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Next Big Threat to Cable TV, Loss of Ad Dollars To YouTube, AOL

The video viewers are not on cable anymore --

Cable’s Next Big Threat: Loss of Ad Dollars To YouTube, AOL - Digits - WSJ: "It turns out that cord-cutting isn’t the only threat facing cable channels. Several of the big ad-supported online video outlets, including Google’s YouTube, AOL and others, plan this upfront season to target some of the ad dollars that currently flow to cable channels, industry executives say. The web video outlets see a vulnerability in second tier cable networks, and to a lesser extend in the local TV-station market, executives say. According to multiple media buyers and ad sellers in the Web video industry, digital media companies are looking to draw direct comparisons between their audiences and cable TV networks, a match-up Web video outlets think they can win. Buyers say Google is likely to be the most aggressive on this front, given YouTube’s massive size and its young demographics that don’t necessarily watch a lot of TV. The company has been selling directly against cable networks, with pitches like “X YouTube net reaches more women than E! or Awesomeness TV reaches more tweens than ABC Family.” In one pitch, for instance, YouTube cited Nielsen data from November showing that it reached 49% of all 18 to 34 year olds, versus 45% for FX, 44% for TBS’ comedies, 41% for Comedy Central and 40% for AMC...."

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Online Media Firms Plan 'Upfront' Ad Sales Event
Wall Street Journal
Digital media companies want a piece of the action. "We need to show there is a new game in town" said Colin Kinsella, chief executive of the North America operations of Digitas, the Publicis Groupe-owned agency that came up with the idea for the ... 

Digital Media Lab offers new resources, instruction, contests
Lamron
The Digital Media Lab located on the first floor of Milne Library was established this past fall semester and, according to students and staff, has proven to be a valuable resource. The DML, created as a collaboration between Computing & Information ...

Chinese Digital Media Giants Add Global Perspective to IAB Annual Leadership ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Feb 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With China's number of web users surpassing 500 million, the country is about to overtake Japan as the number two advertising market in the world, and the entire interactive media and marketing industry is ...

Yahoo! Boosts Arabic Digital Content Creation in Deal with ictQATAR
Wamda
by Nina Curley, February 16, 2012 Aspiring digital media entrepreneurs in the region have a new reason fire up projects this year. Yahoo! and ictQATAR announced a strategic partnership this week, aimed at developing the digital media and content ...

First director named for Mercer's Center for Collaborative Journalism
Macon Telegraph (blog)
Digital media innovator Tim Regan-Porter, president and CEO of the Paste Media Group, has been named the first director of Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism. His appointment is effective March 1. In December, the John S. and James ...

Prodo promotes digital treasure hunt
How Do
Chester-based digital marketing firm Prodo Digital has been working with a Welsh tourist body to promote a high-tech treasure hunt. It was commissioned by North Wales Borderlands, which promotes Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbigshire, ...

How Do

Mobile, Digital Media Influence Online and In-Store Buying
MarketingProfs.com (subscription)
Consumers use various digital devices—smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers—at many points along the purchase path, from researching product information and pricing to finding retail outlets or completing transactions electronically, according ...
 
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AFL plays for own slice of internet
The West Australian
The AFL has cemented its push into digital media with news it is applying for the top-level domain .AFL expected to be announced today. The organisation is among the first in Australia to apply for one of the new branded top-level domains which are ...

The West Australian

Digital Doodler Doesn't Draw Inside the Lines
Wired (blog)
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com As an illustrator who works in both paper and digital media, I've been looking forward to getting my hands on the Wacom Inkling ever since it was first announced. A physical pen that tracks your drawings and digitizes them ...

Wired (blog)

MBC Group Selects Dalet Media Life as Programming MAM Solution With BFE as ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital MediaSystems. All other trademarks and products mentioned herein belong to their ...

Amazon Shares Decline After Morgan Stanley Downgrades Stock
BusinessWeek
“Apple's strength in iPhone and iPad sales are negatively affecting Amazon.com by accelerating the company's transition from physical to digital media sales,” Scott Devitt, a Morgan Stanley analyst in New York, said today in a report.

Andiara Petterle, Female Internet Hero and Digital Strategy & Business ...
The NextWomen Business Magazine
We spoke to Andiarra about how to target women through digital media; the most common piece of advice she gives to start-ups; and how her journey in tech started on her 15 th birthday. TNW: How important is technology to your success?

The NextWomen Business Magazine

Sports tech firm hires Florko
Cincinnati.com
XOS Digital, Inc., the Orlando-based company that provides sports video technology services to a broad range of college and professional sports teams, college conferences, and other digital media, has named a local executive as its director of ...

Twitter under fire post mobile privacy row
Telegraph.co.uk
By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor As a result of this practice coming under scrutiny, the San Francisco-based microblogging company has promised to update its privacy settings to ensure it is more explicit about what personal data people are ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Men Make Up TV Time with Digital Channels
Media Newsline
For men, digital media is helping bring them closer to women in their consumption of video content. According to the Q3 2011 edition of Nielsen's “State of the Media” report, women ages 18 to 49 watched about 10 hours more traditional television per ...

YouTube Interventions to save the rhino
ITWeb
By Kathryn McConnachie, Digital Media Editor at ITWeb. The YouTube Interventions campaign remixed 65 viral YouTube videos to draw attention to rhino poaching and gather support for an online petition. While videos of cats playing musical instruments...

ITWeb

Online Interactive Thriller Pushes Extra Content to its Audience
mediacaster
Two Toronto-based digital media production companies have launched an online interactive mystery series, in which valuable clues to an apocalyptic mystery are e-mailed to audience members. Special online content, social media integration and exclusive ...

Growth in digital music revenue helps music industry in difficult times
thinkbroadband.com
The cross-over point for when digital media will overtake physical media is a couple of years away, but as the economy picks up and more young people who have grown up with digital media acquire more disposable income it seems likely to not be many ...

Amazon: Morgan Stanley Cuts To Equal Weight; Shares Fall
Forbes
Devitt that Amazon is going through a “significant business transition” driven by two factors: Apple, and a shift to digital media. The analyst adds that the risks connected with slowing unit and sales growth and continued investment “leads us to the ...

The future is in digital multimedia, led by an explosion in online video, says ...
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
She thinks this is one of the key NU-Q courses that help students begin to develop the digital media skills and knowledge that will be in such high demand in the region over coming years. Mohammed Rezwan al-Islam, an early graduate from the NU-Q ...

Samsung Launches The HOPE Project
Light Reading India
New Delhi, February 16, 2012: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today announced the launch of it Samsung HOPE Project, which aims to make a difference in the lives of underprivileged ...

AOL optimizes for iPad with HTML5 - Digital Media Wire | connecting ...
By Chris Marlowe
The segment the population who use both AOL and iPad will be interested to learn that there's now an optimized version of AOL specifically for iPad.
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

From Newspapers to Digital Media: Watch John Paton » Blogging ...
By Rich Julius
I have to take a short break from my SEO series to comment on an article that appeared this past Saturday in the Irish Times: “Narrowing the gap between old and new media is the future.” This article compares “old media traditionalist” Alan ...
Blogging Writes

China Digital Media Readings for February 16th | DigiCha
By bbishop
In A WSJ Op-Ed Mitt Romney Confronts The China Fantasy, Ignores His Own Hypocrisy? | Sinocism - Bain and Youku $yoku// I use Youku, have friends who work.
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Fantastic Documentary Series :- Richard ... - Creative Digital Media
By Stephen
Fantastic Documentary Series :- Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light. Written by Stephen on Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 10:27 pm. Check out this great 9 part documentary series on Richard Avedon that is part of the American Master ...
Creative Digital Media at Institute...

Starting From Scratch: Editing Software | jeadigitalmedia.org
By Matt Rasgorshek
Determining the right type of editing software for your program is pretty important. That's why we've given it its own post. There are a lot of choices out there. A lot. For this post, we're going to just narrow it down to the most common systems that ...
jeadigitalmedia.org

Have your say on how to regulate digital media | Human Rights ...
By sharone
Have your say on how to regulate digital media. Friday, February 17th, 2012. Print this Article. The Law Commission's review of what is news media and how it is regulated is underway and time is running out to make a submission.
Human Rights Commission

Seminar | Dominico Scijano | DMARC | Digital Media and Arts ...
By admin
Wednesday March 28th, 2012 3.00pm Computer Science Auditorium (CSG-01). During his talk Sciajno will explore the actual limits and the hidden potential of the present-day electronic sound production and composition in that peculiar area ...
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U.S. Digital Media To See Greater Evolutions And Challenges In ...
Digital media has seen a strong year-over-year growth and will likely extend its hold in the year 2012. This will come amidst challenges and evolution of newer ...
www.istockanalyst.com/.../u-s-digital-media-to-see-greater-evo...

My Formula for Digital Media Success - Saucy Social Media
For me as a long time user of social networking sites digital media success and engagement is really simple and I believe it can be broken down into these six ...
saucysocialmedia.com/.../my-formula-for-digital-media-succes...

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BlackPublicMedia.org Paid 12-Wk Immersive Digital Media Arts ...
The BlackPublicMedia.org Digital Media Arts Fellowship is a PAID 12-week full- time immersive next-media training program designed to provide emerging ...
blogs.indiewire.com/.../blackpublicmedia-org-paid-12-wk-im...

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AOL CEO's NYE memo: kaizen?

Tim Armstrong trumpets AOL successes, urges 'kaizen' spiritual-business ...
Capital New York
The word “create” defines everything we are trying to accomplish as a 21st centurydigital media company. We are creating world-class experiences and delivering high-value content that is rooted in the innovative spirit that defines our industry and ...

Capital New York

Media tycoon Murdoch takes to Twitter
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Rupert Murdoch, the 80-year-old newspaper tycoon, has joined Twitter, the fast-paced messaging site that itself has ambitions to become a media platform. The News Corp chairman created his account,...

Financial Times

Tripped Media Relaunches to Become Best Digital Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
... Media is an independent publisher with contributors holding backgrounds on various academic, social, and political levels. All graduates of Syracuse University, Tripped Media's co-founders are seeking to redefine what digital media can accomplish.

UK album sales fell in 2011 but digital downloads rose
BBC News
"People now buy the individual songs they like rather than buying the whole album because they like a single," said Philip Buxton, an independent digital mediaconsultant. "So they might buy the single and then use services like Spotify and Lastfm to ...

BBC News

A better recipe for digital cuisine
GigaOm
Like any other digital media it can be rights protected. Sure, there will be lots of cases of infringement, but every other form of media faces the same problem, and it's always been easier to steal a copyrighted recipe than it is to pirate a song or ...

Banner future for digital advertising
Chicago Tribune
Founded in 1980, Digitas is one of the largest buyers of digital media in the world. While its name indicates its core mission, the Boston-based agency, which is part of Publicis Groupe, is becoming a force across the full spectrum of advertising, ...

Chicago Tribune

Nascar Targets New Audiences, Revs Up Social-Media Strategy
AdAge.com
While some efforts kicked off in 2010, work over the next 18 months on the digital-media and multicultural-marketing fronts will be crucial. Mr. Phelps, star of a 2010 episode of "Undercover Boss," sat down with Ad Age to discuss the process of ...

AdAge.com

Hybrid Model, Convergence To Gain Traction In E-com: Smile Group CEO
VC Circle
Gurgaon-based digital media conglomerate Smile Group has been at the forefront of launching a string of e-commerce portals in India over the past two years, such as Dealsandyou.com, Fashionandyou.com and BeStylish.com. And with the launch of its latest ...

VC Circle

Forget Cannes: CES Is the Place to Be and Be Seen
AdAge.com
Then a few digital-media businesses made CES the unofficial start of the selling season for the likes of Yahoo, Google, Facebook and AOL. Consumer marketers of all types now attend the show even when their products have nothing to do with technology. ...

AdAge.com

Balaji To Sell Media Education, Mobile Content Biz For Rs 8.37Cr
VC Circle
Last year, the company had roped in Punyashlok Bhakta as CEO – New Media. Before joining Balaji, Bhakta was business head (consumer business) and head of marketing at Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt Ltd where he focused on building Hungama.com.

VC Circle

Internet freedom will be priority of Ireland's OSCE leadership
New Europe
Freedom of expression in digital media will be one of the key priorities of Ireland's stewardship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Ireland took over from Lithuania as chair of the organisation on 1 January. ...

Views | No longer an idiot box
Livemint
For now, though, sales of the company's $99 Apple TV digital media receivers (DMRs) have crossed the 2 million unit mark. Apple TV started shipping in January 2007. The second-generation Apple TV was unveiled during an Apple press conference this ...

Angel investors in India warm up to e-learning start-ups
Livemint
E-learning refers to all types of training, education and instruction that is imparted on digital media, such as computers and mobile phones. Most angels typically invest anywhere between $500000 (around `2.6 crore) to $750000 in start-ups. ...

Nostrand Blockbuster Goes Bust, Leaving Only One In Brooklyn
Sheepshead Bites
With digital media services like TiVo, Netflix and Hulu making content easily available and affordable for several years now, it's anyone's guess how they ever made it past 2008. But they did. The company even made it another two years before declaring ...

Sheepshead Bites

Intersections of Several New Age Technologies will be the Future
Siliconindia.com
We have companies based out of Silicon Valley, India and New York, spanning in different sectors, ranging from enterprise software, internet, mobile, digital media, to business and consumer services, agricultural logistics, and water management. ...

Siliconindia.com

Inside Fortune 500: Personal Branding Interview with Sears CMO
Business Insider
You can't rely on your paper anymore either, when it comes to personal branding, digital media is heavily involved and folks need to proactively manage their digital brand. Kiss Googles over 80% of the candidates he interviews and says he's surprised ...

9XM Launches Online Bollywood Music Store In Partnership With Hungama.com
VC Circle
Earlier, Flipkart Online Services Pvt Ltd (that runs the e-commerce site Flipkart.com) had acquired Mallers Inc (Mime360), a company that is registered in US and Mumbai, in a cash and stock deal for the purpose of building its own digital media store. ...

VC Circle

CATALIS SE : Ad hoc Release: Catalis SE capital increase has been successfully ...
4-traders (press release)
Eindhoven, January 02, 2012 - Catalis SE, the worldwide service provider for the digital media industry announces that it has successfully completed its recent capital increase. The new 4.000.000 shares from a capital increase against cash from ...

PayLoadz moves to Philadelphia without a geographical agenda, passes $50m in ...
Technically Philly
Someone creates a digital media file, like a PDF of a book, for instance, and uploads it to PayLoadz. The service then provides an embeddable link and digital rights management settings that a seller requires. For the buyer, its as simple as using ...

Technically Philly

6 New Gadgets for 2012
International Business Times AU
It has a hard drive, wireless capability, ripping of media files from DVDs and streaming via Digital Media Server. So far, the CellTV is for the waiting, Toshiba gave teasers about this new television which shows a different kind of world in digital ...

International Business Times AU

Launch of 3D film in museum
IBNLive.com
It had a high definition digital media server for the display of stereoscopic digital film. The theatre was equipped with two state-of-the-art digital video projectors, giving unparalleled colour fidelity and brightness to enable a vivid projection ...

Israel Museum opens its doors to the curious minds of international artists
Haaretz
Here the designers create a virtual pottery wheel, and combine traditional ceramic-making techniques with digital media: A 3D scanner and digital software are used to generate forms. Specifically, this work, which was displayed at a design fair in ...

Haaretz

Blaenau Gwent web TV channel backed by Sir Terry Matthews
BBC News
The project is being partly funded by a £450000 grant over three years from the Welsh government and aims to boost the economies of hard-pressed communities by exploiting digital media. Blaenau Gwent was chosen for a pilot scheme as a compact...

BBC News

Accelerating Talent Retention in Windsor-Essex in 2012
Windsor Star (blog)
We are seeing industries such as digital media and IT flourishing, but they could potentially be stalled by the lack of available talent. According to Statistics Canada, Windsor's brain drain/gain index is 0.90, meaning that we are losing more talent ...

Windsor Star (blog)

Tech consumption, innovation to continue in 2012
KGO-TV
And we spend more time in front of TVs than all other digital media combined. The loser is radio: Year after year, we spend less time listening to it, and, projecting eMarketer's trend, a year from now we could be spending more time with tablets and ...

KGO-TV

Beyond Oblivion gives up, shuts down
Telecompaper (subscription)
The company planned to offer digital media services against a flat fee on new consumer electronic devices and computers that would let customers listen to all the music they wanted for the life of the device. In March, News Corp chief digital officer ...

Employability and Lifetime Learning: Tips for the Social Media Averse
By Kevin E. Patterson
Today it's simply “digital media,” an integrated part of our daily life. For mid- or late-career job applicants, social media smarts could be an even more more critical part of the professional toolbox than otherwise imagined. A reader comment to ...
Inside Scoop

Why You Should Consider Unfollowing People on Twitter | SoCon12
By Lindsay Oberst
Here she answers our questions about herself and social and digital media. Tell us the history of your relationship with the ... What is the most influential event/shift in digital media in the past year? Mobile is causing a huge disruption in the ...
SoCon12

10 Social Media Must-Do's for 2012 - Social Media Zone | Social ...
By Vicki Flaugher
Our audience is heavily PR and Advertising focused but we also host many practitioners from Marketing communication, Investor Relations communications, digital media, traditional journalism, and more. We feel there is a great conversation ...
Social Media Zone

Top 10 Stories of 2011 | USPS OIG
By RARC Host da
Digital Media to the Rescue – Ironically, blogs such as Dead Tree Edition, Courier, Express, and Postal Observer, and Save the Post Office are driving the debate in the area of hard copy postal issues. 4. Is Overnight Over? – The Postal ...
USPS OIG

WEB ALERT “IMPACTS OF DIGITAL MEDIA ON CIVIL SOCIETY”
The author, an academic area coordinator for humanities and digital media at the ... importance of educating for digital media literacy, focusing on implications of ...
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