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Yahoo! no longer a digital media company?
Yahoo! says it's no longer a digital media company | ZDNet: " . . . . Yahoo! is trying to get its mojo back and that means rebranding itself as a "technology company." But is it?" Colleen Taylor at Techcrunch, reports that Yahoo! has changed the way it describes itself in its latest 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo is now labeling itself first and foremost as a “global technology company,” in the place where it used to call itself a “digital media company.” She writes that it's a small change but symbolic. A far better description of Yahoo! would be as a "technology media company." It uses sophisticated media technologies to publish digital content and advertising. What's not "media company" about that? Technology companies develop and sell technologies, such as databases (Oracle), microprocessors (Intel), software as a service (Salesforce.com). What technology can you buy from Yahoo!? Google is a media company and so is AOL, Facebook, Twitter, and hundreds of Silicon Valley companies, too. . . . Even Eric Schmidt, Chairman and former CEO, often refers to Google as a media company. Silicon Valley is a "Media Valley." It's a giant virtual Gutenberg machine made up of powerful media technologies that have replaced the innovation of movable type with that of programmable type -- the extraordinary ability to publish pages of complex content on-the-fly and change them in real-time -- across a massive distribution network that has enabled the end-points to publish back. It's now a two-way Internet, a two-way media Internet. Now it gets really interesting." (read more at link above)
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Second Screen Industry Set To Explode
BII REPORT: Why The "Second Screen" Industry Is Set To Explode - Business Insider: "And mass acceptance isn't even necessary: All that matters is that a significant minority of viewers develop this habit (especially if they are highly engaged viewers). In the U.S. alone, TV ad spending was $18.4 billion in the third quarter of last year, a $74 billion annual run rate. If mobile can carve out even a small share of that pile of dollars via second screen channels, it would boost the mobile industry tremendously.
Second screen isn't really a new activity: It's a natural update to the old ways of engaging with TV, like the old office water cooler conversations about last night's football game or popular TV drama. Moreover, second screen-type behaviors were already popular on desktops and laptops, before mobile came along and made it a lot easier to participate.
Second screen apps and sites are bridges: They bring together the powerful but increasingly fragmented world of television media, and the fast-growing but still undeveloped digital realm. For TV-centric advertisers and content producers, second screen provides a channel through which to test out digital strategies while still remaining tied to familiar territory"
LocateTV is a great find - John Dvorak's Second Opinion - MarketWatch: " . . . LocateTV.com is a site that monitors all the networks for two weeks in advance. It’s particularly useful for finding movies just hitting the screens. The user joins the system and then plugs in any and all movies he or she wants to watch. Once a week you get an email telling you if any of your selections are going to be playing and where they are playing and at what time. The user can then program them into the DVR or just watch as they appear. I, for example, have programmed the system to tell me when any Woody Allen movies are playing. . . . "
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LocateTV is a great find - John Dvorak's Second Opinion - MarketWatch: " . . . LocateTV.com is a site that monitors all the networks for two weeks in advance. It’s particularly useful for finding movies just hitting the screens. The user joins the system and then plugs in any and all movies he or she wants to watch. Once a week you get an email telling you if any of your selections are going to be playing and where they are playing and at what time. The user can then program them into the DVR or just watch as they appear. I, for example, have programmed the system to tell me when any Woody Allen movies are playing. . . . "
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YouTube redesign - One Channel layout
YouTube’s redesigned ‘One Channel’ layout is now available for all users - The Next Web: "Google launched its new ‘One Channel’ redesign for YouTube in a limited trial last month and now the new layout — which includes cover photos and trailers — is available for all users. A post on the YouTube Creators blog explains the benefits that regular YouTube channel owners can enjoy, now that all the feedback and early experiences from the pilot are documented and on board: The main focus of this update is to make your new channel look great on browsers across all screens and devices. It will also help you convert more visitors into subscribers with a slot for a channel trailer, and you can customize how you organize your videos and playlists so it fits your programming strategy. This redesign doesn’t represent a huge aesthetic shift but Google has embraced a design which has much in common with the Google+ look and feel on the desktop. Smaller channels and new creators will enjoy the benefit of a more visual experience — thanks to channel cover images and trailers — but there is less freedom to tweak the layout, which could frustrate more established players. . . . "
Tumblr to Introduce Mobile Advertising to Help Achieve Profit - Bloomberg: "Tumblr Inc., the six-year-old blog network that months ago began letting advertisers pay for prominent placement, expects to make its first annual profit this year after extending the feature to smartphones. In the first half of this year, companies will be able to promote their posts and blogs to bigger audiences on Tumblr’s mobile application, similar to the way the Web version works, Vice President Derek Gottfrid said in an interview yesterday. Closely held Tumblr has already tested the product internally and is looking to sign up advertisers to debut it, he said. The number of people using Tumblr’s mobile product has quadrupled over the past six months, edging closer to the number on the Web . . . "
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Tumblr to Introduce Mobile Advertising to Help Achieve Profit - Bloomberg: "Tumblr Inc., the six-year-old blog network that months ago began letting advertisers pay for prominent placement, expects to make its first annual profit this year after extending the feature to smartphones. In the first half of this year, companies will be able to promote their posts and blogs to bigger audiences on Tumblr’s mobile application, similar to the way the Web version works, Vice President Derek Gottfrid said in an interview yesterday. Closely held Tumblr has already tested the product internally and is looking to sign up advertisers to debut it, he said. The number of people using Tumblr’s mobile product has quadrupled over the past six months, edging closer to the number on the Web . . . "
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Vox Media a web-native media company
Press Publish 4: Trei Brundrett on how Vox Media has built a web-native media company with editorial ambition » Nieman Journalism Lab: "Vox is the publisher of the sports site SB Nation, the tech site The Verge, and video game site Polygon, and it’s one of my very favorite online media companies. I love that they’re ambitious on content — building a quality mix of short and long, user-generated and pro-generated, aggregated and original — and that they’re ambitious on technology. And they make money. To me, Vox feels like one of a very few online media companies that is both native to the web and invested in some traditional values about quality. They’re worth watching, even if you have no interest at all in sports, tech, or video games."
Google to announce paid YouTube subscriptions at $1-5 a month | Geek Pick | Geek.com: "If you take a look at regularly produced content on YouTube in the past few months, like Felicia Day and Will Wheaton’s Geek and Sundry or the made-for-YouTube series H+, it’s entirely possible to fill your subscription bar with multiple hours a week of great original content. Maybe not quite enough to watch YouTube in the same way you watch cable television, depending on your preferences, but there’s been a significant boost in quality all the same. This isn’t by accident, Google has been working hard with content creators to help them form several channels of great unique material that can only be found on YouTube. Ad revenue from a healthy YouTube channel can be enough to keep an operation of 2-3 people happy, but these new channels are significantly larger scale operations with budgets that can only be reached with the help of some guaranteed monthly cash. To help keep the quality of this new content trending upwards, Google plans to offer certain channels the ability to charge a monthly fee for their content."
BrightRoll passes Google in video ads - SFGate: "About 5 percent of large television advertisers' media budgets are going into Web videos, and the percentage is higher for industries such as cars, according to Tod Sacerdoti, chief executive officer of BrightRoll. Video will account for 14.5 percent of all U.S. digital-ad revenue in 2016, up from 7.9 percent last year, according to eMarketer Inc. "Online video is finally at the scale that's big enough for national advertisers," said Sacerdoti, previously an executive at online address-book provider Plaxo Inc. "It's large enough to matter." Co-founded in 2006 by Sacerdoti, BrightRoll has also partnered with Veenome in Arlington, Va., which helps advertisers find content and track campaigns. Veenome is just one of several video-ad technology startups - including Eyeviewdigital and Brainient - that received venture funding in the past year."
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Google to announce paid YouTube subscriptions at $1-5 a month | Geek Pick | Geek.com: "If you take a look at regularly produced content on YouTube in the past few months, like Felicia Day and Will Wheaton’s Geek and Sundry or the made-for-YouTube series H+, it’s entirely possible to fill your subscription bar with multiple hours a week of great original content. Maybe not quite enough to watch YouTube in the same way you watch cable television, depending on your preferences, but there’s been a significant boost in quality all the same. This isn’t by accident, Google has been working hard with content creators to help them form several channels of great unique material that can only be found on YouTube. Ad revenue from a healthy YouTube channel can be enough to keep an operation of 2-3 people happy, but these new channels are significantly larger scale operations with budgets that can only be reached with the help of some guaranteed monthly cash. To help keep the quality of this new content trending upwards, Google plans to offer certain channels the ability to charge a monthly fee for their content."
BrightRoll passes Google in video ads - SFGate: "About 5 percent of large television advertisers' media budgets are going into Web videos, and the percentage is higher for industries such as cars, according to Tod Sacerdoti, chief executive officer of BrightRoll. Video will account for 14.5 percent of all U.S. digital-ad revenue in 2016, up from 7.9 percent last year, according to eMarketer Inc. "Online video is finally at the scale that's big enough for national advertisers," said Sacerdoti, previously an executive at online address-book provider Plaxo Inc. "It's large enough to matter." Co-founded in 2006 by Sacerdoti, BrightRoll has also partnered with Veenome in Arlington, Va., which helps advertisers find content and track campaigns. Veenome is just one of several video-ad technology startups - including Eyeviewdigital and Brainient - that received venture funding in the past year."
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YouTube Paid Subscriptions
YouTube to introduce paid-for content this year - Telegraph: "YouTube has asked several of its contributors to submit applications to create paid-for channels. The first channels will reportedly be available to users by the spring for between $1 and $5 per month. YouTube plans to keep around 45 per cent of the subscription revenue themselves, with the rest going to the producers of the content. The world's No. 1 video website has been moving to add professional-grade videos to the vast archive of amateur videos that made the site popular."
YouTube Set to Introduce Paid Subscriptions This Spring | Digital - Advertising Age: " . . . YouTube has been talking about the possibility of paid subscriptions for some time now. A year ago, at at AllThingsD media conference, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar talked on stage about the potential to poach second- or third-tier cable networks that were having trouble building big enough audiences on cable TV to command subscription fees from distributors. Internet distribution, the thinking goes, would give some of these networks a more direct line to their passionate base with lower costs . . . . "We have long maintained that different content requires different types of payment models," a Google spokesman said, in a statement. 'The important thing is that, regardless of the model, our creators succeed on the platform. There are a lot of our content creators that think they would benefit from subscriptions, so we're looking at that." YouTube is treating paid subscriptions as an experiment. much like video rentals when it began in 2010. The initial group of channels will be small, likely about 25 at the outset. The revenue split from subscriptions is expected to be similar to the 45-55 split that is common for ads on YouTube."
Microsoft's Office 365 Home Premium: What happens when subscriptions expire? | ZDNet: " . . . Once the subscription expires, the Office apps will enter a "read-only reduced functionality mode." This means users will be able to view or print documents, but won't be able to create any new documents or edit existing documents. Users who want to regain their full Office capabilities will be able to purchase a new subscription (via Office.com) or a set of predesignated retailers. Users also will have the choice of simply using older, existing versions of Office or to just use the free Office Web Apps on SkyDrive for basic editing. If a user has stored documents created/edited with Office 365 Home Premium in their SkyDrives, these documents will still be downloadable once subscriptions expire. Users can save SkyDrive documents to another computer or drive at any time, according to Microsoft. (With Office 365 Home Premium, users get an additional 20 GB of storage on top of their existing SkyDrive quotas.)"
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YouTube Set to Introduce Paid Subscriptions This Spring | Digital - Advertising Age: " . . . YouTube has been talking about the possibility of paid subscriptions for some time now. A year ago, at at AllThingsD media conference, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar talked on stage about the potential to poach second- or third-tier cable networks that were having trouble building big enough audiences on cable TV to command subscription fees from distributors. Internet distribution, the thinking goes, would give some of these networks a more direct line to their passionate base with lower costs . . . . "We have long maintained that different content requires different types of payment models," a Google spokesman said, in a statement. 'The important thing is that, regardless of the model, our creators succeed on the platform. There are a lot of our content creators that think they would benefit from subscriptions, so we're looking at that." YouTube is treating paid subscriptions as an experiment. much like video rentals when it began in 2010. The initial group of channels will be small, likely about 25 at the outset. The revenue split from subscriptions is expected to be similar to the 45-55 split that is common for ads on YouTube."
Microsoft's Office 365 Home Premium: What happens when subscriptions expire? | ZDNet: " . . . Once the subscription expires, the Office apps will enter a "read-only reduced functionality mode." This means users will be able to view or print documents, but won't be able to create any new documents or edit existing documents. Users who want to regain their full Office capabilities will be able to purchase a new subscription (via Office.com) or a set of predesignated retailers. Users also will have the choice of simply using older, existing versions of Office or to just use the free Office Web Apps on SkyDrive for basic editing. If a user has stored documents created/edited with Office 365 Home Premium in their SkyDrives, these documents will still be downloadable once subscriptions expire. Users can save SkyDrive documents to another computer or drive at any time, according to Microsoft. (With Office 365 Home Premium, users get an additional 20 GB of storage on top of their existing SkyDrive quotas.)"
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Future of Internet TV
In Miami, heavyweights debate future of Internet TV
MiamiHerald.com
Mark Cuban, who made his first billion dollars on the Internet, said it's no match for television. And Larry King, who turned himself into a millionaire worldwide celebrity on television, said the Internet is the future of television and practically ...
MiamiHerald.com
Netflix's Hastings: Online steering TV's future
Politico
The future of television will be driven by Internet networks, and traditional cable TV companies will inevitably morph into Web-based content providers, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings predicted Tuesday. The flexibility ofInternet programming is already ...
Politico
Video ads growing at fastest rate on Web as TV-viewing habits change
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- Internet video ads, long a sideshow in the online advertising market, are gaining in importance to marketers and Web publishers as they look to capitalize on consumers' changing viewing habits and tap a $70 billion televisionmarket.
Damamax provides ANB TV with dedicated internet access via its fiber optic ...
AME Info (press release)
Damamax - a subsidiary of DAMA Ventures and one of the largest backbone operators in the Kingdom providing broadband solutions through optical fiber - signed an agreement with Arabic News Broadcast Television (ANB TV). By virtue of the agreement, ...
Internet TV users favor video | Variety
Digital TV. Posted: Sat., Jan. 26, 2013, 4:00am PT. Internet TV users favor video ...According to NPD, only 6% of consumers with Internet-connected TV sets use ...
www.variety.com/article/VR1118065133/
The Web-Deprived Study at McDonald's
Wall Street Journal
The result is a divide between families that have broadband constantly available on their home computers and phones, and those that have to plan their days around visits to free sources of Internet access. That divide is becoming a bigger problem now ...
Wall Street Journal
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MiamiHerald.com
Mark Cuban, who made his first billion dollars on the Internet, said it's no match for television. And Larry King, who turned himself into a millionaire worldwide celebrity on television, said the Internet is the future of television and practically ...
MiamiHerald.com
Netflix's Hastings: Online steering TV's future
Politico
The future of television will be driven by Internet networks, and traditional cable TV companies will inevitably morph into Web-based content providers, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings predicted Tuesday. The flexibility ofInternet programming is already ...
Politico
Video ads growing at fastest rate on Web as TV-viewing habits change
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- Internet video ads, long a sideshow in the online advertising market, are gaining in importance to marketers and Web publishers as they look to capitalize on consumers' changing viewing habits and tap a $70 billion televisionmarket.
Damamax provides ANB TV with dedicated internet access via its fiber optic ...
AME Info (press release)
Damamax - a subsidiary of DAMA Ventures and one of the largest backbone operators in the Kingdom providing broadband solutions through optical fiber - signed an agreement with Arabic News Broadcast Television (ANB TV). By virtue of the agreement, ...
Internet TV users favor video | Variety
Digital TV. Posted: Sat., Jan. 26, 2013, 4:00am PT. Internet TV users favor video ...According to NPD, only 6% of consumers with Internet-connected TV sets use ...
www.variety.com/article/VR1118065133/
The Web-Deprived Study at McDonald's
Wall Street Journal
The result is a divide between families that have broadband constantly available on their home computers and phones, and those that have to plan their days around visits to free sources of Internet access. That divide is becoming a bigger problem now ...
Wall Street Journal
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House Of Cards - Netflix Begins The Future Of TV
With 'House Of Cards,' Netflix Begins The Future Of TV: "The popular video-streaming service released the political drama "House of Cards" early Friday morning. The star-studded series about the underbelly of D.C. politics -- featuring glittery names like Kevin Spacey and executive producer David Fincher -- cost Netflix $100 million to make. That's a whopping price, until you consider what Netflix is trying to buy. Sensing moneyed competition from Amazon and Google, Netflix is taking a chance on premium original content to secure its customer base, ensure its survival and become the next HBO."
The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show - Technology - The Atlantic Wire: " . . . Putting together a big production with famous actors like House of Cards costs a lot of money—$100 million for two 13 episode seasons, to be exact—and Netflix CEO Reid Hastings says he plans on making five new shows like that per year, he told GQ's Nancy Hass. How can that make economic sense for a company makes all of its money off $7.99 per month subscription fees? Netflix doesn't run any ads, nor does it benefit from a relationship with a big media conglomerate like HBO and its parent company Time Warner. But while $100 million sounds jaw-dropping, a little math shows that, if the shows are good — a big if, admittedly — spending that kind of money could be good business for the company. . . ."
Google Said in Talks to Invest $50 Million in Vevo Site - Bloomberg: " . . . The investment would be part of a broader contract to keep Vevo’s music videos on YouTube, the people said. Vevo, formed in 2009 by Vivendi SA’s Universal Music and Sony Corp.’s Sony Music Entertainment, and Google last year extended their existing contract until April. “While we don’t comment on individual negotiations, we always hope to renew our relationships with valuable partners so we can continue to provide YouTube users with the best possible music experience,” Chris Dale, spokesman for Google, said in an e-mailed statement. Jennifer Press, a spokeswoman for Vevo in New York, declined to comment. Vevo, which shows videos from artists signed to labels owned by Sony Music and Universal Music, drew 51.6 million unique U.S. viewers in December, according to ComScore Inc., the Reston, Virginia-based researcher. By comparison, Google’s websites including YouTube had an audience of about 181.7 million. . . ."
WebRTC for newbies! ® Muaz Khan: " . . . An application that wishes to enable two-way audio and video communications between peers can create four media streams: An audio stream in each direction, A video stream in each direction. Any installation needed on the server? For simple WebRTC apps; not at all! For large scale applications; to store recorded media streams (audio/video/files/text/etc.) or data; obviously you need a server and many installations! . . . "
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The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show - Technology - The Atlantic Wire: " . . . Putting together a big production with famous actors like House of Cards costs a lot of money—$100 million for two 13 episode seasons, to be exact—and Netflix CEO Reid Hastings says he plans on making five new shows like that per year, he told GQ's Nancy Hass. How can that make economic sense for a company makes all of its money off $7.99 per month subscription fees? Netflix doesn't run any ads, nor does it benefit from a relationship with a big media conglomerate like HBO and its parent company Time Warner. But while $100 million sounds jaw-dropping, a little math shows that, if the shows are good — a big if, admittedly — spending that kind of money could be good business for the company. . . ."
Google Said in Talks to Invest $50 Million in Vevo Site - Bloomberg: " . . . The investment would be part of a broader contract to keep Vevo’s music videos on YouTube, the people said. Vevo, formed in 2009 by Vivendi SA’s Universal Music and Sony Corp.’s Sony Music Entertainment, and Google last year extended their existing contract until April. “While we don’t comment on individual negotiations, we always hope to renew our relationships with valuable partners so we can continue to provide YouTube users with the best possible music experience,” Chris Dale, spokesman for Google, said in an e-mailed statement. Jennifer Press, a spokeswoman for Vevo in New York, declined to comment. Vevo, which shows videos from artists signed to labels owned by Sony Music and Universal Music, drew 51.6 million unique U.S. viewers in December, according to ComScore Inc., the Reston, Virginia-based researcher. By comparison, Google’s websites including YouTube had an audience of about 181.7 million. . . ."
WebRTC for newbies! ® Muaz Khan: " . . . An application that wishes to enable two-way audio and video communications between peers can create four media streams: An audio stream in each direction, A video stream in each direction. Any installation needed on the server? For simple WebRTC apps; not at all! For large scale applications; to store recorded media streams (audio/video/files/text/etc.) or data; obviously you need a server and many installations! . . . "
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Disney and Google Build Find Your Way to Oz
Disney and Google Build an Amazing Interactive Circus to Hype Oz | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: "Disney and Google have built something that’s beautiful and fun and points the way toward the future of web technology and marketing to come: Find Your Way to Oz, a Chrome Experiment that is essentially an interactive circus in your web browser. This stunning bit of entertainment, which promotes Disney’s forthcoming movie, Oz the Great and Powerful, went live Tuesday. At first blush, it’s simply slick online marketing. Look beyond that, though, and you’ll see a successful experiment built by Google, Disney and U.K. app and web developer Unit 9, that shows off the sort of immersive experiences possible when using web technologies such as WebGL, CSS3, WebAudio, WebRTC and other HTML5 tools. Hollywood marketing machine meets tech evangelism in the future of online storytelling. “It’s a really cool, very emotional experience,” Alex Komoroske, a Chrome product manager, told Wired. “And for us, this is really about inspiring people. Even a couple years ago, or a year ago, this type of experience wouldn’t have even been possible on a web platform.” While Google has built plenty of Chrome Experiments to show off creative ways to use new web tech — most notably an interactive collaboration with Arcade Fire — none of its past projects have been so gorgeously detailed. Navigating around the Kansas circus, you see tents with different attractions. . . ."
Google’s changes to mobile advertising could fix company’s major problem - The Washington Post: "There are a couple of reasons that mobile advertising is such a challenge. First, it’s hard to deliver a good, but not intrusive, ad on a smaller screen. Second, it has traditionally been difficult to get a mobile ad campaign going. In the past, Google’s AdWords program has required companies to submit separate campaigns for different devices, locations and times — a labor-intensive process that often results in companies running hundreds of simultaneous, similar campaigns. With the changes, however, advertisers will be able to control several branches of a single campaign, with options to control customized mobile and desktop ads for different locations and times from a single place."
Google to buy marketing services company for $125 million | Reuters: "Channel Intelligence helps retailers, manufacturers and other advertisers make their products and services easier for consumers to find and buy online and in local stores. ICG said it will get $60.5 million for its stake in Channel Intelligence. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2013."
Yahoo reveals 'non-exclusive' ads deal with Google | ZDNet: " . . . However, there was no mention of Yahoo's advertising relationship with Microsoft. Yahoo didn't provide a ton of additional details, but here's a snippet with a little more of the nitty-gritty from today's blog post announcing the agreement:
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Google’s changes to mobile advertising could fix company’s major problem - The Washington Post: "There are a couple of reasons that mobile advertising is such a challenge. First, it’s hard to deliver a good, but not intrusive, ad on a smaller screen. Second, it has traditionally been difficult to get a mobile ad campaign going. In the past, Google’s AdWords program has required companies to submit separate campaigns for different devices, locations and times — a labor-intensive process that often results in companies running hundreds of simultaneous, similar campaigns. With the changes, however, advertisers will be able to control several branches of a single campaign, with options to control customized mobile and desktop ads for different locations and times from a single place."
Google to buy marketing services company for $125 million | Reuters: "Channel Intelligence helps retailers, manufacturers and other advertisers make their products and services easier for consumers to find and buy online and in local stores. ICG said it will get $60.5 million for its stake in Channel Intelligence. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2013."
Yahoo reveals 'non-exclusive' ads deal with Google | ZDNet: " . . . However, there was no mention of Yahoo's advertising relationship with Microsoft. Yahoo didn't provide a ton of additional details, but here's a snippet with a little more of the nitty-gritty from today's blog post announcing the agreement:
By adding Google to our list of world-class contextual ads partners, we’ll be able to expand our network, which means we can serve users with ads that are even more meaningful. For our users, there won’t be a noticeable difference in how or where ads appear. More options simply mean greater flexibility. We look forward to working with all of our contextual ads partners to ensure we’re delivering the right ad to the right user at the right time.more news below
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Defending the Living Room from Apple
Defending the Living Room from Apple | MIT Technology Review: "One comment of his in particular during his LBJ talk is attracting a lot of note. One would think that the natural competition for a new console would be the legacy players in the console business. Not so, says Newell:
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“The threat right now is that Apple has gained a huge amount of market share, and has a relatively obvious pathway towards entering the living room with their platform… I think that there’s a scenario where we see sort of a dumbed down living room platform emerging — I think Apple rolls the console guys really easily. The question is can we make enough progress in the PC space to establish ourselves there, and also figure out better ways of addressing mobile before Apple takes over the living room?” . . . ."Netflix stock: Fold this house of cards - The Buzz - Investment and Stock Market News: " . . . If you've stuck with Netflix shares since those dark days of price hikes, subscriber defections and the ill-fated (and quickly abandoned) plan to rebrand the slowly dying DVD-by-mail service as Qwikster, you must be happy. Vindication may soon be here. Or will it? I've written several times about why I think Netflix is overvalued. If you want to say that I'm wrong and don't know what I'm talking about because the stock has continued to surge, go ahead. But I'm Tom Petty. I won't back down. Netflix is trading at 160 times 2013 earnings estimates. That is not sustainable. Sure, analysts have been busy raising their earnings forecasts now that the company has stopped the subscriber bleeding. But any investor looking to buy Netflix now, thinking that it's nothing but clear skies ahead, should look closely at this next series of charts. . . . "
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Circlecentric Marketing
Google Plus for Business - Circlecentric Marketing: "How it works: People start by ‘following’ a brand – this being one of the main way to ‘opt in’ to the relationship using the Google+ tools. This can be done directly from a website if it has the ‘follow’ button, or from company information brought up in Google Search, from a Google ad in e.g. search, through promotion of the brand page, from a brand’s Google+ post, comment the brand makes, or the Page as a destination itself within Google+, to name a few. The principle Similar to movement down a sales funnel, through every interaction, people can be moved from an outer circle toward an inner circle, hence deepening the psychological relationship and in essence moving them to a point where there can be a ‘sales conversation’. This conversation could be started from any circle, but the deeper the relationship, the easier it will be to have that conversation."
B2B's Digital Evolution | Think with Google: "New research from CEB's Marketing Leadership Council shows that potential business customers are increasingly using digital channels to form opinions about major purchases. Today's business buyers do not contact suppliers directly until 57 percent of the purchase process is complete. The challenge for marketers is to be present in these channels at all times with content that educates buyers and helps guide commercial decisions. . . . How do you solve the problem? Rather than investing the time and money to implement dubious models that attribute specific leads to specific pieces of content, Marketing should double down on two things: Simpler, more actionable models and analytics talent. If you can get digital integrated with your broader mix, get the message right, and pick the right format for those messages, you'll be well on your way to thriving in the digital landscape. . . ."
CBS’s Play for Online Audiences During the Super Bowl | MIT Technology Review: "With tablet ownership doubling in 2012 to 19 percent of Americans over age 18, according to Forrester Research, CBS is doing more than ever to lure those viewers to the so-called “second screen” and sell to advertisers who want reach that audience. The plan’s success—or lack thereof—will likely influence advertisers considering whether or not to buy interactive online and social media ads tied to live events. “We’re looking for some really big numbers,” says Jason Kint, senior vice president and general manager of CBSSports.com. A survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of game advertiser Century 21 found that 36 percent of people who plan to watch the game also anticipate using non-TV devices."
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B2B's Digital Evolution | Think with Google: "New research from CEB's Marketing Leadership Council shows that potential business customers are increasingly using digital channels to form opinions about major purchases. Today's business buyers do not contact suppliers directly until 57 percent of the purchase process is complete. The challenge for marketers is to be present in these channels at all times with content that educates buyers and helps guide commercial decisions. . . . How do you solve the problem? Rather than investing the time and money to implement dubious models that attribute specific leads to specific pieces of content, Marketing should double down on two things: Simpler, more actionable models and analytics talent. If you can get digital integrated with your broader mix, get the message right, and pick the right format for those messages, you'll be well on your way to thriving in the digital landscape. . . ."
CBS’s Play for Online Audiences During the Super Bowl | MIT Technology Review: "With tablet ownership doubling in 2012 to 19 percent of Americans over age 18, according to Forrester Research, CBS is doing more than ever to lure those viewers to the so-called “second screen” and sell to advertisers who want reach that audience. The plan’s success—or lack thereof—will likely influence advertisers considering whether or not to buy interactive online and social media ads tied to live events. “We’re looking for some really big numbers,” says Jason Kint, senior vice president and general manager of CBSSports.com. A survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of game advertiser Century 21 found that 36 percent of people who plan to watch the game also anticipate using non-TV devices."
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IllumiRoom - Microsoft Research
IllumiRoom - Microsoft Research: " . . . IllumiRoom uses a Kinect for Windows camera and a projector to blur the lines between on-screen content and the environment we live in allowing us to combine our virtual and physical worlds. For example, our system can change the appearance of the room, induce apparent motion, extend the field of view, and enable entirely new game experiences. Our system uses the appearance and the geometry of the room (captured by Kinect) to adapt the projected visuals in real-time without any need to custom pre-process the graphics. What you see in the videos below has been captured live and is not the result of any special effects added in post production. . . . "
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Helping struggling mom-and-pop theaters with digital conversion
Big-name Hollywood mobsters team up in Miami Beach to help struggling mom-and-pop theaters - The Washington Post: " . . . . Owners of small cinemas across the country must switch from 35 mm film to digital — or go silent. The conversion requires new projection equipment, computers and a sound system that can average around $70,000 per screen. . . . About 67 percent of the nation’s 5,750 theaters have switched to all-digital equipment, said Patrick Corcoran, a spokesman for the National Association of Theater Owners. But while the big chains can afford the digital transition, smaller theaters are forced to open a bank loan or turn to the community for help with paying for the equipment. Others hand over the keys to not-for-profits in the hopes of saving the town’s main attraction. Shaw said about 60 cinemas have reached out to him for help and he has committed to saving at least 400 theaters. It is not known how many small-town theaters have closed down since the switch to digital began with the 1999 release of “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.” But for Cinema Saver, which needs $200,000 to convert the five auditoriums in its one location, the new equipment with the help from Save America’s Cinemas is a good start. . . . . "
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ESPN Digital Media Continues to Lead the Sports Category
ESPN Digital Media Continues to Lead the Sports Category in 2012 ...
To Tweet: http://bit.ly/ESPNDigital2012. In 2012, ESPN continued to lead the Sports category across online, mobile, video and digital audio and innovate across ...
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LIN Media Unveils New Digital Media Brand Strategy at the ...
with industry-‐leading television and digital media properties, announced today that it has rebranded. RMM to LIN Digital as part of its strategy to align its digital ...
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Digital Media's Big Opportunity: Convenience Consumption
Digital Media's Big Opportunity: Convenience Consumption ...
The entertainment industry has perfected syndication and multi-platform content. Now it has to better understand the concept and execution of convenience ...
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MediaPost Publications XBox NUads Pulls TV Into Digital Media Mix ...
Microsoft released numbers Monday revealing that its NUads Xbox platform attracts 37% engagement rate. The company initially rolled out the Kinect- powered ...
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The Future of TV is the Internet: Roku CEO
The Future of TV is the Internet: Roku CEO: " . . . Most television will be streamed over the Internet in the coming years, said Anthony Wood, CEO of Roku, maker of the streaming TV device of the same name. The question is how Internet-delivered content will get to your TV and who will deliver it, Wood told CNBC's Squawk on the Street. . . Stream-to-television devices currently have an advantage over Smart TVs, said Wood. Whereas most Smart TVs deliver a few marquee services, such as Netflix and Hulu, Roku gives customers access to nearly 700 streaming channels, according to the company. However, the lines between Roku and its Smart TV competition could begin to blur. A number of Roku-ready televisions will debut at CES, the preeminent technology trade show, this January. "We think there's a huge opportunity to expand our platform from streaming players, where we're a leader today, into TVs," said Wood. While Wood believes that the future of television is on the Internet, he said it will be some time before consumers give up the bundled services offered by cable and satellite providers. But as these the incumbents face competition from streaming services, he said they may begin to offer more options and cheaper services. The next generation, he says, is a virtual MSO, or multiple system operator. Such a system would combine on-demand services such as Netflix and Hulu with traditional subscription fee service for programmed TV — all via the Internet, rather than cable or satellite. . . . "
2013 Media Prediction - The Super Blog will take over
Google News Crumbles, And More 2013 Media Predictions - Forbes: ". . . . The ‘Super Blog’ will take over - As the digital era gave rise to technology and platforms that allow the average consumer to do anything from producing Web content to creating widely read digital publications, the publishing industry gave birth to countless niche sites that focus on everything from fitness to design. Given the ease of content distribution, some of these “super blogs” have been adding users at high rates and establishing themselves as authorities on their respective topics. Even major publications have been launching niche blogs under their umbrella to cater to specific topics, showcase particular writers, or keep their readers continuously updated on the latest news. Others, such as AOL, which now owns TechCrunch and Engadget, and Gawker, owner of Gizmodo, Jezebel and Lifehacker, have been simply acquiring high-traffic blogs as they build up their publishing portfolios. As digital publications and super blogs get smarter and begin to tap into online and mobile advertising, it will become a major revenue stream for the top players worldwide. In the past year alone, newspapers have lost $13 in print revenue for every dollar earned in digital revenue. However, the future is bright in digital. There’s been a 60 percent increase in digital ad sales in newspapers and magazines and a burst from $76 million to an impressive $100 million is expected in 2013. Naturally, these super blogs, along with their highly focused audiences, will become major destinations for online ad dollars in 2013."
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Aereo Adds First Cable Channel - Bloomberg TV
Aereo Adds First Cable Channel: Bloomberg TV - WSJ.com: " . . . Aereo, backed by media mogul Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, launched a Web TV service earlier this year that streams broadcast TV signals of New York stations to New York residents for a monthly fee. But the launch created an uproar within the television world, as Aereo didn't get prior approval of the broadcasters and isn't paying for the right to carry their signals. As a result, the major broadcast networks sued Aereo in federal court in New York, alleging copyright infringement. The case hasn't been resolved. But Thursday, Aereo added its first cable channel by streaming Bloomberg TV content—with Bloomberg's permission. Aereo is paying Bloomberg for its content, the companies said, without disclosing the terms. "We believe that our members will see deep value adding in Bloomberg Television as their 'go-to' source for financial news," Aereo founder
and Chief Executive Chet Kanojia said in a written statement. . . ."
Redbox ready to make a run at Netflix with video streaming
Bizjournals.com (blog)
I just rented a couple of movies from a Redbox kiosk this week. I took all of about five minutes to conduct the transaction. No wonder video rental chains have struggled to keep their doors open. Now, Redbox is ready to invade other competitors' territory.
Roku Stick Review & Rating | PCMag.com
PC Magazine
If your HDTV doesn't already have integrated Wi-Fi and online services, you need to get a media hub or a Blu-ray player for access to services like Netflix and Hulu Plus. Roku has been one of the biggest brands for watching streaming content on your ...
Netflix Weekend Must Watch: 10 Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix as ...
Gadget Review
So if you don't have holiday parties to attend or family functions to go to, stay home and relax…and watch some flicks on Netflix. Instead of going through the entire selection, we've made is easy on you and compiled some must-watch movies and TV ...
Amazon Cloud Player launches on Roku, Samsung Smart TVs
Digital Trends
Detailed on the official Roku blog as well as a press release about the Samsung launch, the Amazon Cloud Player development team has made the application available on Roku hardware as well as Samsung smart televisions manufactured during 2011 and ...
Is Netflix Hurting Disney? (DIS, NFLX)
Motley Fool
In a new study, researchers at Sanford Bernstein studied video streaming services and how much of children's content is viewed through those services. It found that through content deals with Disney (NYSE: DIS ) and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA ) , Netflix ...
Can Redbox Instant Kill Netflix? (CSTR, NFLX, VZ)
Motley Fool
The product, known as Redbox Instant, is supposed to be a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) killer of the highest order. At least, that's the conclusion many observers are drawing from the preliminary details Coinstar and Verizon just published. But you know what?
Netflix (NFLX): A Short Sellers Dream... Or Nightmare
StreetInsider.com (subscription)
Bears love to hate Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX). The 26.7 percent short interest in the stock is a perfect illustration of the hate-level. Even the recent Disney (NYSE: DIS) deal was no reason for the most hardened of the bears to step away. In fact it made ...
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Google Fiber Fastest ISP in US: Netflix
Infopackets
Netflix has an interest and expertise in high-speed Internet service because it sells access to its huge catalog of movies and television shows only through Internet-connected computers, video game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, and streaming set ...
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and Chief Executive Chet Kanojia said in a written statement. . . ."
Redbox ready to make a run at Netflix with video streaming
Bizjournals.com (blog)
I just rented a couple of movies from a Redbox kiosk this week. I took all of about five minutes to conduct the transaction. No wonder video rental chains have struggled to keep their doors open. Now, Redbox is ready to invade other competitors' territory.
Roku Stick Review & Rating | PCMag.com
PC Magazine
If your HDTV doesn't already have integrated Wi-Fi and online services, you need to get a media hub or a Blu-ray player for access to services like Netflix and Hulu Plus. Roku has been one of the biggest brands for watching streaming content on your ...
Netflix Weekend Must Watch: 10 Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix as ...
Gadget Review
So if you don't have holiday parties to attend or family functions to go to, stay home and relax…and watch some flicks on Netflix. Instead of going through the entire selection, we've made is easy on you and compiled some must-watch movies and TV ...
Amazon Cloud Player launches on Roku, Samsung Smart TVs
Digital Trends
Detailed on the official Roku blog as well as a press release about the Samsung launch, the Amazon Cloud Player development team has made the application available on Roku hardware as well as Samsung smart televisions manufactured during 2011 and ...
Is Netflix Hurting Disney? (DIS, NFLX)
Motley Fool
In a new study, researchers at Sanford Bernstein studied video streaming services and how much of children's content is viewed through those services. It found that through content deals with Disney (NYSE: DIS ) and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA ) , Netflix ...
Can Redbox Instant Kill Netflix? (CSTR, NFLX, VZ)
Motley Fool
The product, known as Redbox Instant, is supposed to be a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) killer of the highest order. At least, that's the conclusion many observers are drawing from the preliminary details Coinstar and Verizon just published. But you know what?
Netflix (NFLX): A Short Sellers Dream... Or Nightmare
StreetInsider.com (subscription)
Bears love to hate Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX). The 26.7 percent short interest in the stock is a perfect illustration of the hate-level. Even the recent Disney (NYSE: DIS) deal was no reason for the most hardened of the bears to step away. In fact it made ...
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Google Fiber Fastest ISP in US: Netflix
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4 Tips for Aspiring Media Innovators
4 Tips for Aspiring Media Innovators: 1. Don’t Be Afraid to Experiment “You’d be amazed at how risk-averse most media companies are,” he says. “They are terrified, in the current economic climate, to take any risks. Our advice is that rapid iteration, lean startup experimentation designed to produce minimum viable prototypes is crucial if newsrooms want to stay ahead of their competitors, who are increasingly non-media companies such as mobile operators, and digital companies.” 2. Don’t Try to Do It All Yourself “Find partners, build synergies, share the burden. Journalists and the media they work for are very competitive. They have a ‘scoop’ culture that hates sharing,” Arenstein says. “But, when it comes to innovation, you will be more successful if you share ideas and build off the shoulders (and platforms and technologies) of others. Be realistic: No newsroom or media organization is going to throw away all their legacy systems, or re-engineer their workflow systems, just to accommodate your project. Try making your project compatible with other important newsroom tools like DocumentCloud, FrontlineSMS, mySociety or scores of others.” 3. Stay Small and Agile “A vibrant innovation community is starting to take root in Africa. You don’t have to hire or contract massive teams of developers, who then lock you into particular approaches or solutions,” he says. “You can instead tap into things like Hacks/Hackers to find fellow travelers who will allow you to share ideas and collaborate for as long as it makes sense, before parting ways.” 4. Keep an Open Mind . . . . "
Closing the loop of online video delivery
Broadcast Engineering
Beginning in 2011, Adobe Systems has continued to methodically build out its Project Primetime platform, to meet the increasing demand for high-quality online videoconsumption across all screens. The company figures now's the time to prepare for the...
Broadcast Engineering
Consumers Watched 11 Billion Online Video Ads in October
ClickZ
A new study from comScore finds that consumers watched 11 billion online video ads in October. According to the study, 183 million U.S. Internet users watched web-based videos in October. ComScore says that those viewers saw over 37 billion online ...
5 Reasons Marketers can be Thankful for Online Video
Business 2 Community
It's Thanksgiving week, and that means it's time to sit back, reflect, and express some serious gratitude. But if you were to create a list of things to be thankful for this year, would anything about your job make the cut? (Besides the fact that you ...
Tablets becoming first screen for some online video
Informitv
Tablets are encouraging more viewing of long-form online programming. Online video platform provider Ooyala reports that the usage it has seen highlights continued growth in mobile and tablet video consumption. The overall share of tablet video viewing ...
Hastings: Netflix 'can make it in the long term'
FierceOnlineVideo
Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings has rejected the notion that it would be a benefit to the shareholders if his company was acquired by a wealthier firm. It's an idea that's gained credence ever since moneyman Carl Icahn bought a nearly 10 ...
American Music Awards 2012: Watch the Red Carpet Live Online (VIDEO)
Celebuzz
On Sunday night, the biggest stars in music will arrive in style at the 2012 American Music Awards, held at the famed Nokia Theater in Hollywood. For those fashion enthusiasts out there who don't have access to a television, you can still catch all of ...
Global Digital Media - Video and Television in a Smart Connected World
Sacramento Bee
Web TV and online video have become recognised as a powerful format for both communicating online and providing a more dynamic experience. Online video over the Internet is being used by many different industries for advertising, marketing, ...
American Music Awards 2012 Live Stream: Watch Full p2p Online Video ...
Paris Star
Watch American Music Awards 2012 Live Stream Online Free. Cyndi Lauper said her musical playlist includes Pink, Nicki Minaj and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." Boy band The Wanted is excited to see "Gangnam Style" PSY and Colbie Caillat wants ...
Rihanna To Stream London '777' Tour Gig Live Online - Video
Capital FM
Rihanna To Stream London '777' Tour Gig Live Online - Video. 19th November 2012, 10:48. The 'Diamonds' singer is set to celebrate the release of her new album 'Unapologetic' with secret UK gig tonight. Rihanna performs during the fifth stop of her 777 ...
Google Leaves Online Video Competitors Fighting for Scraps | Wall ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
Americans are still viewing massive amounts of online video...
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Vimeo gets pay-per-view: six movies available for pre-launch test ...
Vimeo plans to open up its pay-per-view platform to content producer early next year. ... and a number of connected devices, including Apple TV, Boxee and Roku. ... People love their Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, so they are really going to have ... Google TV update adds voice control, taps into Knowledge Graph 11/14/ ...
East Coast Netflix viewing doubles
East Coast Netflix viewing doubles
CNN
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- As Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the East Coast on Monday, some of those cooped up at home passed the time by binge-watching Netflix. As of 5:30 p.m. ET Monday,Netflix (NFLX) had seen 20% more video-streaming activity for the ...
Udacity looks to expand internationally with crowdsourced captions
GigaOM
Udacity wants to go beyond an English-language audience – and it's asking its users to help: The e-learning startup has partnered with Amara to add crowdsourced captions to its video assets. Amara previously partnered with TED, Coursera and the Khan ...
GigaOM
TransPerfect helps launch online video campaign
MENAFN.COM
TransPerfect helps launch online video campaign. Oct 30, 2012 (Menafn - TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) --TransPerfect, the world's largest privately held provider of language services and translation-related technologies, said it played a successful ...
Online Video Ads Draw People to Brands' Facebook Pages and Official Websites
Everything PR
In the search for the best ways to promote a brand, every piece of information counts. Knowing what works and what doesn't bring the desired results could be the key to a better budget management and a satisfying ROI. Online video ads seem to be on the ...
Google, YouTube Dominate Online Video
24/7 Wall St.
Various sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew 150 million unique viewers in September, a huge number, but down from 157 million in July. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) gained ground since July, posting more than 57 ...
CNN
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- As Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the East Coast on Monday, some of those cooped up at home passed the time by binge-watching Netflix. As of 5:30 p.m. ET Monday,Netflix (NFLX) had seen 20% more video-streaming activity for the ...
Udacity looks to expand internationally with crowdsourced captions
GigaOM
Udacity wants to go beyond an English-language audience – and it's asking its users to help: The e-learning startup has partnered with Amara to add crowdsourced captions to its video assets. Amara previously partnered with TED, Coursera and the Khan ...
GigaOM
TransPerfect helps launch online video campaign
MENAFN.COM
TransPerfect helps launch online video campaign. Oct 30, 2012 (Menafn - TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) --TransPerfect, the world's largest privately held provider of language services and translation-related technologies, said it played a successful ...
Online Video Ads Draw People to Brands' Facebook Pages and Official Websites
Everything PR
In the search for the best ways to promote a brand, every piece of information counts. Knowing what works and what doesn't bring the desired results could be the key to a better budget management and a satisfying ROI. Online video ads seem to be on the ...
Google, YouTube Dominate Online Video
24/7 Wall St.
Various sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew 150 million unique viewers in September, a huge number, but down from 157 million in July. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) gained ground since July, posting more than 57 ...
Hurricane Sandy Live Streams Surface Online (VIDEO)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Numerous live video streams were set up on Monday to document Hurricane Sandy's arrival and the aftermath. Many of them are still running now.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Livestream for Producers Android app update brings live video broadcasts over ...
Engadget
The Livestream for Producers Android application received an update on Monday that introduces "single touch" sign up and logins through Facebook, a new app icon and some unnamed bug fixes. However, the most noteworthy addition here is the ability to ...
Once again, Netflix shows how to avoid a cloud meltdown
GigaOM
Streaming media powerhouse Netflix says its experience with Amazon Web Services outages led to best practices and technology that can insulate Netflix — and potentially other companies — from the impact of weather-related and other events. netflix ...
When Netflix Met Sandy
DailyFinance
Think about this for a minute. A 20% increase in total viewing hours means a substantially larger gain in the affected area -- the mid-Atlantic states are home to about 70 million people, or 22% of the American population. To make Netflix's nationwide ...
Netflix takes on Lovefilm on home turf with UK Kindle Fire app
TechRadar UK
Netflix has released a dedicated Kindle Fire app for the UK, taking the movie streaming fight to Lovefilm on its own Amazon-owned turf. The Netflix app is now available in the Amazon App Store in the UK so you can now stream Netflix's films and TV ...
Microsoft May Be Tempted To Acquire Netflix
Sci-Tech Today
"In terms of streaming content, even though Netflix has had some issues with regard to licensing lately they are still No. 1," said analyst Rob Enderle. "And Microsoft has better connections with a number of the companies that Netflix has struggled ...
Sci-Tech Today
Hulu Missing From Top 10 Sept. Online Video Rankings
Home Media Magazine
Hulu, the online aggregator of repurposed TV content and subscription video-on-demand, continued its apparent slide by failing to rank among the Top 10 U.S. online video sites in September, according to new data from comScore. Reston, Va.-based ...
Home Media Magazine
Netflix seeing boost in wake of Hurricane Sandy
Los Angeles Times
Netflix says streaming on Sunday and Monday is up 20% compared with last week with New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Boston accounting for a large portion of the increased figures. No word on what people are streaming but we're ...
Roku Adds Handy Search Tool to TV Set-Top Devices - Lauren ...
By Lauren Goode
Roku users can now search for movies, shows, actors and directors on apps for Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, Crackle, VUDU and HBO GO. The new search tool works with Roku 2,Roku LT, new Roku HD players and the Roku ...
AllThingsD
Netflix Rolls Out Android App for Kindle Fire Owners in the UK
By Matt Brian
Netflix has today embarked on its campaign to lure some users away from Amazon's LoveFilm video service, with the launch of its Kindle Fire app in the UK.
The Next Web
Roku Gets the Ultimate Set-Top Box Feature: Universal Search ...
By Whitson Gordon
You just head to the new Search app, punch in the name of a movie, TV show, or actor and Roku will search across all your service—Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant, Crackle, VUDU, and HBO GO—and tell you which services you can find it ...
Lifehacker
Netflix Shares Surge Amid Buyout Speculation - Hollywood Reporter
By Paul Bond
The markets are closed on Monday due to Hurricane Sandy, an event that Netflix says has caused an increase in usage. Netflix said that it is seeing 20 percent more streaming Monday than it did last Monday, and much of it is coming from the ...
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East Coast Netflix viewing doubles during Sandy | WTVR.com ...
By Nick Dutton
As Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the East Coast on Monday, some of those cooped up at home passed the time by binge-watching Netflix.
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Introducing Roku Search [Video] | The Official Roku Blog
Roku Search makes it a snap to find movies, TV shows, actors and directors across Netflix ...
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Gener8 Digital Media Corp., Redefining the 3D Film Landscape, Announces ...
Sacramento Bee
About Gener8 Digital Media Corp. Gener8 provides top film studios, such as Sony Pictures, Warner Entertainment and Walden Media, with a world-class solution for transforming traditional 2D films into thrilling stereoscopic 3D experiences. Offering the ...
CBCI Telecom Recognized by Cisco as an Authorized Digital Media System ...
Sacramento Bee
MONTREAL, Oct. 30, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CBCI Telecom, Canada's Leader in Visual communications, announced today that it has achieved Authorized Digital Media System (DMS) Partner status from Cisco. This designation recognizes CBCI Telecom as ...
Third Quarter Internet And Digital Media Jobs Growth Is Sluggish In New York ...
Sacramento Bee
BOSTON and NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Cook Associates Executive Search (http://www.cookassociates.com), a leading retained executive search firm, today released its quarterly East Coast Internet and Digital Media Jobs Index, ...
Eyes-on: LG's First Ultra HD TV Set; On Sale Now for $17000
Tom's Hardware Guide
The LG Ultra HD Cinema 3D Smart TV boasts has an impressive resolution of 3840 x 2160, which is four times greater than standard full HD displays. Needless to say, the display was exceptionally vivid, minor details were enhanced, and the scale was ...
New Digital Media Program is a Real SoB
mediacaster
A new transmedia training and development program is looking at the future of funny, and it will support the production of next-generation digital media comedy content. The program is set to launch next January at Ryerson University; the new School of ...
Sorenson Releases Squeeze Server 2.0
StreamingMedia.com
Sorenson is currently appearing at the Streaming Media West conference in Los Angeles, where attendees can get a first look at the new software. Users will benefit from easier operation with Squeeze Server 2.0, thanks to the redesigned admin console.
mediaME Forum:2012, the Levant Digital Media Event, to be held on December ...
AME Info
mediaME Forum, the Levant's leading digital media event, is back for a third year following its resounding success in 2011 and 2010. The mediaME Forum:2012 will bring together over 300 clients and advertising professionals from Jordan, Lebanon, ...
Digital Media Wire's Future of Television Event on November 16
NY Convergence
On November 16, Digital Media Wire's Future of Television event will take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NY. The event will bring together over 40 important television industry executives. There will be discussions with the executives ...
European World Cup qualifiers on smart TV
Broadband TV News
The Qualifiers 2014 app is available on the smart TV portals from the manufacturers Loewe, Sharp, Thomson and Ikea, as well as on all other connected TV devices equipped with NetRange portals. “By offering this completely new form of football ...
Broadband TV News
Comigo CEO Dov Moran Talks About the Future of Smart TV
BlogWorld (blog)
Do you think current smart TV allows easy integration between viewing programs and using the Internet? Comigo CEO Dov Moran (best known for developing the first flash drive, which sold to SanDisk for $1.6 Billion in 2006), thinks the current solutions ...
Apple parts ways with Forstall and Browett in ... - Digital Media Wire
By Chris Marlowe
Apple today announced the departure of Scott Forstall and John Browett as part of a management shakeup designed to break down silos between hardware, software and services in order to avoid future embarrassments like its Maps ...
Digital Media Wire | connecting...
Centre for Digital Media / Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership ...
By Jonathan Alarcon
Derek Lepper Architects: Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership Architects Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Interiors: MCM Interiors Ltd. Area:
ArchDaily
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Numerous live video streams were set up on Monday to document Hurricane Sandy's arrival and the aftermath. Many of them are still running now.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Livestream for Producers Android app update brings live video broadcasts over ...
Engadget
The Livestream for Producers Android application received an update on Monday that introduces "single touch" sign up and logins through Facebook, a new app icon and some unnamed bug fixes. However, the most noteworthy addition here is the ability to ...
Once again, Netflix shows how to avoid a cloud meltdown
GigaOM
Streaming media powerhouse Netflix says its experience with Amazon Web Services outages led to best practices and technology that can insulate Netflix — and potentially other companies — from the impact of weather-related and other events. netflix ...
When Netflix Met Sandy
DailyFinance
Think about this for a minute. A 20% increase in total viewing hours means a substantially larger gain in the affected area -- the mid-Atlantic states are home to about 70 million people, or 22% of the American population. To make Netflix's nationwide ...
Netflix takes on Lovefilm on home turf with UK Kindle Fire app
TechRadar UK
Netflix has released a dedicated Kindle Fire app for the UK, taking the movie streaming fight to Lovefilm on its own Amazon-owned turf. The Netflix app is now available in the Amazon App Store in the UK so you can now stream Netflix's films and TV ...
Microsoft May Be Tempted To Acquire Netflix
Sci-Tech Today
"In terms of streaming content, even though Netflix has had some issues with regard to licensing lately they are still No. 1," said analyst Rob Enderle. "And Microsoft has better connections with a number of the companies that Netflix has struggled ...
Sci-Tech Today
Hulu Missing From Top 10 Sept. Online Video Rankings
Home Media Magazine
Hulu, the online aggregator of repurposed TV content and subscription video-on-demand, continued its apparent slide by failing to rank among the Top 10 U.S. online video sites in September, according to new data from comScore. Reston, Va.-based ...
Home Media Magazine
Netflix seeing boost in wake of Hurricane Sandy
Los Angeles Times
Netflix says streaming on Sunday and Monday is up 20% compared with last week with New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Boston accounting for a large portion of the increased figures. No word on what people are streaming but we're ...
Roku Adds Handy Search Tool to TV Set-Top Devices - Lauren ...
By Lauren Goode
Roku users can now search for movies, shows, actors and directors on apps for Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, Crackle, VUDU and HBO GO. The new search tool works with Roku 2,Roku LT, new Roku HD players and the Roku ...
AllThingsD
Netflix Rolls Out Android App for Kindle Fire Owners in the UK
By Matt Brian
Netflix has today embarked on its campaign to lure some users away from Amazon's LoveFilm video service, with the launch of its Kindle Fire app in the UK.
The Next Web
Roku Gets the Ultimate Set-Top Box Feature: Universal Search ...
By Whitson Gordon
You just head to the new Search app, punch in the name of a movie, TV show, or actor and Roku will search across all your service—Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant, Crackle, VUDU, and HBO GO—and tell you which services you can find it ...
Lifehacker
Netflix Shares Surge Amid Buyout Speculation - Hollywood Reporter
By Paul Bond
The markets are closed on Monday due to Hurricane Sandy, an event that Netflix says has caused an increase in usage. Netflix said that it is seeing 20 percent more streaming Monday than it did last Monday, and much of it is coming from the ...
Business
East Coast Netflix viewing doubles during Sandy | WTVR.com ...
By Nick Dutton
As Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the East Coast on Monday, some of those cooped up at home passed the time by binge-watching Netflix.
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Introducing Roku Search [Video] | The Official Roku BlogRoku Search makes it a snap to find movies, TV shows, actors and directors across Netflix ...
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Gener8 Digital Media Corp., Redefining the 3D Film Landscape, Announces ...
Sacramento Bee
About Gener8 Digital Media Corp. Gener8 provides top film studios, such as Sony Pictures, Warner Entertainment and Walden Media, with a world-class solution for transforming traditional 2D films into thrilling stereoscopic 3D experiences. Offering the ...
CBCI Telecom Recognized by Cisco as an Authorized Digital Media System ...
Sacramento Bee
MONTREAL, Oct. 30, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CBCI Telecom, Canada's Leader in Visual communications, announced today that it has achieved Authorized Digital Media System (DMS) Partner status from Cisco. This designation recognizes CBCI Telecom as ...
Third Quarter Internet And Digital Media Jobs Growth Is Sluggish In New York ...
Sacramento Bee
BOSTON and NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Cook Associates Executive Search (http://www.cookassociates.com), a leading retained executive search firm, today released its quarterly East Coast Internet and Digital Media Jobs Index, ...
Eyes-on: LG's First Ultra HD TV Set; On Sale Now for $17000
Tom's Hardware Guide
The LG Ultra HD Cinema 3D Smart TV boasts has an impressive resolution of 3840 x 2160, which is four times greater than standard full HD displays. Needless to say, the display was exceptionally vivid, minor details were enhanced, and the scale was ...
New Digital Media Program is a Real SoB
mediacaster
A new transmedia training and development program is looking at the future of funny, and it will support the production of next-generation digital media comedy content. The program is set to launch next January at Ryerson University; the new School of ...
Sorenson Releases Squeeze Server 2.0
StreamingMedia.com
Sorenson is currently appearing at the Streaming Media West conference in Los Angeles, where attendees can get a first look at the new software. Users will benefit from easier operation with Squeeze Server 2.0, thanks to the redesigned admin console.
mediaME Forum:2012, the Levant Digital Media Event, to be held on December ...
AME Info
mediaME Forum, the Levant's leading digital media event, is back for a third year following its resounding success in 2011 and 2010. The mediaME Forum:2012 will bring together over 300 clients and advertising professionals from Jordan, Lebanon, ...
Digital Media Wire's Future of Television Event on November 16
NY Convergence
On November 16, Digital Media Wire's Future of Television event will take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NY. The event will bring together over 40 important television industry executives. There will be discussions with the executives ...
European World Cup qualifiers on smart TV
Broadband TV News
The Qualifiers 2014 app is available on the smart TV portals from the manufacturers Loewe, Sharp, Thomson and Ikea, as well as on all other connected TV devices equipped with NetRange portals. “By offering this completely new form of football ...
Broadband TV News
Comigo CEO Dov Moran Talks About the Future of Smart TV
BlogWorld (blog)
Do you think current smart TV allows easy integration between viewing programs and using the Internet? Comigo CEO Dov Moran (best known for developing the first flash drive, which sold to SanDisk for $1.6 Billion in 2006), thinks the current solutions ...
Apple parts ways with Forstall and Browett in ... - Digital Media Wire
By Chris Marlowe
Apple today announced the departure of Scott Forstall and John Browett as part of a management shakeup designed to break down silos between hardware, software and services in order to avoid future embarrassments like its Maps ...
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Centre for Digital Media / Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership ...
By Jonathan Alarcon
Derek Lepper Architects: Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership Architects Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Interiors: MCM Interiors Ltd. Area:
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