Google Aims For More Video Ad Dominance With New DoubleClick Tool
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is fully releasing its DoubleClick for Publishers Video ad serving tools after a year of beta testing, as the company lo… Read more at paidContent »
Video: Steve Jobs At Stanford: ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’
On June 12, 2005, college dropout Steve Jobs gave the commencement address at Stanford. It was a year after he was diagnosed with pancreatic… Read more at paidContent »
The Court Decision On Streaming Shakespeare At UCLA — What It Really Means
UCLA just won a court case over DVD streaming of Shakespeare plays, but the decision is actually a bigger victory for another school — the… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 10-04-11
» Price-Fixing Case Against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Major Book Publishers Mushrooms (paidContent)
» Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT… Read more at paidContent »
iPads the gateway drug for college data usage
Data is in demand on college campuses, and it’s putting a strain on shared school networks. The iPad is partly to blame, according to University of Missouri-Columbia IT director Terry Robb, but it’s mostly acting as a gateway drug for the real culprit: online video. Read more »
paidContent Advertising: Google’s Mohan: Display Can Be $200 Billion Biz
Neal Mohan thinks display advertising can be a $200 billion business and that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is uniquely positioned to help make it so.… Read more at paidContent »
Dish Aims To Keep, Gain Subs With ‘Blockbuster Movie Pass’; Thanks, Netflix
The timing of the Dish Network’s and Blockbuster’s introduction of new a streaming video venture couldn’t be more perfect. With Netflix (NSD… Read more at paidContent »
DailyCandy Deals Teams With NBCU Sibling LX.TV On Video Series
Women’s fashion and lifestyle e-newsletter and deals network DailyCandy is unveiling its first foray into broadband video through its partne… Read more at paidContent »
R.E.M.ix: ‘It’s The End Of TV As We Know It’
“I’d studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines,” Michael Stipe once sang, vicariously, as though channelling Dan Rather.
Time Warner’s Bewkes: ‘Cordcutting Hasn’t Arrived’
Warned by an interviewer at today’s Goldman Sachs conference hat he was about to talk about cordcutting, the subject that won’t go away, Tim… Read more at paidContent »
@ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’
Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers enc… Read more at paidContent »
Color changes gears, becomes Facebook photo/video app
Some might call it a pivot, but the decision to change Color from its own contained social network into a photo/video extension of Facebook is more like a last-chance effort at achieving relevance. Can Color succeed as a feature where it failed as an app? Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
» NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming (paidContent)
» Documentary Streamer Snagfilm… Read more at paidContent »
Documentary Streamer SnagFilms Adds Drama, Wider Mobile Distribution
Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 mil… Read more at paidContent »
Invite No Longer Required For Google+ Alongside Tweaks To Mobile Experience
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided its Google+ social network was ready to take a big step on Tuesday: it’s now open to the public and no invitatio… Read more at paidContent »
Tapjoy, Still Shunned By Apple On PPI Ads, Launches New Video Format
What do you do when one of your most popular formats for in-app advertising gets the cold shoulder from Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) Launch something… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 09-19-11
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) DVD-Streaming Split Extends To Brand: Meet ‘Qwikster’ (paidContent)
» Netflix CEO Reed Hasting… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix DVD-Streaming Split Extends To Brand: Meet ‘Qwikster’
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings thought separating his company’s DVD and streaming business would be straightforward. Turns out it was a lot like… Read more at paidContent »
@ pcAds: It’s Not Google That’s Diabolical; Others Aren’t Diabolical Enough
The rise of digital advertising exchanges, real-time bidding and other new innovations in the online advertising market has the potential to… Read more at paidContent »
@ pcAds: Facebook Says It Hasn’t Even Scratched The Surface With Marketing
Facebook has had a lot of scrutiny over how it uses information about you to market to you, but we have only started to scratch the surface… Read more at paidContent »
What do Star Wars, Led Zeppelin and blogging have in common?
Brainchild of New York–based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, the Everything is a Remix web series builds on the premise that original ideas and thoughts are extremely hard. And because of those reasons, some of the greatest creations are derivative works or remixes of original thoughts. Read more »
Everyday Health Puts Ex-ABC News Digital Head Slavin In Charge Of Video
Wellness news and info online network Everyday Health has been working on expanding its video content to TV for a while and it now has exec… Read more at paidContent »
Will Docomo’s New LTE Service Fan The Flames In The Apple vs. Samsung Fire?
We may be approaching the point where it’s fair to ask the following question: Where haven’t Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung sued each other… Read more at paidContent »
Barclays: Expect A Pullback In Branded Ad Spending
There are two general rules when it comes to advertising spending these days: when times are tough, marketers tend to take money from brand… Read more at paidContent »
Bitbop Pulls A Hulu, Goes Abroad With Ad-Free Mobile Video Offer In Germany
Bitbop, the mobile video service once owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and then sold in a whirr of a divestment strategy, looks like it is fi… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Starts Latin America Rollout In Brazil; Faces Challenges At Home
As promised, the streaming side of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has made its way south. The service went live in Brazil today with Netflix Brasil (a… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 09-02-11
» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
» Techcrunch’s Arringto… Read more at paidContent »
YouTube Expands Movie Rentals To Canada
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is taking its almost obscure movie rental service to Canada, launching today with 1,000 or so films from Hollywood and… Read more at paidContent »
MSLO Unveils iPad Subscriptions; Video Plans Centered On Advertorials
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) is the latest publisher to offer of a digital subscription plan for the iPad editions of its mag… Read more at paidContent »
