ITN Unifying Ad Sales For Multi-Platform Video Syndication
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations. Read more at paidContent »
Cuban Teams With Seacrest, AEG To Relaunch HDNet as 'ESPN For Pop Culture'
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Struggling for leverage with cable distributors as the operator of an independent network, Mark Cuban may have found a way forward for one o… Read more at paidContent »
ComScore Video Rankings: YouTube Usage Spiked 72 Percent Over 2010
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As it seeks to launch nearly 100 new channels featuring professionally produced video, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has a key advantage over origina… Read more at paidContent »
YouTube's Lineup Gets A Boost From Two New Entertainment Channels
YouTube’s ambitious — and expensive — original programming push got a little more steam this week with the Monday launch of new Hollywood-… Read more at paidContent »
X Factor Maker FremantleMedia Has Beefed Up UK Digital Operations
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production compani… Read more at paidContent »
Interactive TV Advertising: Not Huge Now, Will This Be The Year It Grows?
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Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services — specifically around more content getting pushed to… Read more at paidContent »
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight
In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon’s Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the… Read more at paidContent »
Never Mind Cord Cutters And Dish — DirecTV Raises Rates
Cord-cutting technology was out in force at CES this week, and main rival Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) just announced a “company relaunch” that… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Twitter UK Poaches BBC Sport Social Media Editor As Olympics Nears
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire… Read more at paidContent »
Hulu Plus Claims More Than 1.5 Million Subs; Commits $500 Million To Content In 2012
Hulu Plus has “materially exceeded” expectations, passing 1.5 million paying subscribers and heading closer to the point where the premium v… Read more at paidContent »
Study: Old-School TV Viewing Is Still Growing
A range of on-demand viewing options — and some new platforms to watch that content on — has traditional television watching on the run, r… Read more at paidContent »
@ CES: YouTube Thinks Web Video Is Big, Also Pretty Sure Sun Rises In East
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) didn’t do a whole lot with a precious hour of airtime at CES 2012 on Thursday, reminding us all that video delivered ov… Read more at paidContent »
Challenges Ahead Before 2012 Is The Year Of Connected TV
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Is 2012 the year of the Smart TV? Manufacturers would have us believe that. Read more at paidContent »
The CES Lowdown: 1-12-12
Here’s a look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES:
» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Could Sell 37 Million Windo… Read more at paidContent »
After Starting Streaming Race, Starz Now Lags Behind HBO And Showtime
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read more at paidContent »
What The Burst Of Hollywood A-Listers Will Mean For Online Video
Tom Hanks. Louis C.K. Lisa Kudrow. Kevin Spacey. David Fincher. Bill Maher. Jennifer Lopez. Judy Greer. Steven Van Zandt. Morgan Spurlock. E… Read more at paidContent »
The Bleeding In The Home Entertainment Business Slowed In 2011
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The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more at paidContent »
Comcast Starts Live In-Home Streaming; Requires New 'AnyPlay' Device
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has started in-home streaming but it’s not quite live video Valhalla. Streaming access to the Xfinity TV linear lineup… Read more at paidContent »
F-bombs And Bare Bottoms At The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear today whether the FCC can punish broadcast networks for airing one-off cuss words and an actress’s derriere. The… Read more at paidContent »
YouView Spent Almost £20m In Nine Months
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The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20 ($30.89)m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 ($… Read more at paidContent »
Dish Super-Sizes The DVR As Part Of Turnaround Effort
Struggling satellite TV carrier Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) christened what it called a company “relaunch” with a new digital video recorder t… Read more at paidContent »
Industry Moves: Discovery; Amazon; Turner Broadcasting; MediaBrix
– Discovery Communications: Andrew Warren, former Liz Claiborne CFO and GE/NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal executive, joins as senior executive… Read more at paidContent »
T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom Inks Multiscreen Deal With MobiTV
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, to… Read more at paidContent »
@CES: Samsung Hat-Tips Kinect On Smart TV Gesture Controls, Content Bonanza
Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name… Read more at paidContent »
Can Tom Hanks Really Deliver The 'Comic-Con Crowd' For Yahoo?
Looking to ramp up star power for a push into original video content, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) formally announced Monday that it’s teaming with ac… Read more at paidContent »
Interview Part 2: Netflix's Hastings Hurt By Criticism But Over Transition
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent the company has emerged from the “pain” of a consumer and investor backlash, after… Read more at paidContent »
Interview Part 1: Netflix's Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though internati… Read more at paidContent »
Univision Launches 'Noticias' Spanish-Language News App For iPhone, Android
Hispanics, according to Nielsen, have the second-highest penetration of smartphone usage among U.S. ethnic groups, and today brings news of… Read more at paidContent »
BSkyB Buys Stake In Social TV Start-Up Zeebox
News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon's Lovefilm
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with pricepoints of £5.99 ($7.79) and €6.99… Read more at paidContent »
What To Expect At CES: Tablets, TVs, And Transition
The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Sony's Hirai Promoted To President, Stringer Still Chairman And CEO
In a move that further sets up Kazuo Hirai as the heir apparent at Sony (NYSE: SNE), the company has promoted him to president, taking that… Read more at paidContent »
The New Laws Of TV Upgrading
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I’m fascinated by a recent Ryan Lawler post at GigaOm, which argues that longstanding beliefs about how often people get a new TV have been… Read more at paidContent »
Connected TV: BBC News On Sony, Absolute On Samsung, PlayJam Adds Games
Content owners are upping their roll-out on to connected TVs, which represent a great new distribution opportunity. Here are some of the lat… Read more at paidContent »
News Corp's Shine Buying Web Video Producer ChannelFlip
News Corp.’s newly-owned Shine Group is acquiring ChannelFlip, an independent online TV and video producer that has successfully developed b… Read more at paidContent »
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str… Read more at paidContent »
New Google TV Devices Finally On The Way
The Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV reset that started last fall with software updates for existing Sony (NYSE: SNE) hardware heads into the next pha… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Faces Higher Prices For HBO, Agrees To Doubled DVD Delays From WB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth a… Read more at paidContent »
Disney, Comcast And Why TV Everywhere Alone Is Not Enough
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Yesterday’s press release from Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announcing a comprehensive new ten-year distribution agreement… Read more at paidContent »
Sky Sports News Relaunches iPad App, With Fee For Non-Pay TV Subs
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010… Read more at paidContent »
