Swisscom boosts IPTV and mobile TV

Swisscom boosts IPTV and mobile TV
TeleGeography
... line incumbent and triple-play service provider, Swisscom, has chosen its 'ProMedia Live' real-time multiscreen transcoding platform and 'NMX Digital Service Manager' to provide high definition (HD) video streams for IPTV and mobile TV services.

Over Half of Tablet, Smartphone Time Is Shared with TV Viewing -- New GfK Analysis
MarketWatch (press release)
Compared to young adults (ages 18 to 34), Baby Boomers (35 to 49) spent much more time using tablets and TV simultaneously -- 67% of tablet minutes, versus 39% for the younger group. Simultaneous use of smartphones and TV was about the same for both ...

KIT digital Powers Expansion of Sky Deutschland's Sky Go "TV Everywhere" Solution
MarketWatch (press release)
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, Apr 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- KIT digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:KITD) , a leading video technology and services company, today announced that it has been chosen by pay TV operator Sky Deutschland to expand the reach of its Sky ...

Charter Breaks Into Interactive TV Ads With FourthWall
Multichannel News
Once the Ad Widgets system is deployed, Charter Media advertising customers will be able to deliver a variety of ITV-enhanced commercials, targeted based on demographics or geography. The FourthWall interactive TV advertising solution is built on ...

New Study: How Are Grocery Shoppers Advancing Their Use of Digital Media?
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
BARRINGTON, Ill.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Connecting with Modern Grocery Shoppers, a new report developed by Brick Meets Click (BMC) in partnership with Grocery Shopping Network (GSN), will be released April 19. GSN took the lead in assembling the ...

Charter to Launch Interactive Television With FourthWall Media Ad Widgets
MarketWatch (press release)
"Interactive TV has proven to be an effective solution for advertisers and a good experience for customers," said Jim Heneghan, President, Charter Media. "It connects businesses with viewers in real time on their television.

UTStarcom Signs IPTV Broadcasting Control Platform Contract in Chongqing
MarketWatch (press release)
("UTStarcom" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:UTSI) , a leading provider of interactive, IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadband for cable and telecom operators, announced today that it has won a contract from Chongqing Radio and ...

Sony to cut 10000 jobs, turn around TV business
Access North Georgia
TOKYO - Faced with mounting losses, Sony Corp. said Thursday it will slash 10000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, and try to turn around its money-losing TV business over the next two years. New CEO and President Kazuo Hirai outlined ...

Whither the Podcast? In Defense of Digital Media's Great Creation
MediaPost Communications
The on-demand and portable audio show is to my mind one of the great and under appreciated products of the digital era. The regularity of the programming, its self-selected audience, the reliance on voice and often conversation -- all coalesce to create ...

New TV Behaviors Contributing to Advances in Interactive TV Advertising
Huffington Post
The sudden collapse of cable TV consortium Canoe Ventures a few weeks ago generated a lively debate among media and advertising experts on the future of making television an interactive experience for viewers. Media economist Jack Myers called the ...

Crowdfunding for Couch Potatoes: Mobcaster Wants to Democratize TV Programming
Forbes
Mobcaster TV is an online platform that matches unfunded television writers and directors with a passionate group of financial backers: television consumers. Aspiring TV show creators can post 150-second pitch videos and set their fundraising goals.

Public TV studio revives Met
Fresno Bee
By Rick Bentley - The Fresno Bee A new public-access TV station is bringing life to the former Metropolitan Museum building in downtown Fresno, which has been closed for more than two years and has served as a glaring reminder of downtown deterioration ...

Fresno Bee

Canadian Pay TV Services Still Growing, Despite Netflix
Hollywood Reporter
Showing HBO and Showtime series like "Game of Thrones" is helping sign new subscribers, with Astral Media to launch the HBO Go app in Canada this fall. TORONTO - Canadian pay TV is doing so well by its primetime HBO and Showtime series like Game of ...

Hollywood Reporter

Ford Launches Focus Electric Online with World's First Digital Road Trips for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Plug N Play in Electric City is Ford's latest foray into the social media arena and further illustrates how Ford is launching the new 2012 Focus Electric in a new and different way. Ford's electrified vehicle business is fundamentally different than ...

Android IPTV Extends to Hotel TV Market
Einnews Portugal
NetUP IPTV Combine 4x installed in hotel allows guests to access TV and Video on Demandcontent using user-friendly and feature-rich GUI of Android-based IP set-top boxes. The IPTVsolution is connected with MICROS Opera hotel property management ...

IMImobile and zeebox partner to drive deeper social media audience engagement ...
Business Standard
IMImobile, a leading global provider of technology infrastructure for mobile data, interactive broadcast, voice and video services to mobile operators, enterprises and media companies today announced the integration of its Multi-Media Console (MMC) ...

Stores Go Online to Find a Perfect Fit
New York Times (blog)
In March 2011, the pharmacy chain Walgreen acquired its online rival Drugstore.com for roughly $409 million. One month later, Wal-Mart Stores paid about $300 million for Kosmix, a social media start-up that now serves as the retailer's lab for building ...

New York Times (blog)

Average monthly pay-TV bill to hit $200 by 2020
Chicago Tribune
LOA ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - TV lovers may need to take out a loan when the cable bill arrives -- in 2020. By that time, the average monthly cost for pay-TV service in the United States is expected to balloon to $200, according to a new forecast by the ...

Digital Media awards comes to Asia
By Staff Writer
Lions Festivals, organisers of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has announced its intention to host Digital Media Awards for Asia. The 2012 Digital ... The festival will culminate in the awards celebrating the best work across media and entertainment, apps, gaming, online PR and online marketing categories, judged by a stellar line-up of industry professionals. ... Would businesses still achieve the same level of reach globally even withoutsocial media? Yes; No ...
Digital Market Asia

UTStarcom Signs IPTV Broadcasting Control ... - Digital TV News
By Digital TV News
(“UTStarcom” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: UTSI), a leading provider of interactive, IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadband for cable and telecom operators, announced today that it has won a contract from ...
Digital TV News

Appeals court reinstates Rosetta Stone's suit ... - Digital Media Wire
By Rich Scherr
The U.S. Court of Appeals has reinstated a trademark infringement lawsuit filed in 2009 by Rosetta Stone, a provider of language learning software and online services, against Internetsearch giant Google.
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Turner Owned Imagine TV To Shut Down - MediaNama
By Anupam Saxena
Hindi language General Entertainment Channel, Imagine TV, which is owned by Turner Broadcasting, is shutting down its business operations, with effect from 12th.
MediaNama: Digital Media in India

Fords runs reality TV series on Yahoo to promote Green Car - Digital ...
The car maker will promote its Focus Electric model during an online reality program called “Plugged In.” The online program will begin in May, when Ford's Focus Electric model will be available in some U.S. markets. It will be broadcast ... “Ford is launching the Focus Electric on Yahoo!, once again recognizing the power and reach of the Web as we continue to rely more ondigital media,” Matt VanDyke, director, U.S. marketing communications for Ford. “The electric vehicle market will ...
Digital Intelligence

Ben: Schwarz: IPTV is dead – long live OTTIPTV - Broadband TV ...
By Ben Schwarz
Shop. Country Profiles; Digital TV Eastern Europe; IPTV World Forecasts; Satellite TV Forecasts;Digital TV World Databook ... For the sake of clarity, in this piece, I'll use the term IPTV to describe TV delivered over managed networks with guaranteed quality of service as opposed to OTT delivery that has to go over networks not managed by the service provider. ... Before OTT can make managed IPTV delivery obsolete, we'll need a very different Internet from the one we have today.
Broadband TV News

The Best B2B Companies Get 230% More Leads From Social Media ...
By Sue Brady
Getting great results from digital marketing takes more than simply creating a social mediacampaign and hoping for the best—it takes a truly optimized solution that's measureable in hard metrics, tying social media and other digital efforts to ...
Leapfrog Online

£300K Digital Innovation Contest – TV and Film | Business Bootcamp
By The Bootcamps Team
£300k Digital Innovation Contest – TV and Film. A new £300k contest run by by IC tomorrow will provide participants with the opportunity to innovate with some of the TV and film industries' key players. The six business challenges, which have ...
Business Bootcamp

Tablets a TV friend: 85 percent of tablet owners use the device while ...
By Meghan Kelly
Given the many different avenues for streaming video, the natural conclusion is that tablets will eventually kill off the TV too, but Epps says tablets actually complement the TV watching experience. .... online media; the convergence of offline and online advertising; the impact of mobile devices like smartphones, superphones, and tablets; the networking of the living room from video-game consoles to set-top boxes to Apple TV, Google TV; and the emergence ofsocial media as a key ...
VentureBeat

Digital devices complement TV: News from Warc.com

Watch the creative that brings campaigns to life – TV and video executions from ... Daily bulletins on brand strategy, new markets, digital media and innovation.
www.warc.com/.../Digital_devices_complement_TV.content?...

Swisscom Expands Web and Mobile Television Services With ...
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT), a global leader in video infrastructure solutions, today announced that Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecom provider, has ...
digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/.../Swisscom-Expands-W...

Digital Media Designer at TV One, LLC in Silver Spring, Maryland ...
TV One, LLC is hiring! View and apply for the Digital Media Designer Job at TV One, LLC in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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OneBeat aims to become leaders of digital media in EDM, online ...
We've just caught wind of an exciting new company that plans to launch an assault on the world of EDM fairly shortly. YouTube will be their primary platform to ...
www.dancingastronaut.com/.../onebeat-aims-to-become-leader...

Media Alert: Mobile Content Venture to Demonstrate Dyle(TM) Mobile TV at NAB ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Dyle Mobile TV is the consumer-facing brand launched by MCV to deliver live mobile television content from 15 major broadcast groups including Pearl LLC (Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, EW Scripps Co., Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ...

Marketron Introduces Its Mobile Marketing and Advertising Technology to the TV ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Already in extensive use by more than 2200 radio stations, KLWB-TV and KDCG-TV are among the first TV stations to adopt Marketron's mobile engagement and advertising platform. "Mobile advertising is taking on a larger role in the marketing mix for many ...

Regency Resources Announces Binding Letter of Intent to Merge With Digitally ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The business combination will target the distribution of content in the rapidly expanding internetbroadcast TV market. Greenwald has been a pioneer in the media distribution sector for over 30 years and believes that a move to internet television is a ...

Broadcast International's New CodecSys Media Server Enables Multi-Protocol ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CodecSys is ideal for OTT, IPTV, VOD, Mobile TV and Internet TV applications. Managed MediaServices (MMS) enables a turnkey solution comprised of all the tools necessary to meet marketing and merchandising objectives through digital signage, ...

DG and 24/7 Media Announce Strategic Partnership
MarketWatch (press release)
Under the agreement, 24/7 Media will endorse DG's MediaMind as a preferred vendor for third-party online ad serving and TV ad delivery for agencies and advertisers to their clients worldwide.24/7 Media, formerly 24/7 Real Media, is GroupM's technology ...

Digital TV Broadcasts to Be Offered By Year-End
AllAfrica.com
By Charles Gichane, 11 April 2012 Nairobi, Kenya — The government is optimistic that digital TVbroadcasts will be available to 70 percent of Kenya's viewing population by the end of the year. The digital signal is currently only available in Nairobi ...

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Digital media: Industry slow to embrace the internet

Digital media: Industry slow to embrace the internet
Financial Times
By Anthony de Marco The world has largely turned to digital media for consumer information, sharing thoughts about products and brands and, most importantly, to make purchases. Most industries are harnessing the internet, social media and mobile tools ...

Financial Times

Rogers Digital Media signs exclusive deal with Time Inc. for sales representation
MastheadOnline
Rogers Digital Media, a division of Rogers Media, announced yesterday it has inked a deal with Time Inc. as exclusive Canadian representative for online advertising for five of Time's top brands including Time.com, InStyle.com, RealSimple.com, ...

How Brands Can Cash In On Social Media Addiction
MediaPost Communications
by David Murdico, 3 minutes ago Social media is the drug addiction of the new millennium. It's done at home, in the workplace, in private, with strangers, and out in the open with friends. Just look around on any given day and observe how many people ...

Latin Digital Media: About.com targets the Spanish-speaking World
Portada Magazine
There are not many Guide or Topic sites (eg About.com, Ask.com) in the Latin Digital Media world, another example is Spain's Grupo Prisa's ParaSaber.com. About.com/espanol topics include main themes such as Coches (Cars), Casa (Home), Cocina y recetas ...

Portada Magazine

Channel 4 to launch new TV channel based on 'social media buzz'
Telegraph.co.uk
Photo: Channel 4 By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor It is the first new channel that the broadcaster has launched since 2005, when More4 made its debut. 4seven will go live across all of the major TV platforms 'later this year', according to David ...

Telegraph.co.uk

TV viewing being driven by social media buzz, says report
Digital Spy UK
Today, Channel 4 announced a bold new direction for catch-up television with the launch of 4seven, a forthcoming TV channel which will offer the opportunity to recap on the Channel 4 shows that have caused the most online "buzz" over the past seven ...

Harris Corporation and Digital Display Networks, Inc. Report 7-Eleven TV ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) announced that 7-Eleven TV significantly increased sales and revenue for advertisers across 4344 stores in its first year of operation -- validating the influence thatdigital out-of-home media has on consumers.

New Rogers Digital Media Division Inks Deal with Time
mediacaster
Rogers Digital Media has a new partnership with Time Inc., securing exclusive Canadian representation for online advertising for five of Time's top brands – Time.com, InStyle.com, RealSimple.com, CookingLight.com, and MyRecipes.com.

Ekiti - Driving Governance With Digital Media Technology
AllAfrica.com
By Emma Okonji, 8 March 2012 Re-stating government's eight point agenda for development, Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who spoke at the launch of the state owned integrated digital media channels last week in Ado Ekiti, said the state would ...

Former MTV Execs to Buy Plum TV
Patch.com
Plum TV is currently distributed on cable television systems in Miami, Aspen, Vail, Telluride, the Hamptons, Sun Valley, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, at PlumTV.com, and on Plum TV's video on demand iPhone app. The purchase of Plum, founded in 2004, ...

Channel 4 takes a step towards TV/ social convergence
FT.com (blog)
David Abraham, head of the UK's Channel 4, used the FT's Digital Media Conference in London on Thursday to let loose a new hybrid on the broadcast landscape: a linear TV channel shaped byonline social media. Plumbing word of mouth to shape programming ...

Sky's Internet TV Service Could Offer Pay-As-You-Go Shows
paidContent.org
BSkyB's upcoming over-the-top internet TV service could create a new post-subscription ecosystem for pay-per-view and pay-as-you-go TV shows. “There'll be a spectrum all the way down to individual shows - we'll see how far we get,” finance chief Andrew ...

Channel 4 to launch 4seven catch-up TV channel
Digital Spy UK
Speaking today at the FT Digital Media Conference, Abraham said that with so much choice available of new programming across TV and online platforms, viewers are "increasingly saying they sometimes just miss the best stuff".

Second Screen Must Find Its Own Voice To Redefine TV
MocoNews
“How's that different from when people were talking on the telephone whilst watching TV?,” BBC future media director Ralph Rivera asked at the FT Digital Media Conference in London on Wednesday. “The (real) opportunity is when TV creators, ...

4K TV Could be the Next Step In High Definition TV, But Will Viewers See A ...
RedOrbit
Since 1998, the news about TV has been coming in regular waves of the next, best and brightest. Plasma TV was introduced in 2001, HDTV PVR (personal video recorder) in 2003, IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) in 2005, OLED TV in 2008 and 3D HDTV in 2009.

RedOrbit

Channel 4 reveals new TV channel 4Seven
TechRadar UK
By Marc Chacksfield Channel 4 has announced that it is set to launch a new channel called 4seven, which will have scheduling based on how much chatter programmes are getting through social media outlets. Announced at the FT Digital Media Conference ...

Truthiness in Digital Media
Forbes
The Internet is full of b******t and its volume is rapidly replicating – mostly unchecked. Much of the spurious info we find on the Web originates from amateur “we the media” types. However, more and more mis/disinformation is purposefully propagated ...

Forbes

Apple lets movies into iCloud, upgrades Apple TV
Boston.com
The change also means people will be able to watch purchased movies on an improved Apple TV set-top box going on sale next week. That development should allay frustration consumers have had withdigital purchases of movies, which could be bought on ...

Apple Updates Apple TV: Gets full HD Capability
Technology Bloom News
Along with the announcement of the all-important, and much talked about iPad 3 (or simply the iPad as it would be officially called) Apple also announced the launch of an updated version of its Apple TV digital media receiver at an event earlier today.

Technology Bloom News

Social Media to drive content on new C4 launch
Broadband TV News
By Julian Clover Channel 4 has announced plans for a new linear channel that will be scheduled around those shows creating the most noise on social media. Speaking at the FT Digital Media Conference David Abraham, Channel 4 chief executive, ...

Broadband TV News

Rogers Digital Media Partners with Time Inc
Broadcaster
Rogers Digital Media, a division of Rogers Media Inc., today announced a partnership with Time Inc., securing exclusive Canadian representation for online advertising for five of Time Inc.'s premium brands – Time.com, InStyle.com, RealSimple.com, ...

Why Channel 4's attempt to harness Twitter buzz is ambitious
Telegraph.co.uk
Channel 4 show, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, tends to generate a lot of 'social media' buzz. Photo: CHANNEL 4 By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor Channel 4 has announced the launch of 4seven – its first new channel for seven years – which will supposedly ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Apple TV rival Roku plans IPO
C21Media
The news came on the same day that Apple unveiled the latest version of its Apple TV product – a video streaming solution Roku considers its nearest rival. Speaking on the sidelines of the FT Digital Media conference in London yesterday, Roku founder ...

Apple Finally Adds Full-HD Support to Apple TV, iTunes.
X-bit Labs
... by its third-generation Apple TV set top box (STB), adding fuel to rumours about the company's own TV set, as well as to its iTunes digital media store. Customers can now buy 1080p videos from iTunes to watch them using Apple TV 3 or other devices.

Cable ONE Completes Agreement With Synacor To Offer TV Everywhere Services To ...
Daily Markets (press release)
Synacor (SYNC), announced today it has reached an agreement with Cable ONE, a leading provider of basic cable, digital cable, high-speed Internet and phone services, to offer a new consumer-facing website and TV Everywhere services to Cable ONE's ...

Online advertising boosts Axel Springer
Financial Times
By Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin German newspaper and digital-media group Axel Springer said the strong growth of online advertising helped to raise net profit 5.6 per cent and to boost the group's revenues by 10.1 per cent last year.

2012 Media Summit TV Panel: Twitter, Facebook Can Drive Online Audience, Revenue
Hollywood Reporter
NEW YORK - Social media can these days drive TV networks' online audience and revenue, Marc DeBevoise, senior vp and general manager, entertainment, CBS Interactive, said here at a conference on Wednesday. During a panel at the 2012Media Summit New ...

Hollywood Reporter

What the new iPad and Apple TV mean for media
Lost Remote
Apple took the wraps off a new retina display iPad (with 4G LTE) and a 1080p Apple TVbox today (sorry no TV set), both of which will be available on March 16th. While the announcements themselves aren't particularly groundbreaking — solid incremental ...

Lost Remote

Apple TV: new features
PC Advisor
By Chris Martin | PC Advisor | 08 March 12 Apple's launch for the third generation Apple TV was overshadowed by the new iPad. The latest Apple TV looks no different before but there are a number of changes that have taken place to improve the pint ...

PC Advisor

Good Times Restaurants Inc. Teams with Room 214 for Social Media
MarketWatch (press release)
GOLDEN, Colo., Mar 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Good Times Restaurants Inc. (UTD:GTIM) today announced that it has selected Room 214 as its social media agency to develop a social media and digital platform for the company. Room 214 provides social ...

2012 Media Summit TV Panel: Twitter, Facebook Can Drive Online ...
By Georg Szalai
NEW YORK - Social media can these days drive TV networks' online audience and revenue, Marc DeBevoise, senior vp and general manager, entertainment, CBS Interactive, said here at a conference on Wednesday. During a panel at the ... ABC News senior vp, digital media Joe Ruffolo said on the panel that Twitter helps news and media organizations to keep their name in play, but there is also "a lot of story telling to be done based on trending" for news operations. "We want to ...
Television

IAB Analysis Shows Digital Media Are a Vital ... - Ad Operations Online
By Otilia Otlacan
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released “The Path to Consumer Electronics Purchases,” an in-depth analysis revealing that an interplay of media buys—including digital—is necessary to effectively influence people who are ... to buy consumer electronics in “Discount Stores,” “Specialty Stores” or on the “Internet” showed that all three groups are influenced by a variety of media, over-indexing against the U.S. average on internet advertising and social media across the board.
Ad Operations Online

The Flack: Truthiness in Digital Media
By Peter Himler
This conference will focus on exploring the many facets of this complex issue with an eye to crafting tools and strategies to ameliorate the negative impacts of deception, bias, and inaccuracy in thedigital media ecosystem. We hope to come to ...
The Flack

Pile 'Em High: New Apple TV Discounted Abroad While Keeping ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Ingrid covers mobile, digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect. When it comes to work, she feels most. ... In a selection of online Apple stores across Europe and further afield, the company is marking down the price of Apple TV at the same time that it is introducing the new model, which has a number of new features, including a new 1080p interface (with support for movies at that resolution as well) and iCloud streaming support. Here are some of the countries ...
TechCrunch

The IPI News Innovation Contest 2012 has added two top media ...
By PenPlusBytes
Proposals satisfying IPI's requirements and expectations will be selected, and then reviewed by a group of experts in digital media, news platforms, journalism, online economic models, training and press freedom, among other domains. "For 2012, two new advisory board ... correspondent from 2001 until 2004. Before joining the BBC, Her Highness developed her portfolio working for Dubai TV, Bloomberg TV, Radio Monte Carlo Moyen Orient and United Press International (UPI).
PenPlusBytes

Abraham announces launch of 4seven - Broadband TV News
By Robert Briel
Speaking at the FT Digital Media Conference David Abraham, CEO of Channel 4, announced the launch of 4seven; the first new channel for the broadcaster since 2005. Launching across all majorTV platforms including Freesat later this year, the channel will give viewers another chance to catch up with Channel 4 content from the last seven days with the ease of a remote control rather than going online. Making the announcement David Abraham commented: “With so much choice ...
Broadband TV News

Why Online Video and TV Strategies are Slow to Integrate ...
By Maxpoint Interactive
What also tends to happen is marketers will partner with different media agencies for their TV anddigital media buying needs, further separating these teams. So if you've been wondering why mediaagencies and marketers are still separating ...
Maxpoint Interactive

BBC Worldwide reinforces unified digital strategy - Media UK
BBC Worldwide boosts investment in digital strategy. ... Joseph Kony documentary makes move from social media to mainstream TV From Media Guardian. Posted 8 Mar 2012, 13:42. Half-hour documentary on Lord's Resistance Army leader ...
Media UK: Tv news

Dutch digital TV connections grow to more than 6 million
By Dutch Daily News
The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 2.7 percent during the fourth quarter of 2011 to 6.05 million on 31 December 2011, according to Telecompaper's quarterly Dutch Television Subscribers report. The total includes ... Cable accounted for almost 57 percent of digital TVconnections in Q4, although it lost some market share due to growing adoption of IPTV and FTTH services. Terrestrial and ... Internet usage is also up for many Dutch families. The recession ...
Dutch Daily News

Apple Brings 1080p High Definition to New Apple TV - Digital TV News
By Digital TV News
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced the new Apple TV® featuring 1080p programming including iTunes® movies and TV shows, Netflix, Vimeo, and more in HD. With iTunes in the Cloud, customers can purchase and play movies and TV ...
Digital TV News

Google launches Google Play a cloud based Online Marketplace for ...
By Sidhaarthaa
“Google Play is entirely cloud-based so all your music, movies, books and apps are stored online, always available to you, and you never have to worry about losing them or moving them again,” Jamie Rosenberg, director of digital content at ...
WirelessDuniya

Harris Corporation and Digital Display Networks, Inc. Report 7 ...
“Digital media is reaching consumers today in more ways than ever, and 7-Eleven TV proves the bottom-line impact for advertisers within the digital out-of-home model,” said Harris Morris, president, Harris Broadcast Communications. ... WILTON , Conn., March 8, 2012 -- Toluna, one of the world's leading online research respondent and technology providers, announces the launch of SmartSelect(SM), a patent-pending methodology developed to reduce the risk of conducting survey...
ITbriefing.net

New Apple TV with 1080p support announced - Neowin.net
By John Callaham
While Apple is making announcements about its next iPad product today, the company used its latest press event in San Francisco to reveal a new version of its self-proclaimed "hobby" product, Apple TV. As reported by .... As far as your media goes...you're basically stuck on Apple then regardless of if they burn you or some other company comes out with better products/mediaoptions...those proprietary methods are the reason I have avoided buying digital media from them so far.
Neowin.net

IAB Analysis: Digital Media Vital Influence on Consumer Electronics ...
In fact, among the mass media, internet advertising is second only to broadcast televisionnetworks in influence, surpassing magazines, newspapers, direct mail ...
www.mediabuyerplanner.com/.../iab-analysis-digital-media-vit...

Tech blog | Tech blog - Industry analysis – FT.com
David Abraham, head of the UK's Channel 4, used the FT's Digital Media ... on the broadcast landscape: a linear TV channel shaped by online social media.
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What the new iPad and Apple TV mean for media; Google launches digital media destination Google Play

What the new iPad and Apple TV mean for media
Lost Remote
Apple took the wraps off a new retina display iPad (with 4G LTE) and a 1080p Apple TV box today (sorry no TV set), both of which will be available on March 16th. While the announcements themselves aren't particularly groundbreaking — solid incremental ...

Lost Remote 

Google launches digital media destination Google Play
39online.com
By Jessica Guynn and Alex Pham It's creating a single destination for digital mediacalled Google Play, putting books, music, movies and games all in one spot. It's a bid to build a powerful entertainment hub on par with Apple, Amazon.com and Microsoft ...

39online.com

Smarter TV: Living Room as Digital Hub From Samsung and Microsoft to Apple and ...
Wired News (blog)
Instead, here's my big takeaway from Samsung's event — at least as I see it now, with an eye toward Apple's definitely-an-iPad, most-probably-an-Apple-TV event on Wednesday. In the future, the living room will replace the home office as most ...

Wired News (blog)

Apple Brings 1080p High Definition to New Apple TV
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Apple(R) today announced the new Apple TV(R) featuring 1080p programming including iTunes(R) movies and TV shows, Netflix, Vimeo, photos and more in HD. With iTunes in the Cloud, customers can purchase and ...

AEG Digital Media Helps Live Events Get Social with MC Player
SunHerald.com
LOS ANGELES -- AEG Digital Media, the leading provider of complete webcast management for live streaming events and online video, announced the release of its latest innovation, the MC, which vastly increases viewer engagement and ad impressions, ...

Saying Yes to Digital Media in Preschool and Kindergarten
Huffington Post (blog)
Though the groups discourage "passive screen technology" usage -- like TV and DVDs -- with children under two, they don't suggest a ban on screens for preschoolers or kindergartners as some child-advocacy groups have suggested.

Roxon seeks to archive Australian digital media
The Australian
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon want to see blogs, and digital new media items archived alongside national treasures. THE National Library will expand its archives to include selected blogs, onlinenews stories and e-journals under proposed reforms ...

LXTV Co-Founders Joseph Varet and Morgan Hertzan To Acquire Plum TV
PR Newswire (press release)
Plum TV will operate as a national network, expanding distribution across the country via digital, television and out-of-home media. Plum TV is currently distributed on cable television systems in Miami, Aspen, Vail, Telluride, the Hamptons, ...

BBC expects Olympics to usher in new TV age
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent The London Olympics will transform the British media landscape by ushering in a new age of “connected TV”, the BBC's digital chief predicts, just as the Queen's coronation did almost 60 years ago.

PNI Digital Media Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Mar 06, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- PNI Digital Media (TOR:CA:PN) (OBB:PNDMF) ("PNI"), the leading innovator in digital media solutions for retailers, reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 ...

NAB Show to Feature Super Session Exploring the Future of Mobile Digital TV
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, Mar 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- NAB Show will present a Super Session on mobile DTV titled "Mobile Video and Mobile TV - Beyond YouTube," presented by NAB Labs. During the session, scheduled for Monday, April 16 in Las Vegas, ...

Subway TV & Radio expands in the U.S.
Nation's Restaurant News
A digital signage network, Subway TV & Radio uses an in-restaurant media player and 40-inch, high-definition flat-screen display viewable by customers as they order. The network displays videos, images and Internet-streamed music and marketing messages ...

Oklahoma Media Company Launches New TV Show
PR Web (press release)
This Land Press, an innovative new media company, is launching a half-hour weekly television show on Cox Communications. This Land TV features stunning videography, compelling human interest stories, and an intelligent look at life and culture in the ...

Cable Europe: strong growth, digital TV will overtake analogue this year
DigitalTVEurope.net
Cable Europe expects there to be more digital than analogue subscribers by the end of this year. European Union cable operators had 27.8 million digital TV subs at the end of last year, up 12.9%, according to figures released by cable industry ...

Samsung Smart TV Throws Down a Challenge
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
"We've heard the rumors, too," said Dan Schinasi, senior manager for HDTV product planning at Samsung, when I asked what he knew about Apple's plans to introduce a multimedia-meshing AppleTV with unique control features. "I think we're making the ...

How the worm has turned
Sydney Morning Herald
Programs such as The Project use social media to include the audience in the conversation. Social media is changing how TV is made and viewed, writes Paul Kalina. TECHNOLOGY is eroding one of the most enduring rituals of television viewing - the ...

Sydney Morning Herald

TV antenna boom a bad omen for Charter
MarketWatch
Thanks to digital television, we can now get a great broadcast picture with an antenna about the size of a Sports Illustrated . But it's not a love affair with broadcast TV that has viewers plugging antennas into their flat screens.

Cox Media Group Announces Leadership Changes
Bradenton Herald
In addition, it will initiate new business ventures and make strategic investments in digital media companies. "Focus in the areas of strategic development and digital innovation are critical to our future success," said CMG President Doug Franklin.

Middle East firms yet to tap power of digital media
gulfnews.com
Dubai: Brands in the Middle East have yet to harness the power of social mediadespite a surge in young people pushed online since the Arab Spring, experts say. Analysts point out that while the Gulf region take-up of social media sites such as ...

gulfnews.com

An Apple TV With Siri Could Finally Replace Remote Controls
Popular Science
By Dan Nosowitz Posted 03.07.2012 at 12:03 pm 0 Comments One of the smaller rumors going around about today's Apple event predicts that Apple will release a new version of its little black set-top box, Apple TV. A sub-rumor suggests that this AppleTV ...

Popular Science

Gov Fayemi of Ekiti State
Daily Sun
We have created Ekiti 3.0 - a set of robust integrated, multimedia digital media channels - online,social media and mobile media - backed by a strong governance strategy. It is the first of its kind within the public sector in Nigeria.

Rentrak Signs Contract With Local TV, LLC
MarketWatch (press release)
"For the first time, Local TV has an opportunity to combine the predictive ratings information from Rentrak with the added benefit of actual automotive sales data from Polk Automotive. Our Cleveland station will benefit from Rentrak's quantitative ...

Taiwan to form TV viewing survey committee
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, March 7 (CNA) A committee will be formed to supervise surveys on TV viewing behavior as the country is poised to enter the era of digital TV, a government agency said Wednesday. Sponsored by the government in the initial stages, the committee ...

Focus Taiwan News Channel

Freeview 'porn' sparks Ofcom action
The Guardian
Ofcom has complained to the Dutch media regulator about the content of adult chat channels Babestation and Smile TV, which are licensed in the Netherlands but broadcast to millions of Freeview households in the UK overnight and can be easily accessed ...

BBC's Rivera: 2012 pivotal for TV's evolution
Advanced Television
As the BBC prepares a big push for its online coverage of this summer's Olympic games, Ralph Rivera, the BBC's director of future media, says this year could be pivotal for TV's next evolution. “Our aspiration is that 2012 will do for digital and ...

Adap.tv expands into Australia with online video solutions
Digital Market Asia
Since online video is expected to for 81 percent of all internet traffic in Australia, it is a good space to be in for players focussing in digital advertising space. That is what Adap.tv, the company that provides a programmatic way to plan, buy, ...

Digital Market Asia

SQAD Benchmarks 2011 Top Display Sites and Ad Networks
MarketWatch (press release)
TARRYTOWN, NY, Mar 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SQAD, the largest independent source in the US for TV, radio and digital cost analysis, today announced the launch of WebCosts Indices that will be published on a quarterly basis.

Vivastream Now Official Social Media Platform for SES New York Conference & Expo
MarketWatch (press release)
The event, which is being held at the Hilton New York on March 19-23, 2012, is the largest search and social media event of its kind, attracting 3500 to 4000 online marketers. Incisive Media is offering an SES New York pre-show discount of up to $200 ...

Adobe aims to help companies earn from digital marketing spends
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: With an increasing number of enterprises taking their marketing campaigns online to tap social media, software major Adobe today said it is focussing on delivering solutions that help companies create, measure and monetise such digital ...

Dish TV To Partner With Cable Operators - MediaNama
By Anupam Saxena
(By Anupam Saxena and Nikhil Pahwa) This is interesting: Dish TV is now running a pilot project in Delhi, wherein it has partnered around 30 local cable.
MediaNama: Digital Media in India

Google launches new online digital media content store 'Google Play'
By prerna
SAN FRANCISCO: Search engine giant Google, has announced the launch of a new online store called Google Play, facilitating consumers with a one-stop marketplace for music, movies, books, applications and other digital media content.
SME News

The Aereo Scenario: A TV Tune-Up On Trial | CEA Digital Dialogue
By Rob Pegoraro
If you're not happy with your over-the-air TV reception, you've got company--but you also have options. ... expert to procure the right model and park it at the optimum spot. You can stash a Slingbox somewhere, even outside your home, and then watch broadcasts live over the Internet. ...Long Island CIty, N.Y.-based Aereo (which recently announced a $20.5 million investment led bymedia mogul Barry Diller's firm IAC) takes a cloud-based approach to local TV. Its data centers not only ...
CEA Digital Dialogue

SUBWAY TV & RADIO Digital Signage Network to Start International ...
By Redaction Ooh-tv
Subway_logo Real Digital Media, provider of the NEOCAST digital signage platform, and Independent Purchasing Cooperative, Inc. (IPC) the independent SUBWAY franchisee-owned purchasing cooperative, have announced the expansion of the SUBWAY TV & RADIO digital media network into international markets. ... SUBWAY TV & RADIO's programming is a mix of video featuring the chain's products and promotions, and streaming music delivered via the internet. The content is ...
Ooh-tv

Rentrak Signs Contract With Local TV, LLC - International ...
By EntertainmentNews
"For the first time, Local TV has an opportunity to combine the predictive ratings information from Rentrak with the added benefit of actual automotive sales data from Polk Automotive. Our Cleveland station will benefit from Rentrak's quantitative measurement as ... Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, ...
International Entertainment News

DIgital cable homes to overtake analogue - Broadband TV News
By Robert Briel
Shop. Country Profiles; Digital TV Eastern Europe; IPTV World Forecasts; Satellite TV Forecasts;Digital TV World Databook · Video. You are here: Home ... At the moment nearly half the tvcustomer base of European cable operators is digital. “ Somewhere in 2011 we will have ... The number of TV sets connected to the Internet will reach 551 million by 2016 for the 40 countries covered in this report from Digital TV Research, up from 124 million at end-2010. The report states that this ...
Broadband TV News

#ftmedia12 - Investment in Digital Media - One Man and His Blog
By Adam Tinworth
Mistry points out that media has content, which Facebook doesn't, but they both have audiences, and they need to figure out how to share them. Yesterday, they investing in a fashion brand called Nasty Gal. The business was born on the internet , and her entire following is based on Facebook, and her customers sharing what they bought and what they like. And now platforms like Pinterest ...Is unbundling of video and TV channels going to happen? Rimer thinks that customers want ...
One Man & His Blog

Social Media Marketing Agency Co-Founders Discuss Their Path To ...
By Trevor Turnbull
Interview with Social Media Marketing Agency co-founders Anthony Caponiti and Steve Cobb (Activ8Social). ... tools while leveraging their affiliation with some of the top athletes in the world. What you may not know is that one of the main drivers behind Red Bull's social media activation online is a social media marketing agency called Activ8Social. .... There's obviously reasons, they were forced to get creative with the revolution of digital music. I think very quickly we realized that we...
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AEG Digital Media Helps Live Events Get Social with MC Player ...
AEG Digital Media, the leading provider of complete webcast management for live streaming events and online video, announced the release of its latest innovation, the MC, which vastly increases viewer engagement and ad impressions, leading to more revenue opportunities for advertisers. The MC is a ... The MC was implemented for the first time ever at the 54th GRAMMYs, which turned out to be television's most social event—generating 13 million social media comments. The MC ...
ITbriefing.net

Tvigle.ru buys 200 hours of popular BBC TV shows | East-West ...
By East-West Digital News
Tvigle.ru, a major Russian video entertainment portal on the Russian Internet, has purchased a number of popular TV shows from BBC Worldwide, including the award-winning programs Misfits, The Luther, Cranford, The Fade, The Deep, and ... This scope of this deal is unprecedented in the Russian VOD market, Tvigle claims. ... “BBC content is smart, funny, and intellectual, which suits core Russian online viewers very well,” Tvigle CEO Egor Yakovlev told East-West Digital News.
East-West Digital News

Notes from the Digital Media and Learning Conference: Back in ...
This weekend, PRO-TV staff members Johnny Ramos, Chinisha Scott and Zara Serabian-Arthur attended the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference in ...
www.dctvny.org/.../notes-digital-media-and-learning-conferen...

Online Digital Media, Apps & Web Design | Branding Agency | Event ...
We are SMPC – a design/branding/digital agency with a smile. Each day we're driven to work by creativity, and sometimes we don't even wear seatbelts.
www.smpcreative.com.au/.../online-digital-media-and-website-...

MediaPost Publications Online TV Shows Go From Nice-To-Have To ...
Online TV Shows Go From Nice-To-Have To Expect-To-See, Social Sharing ... recent installment of an ongoing tracking study of the Internet's effect on TV viewing. ... television networks,” he says, adding: “How do they monetize the digital side ...
www.mediapost.com/.../online-tv-shows-go-from-nice-to-have...

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