Back To The Future: YouTube Launches Live Comedy Talk Show
With the comedy genre heating up in the online video world, My Damn Channel is turning to an age-old television format: the live daily comed… Read more »
Yahoo Video Chief: How To Get $3 Billion Closer To $50 Billion
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This year is only the beginning. That was the essential message Tuesday from Yahoo’s head of video and original programming, Erin McPherson,… Read more »
Nielsen, GroupM To Develop New Ratings Tool
As more people watch TV content on something other than TV, ad firms and their clients are eager for a tool that lets them analyze the succe… Read more »
Photographers Drag Amazon Into Pinterest Copyfight
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will accept responsibility for copyright complaints related to popular image-sharing site Pinterest, a photographers’ lo… Read more »
PeerIndex Taking On $3 Million To Quantify Influence, Glocer Among Backers
PeerIndex, a service started by a former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and Economist journalist to measure Twitter users’ influence in topics, is taki… Read more »
Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren't Moving As Much News As You Think
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We’ve heard that social media is a great source of traffic for news outlets so often that it’s close to textbook. Yes, Facebook, Twitter an… Read more »
First Look: New iPad's A Pair Of Stylish Glasses You May Not Need
photo: Apple
The new iPad isn’t exactly like Oakland and Gertrude Stein – there’s a there, there — but it won’t be obvious to most people. Read more »
YouTube Isn't Just Short-Attention-Span Theater Anymore
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YouTube’s initial $100 million investment into original premium content channels has been amply played up as a bold, risky venture into the… Read more »
TV Everywhere Has Come To Xbox Live, But Who Will Let You See It?
With HBO’s new video teaser for the April 1 launch of its HBO Go service on Xbox Live, the big question is: Which of the top cable, satellit… Read more »
Should Apple Pay For The Bad Deeds Of Its App Makers?
A sprawling lawsuit filed in Texas this week targets Path, Instagram, Facebook and others for instructing their apps to suck up user address… Read more »
Social TV's Zeebox Aims At U.S. Under Time Warner's Forbes
Second-screen social TV startup Zeebox has poached Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) Media SVP Jason Forbes to head its upcoming competition wit… Read more »
McDonald's Suffers New Hashtag Hiccup On Twitter
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McDonald’s is launching a new social media campaign just two months after its last effort backfired disastrously. Unfortunately, Twitter use… Read more »
Social Media Display Fuelling Ongoing Internet Ad Growth
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The internet will attract 21 percent more ad spend each year on its way to gobbling 22.1 percent of the total market by 2014, according to l… Read more »
How The Media Can Use Pinterest To Drive Traffic And Revenue
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Media owners may be spooked by Pinterest’s controversial re-use of copyrighted content – but they could have plenty to gain from embracing,… Read more »
Everyone's A Curator, Everyone's A Content Creator
photo: Dan Brunell
It used to be that we were all just consumers — or most of us were, anyway. We’d watch TV or read a book or listen to the music on the radi… Read more »
Yahoo Signs Series Develpment Deal With Michael Eisner's Vuguru
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Continuing its aggressive expansion into video content as it restructures its operations, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has signed a development deal w… Read more »
World's Richest Man Launches Online Video Network … With Larry King!
Backed by the resources of the world’s wealthiest individual, Carlos Slim Helu, and guided by former News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) digital journali… Read more »
CNN Mashing Up With Mashable? Not So Fast
CNN might yet end up as the owner of Mashable but it’s not imminent despite a single-source report from Felix Salmon at *Reuters*. Read more »
CBS Offers March Madness Cubicle Contest
CBSSports.com is encouraging cubicle dwellers to turn their lair into a basketball temple and post photos on Facebook for a March Madness co… Read more »
Yahoo's Next Strategy: There's Gold In That There E-Commerce
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New Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson’s upcoming turnaround may centre on mining Yahoo’s green plains for different prospects, including… Read more »
Asian Video Games Could Sink Social Gaming Patent
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A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments — the process… Read more »
Epix, ABC Family Launch on iOS; So What About Their Hulu, Netflix Deals?
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Say this about TV Everywhere — it’s not making the complicated world of TV video streaming any easier to figure out. On Tuesday, cable netw… Read more »
The Missed Opportunity In Cable VOD
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U.S. consumers are increasing the amount of time they spend on internet video-on-demand services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), and cable compan… Read more »
Time Magazine, Foursquare Partner For Political Conventions
Time Magazine is offering some special content to Foursquare users who check in at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August or… Read more »
Facebook TV Vote Slip-Up Earns Warning For Channel 5
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The UK’s media regulator will consider the reliability of social networks as premium-rate TV interaction mechanisms, after Britain’s first e… Read more »
Machinima Is YouTube's Content King
If you’re not into video games, chances are you’ve never heard of Machinima. Maybe it’s time to change that: The L.A.-based content producer… Read more »
Pearson Cooks Up More Content Giveaways Through API Payments
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) plans to let developers re-use more of its varied content, after its latest effort repackaged 2,500 recipes from its coo… Read more »
Five Companies Steer All News
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Prior to the digital age, there were three companies that, acting like undersea currents, steered all news. Namely, I am referring to the bi… Read more »
Hulu Joins Trademark Battle Against Dish's 'TV Everywhere' Claim
Hulu has joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Inc. and the nation’s five biggest cable service providers in a fight to stop Dish Network (NSDQ: DI… Read more »
Yahoo's Latest Brush With Big-Name Producer Talent: Ben Stiller
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues on its push for original video content and A-list talent, with a deal for a new comedy series with Ben Stiller’… Read more »
How Andrew Breitbart Changed Digital Media
Much of the talk about Andrew Breitbart today, in the wake of his death, has focused on his politics, which people either tend to love or ha… Read more »
Mail.ru Yanks Domestic Ads From ICQ
Mail.ru’s DST may have spent $187.5 million taking ICQ off AOL’s hands, but it’s in no rush to make a direct return on the veteran IM servic… Read more »
Nielsen: Women Are Heavier DVR Users Than Men
Sure, most of us have seen statistics showing that digital video recorders are now in more than 40 percent of American homes. But how much a… Read more »
Why Redbox Might Have To Agree To 56-Day Windows, Too
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The last year has been pretty good to Redbox. The rental kiosk chain is about to embark on a new streaming venture with Verizon, and has bee… Read more »
Facebook Pushes Advertisers To Get Creative And Social With Ads
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Facebook showed off a new suite of premium ads Wednesday that it thinks will allow advertisers to interact more directly with their customer… Read more »
Can A Fashion Blogger Make It Pay? Frockwriter Is About To Find Out
Fashion blogging has grown from a few wannabe writers looking from outside in at the industry to an influential new media category that desi… Read more »
DataSift Now Gulps Two Years From The Twitter Firehose
DataSift’s new Historics service promises to mine the Twitter archives going back two years for insights that could guide business decisions… Read more »
Netflix Stock Spirals As Company Enters Tricky Stretch
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After last fall’s shareholder revolt, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) recovered somewhat in December and January. But that momentum has slowed this mon… Read more »
Facebook Ads Firm Brighter Option Acquired By Buddy Media
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With Facebook’s advertising fortunes taking off, one cog in that machine has become an M&A target. Social marketing platform operator Buddy… Read more »
Social TV Startup Zeebox Seeks Impact With TV Campaign
photo: Zeebox
One of the nascent social TV space’s most interesting new second-screen software services will this week court mainstream users with a natio… Read more »
