2012 Olympics
The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off Friday, July 27th, in London. And as might be expected in this day and…
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Olympics committee gets its social media game on with Tumblr, Instagram integration
The International Olympic Committee pushes out integration with a host of social platforms and attempts to clarify rules as London 2012 draws near, following recent criticism of its policies
Olympics causing remote work controversy in Britain
With the Olympics just a few months away, there’s the usual flurry of stories detailing frenzied preparations by organizers and athletes. But one other type of news item is surprisingly popular in Britain – stories equating telecommuting during the games with slacking at home.
BBC Now Allowing Mobile iPlayer To Stream On Mobile Networks
The BBC is permitting use of its iPlayer mobile apps over 3G mobile networks, ahead of its big 2012 Olympic Games mobile push.
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BBC’s Digital Olympics: Four Screens, 28 Streams, 2,500 Hours
“Every sport, from every location.” That is BBC Sport’s mantra for delivering next year’s London 2012 Olympic Games digitally.
UK Gov. Taps Galaxy Tab With Pre-Olympics Widget
Samsung and VisitBritain expect 2012 Olympics tourists will be walking around London toting Galaxy Tabs.
They have partnered to ship a Visi…
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London 2012 Olympics Plans To Profit Online
London 2012 Olympics organisers aim to make money from their online operations, including capitalising on a domestic commercial straitjacket…
Weekend Vid Picks: Johnny Weir, Too Gay for Figure Skating?
Last week, one of the stranger controversies to arise during the Olympics had nothing to do with authentication, thanks to commentators on…
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Pulse Energy: Buildings, Like Cars, Need Efficiency Tune-ups
Buildings, like cars, need constant tune-ups to make sure they’re running efficiently, says David Helliwell, co-founder of 4-year-old startup Pulse Energy, which…
Vancouver 2010: U.S. Olympic Fans Get Short End Of Live Events Online
Let’s get the credits out of the way first: this February, NBC Sports will stream more than 400 hours of live event coverage on NBCOlympics.…
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Vid-Biz: YouTube, NBC Universal, Project Canvas
Is YouTube Looking at a Subscription Model?; Google vice president of content partnerships David Eun said some full-length shows would not be…
@ UBS Media Week: News Corp’s Carey: Olympic Bid Would Have To Be ‘Prudent’
We tend to focus a lot on News Corp.’s desire to get paid for its online content but the “pay plus ads” refrain is being sung elsewhere in t…
Watch the Olympics Live Online…If You Paid Your Cable Bill
Tomorrow is the big launch for NBC’s (s GE) 2010 Olympics coverage. With 100 days till the opening ceremonies in Vancouver, NBC…
What Happened To CAA's Sports Rollup Fund? Helping IOC in Sports Media Rights Deals Instead
Exactly a year ago CAA announced its biggest bet on sports media, and formed a new unit called CAA Sports Media Venture, as a rollup venture…
BBC News Tells Papers: 'Read My Lips, No New Launches'
Still conscious of staying on the right side of regulators and anxious newspapers, the BBC has assured its critics that – despite relaunch…
USOC Launching Olympics Channel With Comcast; IOC Not Happy About The Name
That was quick: The United States Olympic Committee announced this morning that it will launch a cable TV network devoted to Olympic and Par…
Corrected: Obama’s Web Strategist Not Helping Olympics Or Labour Party
Corrected: I really must stop believing some news sources. Contrary to what Revolution magazine reported from its own conference, Blue State…
‘Most Digital Ever’ Olympics Will Go Large On Mobile
The London 2012 Olympics is planning a significant mobile infrastructure roll-out for both the public and for bandwidth-hungry visiting medi…
London Olympics Will Be ‘Most Digital Ever’ But Eschew ‘Bleeding-Edge’ Tech
The 2012 London Olympics will be the most wired yet but, true to its modest ambitions relative to Beijing, will focus on mass viewer appeal…
London 2012 Video: Alex Balfour’s Olympic Vision
I already reported on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games’ online strategy in text here. Now see London 2012 new media head…
‘Most Digital Ever’ 2012 Olympics Will Eschew ‘Bleeding Edge’ Tech
The 2012 London Olympics will be the most wired yet but, true to its modest ambitions relative to Beijing, will focus on mass viewer appeal…
Sportfive Wins Multiplatform Olympic Broadcast Rights For Europe
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the European cross-platform broadcasting rights to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Ru…
CBS And Time Warner Considering Joint Olympics Bid
CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner’s Turner Networks are in discussions about making a joint bid for the broadcast rights for 2014 and 2016 Oly…
British Telecom Expected To Intergrate Mobile Into 2012 Olympic Games
This summer’s Olympic Games in China were the perfect opportunity for the mobile industry to showcase mobile content and reach out to a new…
A Murdoch Olympics? What Will 2016 Olympics Look Like Online
In UK, BBC may not now win the rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics the 2016 Summer Games after the International Olympic Committee turned dow…
Spain’s Terra Wins South American Mobile And Online Video Rights For 2010 And 2012 Olympics
The long march to the 2012 Olympics continues with the announcement that Spanish web portal Terra, part of the Telefónica group, has bagged…
NBC Sports: 12 Million Hours Of Olympics Video Served Across All Digital Platforms
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) claims it streamed at least 12 million hours of Olympics content across its digital platforms — HD, broadband, mob…
Fox Sports CEO David Hill: NFL Streams ‘Won’t Harm Telecast’
If Fox Sports CEO David Hill had any qualms about live streaming simulcasts with TV, it sounds like the Olympics took care of it. Hill told…
Olympics Online Video A Hit For BBC
The BBC has released some statistics on its blog looking at how its web site fared during the Olympics with audiences. Online video, turned…
Holiday Catchup Wire: Chines Olympics Traffic; Webisodes; PerezHilton.com; Zwinky-IAC; ClubPenguin
Some stories for this long holiday weekend in U.S.:
— Chinese online traffic exceeds U.S. websites during Olympics: So says WebTrends, cit…
Post Olympics Roundup: New Rights; Online Numbers; Paralympics; Smaller Profits Than Expected
I have post-Olympics blues, but that doesn’t stop some news and numbers:
— NBC’s final numbers online: NBCU has come out with some numbers…
NBC Olympics: Selling DVDS — Or Not
Great lessons in usability … Almost as soon as Rafat posted about the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, we started getting queri…
NBCOlympics.com’s Online Video Ad Revenue: A Puny $5.75 Million: Analyst
That’s the estimate from eMarketer: it says that the online video advertising on NBCOlympics.com will reach a relatively small $5.75 million…
Olympics Review: Mobile.NBCOlympics.com Picks Up Baton Dropped By Generic NBC WAP Site
When it comes to Olympics coverage on the mobile phone, the best Olympics coverage hands-down was found at mobile.NBCOlympics.com. That’s l…
NBCOlympics.com: We Beat Yahoo In First Week (When You Use Our Numbers); 56 Million Videos Streamed
We spend a lot of time separating the wheat from the chaff around here so you don’t have to and the latest broadband release from NBC requir…
Videos Of Bolt’s Latest Run Stay Online As Fast As The Run Itself… IOC Playing Whac-A-Mole
We’re not going to ruin the results of Usain Bolt’s just-finished 200M run for you… Of course, NBCOlympics.com already has the results (sp…
Interview: Perkins Miller, SVP, Digital Media, NBC Sports And Olympics: The Mobile Surprise
The Olympics are now in full swing. Countless records have been broken and the touchy-feely stories and analysis often hit the point of naus…
NBC-Olympics: Broadband, Mobile Use Growing; TV VOD Barely A Blip
With the first week of the 2008 Olympics in the history books, we’re getting a better picture of NBCOlympics.com.
Some of the stats throug…
Bolt Of Lightning Doesn’t Fall Anywhere Near NBCOlympics.com
Michael Phelps who? In what is probably the greatest moment in this Olympics, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold 100m dash in 9.69 seconds, a ne…
Olympics Sports News WAP Review: ESPN Gets Gold; Silver For Fox Sports; NBC And CBS Tie For Bronze
In our second of a series (first is here) of reviews on mobile content from the Olympics, we took a look at the major sports news sites
Updated: NBC Had Big Mobile Ambitions For The Olympics But Some Text Alerts Failed
The 2008 Summer Olympics are destined to go down as one of the biggest digital events the world has yet to see, spanning across the TV, Inte…
Olympics Drinking Games, ABC Starter Kits: NTV Station Today
Perhaps you’re feeling a little self-conscious about the fact that your weekend plans consist of your couch, your TV, and Olympics coverage…
Ad Industry Roundup: NBCU; eMarketer; UK Ad Spend; Facebook; comScore
— NBCU claims $10 million in Olympic ad sales: But that’s for TV and digital combined, as NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) reps declined to provide…
Earnings: NetEase’s Q2 Profits Grow; Bump on Olympics
NetEase.com, one of the big Chinese online portals, reported its Q2 earnings today, and the growth came ahead of analyst views. NetEase earn…
BBC Testing Olympics Video With T-Mobile
Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) BBC Sport news widget may have made headlines yesterday, but one unknown component of the broadcaster’s Olympics cove…
Olympics Search Review: Google And Yahoo Get Gold; AOL Grabs Silver; Live Places Last With Bronze
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are supposed to be one of the biggest digital events of all time with tons of content being available fo…
NBCU’s Cross-Platform Olympics: ‘Stunned’ By Mobile Adoption; But Will Users Return After The Games?
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs claimed to have been “stunned” by the level of mobile adoption by users turning to their mobile phones to che…
NBC Claims Audience Measurement Gold With TAMi; Online Uniques Go From 4.2 Million To 7.8 Million
Five days into the Olympic Games, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs hailed the audience ratings results as “phenomenal” now that the first resu…
Mid-Week Vid Picks: Michael Phelps, Triumphant Olympian
As someone who doesn’t watch a lot of network news, but does catch earfuls while in transit from one location to another,…
NBCU-Olympics: 1.1 Million Streams Of Men’s Freestyle Relay Served In Less Than 24 Hours
We aren’t planning a daily traffic report of this but NBCU’s numbers through this afternoon are out and so far more than 1 million streams o…
Opening Day: NBCOlympics.com 70M Pageviews, With No Opening Ceremony Vid; BBC’s 700K Online Streams
Update: Because people are asking this in the comments thread below: The DVD of the opening ceremony is now for sale…can be ordered here.…
NBC’s Online Olympics: Missing the Commentary; 4-Screen Feeds Awesome
While we are still awaiting the Olympics opening ceremony on TV on the West Coast (oh the misery), and pretend it hasn’t happened almost a d…
Let the Games Begin (Online)
Finally! The Olympics kick off today and we want to make sure you are fully prepared. We’ve run stories about them all…
NBCU-Olympics: Let The Widgets Begin
Was going to go with ‘let a thousand widgets bloom’ but we’re way beyond that with the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE…
Interview: Perkins Miller, SVP-Digital Media, NBC Sports & Olympics: ‘Taking A Big Leap’
The Beijing Games begin in four days — and with them, the most complicated, intensive digital media Olympics yet. Perkins Miller heads that…
YouTube’s Olympics Highlights For Africa, Asia, Middle East: Cat and Mouse Game?
YouTube has finally managed to get a piece of the action for the Olympics, though a minor one: it will show about three hours of daily cover…
GE’s Comstock: Really, NBCU Is Not For Sale
The compulsion to get GE execs on the record about NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) future — maybe we can make it a drinking game during the Olym…
For Olympics, the Chinese Use Eyes in the Sky
Combine technological advancement, a worldwide stage and fears of terrorism, and what do you get? An Orwellian 2008 Summer Olympic Games. From…
Brightcove to Power Japanese Olympics Coverage
On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, Brightcove’s new Japanese subsidiary, Brightcove KK, has signed a deal to power video for gorin.jp,…
NBC Takes Mobile Seriously For Olympics
NBC has released details of its digital coverage for the Beijing Olympics, and there’s a fair amount in there. NBCOlympics Mobile will inclu…
10 Days and Counting: NBCU’s Digital Olympics: The Full Slate Of Offerings
Yes, I have been miffed at some of NBCU’s digital Olympics offering, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give them credit for the huge digital e…
NBC Opens Up Multi-Platform Olympics Coverage To Verizon And AT&T
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are both going multiplatform for the Olympics Games in Beijing next month. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), w…
Sina, Tencent And Netease Get Online Broadcast Rights From CCTV
Some good news for Chinese office workers without a TV during the Olympics… Three top web portals, Netease (NSDQ: NTES), Sina (NSDQ: SINA)…
NBC And Online Olympic Ad Sales: 85 Percent Sold Out
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) says advertising inventory for the roughly 2,200 hours of online Olympics coverage next month is about 85 percent s…
NBCU To Stream 2,200 Hours Of Olympics Coverage Live; Swimming, Gymnastics, T&F Not Included
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has unveiled its programming guide, but it
NBC’s Ad Olympics: Reaching For Audience Measurement Gold
While NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is raking in millions from advertising commitments for its TV, online and mobile phone coverage of the Summer…
NBC’s Totalitarian Olympics: More on Restrictions; Online Video Only After TV Broadcast
And here I was rejoicing that finally we could do away with the lame soft-focus athlete stories and parochial commentary from NBCU with this…
NBC Plays Spoilsport For Trials Multimedia; Will Force Pre-Beijing Takedown
Someone at NBC Sports needs to find that fine balance between managing the network’s expensive Beijing Olympics rights and and making the v…
Malone Predicts NBC’s Broadband Olympic Strategy Will Flop
The man who once predicted a television universe with 500 channels isn’t too thrilled with the internet version. Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA)…
Sohu Gets Olympics Webcast Rights; Live Broadcasts From Outside Venues Not Decided Yet
Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU), the Chinese portal company who already is the online host/content provider for the upcoming Beijing Olympics, has now sna…
Olympics Relaxes New Media Rules To Grant Unlimited Photo Use
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has gone some way to avoiding the kind of embarrassing new media reporting restrictions imposed by…
IOC Exec Warns China Against Internet Censorship During Olympics
With the Beijing Olympics roughly four months away, Kevan Gosper, vice chairman of the IOC coordinating commission, is warning organizers th…
Beijing Olympics: Chinese State Broadcaster Makes Online Plans With MySpace China, Tudou.com
An intriguing move by China Central Television … the Wall Street Journal reports that the state-run broadcaster is tying up with MySpace C…
Athlete Blogs Are OK At Olympics, But Barely So
The International Olympic Committee, still sitting high on its all-rights-are-ours horse, has opened up a little, allowing athletes to blog…
IOC Grants China’s CCTV.com 2008 Olympic Games Digital Rights
State broadcaster China Central Television’s CCTV.com, which already has over-the-air rights for the Beijing Olympics, now has the internet…
'Official Internet Sponsor' Sohu.Com Tries To Control '08 Olympics Online Ads
Two years ago, Chinese site Sohu.com beat out the competition with an estimated $30 million bid to become the exclusive internet sponsor of…
Tencent, Sina And NetEase Team Against Sohu On Olympics Coverage
This is pretty interesting and you won’t see this ever happen here: Chinese portal Sohu is the official news provider and sponsor of the 200…
Beijing Olympics Online Streaming By NBCU Mostly Ad-Supported
Last November we had a post about NBCU planning 1,000 hours of live streaming online with the next Olympics. Now USAT has some follow up. “T…
Ebay Looks To Social Nets For Growth: Report
With the majority of eBay users between the ages of 35-44, the online auctioneer hopes to attract younger demos though a partnership with te…
Winter Olympics Broadband Streaming Data From Europe
The European Broadcasting Union has released some data on online streaming in its member countries during the Winter Olympics held last mont…
Olympics 2004 on Usenet
(via PVRblog) Yep, not BitTorrent, as most of us expected, but on the age-old Usenet…Olympics coverage is being digitized and circulated t…
NBC’s Sucked The Fun
I have to post this…I would probably make this into a T-Shirt slogan as well, if it was shorter…
Norman Chad at The Chronicle has put it…
Record Numbers Follow Olympics Via Web and Interactive TV
(reg. req.) In UK, that is. More than 6 million people have clicked on their remote control red buttons to use the BBC’s interactive TV cove…
Olympics Web Coverage Disappoints
A review of Olympics coverage online, from NBCOlympics.com, Athens2004.com and others…”The Internet is good for getting results and learn…
NBC’s Olympic Video Offering Doesn’t Make It to the Medal Round
My feelings exactly…die, broadcast, die.
Digital Olympics: A Roundup
Some facts and fiction on the online and wireless coverage of Olympics…
— Early signs that Games are web hot: You can’t be serious…
–…
BBC’s Multicast Trial For Olympics
Well, it is here, but you can’t watch it if you’re outside UK. Interesting experiment with multicasting, though…
As it says, “Multicast is…
Net Radio Loses Olympic Stream
Some Australian broadcast outlets have been forced to shut down their Internet radio broadcasting streams to avoid breaching the Internation…
Olympics site wins with real time
Another profile of sucky NBCOlympics.com…god awful coverage offline and online….
Let the Web Games Begin, Online
The Web is worldwide, but that isn’t stopping Olympics officials from trying to set up regional boundaries. However, you may be able to watc…
BBC On Mark For Online Olympic Coverage
The 50th story on how BBC is planning to cover Olympics online, with broadband playing a major part…The BBC sports site offers live covera…
NBC’s ITV Plans For Olympics
Well, NBC’s trying hard… it has announced a series of partnerships and new interactive services it will use to help viewers navigate its p…
Olympics to Have Broad Online Offering
Well, another example of how Europeans are ahead on sports right online and on mobiles, than U.S. where rights holders want to control it to…
Wish List For Olympics Coverage
In U.S.: “Provide downloadable video of all sports, regardless of whether or not they aired on TV.” Of course, it is not going to happen any…
NBCOlympics.com ‘By-The-Numbers’
Some interesting projected figures for NBCOlympics.com, for August, the month of the Olympics…
1,210 – Hours of Olympic broadcasts (televi…
Going for Network Gold in Athens
Really? That’s news…
Anyway, NBC Universal Networks Group President Randy Falco: “I love wireless. I think that in the future people are g…
Ovid’s Database To Open Up For Olympics
An interesting promotion by B2B info vendor: it will provide free access to SIRC SportDiscus, a premier sports medicine database, to physici…
Dutch Public Broadcaster To Webcast Olympics
(by Jak Boumans): The Dutch public broadcaster NOS will webcast the Olympic games. For this, it is tying up with the Dutch incumbent telco K…
The Net-TV Balance At Olympics
(via Lost Remote) Well, balance is a slightly generous word, because TV networks and rights holders still want to tightly control online dis…
U.S. Olympic Committee Launches Premium Fan Club
The United States Olympic Committee has relaunched its website and introduced personalization. In addition, the site will also lauch a premi…
Olympics: Coming to a PC Near You
A roundup of online coverage of the upcoming Olympics…including the official NBC site, the BBC Online’s coverage.
Going to Olympics?
I am thinking of going to the Olympics for about a week, to cover technology’s affect on sports and sports coverage, focusing on things like…
Inside The Launch Of NBCOlympics.com
A detailed interview with Rex Sorgatz, interactive director for IBS, about the challenges and innovations behind NBC’s newest site, NBCOlymp…
BBC’s Olympic Bet
(reg. req.) Will the BBC’s Olympic webcasts revolutionise the way we watch sport on TV? And can they tempt us to buy broadband?
Andrew Thomp…
Starting New Category: Digital Olympics
I’m starting a new category, “Digital Olympics”, covering the digital media-related aspects of the upcoming Olympics…this will be the firs…
I-mode to go for glory at Olympics
(sub. req.): Thanks to a recent deal with Greek operator Cosmote, one of the main sponsors of the Olympic games, DoCoMo’s i-mode mobile inte…
Spot-On For the Olympics
Microsoft should go in for the kill with its SPOT watches, and focus on the Olympics, writes Joe Wilcox. “The Summer Olympics event is a gol…
BBC’s Creative Archives To Launch in Autumn 2004; Plans To Put Olympics Overage Online
BBC’s Creative Archives, the controversial plan by the Beeb to launch its archives online, for free, will launch sometime in Autumn this yea…
Olympics Face Pressure Over Digital Media Rights
EU competition authorities are concerned the IOC did not offer any rights to new media and mobile phone providers for the last Olympic games…
