Comcast Unhappy With Google On Search Deal; Talking To MSN; Other Ad Inventory Talks
Comcast, the second largest broadband ISP in U.S., is in talks to use Microsoft’s search services on its broadband portal, a sign the cable… Read more »
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Google Testing Targeted Cable Ads: Report
Google is testing targeted television advertising with a small cable operator in Concord, Calif., as the testbed, according to a WSJ report… Read more »
@ Media Summit: User-Generated Content Is The New Punk Rock
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Facebook And Comcast Combine To Create VOD TV Series
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Earnings: Comcast’s Roberts: 4 Percent of Comcast HSD Traffic Connected To YouTube
Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts told analysts during Thursday’s earnings call that there’s a correlation between how well his company… Read more »
Industry Moves: Skinner New Comcast Spotlight Online Sales VP
By David Kaplan
Comcast Spotlight, the ad sales arm of Comcast Cable, has hired Adrienne Skinner for the new position of VP-online strategic sales.
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Comcast Shrinks DVD And VOD Windows; Ties With Endemol For Video Sharing Trial Show
By Rafat Ali
Comcast, using its clout, has shrunk the movie windows even further, and will experiment with launching movies on its VOD service at the sam… Read more »
Comcast Opens Gaming Site Previously For Its HSD Subs Only
Comcast continues its programming shift online, raising the possibility of becoming a major national online player beyond its own high-speed… Read more »
Verizon To Sell FiOS In Comcast’s Front Yard: Report
Until now, satellite has been the greatest competition for Comcast cable dollars in its home base of Philadephia and the surrounding area in… Read more »
Comcast To Launch Online Video Portal; Disney Will Co-Promote It: Report
By Rafat Ali
So reports a BusinessWeek story: Comcast is soon expected to announce a new TV portal, code-named C-TV, that Disney will help promote throug… Read more »
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Comcast Does Buy Back E Networks From Disney For $1.23 Billion; VOD Deal Done
By Rafat Ali
As we noted in the post yesterday, Comcast has done an extensive VOD deal with Disney, and has also bought back Disney’s 39.5% stake in E! N… Read more »
Comcast Nears VOD Deal With Disney; Includes Comcast.net Clips
By Rafat Ali
Comcast is one step closer its VOD nirvana: it will do a deal with Walt Disney for such shows as “Desperate Housewives” and “World News with… Read more »
Ad Insert Start-up BlackArrow Raises $14.75 Million For Unskippable Ads
By Jonathan Berr
BlackArrow, a San Mateo start-up producing online DVR-proof ads, has raised $14.75 million from Mayfield, Polaris Venture Partners and Intel… Read more »
NBA Drops Google Video — For Now, NHL Laces Up; YouTube Removes NFL Clips
Catching up with sports video news … The NBA was an anchor tenant in the Google Video Marketplace, even participating in the CES circus.… Read more »
More On Comcast’s User-Gen Ziddio Site And VOD Channel
As Rafat reported Friday, Comcast is working on a combo user-gen video site and VOD service with the unlikely name of Ziddio.com. The news l… Read more »
Comcast To Launch User-Gen Video Site/Channel Ziddio
By Rafat Ali
This is kinda weird, but only because the details are a bit sketchy: Comcast is about to launch a user-generated video site and TV VOD chann… Read more »
Disney in Talks to Sell E! Stake for $1.2 Billion to Comcast: LAT
By Jonathan Berr
Disney is in talks to sell its stake in the E! cable TV network to Comcast for $1.2 billion and it is close to signing multi-billion dollar… Read more »
Comcast, Tivo Mum on Details of Partnership
By Jonathan Berr
Comcast and Tivo aren’t saying much about their partnership that was signed in 2005, and is seen as hugely important to Tivo, accord… Read more »
Comcast’s Horror Channel To Launch; VOD + Online
By Rafat Ali
Comcast’s new multiplatform network, Fearnet, will launch on Halloween next Tuesday, backed by a library of 200 horror films from studios su… Read more »
Earnings: Comcast Q3 Profit Soars; Digital Video, High-Speed Customers Gain
By Jonathan Berr
Comcast reported a better-than-expected third quarter thanks in part to the growth in popularity of its digital services. Net income was $1.… Read more »
Comcast, Turner Invest in User-Generated Ad Firm ViTrue
By Rafat Ali
ViTrue, an Atlanta-based startup which provides technology to enable user-generated advertising campaigns, has received funding from Comcast… Read more »
Comcast Download Store Launching This Month: Report
By Rafat Ali
So says Gizmodo, citing sources. Cable giant Comcast, which has been working furiously on its online strategy (senior hiring, acquisitions a… Read more »
Cable doesn’t intend to be YouTubed
By Jimmy Guterman
Cable’s free ride may be ending soon — and the executives know it. The Journal reports that pay-TV companies are starting to get serious ab… Read more »
Communacopia XV: Comcast COO: Birthing a Few New Web Ideas
By Rafat Ali
Comcast COO Stephen Burke spoke today at the Communacopia XV conference, and mentioned about its online plans, being implemented through its… Read more »
CBS Drops VOD Charges On Comcast; Revenues Guarantee From Cable Co.
By Rafat Ali
About 10 months after launching its primetime shows on VOD service from Comcast, CBS has dropped the 99 cent per episode fee, reports AdAge.… Read more »
Cox Deal To Use TiVo’s DVR Software Starts In 2007
Cox Communications has signed up with TiVo to use its DVR software in the cable operator’s own set-top boxes. The deal, which starts in the… Read more »
CableLabs: Cable Industry May Need Another Burst Of Broadband Spending To Keep Up
A controversial, speculative report from the cable industry research arm CableLabs suggests that the $60 billion upgrade that started a deca… Read more »
Comcast Digital Content Plans: People Want One Video Source
By Rafat Ali
AdAge has a good overview story, though it is more speculative than it needed to be (similar to a WSJ story in June): it says that Comcast h… Read more »
It’s Official: Time Warner, Comcast Complete Adelphia Buyout
It’s all over but the shouting for fifth-largest cable operator Adelphia Communications. Time Warner and Comcast have completed the acquisit… Read more »
Comcast, Turner Invest in Video Sharing Site Revver; Second Round Ups To $10.25 Million
By Rafat Ali
Revver, one of the video sharing sites which adds ads with the clips uploaded and shares revenues with the creators, has expanded its second… Read more »
Earnings: Comcast Net Up 7 Percent In 2Q06; Voice Starts To Take Off
Comcast (CMCSA) was all smiles Thursday as the company turned in eye-catching results for 2Q06 — driven, in part, by a stronger-than-expect… Read more »
Comcast Divesting Its 17 Percent Stake in TheKnot
By Rafat Ali
TheKnot announced its Q2 earnings today (detailed earnings report here), and in the earnings call, while explaining its big secondary offeri… Read more »
Tour De France Online In U.S.: Highlights Only; 2 Million Streamed
First, anyone who thinks the Tour de France is worth watching only when Lance Armstrong is breaking records (or could fail) is missing a hec… Read more »
Comcast Plans For An Open Portal
By Rafat Ali
Somehow, I have a hard time believing the broad sweep that this story portrays, but at least becomes plausible in light of Comcast’s acquisi… Read more »
Comcast Buys Digital Media Services Firm ThePlatform
By Rafat Ali
Exclusive: Comcast Interactive, the internet arm of cable giant Comcast, has bought out Seattle-based digital media services provider thePla… Read more »
Comcast’s PowerBoost Variable Download Speed Service Launches
By Rafat Ali
This was mentioned by Comcast president Steve Burke earlier this week at the D Conference, and has officially launched in New England area:… Read more »
@ D Conference: Steve Burke, President, Comcast: Net Neutrality; A La Carte; Disney Et Al
By Rafat Ali
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts didn’t show up for his keynote interview, but Steve Burke, president of COO, did. Some notes from his interview:
I… Read more »
YHOO-OLN Deal Goes Beyond Hockey; Includes Tour de France, More
As we reported first yesterday, Yahoo Sports is providing some live NHL games and video highlights through an agreement with Comcast’s OLN.… Read more »
Yahoo Webcasting Some Stanley Cup Playoff Games
Yahoo users, including Rafat, who stumbled across the webcast of a live NHL game Monday night weren’t hallucinating: Yahoo Sports has an as… Read more »
Comcast’s Highest-Speed Subs Will Get Premium IGN Service
Comcast already provides Comcast Arcade casual gaming with HSD subscriptions. Now, aiming directly for gaming enthusiasts willing to pay for… Read more »
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