Why Online Video Remains in TV's Shadow

Buying in the dark: why in-stream remains in TV's shadow
The Guardian (blog)
Online video lacks the emotional connection to the consumer that makes TVadvertising so powerful, says Boaz Ram. ... And it's certainly not measurability. It's how video is sold online. And until it changes, TV will be king. Digital video ...

The Guardian (blog)

After Death, Who Owns Your Online Afterlife?
Voice of America
Along with the explosive growth of email, social media and other online accounts opened around the world in recent years, is a trove of personal digital data mostInternet users find easier to leave dangling in cyberspace than to manage carefully and...

Voice of America 

Viewers Control ABC's New Series, "The Glass House," with AEG Digital Media's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
AEG Digital Media is regarded as the definitive turnkey service provider in the market today with a 12-year track record of empowering and enabling the defining moments in Internet broadcasting and live streaming media. Based in Los Angeles, AEG ...

Amazon plays catch-up in digital media
Financial Times
Jeff Bezos started Amazon as an entertainment retailer, selling books then adding CDs and DVDs. The internet let him improve on what physical retailers could do, but for years the product itself remained physical. Amazon has since transformed into a.

Huffington Post to launch Web-TV network Aug. 13
FierceIPTV
The Huffington Post plans to launch a Web-TV network Aug. ... Ahead of the launch, The Huffington Post, an AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) digital media property, is soliciting participation and video from users, through a website called HuffPost Live, 3, 2, 1 ...

Ron Sachs Communications Acquires Social Media Leader "What's Next ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jul 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Nationally acclaimed Ron Sachs Communications today announced its acquisition of What's Next Marketing, a highly respected full-service social/digital media/marketing practice, in a move expected to ...

BlueWater Technologies Sponsors Digital Draw, an Online Community for ...
Broadcast Newsroom
SOUTHFIELD, MI -- (Marketwire) -- 07/10/12 -- , a national provider of Meeting & Event Technology,Digital Media Solutions, Audio Visual Integration, and Custom Fixtures and Displays, announces its partnership with Digital Draw, the first .....

Sony's Google TV proves barely useful
The Australian Financial Review
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Column: MLB plans on doubling TV revenue
Prescott Daily Courier
The league has preferred to retain digital rights and market them through its own MLB AdvancedMedia arm, the envy of the industry. But most TV networks have insisted on digital rights being included in all new media deals, which may also be the case here.

Interactive One Adds BlackNews.com and Collegiate Social Media Site ...
BlackNews.com (press release)
Interactive One Studios to lead advertising sales efforts for the African American news site and the leading online community of students and graduates of historically Black colleges. --. New York, NY (July 11, 2012) -- Interactive One, the largest ...

Sticki Digital Media appoints new CEO
B&T Marketing & Media
Social media and digital agency Sticki Digital Media has secured the “Digital Godess”, aka Stephenie Rodriguez, as chief executive officer. Rodriguez (pictured) joins the agency, owned by digital media firm Radar Group, from the Mighty Media Group ...

Arbitron Unveils Cross-Platform Promotion ROI Tool for Broadcast and Cable TV ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"While campaign tracking is often done for TV promotions, our new Promo OptimiXer service uses the unique ability of the Arbitron Portable People Meter(TM) (PPM®) service to track exposure to radio as well as television campaigns among a single, ... by ...

Digidev Group Appoints Media Industry Veteran to Board
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS ANGELES, CA, Jul 11, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Digital Development Group Corp. (OBB:DIDG) ("Digidev," "Digidev Group" or the "Company"), a development stage company aiming to offer an in-depth portfolio of content for Internet TV ...

Emerging markets to take pay TV revenues to US$200 billion
DigitalTVEurope.net
Global pay TV revenues will reach US$200 billion (€163 billion) in 2017, an increase of US$23 billion on the 2011 figure, according to forecasts from Digital TV Research. The expected growth of 13.5% masks an expected fall in North America and growth ...

Pay TV revs to grow 13.5% by 2017
Variety
LONDON -- Global pay TV revenues will only grow by 13.5% between 2011 and 2017, according to a report.. TV News from the entertainment source: Variety. Pay TV revs to grow 13.5% by 2017.

Total TV shipments to fall 1.4% in 2012, as LCD unit sales growth slows to 5%
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
More Stories By Shelly Palmer. Shelly Palmer is the host of NBC Universal's LiveDigital with Shelly Palmer, a weekly half-hour television show about living and working in a digital world. He is Fox 5′s (WNYW-TV New York) Tech Expert and the host of ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

Pay TV Companies Struggle to Keep Up With Netflix's User Interface, According ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Consumers are looking at video content from a wider array of choices, including more channels,video on demand (VOD), DVR recordings and even internet videos. "To meet this demand, PayTV operators are adopting search, recommendation, and ...

Pay-TV revenues to plateau near $200BN mark in five years
Rapid tv news
Analyst Digital TV Research is predicting robust growth in global pay-TV revenues from $23 billion on 2011 to $200 billion in 2017, but by this stage rapid growth will likely have levelled out.

Greg Yaitanes, EMMY Award-Winning Producer/Director for House and ...
Broadcast Newsroom
"Greg is probably the most qualified Hollywood creative executive to keynote an event like The SocialTV Summit LA," said Andy Batkin, CEO, Social Summits, LLC. "His amazing ability to create content while thinking about social media, social TV and ...

Ten partners with Zeebox for social TV app
B&T Marketing & Media
Network Ten is making a foray into the world of social TV with a joint partnership with UK company Zeebox. The move will see Ten pitting its own ... It is set to roll out in the third quarter of this year, with Ten claiming the new app is a “key part ...

U.S. To Lead Pay-TV Revenues
Vision 2 Mobile
In 2017, the U.S. will bring home $81.040 billion in pay TV revenues, according to Digital TVResearch. ... The U.S. market will remain the biggest earner worldwide of pay TV revenues in the coming years, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.

OUYA: Android TV gaming done right: Digital Home
Recombu
... on the right plus shoulder triggers, two analog sticks and a D-pad. Cleverly, there's also an optical touchpad mounted in the centre, meaning that touch-based games like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja can easily make the jump to the TV screen as well ...

Recombu

What would you sacrifice for your digital TV subscription?
Digital Choices
A poll of over 2000 UK adults from Santander found that 61% of households - approximately 15 million - currently subscribe to a pay-monthly digital TV product, 58% of which are Sky or VirginMedia packages. When asked what they'd sacrifice in order to ...

Is Social Media Destroying Your Self-Esteem?
Forbes
Photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com) Women are now more active than men across majorsocial media platforms such as Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook and have a stronger attachment to social networking than do men, but does time spent online and ...

OnLive reaffirms support for Marvell powered ARM Google TV boxes
Engadget
While there has been a lot of speculation recently about which platforms the OnLive Google TV app will support for gameplay, the company is confirming. ... the ARMADA 1500's small form factor and fan-less chip design, coupled with Marvell's family of ...

Social media grows as news source
By eMedia Vitals Staff
A new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found that social media is starting to challenge search engines as a primary way of finding news. In the UK, for example, 30% find the news through search, compared to 20% ...
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Research: Internet leads ad spending growth ... - Digital Media Wire
By Chris Marlowe
Internet advertising is leading a generally positive outlook for the ad industry, growing 12.1 percent globally in Q1 compared to the previous year. . ... Remember me. Lost your password? Digital MediaWire | connecting people & knowledge —. music · mobile · video · games · marketing · deals · law · jobs · social ... Nielsen also found that TV, newspapers, radio, outdoor and cinema also saw an increase, albeit to a lesser degree than online. Only magazines saw their trend line go in the ...
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Not All Digital Ads Are Created Equal | Magnetic Culture
By James Green
As audiences migrate to digital media, better creative and more strategic ad placement is necessary. In today's world, not all ... New research from the Online Publishers Association shows that, for reading, 59% of tablet users surveyed prefer their tablet to their computer, 58% prefer tablet to a newspaper and 53% prefer tablets to magazines. ... Of that 2-hour period, 25% is spent while commuting to work, 15% while shopping, 67% while lying in bed and 39% while watching TV. InMobi...
Magnetic Culture

It's the V3: Vision, Visibility, Voice Digital Media Conference (V3con ...
By Slant Eye For The Round Eye
The “V3: Vision, Visibility, and Voice” Digital Media event will gather Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in the digital space, and strengthen the reach of the AAPI online community. Los Angeles (July 10, 2012) – Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) digital journalists, bloggers, and social media communicators nationwide will attend the “V3: Vision, Visibility, Voice” Digital Media Conference (V3con) on Aug. 24-25, 2012 at the Japanese American National Museum in ...
Slant Eye For The Round Eye

TEN announces zeebox as second-screen platform | TV Tonight
By David Knox
TEN Chief Operating Officer, Jon Marquard, said: “The launch of zeebox in Australia is a key part of Network TEN's digital media strategy. “We know viewer behaviour is changing and audiences are multi-tasking. “About 70% of TV viewers use ...
TV Tonight

Bob Carney, NBA Entertainment, Director, Digital Media Operations ...
By Karen Hogan, Assistant Editor
As Director of Digital Media Operations for NBA Entertainment (NBAE), Bob Carney manages the day-to-day operations of the league's Digital Media Management (DMM) system, which includes the acquisition, archiving, content creation, and distribution of the NBA's digital media assets. ... Carney also manages the postproduction workflow for all NBAE programming, such as ESPN Films documentaries Once Brothers and The Announcement, as well as NBA TV's The Dream Team.
Sports Asset Management 2012

Social Media For The Fashion-Conscious: Chicisimo Chalks Up ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Fashion — as the saying goes — never goes out of style, and that basic idea is bringing a rush of investment to online startups that want to hook into the colliding worlds of clothing and consumerism with an engaging social twist. One of the latest is Chicisimo – a social media site for fashionistas to post and vote on pictures of their latest looks, and then buy the look for themselves — which today is announcing that it's picked up a seed round of $800000 from a list of angel investors ...
TechCrunch

Facebook Partners With NBC for Olympics Coverage
By Todd Wasserman
Zenkel characterized the Facebook overlay as part of “our continuing efforts to reassemble the audience” that has splintered with the introduction of digital media. No money is changing hands in the deal, according to the report, which ...
Mashable » Social Media

Arbitron Unveils Cross-Platform Promotion ROI Tool for Broadcast and
By EntertainmentNews
"While campaign tracking is often done for TV promotions, our new Promo OptimiXer service uses the unique ability of the Arbitron Portable People Meter(TM) (PPM(®)) service to track exposure to radio as well as television campaigns among a single, ... an inaudible code that can be embedded in the audio content of terrestrial, satellite and online radio broadcasts, in broadcast, cable and satellite television as well as cinema advertising and many types of place-based digital media.
International Entertainment News

Regardless of who wins the Viacom vs. DirecTV pissing match ...
By Tom Cheredar
And when content licensing deals become more expensive, it causes TV service providers to do one of two things: either eat the cost, or pass those new charges along to the customer. Since DirecTV has contracts locking in a monthly rate for ...
VentureBeat

Are You a Grumpy Old Marketer? / Moroch | A fiercely independent ...
We always knew that there were consumers out there who were leading the trends on social media, mobile technology, and digital media in general. But, they were off in the nether realm of “Under 17″ and not of primary concern to anyone ...
Moroch

The Revolution Is Television: Observations On The Emerging ...
By ExchangeWire
... the online advertising space. The annual nerd-fest migration to Las Vegas in early January to attend the Consumer Electronic show was dominated by the final emergence of the connected TV, set as the mass consumer item of 2012. ... Connected TV is the bastard hybrid of television (the most established and rigorously measured channel in the media cannon) and digital (the most data and ROI laden media channel gifted to the marketing community). The question that we need to ...
ExchangeWire.com

Internet Ad Spend up 12% in Q1 | Online PR and social media ...
By Lloyd Gofton
Nielsen's Global AdView Pulse report has been published this week. It focuses on ad spend across the board including TV, newspapers, radio, outdoor, Internet, and cinema all of which saw an increase in ad spend in the beginning of 2012 ...
Online PR and social media agency...

50 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
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O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference

The O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC) 2012 happens February 13-15, at the New York Marriott Marquis. In case you are not able to attend and do not want to miss the “brainiac party at the intersection of publishing and digital innovation”, check out the video streaming embedded  above.

Pixar Co-Founder Joins Boulder Digital Media Symposium
Huffington Post (blog)
For anyone who has read the new Steve Jobs biography and enjoyed the stories of how he bought and changed the direction of Pixar, this Friday's Digital Media Symposium, or DiMe, should be a real treat. This year's keynoter is Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, ...

Corel acquires digital media company Roxio
AsiaOne
With this deal, Corel's product portfolio now includes Roxio's range of digital mediaand security solutions, including Roxio Creator, a popular digital media suite, and Roxio Toast, a media conversion software which runs on the Mac platform.

AsiaOne

Slacker Adds Seasoned Digital Media Executive To Board Of Directors
Music Indistry News Network
Slacker, Inc. announced that Steve Wadsworth, a former senior executive at The Walt Disney Company and a leader in the Internet and interactive digital media industry, has joined Slacker as an independent member of Slacker's Board of Directors.

New, new, digital media trends for 2012
MediaTel Newsline
Receive round-ups of news reports, research and analysis plus latest comment and opinion from across the UK media market. Dominic Finney, director at digital consultancy FaR, says newer trends show how innovation in digital and convergence in media are ...

MediaTel Newsline

Music industry warms to digital streaming
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent It was Adele's night at the Grammy awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, where the British singer won six awards including best album for 21, which has sold 17m copies around the world.

Wolverton: Streaming media players offer new options for the digital living room
San Jose Mercury News
They compare favorably to Apple (AAPL) TV and Roku's line of digital media players. But which one you pick will depend a lot on what you plan to do with it. Many of the latest televisions allow you to connect them to the Internet.

Africa Style Daily: Founder of Society HAE Talks ′Digital Media & Culture in ...
Africa.com (blog)
Today, she is working her magic again with a signature event 'Meet The Afropolitans: Digital Media+ Culture in Africa.' The Nigeria native made time to talk to us about the inspiration behind the event and what we can expect to see.

Mapping the digital future
ITWeb
By Kathryn McConnachie, Digital Media Editor at ITWeb. The wind is at the backs of Facebook and other social media companies, according to a report by comScore. Photo by bigstockphoto. The social space is continuing to grow at a rapid rate and will...

ITWeb

eyeReturn Marketing Launches Real-Time Bidding for Rich Media Ads Within eyeDemand
MarketWatch (press release)
eyeReturn Marketing has earned an enviable reputation as Canada's largest and most trusted third party ad-server, and Casale Media is the country's largest independently owned digital mediacompany. "Our publishing customers have long desired a ...

Is Creativity Missing In Content Marketing?
Forbes
More than a decade after “content is king” ascended as a central tenet of digital media, the very term itself – content – has become marketing's biggest buzzword. Bill Gates was credited with crowning content as king in 1996 through a defining essay ...

Forbes

Curating Children's Content: Who Is Doing It, And Why?
Wired (blog)
Digital media can fulfill different developmental and learning needs for young children at different times, and even media content intended for entertainment has an educational impact. It is such a strong and intellectually sound statement.

Professors teach using YouTube
UVU Review
Many departments, such as the Digital Media and Humanities departments rely on YouTube in classes during lectures. YouTube is commonly used in a required course called Humanities 1010, Humanities through the arts. Professors will use YouTube to show ...

Foyles launches ebook store
Telegraph.co.uk
By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor Founded in 1903, the family-owned bookshop which has outposts across London and one in Bristol, has joined forces with txtr, a German ebook platform, to launch the new ebook shop and app.

Telegraph.co.uk

Krishan Bhatia Expands Digital Duties at NBCU
Broadcasting & Cable
Bhatia will also continue to head up advertising strategy and the operations group for such NBCUniversal digital media properties as E! Online, MyStyle, G4, Fandango, DailyCandy and iVillage and will report to Nick Lehman, president of digital for ...

Media Conversion Services, Advanced Digital Media Conversion Services
Industry Today (press release)
Convert your old format data into today's compatible format data for better use at Outsourcing Data Conversion. We assure you high quality media conversion services at a very economical cost. Posted via Industry Today. Are you into it?

Industry Today (press release)

JoTo Extreme PR Applauds Lady Gaga's Campaign to Squelch Cyber Bullies
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Harnessing her powerful influence, she has teamed up with some of the world's best and brightest to launch the Born This Way Foundation, a campaign designed to inspire responsible digital mediaand combat damaging and even dangerous cyber bullies.

Perry Hewitt, One of the Few Female Chief Digital Officers? One of the Few ...
Forbes
You may not be familiar with the title of CDO: it's a relatively new role created to help organizations navigate the world of digital media. Given the complexity of the job, and the whole tool box of skills it requires, it's a safe bet that anyone ...

Forbes

Summit Business Media names Weitzner CEO
BtoB Magazine
... digital applications and programs that provide our customers with unique lead-generation opportunities.” “He knows b-to-b,” said one industry observer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “He can take their digital media to the level that's needed.”

Packer gets into cloud shopping
Register
With a digital media background at Fairfax Digital and News Corp, Hartmann built an enterprise global fulfilment engine he says can "overcome the hassle" of sending freight in e-commerce environments. Media reports claim Ellerston Capital placed $AU5 ...

Steve Jobs awarded a Grammy for his contribution to music
Siliconrepublic.com
The late Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who spearheaded the consumer computing revolution and deftly followed this up with the digital mediarevolution on iPods, the iPhone and the iPad, has been awarded a posthumous Grammy.

Siliconrepublic.com

Facebook awards McGill students Digital Citizenship Research grant
Financial Post
Define the Line was created by a team led by Dr. Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at McGill, whose research focuses on youth and digital media. The site is designed to help combat cyberbullying and to develop tools that help “enhance responsible ...

Financial Post

Narayan Pattison leaves IGN Entertainment
MuMbrella
Narayan Pattison, publishing director of News Digital Media's video games network IGN Entertainment, is leaving the company after a four-year stint to pursue a freelance writing career. News Digital Media in the final stages of recruiting a country ...

Aptara Announces Acquisition by iEnergizer Limited
PR Web (press release)
Aptara, a global leader in digital media solutions and multi-channel content production, announces its acquisition by iEnergizer Limited, a publicly listed company based in London (LSE:IBPO.L) with a market capitalization of approximately USD 700 ...

Google To Launch Google Drive | AccuraCast Digital Media News
By Nilu
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal Google is preparing to enter another frontier of the internet. It is believed that they are in the process.
AccuraCast Digital Media News

Industry Impressions Of Facebook Display Advertising
By AdExchanger
But, if they can stay true to the ideal of 'making money so we can make a better product' and grow at a manageable rate, the potential for Facebook to be a Google, rivaling the 800 pound digital mediaGorilla, are promising." Kurt Unkel, EVP ...
AdExchanger.com: Exchanging Ideas..

The SpongeBob Dilemma: Does Streaming Help or Hurt? | Infinitive
By Phil Kyle
And certainly the digital media space has had more than its fair share of creative destruction. Of course, creative destruction by definition presents big, game-changing opportunities alongside all the serious and disruptive threats. Consider the ...
Infinitive

Ownership in the hybrid city: themes and examples (part 2)
By Michiel de Lange
In the study we explore how digital media can strengthen 'ownership', that is, citizen engagement with collective urban issues and the capacity to act on them. The notion of ownership then is about inclusiveness, access and agency rather than ...
The Mobile City

Presenting The Pictures Of WAT Awards 2012 | WATBlog.com - Web ...
By Clara Kangare
Travel Site Of The Year – Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (GOLD). Social Media Campaign Of The Year & Digital Media Campaign Of The Year - OgilvyOne Worldwide (GOLD). Social Media Campaign Of The Year – Interface ...
WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising...

Social Media Week | THEE BLOG
By Diego
We are proud to have been an integral partner—with PepsiCo employees contributing to discussions and idea exchanges on three continents and there, demonstrating the depth and breadth to whichdigital media is permeating our company.
THEE BLOG

DailyDOOH » Blog Archive » Chris Lanman Tells Us About DigiCast ...
By Gail Chiasson
“We have been embarking on a very exciting new digital media roll out: the Gas Station Radio Network – a nationwide network of gas stations playing our proprietary content and delivering our customers' ads,” says Lanman. “Since October ...
DailyDOOH

Fashion Photography: Maya Hoffman | African Digital Art
By African Digital Art
One of the most dynamic field for African digital media has been fashion photographer. We love the current trend of incredible photography campaigns by African...
African Digital Art

Treating Content as an Asset Under Management | JumpTime
By Christine
There are lots of reasons for this, and some of them are indeed endemic to digital media itself (e.g. on-demand consumption; increased audience fragmentation; the spread of consumption over longer units of time; less money spent by brand ...
JumpTime

Digital Media and Learning Conference 2012
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The Digital Media and Learning Conference 2012 will take place in United States,San Francisco CA on 1 Mar 2012.
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Creativity, Cognition, and Computation in Digital Media
DGRC - The Digital Games Research Center at North Carolina State University.
dgrc.ncsu.edu/.../82-creativity-cognition-and-computation-in-...

Digital Media Legend Ted Leonsis to Headline BIA/Kelsey's ...
Headlining the event is digital media legend Ted Leonsis, founder, chairman and CEO, Monumental Sports Entertainment; vice chairman, board of directors, ...
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