Electric Sheep Lays Off Nearly One Third Of Its Staff; Cites Second Life Slowdown Among Factors
As reasons for start-up layoffs go, it’s almost near mantra status: We’ve grown so much in recent months that it’s time to stop and trim. Th… Read more »
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More On CBS Interactive Layoffs: StarTrek.com Team Vaporized
Turns out the staff of StarTrek.com has been beamed out of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Interactive … according to a post on the site, “the production… Read more »
Updated: CBS Interactive Trims Staff, Cuts At CBS.com, CBSNews.com
Update: Some new info for now: CBS.com and CBSNews.com both have been hit hard by today’s layoffs. As I said below, CBSNews.com is vulnerabl… Read more »
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Industry Moves Roundup: Sun-Sentinel; CN; Orlando Sentinel; The Orchard; HipCricket; Google; CBS
By David Kaplan
– Sun-Sentinel: Tribune-owned South Florida Sun-Sentinel has undertaken a major restructuring of its online unit. Kathy Skipper, the websit… Read more »
@ UBS Media Week: Les Moonves, CEO, CBS; Digital Future Bright, But No Need for Shades (Yet)
By Joseph Weisenthal
Networks executives have been slammed over their apparent doublespeak when it comes to digital media. How can digital represent such a boon,… Read more »
@ UBS Media Week: Poltrack: TV Viewership Not Diminished By DVR, Internet Use
By David Kaplan
As he has for the past few years, Dave Poltrack, president of *CBS* Vision, attempted to make the case to a morning audience at the UBS Glob… Read more »
TV Networks’ Online Ad Inventory Unexpectedly Opens
By David Kaplan
Thanks to rising online viewership and the nature of broadband audience agreements with advertisers, the major TV networks have a lot more a… Read more »
AOL And CBS Put Online HD Video Efforts On Hold
By David Kaplan
While HD maybe catching on with TV audiences, when it comes to online, some viewers just can’t be bothered. At least that’s what AOL (NYSE:… Read more »
CBS Hedges Bets With Online Studio EyeLab For Short-Form, Ad-Supported Video
By David Kaplan
As more TV networks try various ways of presenting and distributing long-form videos online, CBS (NYSE: CBS) is taking a small step backward… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: CBS Audience Network; My Damn Channel-MySpaceTV; Warner Bros.; Online HDTV
CBS Interactive Taps Affiliates For Hyperlocal Reach: CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is gathering the CBS-owned television, radio and affiliate… Read more »
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Shifting Course, ABC Explores Syndicating Online Video; Similar To CBS, Hulu
By David Kaplan
ABC (NYSE: DIS) is taking an about face on its initial plans to serve as the sole distributor of its streaming content, Mediaweek reports. T… Read more »
Most Broadcasters Prep New Shows For Online Previews, Though ABC Abstains
By David Kaplan
As the fall TV season approaches, most broadcasters are hoping to lure viewers by heavily promoting downloads of the new shows. The Hollywoo… Read more »
CBS SportsLine Rebrands As CBS Sports
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) has retired the SportsLine brand, one of the oldest in the short history of online sports, in favor of CBSSports… Read more »
Industry Moves: DJ-Ingrassia; CBS Interactive Sales
– News Corp’s (Nasdaq: NWS) Dow Jones (Nasdaq: DJ) takeover has claimed its first top-level personnel casualty. DJ VP of news strategy Paul… Read more »
IAB Intends To Develop Single Standard For Audience Measurement For Web Video
By David Kaplan
Now that the Interactive Advertising Bureau has settled its dispute over general audience measurement ratings with comScore and Nielsen/NetR… Read more »
SoundExchange Has A Beef With CBS-Last.fm’s Music Royalties
SoundExchange, the body that collects music royalties for artists and which lobbied the Copyright Royalties Board for internet radio rate hi… Read more »
Last.fm Sitting Out Net Radio Day Of Silence
Last.fm will not be participating in Tuesday’s internet radio Day Of Silence. Some members of the site have called on the new CBS acquisitio… Read more »
OurChart: 72,000 Registered Users, 550,000 Monthly Uniques; Edgy Webisodes
I’ve been following OurChart.com, The L Word social net spin-off since its January launch, intrigued by the possibilities of a community evo… Read more »
Industry Moves: CBS Adds Two To Audience Network
By David Kaplan
Joe Ferreira is being moved over from CBS Sportsline.com and has been named SVP and GM of online video syndication system The CBS Audience N… Read more »
Series Gets a Reprieve From CBS After Online-Led Protest
CBS has been preaching audience and tonight Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment, backed it up by bringing back a canceled series wi… Read more »
CBS-Last.fm: Think Community, Not Just Music
CBS spent $280 million in cash to acquire Last.fm, which claims 15 million-plus active users in more than 200 countries. The potential isn’t… Read more »
CBS Interactive Embraces Embedding And All The Right Buzz Words
This has been percolating for weeks … another batch from CBS Interactive to show movement on a key front with its new CBS Audience Network… Read more »
It’s Official: CBS Interactive Acquires Wallstrip
Not on anyone’s blockbuster list but CBS Interactive made official today its acquisition of fledgling financial news site and daily web show… Read more »
Updated: CBS Buying WallStrip; Innertube a Failure; Distributed Player Shipping Now
By Rafat Ali
So said two reports, and we have confirmed it through a high-level source…financial video blog WallStrip is in the process of being acquir… Read more »
Industry Moves: Wright Heads Turner’s Content Creation Group; CBS Interactive Adds Research Power
Turner: Michael Wright, head of original programming for TNT and TBS for the past several years, has been promoted to SVP of the reorganize… Read more »
Industry Moves: Kint To CBS SportsLine From Sporting News; Spiers Leaves Dead Horse Media
CBS Sportsline: This announcement actually caused a double take … Jason Kint leaves The Sporting News after 11 years to become SVP/GM of C… Read more »
Interview, Part 2: Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive: The JV, IP, What’s Next
Continued from Part 1
Why not join the NBCU-News Corp. JV?: CBS is in discussions to have content distributed through the JV as a non-exclus… Read more »
Interview, Part 1: Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive: ‘Innertube Just Became OuterTube’
The CBC Interactive Audience Network moved from idea to execution — at least, announcements — in the span of 8 days or so, according to Qu… Read more »
Masters’ Online Exposure Increases
Day one of the Masters is underway at Augusta National and I can vouch for one thing: the streaming video is pretty decent on a small laptop… Read more »
MMOD: First day; First Stats; First Look
The hype-a-thon — yes, I’m a willing participant — know as March Madness is nearing the end of its first day, which means CBS (NYSE: CBS)… Read more »
@ OPA: CBS Explodes Video But Polices YouTube
CBSNews.com SVP/GM Betsy Morgan said the company was fixed on sharing its videos on sites around the web, having realized it needed to give… Read more »
MMOD: Clock Counting Down To NCAA-CBS Hoop-a-thon
The countdown clock to “Selection Sunday” is ticking down, bringing us closer to the second go round for ad-supported March Madness on Deman… Read more »
Industry Moves: Patrick Keane New EVP & CMO, CBS Interactive
Quincy Smith continues to build the senior staff at CBS INteractive … Patrick Keane is joining as EVP & CMO of CBS Interactive with the ch… Read more »
CBS Creates Cross-Platform Ad Sales Unit
By David Kaplan
The CBS acronym department must have been working overtime on this one: the network is introducing its new cross-platform unit, RIOT, which… Read more »
CBS Plans Online Programming Strategy for Fall; In Time For Possible Online Upfront?
By David Kaplan
CBS plans to expand its strategy of making new fall shows available online before showing them on the TV network, network research chief Dav… Read more »
YouTube Allows CBS, Others To Edit, Place Comments
The NYT picks up on one of the non-copyright issues at YouTube — manipulation of user comments. Instead of using the YouTube template that… Read more »
@ Sports Media & Tech: New Media’s Role In Sports Business — NFL, Mobile ESPN, Users
By David Eckoff
More from a busy first day at the Sports Media & Technology Conference in New York … The heads of digital operations for some of the large… Read more »
Interview: Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive
Quincy Smith is the digital man of the hour at CBS, the president of newly created company-wide CBS Interactive tasked with ensuring that CB… Read more »
Quincy Smith President Of New Company-wide CBS Interactive; Larry Kramer Out As Head Of CBS Digital
CBS is switching gears in digital, opting for someone with more of a rep for making deals than building companies. In: Quincy Smith as presi… Read more »
Earnings: CBS’s Moonves: Hundreds Of Millions In ’07 Digital Revenue; No Major Buys
By Jonathan Berr
CBS expects to generated hundreds of millions of dollars in digital revenue next year, CEO Les Moonves said during today’s 3Q ea… Read more »
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