastings said. “The age of broadcast TV will probably last until 2030.”..." (read more at link above)

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Podcasts, Cars, Audio on Demand

What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance? -- NYMag: "... as I talked to podcasters, they told me that the biggest reason for the podcast renaissance has nothing to do with the podcasts themselves, or the advertisers funding them. It's actually about cars. The secret to radio's success has always been the drive-time commuter. An estimated 44 percent of all radio listening takes place in the car, and that's the way the radio industry likes it. Car-based listeners are captive, they tune in for long stretches at a time, and they're valuable to advertisers. And drivers' dedication to the AM/FM spectrum has made radio a remarkably stable medium — even in 2013, according to the Pew Research Center and Nielsen Audio, 91 percent of Americans over age 12 listened to the radio on a weekly basis. Now, though, cars are going online. Both Google and Apple have rolled out connected-car platforms (Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, respectively), and most new cars sold in the U.S. these days come with the ability to play smartphone audio over the car's speakers, either through Bluetooth connectivity or through a USB or auxiliary plug. One industry group, GMSA, estimates that 50 percent of all cars sold in 2015 will be internet-connected, and 100 percent by 2025...." (read more at the link above)

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Streaming Media, Fred Seibert, Federator (video)

Streaming Media: Business Plan Catching Up With Kids’ Habits: Video - Bloomberg:
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Fred Seibert, founder and chief executive officer at Federator, talks with Betty Liu about new media streaming offerings from old media to grab the attention of cord cutters and how it reflects the viewing habits of young kids and how consumer have the power to determine pricing. He speaks on “In the Loop.” (Nov 10--Bloomberg)

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CBS' Les Moonves, Digital Revolution (video)

CBS' Les Moonves: There Is a Digital Revolution: Video -
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CBS President and CEO Les Moonves discusses CBS All Access, digital content, retransmission fees and cord cutters. He speaks with Trish Regan on "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg 11/6)

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Bloomberg, Online TV, Strategy

Bloomberg explains its strategy for success in online TV | VentureBeat | Media | by Tom Cheredar:
"Long before Fox, CBS, or HBO debuted options for on-demand streaming video, business news-oriented cable channel Bloomberg was already available online and on many connected devices. This, of course, is significant because the television industry finally seems ready to accept that TV viewing is moving online. Last month saw both HBO and CBS announce that they were preparing to launch standalone streaming video services that do not require customers to already pay for cable or satellite television service. CBS in particular is even launching its own online TV news network. Bloomberg TV, however, started way back in 2011, and it’s seeing a lot of success as a result of not waiting around. Bloomberg told VentureBeat that its strategy has led the company to see one of its best months in terms of online TV and over-the-top (OTT; any TV content delivered outside of a cable or satellite TV provider, such as Comcast or DirecTV) viewership growth. In September, the company saw video stream viewing increase 12 percent to 72 million videos, compared to 64 million streamed in August, according to ComScore. Bloomberg also more than doubled the number of unique viewers for video content to 9.2 million compared to the same time last year..." (read more at link above)
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Death of the American Network Sitcom

Notes on the Death of the American Network Sitcom «: ".... A necessary caveat: Broadcast network ratings are falling every season. Last year’s floor is this year’s ceiling. Soon the only people watching network TV of any kind will be the elderly, the infirm, and fugitives who actually need to find out how to get away with murder. Everything on this earth is temporary, my child. And that includes you, me, and numbered think pieces like this one...."

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Google, YouTube, Advertising, High Margins

Google’s YouTube Scooping up the Ad World at High Margins, Says Nomura: "... analyst Anthony DiClemente with Nomura Equity Research today offers up his model for what revenue may be at the company’s YouTube property, which is benefiting from share shift in advertising to online, and has “the healthiest margins in streaming video.”... DiClemente notes the business has much higher profit margins than Google overall...Google’s YouTube is in the front lines in offering video content against which brands can advertise, writes DiClemente... We expect premium content and increased engagement from MCNs [multi-channel networks] to drive higher views per user and more overall viewing of YouTube videos, growing at an accelerating pace through 2017E. Facebook (FB) is the seond-biggest online video destination, he notes, and is trying to lure away YouTube’s advertisers. But the market is big enough for multiple contenders... DiClemente also compares YouTube to Netflix: next year, YouTube may have $5.88 billion in revenue, just behind a $6.1 billion he projects for Netflix. But because YouTube is mostly user-generated, it’s not as expensive as Netflix’s content acquisitions, giving YouTube a 59% Ebitda margin versus just 10% for Netflix. Google stock today is up $2.74, or half a percent, at $596.03."

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Mobiles, Tablets, HTML5 Video

HTML5 Video Caters To Savvy Scandinavians: Smartcom:TV’s Larssen | Beet.TV: "... “We are early movers in the technical industry; our users are very tech-savvy,” Jon Andreas Larssen, technology manager at production company Smartcom:TV, says of the region. “It’s important to them that mobiles and tablets work well – video, no matter what device you’re watching on.” Larssen, whose company makes webcasts for investor relations and other events, says HTML5-based video can cater to this demand particularly well. Smartcom:TV has used Brightcove for its delivery for the last couple of years...."

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Film Studios, Lionsgate, Tribeca, New Streaming Service

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Lionsgate and Tribeca film studios are launching a new streaming service - The Washington Post:
The companies didn’t disclose details about the planned service, such as the pricing or how many titles will be offered. Lionsgate and Tribeca Enterprises, which runs the Tribeca Film Festival, indicated in their release that the service will be highly edited and that they will draw from their network of artists and industry contacts to help select films.

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Future of Video is Streaming, Streaming is Twitch

Why Everyone Wanted to Buy Twitch: "Twitch, on the other hand, has nailed the balance. It's not perfect—live-streaming never is—but it works on everything and it works consistently, and there's always something to watch. Those strengths that helped it solidify its reign gets even more enticing as the esports world continues to explode, or as Twitch slowly starts opening its doors to other types of live-streaming. Twitch is poised to be the channel-surfing yin to Netflix's binge-watching yang. The future of video is streaming, and streaming is Twitch."

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The Official Twitch Blog Twitch On Chromecast Is Finally Here! » The Official Twitch Blog: Watching your favorite games and broadcasters on your TV just got a whole lot easier. Our new Chromecast support lets you send live Twitch video from your Android device, iPhone, iPad or laptop right to your TV. Getting started is easy:..."

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Web Video, NewFront Deals, Impact on Upfronts

CMO Today: Appointment TV: Web Video’s Impact on Upfronts Limited - CMO Today - WSJ: "... Digital overall is making every big marketer rethink their ad spending, and the growth of online video is one of a number of factors in TV’s upfront being down. But creating a viable alternative marketplace for original Web series that would steal significant market share from TV budgets in head to head negotiations is something else altogether. And digital buyers say that isn’t realistic at this point. Some agencies have only just started negotiating with Web video outlets, after finishing up negotiations with broadcast and cable networks. That fact says a lot about the pecking order in the media world, and the lack of urgency to lock up big Web video deals for some advertisers–at least in the 2014 marketplace... One place that TV dollars might be going that won’t necessarily show up in NewFront deals is branded entertainment, specifically videos produced by top YouTube talent that either feature brands or were created specifically for advertisers. That’s because these branded entertainment deals happen either between creators and advertisers or are facilitated by intermediaries like Maker Studios or Fullscreen..."

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Internet TV Is More Popular Than Cable TV in the US

The Internet Is Officially More Popular Than Cable in the U.S. | Business | WIRED: ".... Traditional TV as a format already is being engulfed by the open-endedness of the internet. From mainstream streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Instant Video to niche sites like Funny or Die to YouTube celebrities—to name just some of the options that fall under entertainment—the kinds of moving pictures available and the ways to consume them have never been greater. Within this broader spectrum, cable as a concept could become just another niche, one channel among many as the insatiable internet swallows everything it encounters." (read more at link above)

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How TV Watching Has Evolved, The Past 8 Years

• Chart: How TV Watching Has Evolved Over The Past 8 Years | Statista:
TV viewing-- on demand, plus 7 days, same day, live

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