Top Media Stories of 2011; Apple TV

Top 10 Media Stories of 2011: Arab Spring; RIP Steve Jobs; Phone Hacking
PBS MediaShift
While it is true that the dynamics of collective action are different in a digital world, we need to move beyond punditry about digital media, simple claims that technology is good or bad for democracy, and a few favored examples of how this can be so. ...

PBS MediaShift

Why Apple Needs to Sell More than Just a Television Set with the Apple TV
Forbes
Consider the unlimited potential these domains will have in increasing global market share, by consolidating all the worlds of TV, digital media, home entertainment, and hd home theater. For acquisition (for sale) hdhometheater.com with 43 other major ...

Forbes

Digital Archive Sparks New Era
Tripped Media
Digital media is fast, searchable, and ubiquitous. But most significant, online media eliminates a huge amount of distribution costs. This is the reason online news outlets like Vice, GOOD, and Gawker have surged ahead in recent years, crushing online ...

Google woos consumers with TV ads
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Google, the internet company which once saw traditional advertising as its chief rival, has in 2011 fully embraced television commercials, investing several times more than it did last year as it tries to ...

Financial Times

Media: Hindi papers to outperform DB Corp, Hindustan Media Ventures top picks
Equity Bulls
We initiate coverage on the print sector with a positive outlook based on enough headroom for expansion into new cities, limited alternative to newspapers in tier-2/3 cities (58% of print ad volume), and a still distant threat from digital media. ...

Libraries boost devotion to digital
The Spokesman Review
The Spokane County Public Library is devoting 15 percent of its materials budget to digital media, which represent about 5 percent of its circulation. In November, 11000 of the library's 201000 checkouts came from the downloadable collection. ...

Miomni Lauch of Version 2.5 of it Highly Successful Middleware Platform
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Version 2.5 improves on a number of key features which allow Miomni's customers to stay ahead in the competitive arena of Multi-Platform Digital Media. The platform is split into three main areas; Asset Management, Advanced Search and Content creation. ...

Ryan Leslie: "I Am My Own Filter"
Global Grind
GlobalGrind sat down with Ryan to discuss the effects of digital media in today's world, as well as being a teacher. GlobalGrind: Let's talk about your digital media and how it's affecting what you're working on now, because you're going in a ...

Global Grind

Why Dark Horse Got Their Digital Strategy Right the First Time
Comic Book Resources
Digital media have something the comics retail infrastructure is sorely lacking: Penetration. Many communities don't have comics stores. Many do have stores but no one knows they exist. Almost everyone has a computer, though. The flipside is that these ...

The really hot marketing gurus of 2011
Hindu Business Line
Digital media also served an entirely different purpose in the Arab Spring, helping information and visual evidence of the mass demonstrations to escape these countries through YouTube and Twitter. As a result, the western world, including the US, ...

DMC Ville, the choice for long stay
The Korea Herald
Situated in the Digital Media Complex near the Sangam World Cup Stadium in Sangam-dong, northwestern Seoul, DMC Ville is a set of fully furnished serviced apartments especially suitable for foreign businessmen and visitors. If one is planning to stay ...

Lawsuit to watch: Who owns journalists' social media accounts?
Knight Digital Media Center (blog)
Increasingly, news organizations are specifying social media policies which attempt to govern and control not just accounts created and branded by the news organization, but any social or digital media presence that a reporter or other editorial ...

Idea Lab: Year in Review 2011
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab
by Desiree Everts (Bio), December 28, 2011 It's been an eventful year on MediaShift's Idea Lab, marked by mergers, beta releases and site redesigns for the many innovators in digital media. This past year also saw the Knight Foundation announce 16 ...

PBS MediaShift Idea Lab

REG-Directorate change
Reuters (press release)
MILESTONE GROUP PLC ("Milestone" or the "Company") Directorate Change Milestone, the AIM quoted (AIM: MSG) provider of digital media and technology solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Anthony Sanders to the Executive Board as Technical ...

General Catalyst Raises $500M for 6th Venture Fund
Citybizlist (press release)
The Cambridge-based firm, which invests in digital media, software, and cleantech companies, raised $715 million for its last vehicle, a Fund V plus a supplemental fund, in 2007. Prior to that, it raised $400 million for Fund IV in 2005. ...

Growing Online Photo-sharing Start-up Secures Financing, Moves to New Offices
mediacaster
The company started out as a basic website launched back in 2003, with a number of revisions eventually leading to a version 2.0, first unveiled 2009; Tchebotarev and Gutsol later joined with Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone (DMZ) high-tech ...

PREIT Signs Philadelphia Inquirer Owner for New 125000 Square Foot Headquarters
MarketWatch (press release)
... President of PREIT Services LLC and PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. "The Philadelphia icon opened in 1868 as Strawbridge & Clothier's flagship store; now it will be home to more than 2600 business professionals and lead the way in state-of-the-art digital media. ...

Ad industry fights slowdown in 2011
Hindu Business Line
Both have digital media to thank, offering an integration story for brands. Omnicom's stake in Mudra went up from 10 per cent to a majority in early November. Mr Bobby Pawar, Chief Creative Officer, joined WPP agency JWT as Managing Partner soon after. ...

Global Advertising Network Gourmet Ads Spots Advertising Trends for 2012
PR Newswire (press release)
"Our prediction is that digital media buying using some sort of data will grow significantly in 2012. I think it's the sole motivation for advertisers contemplating a move to real-time bidding platforms, ie the fact they can pair up the media buy with ...

Telestream Inc. to be bought by equity firm
Modesto Bee
"We look forward to our next phase of growth and expansion with Thoma Bravo as we continue to play a leadership role in the digital media industry," said Dan Castles, Telestream's co-founder and CEO. "Thoma Bravo sees significant opportunity in the ...

Nolan Bushnell Joins Savtira Advisory Board [with videos]
Digital Media Wire
... distribution with a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ecommerce platform that is a turnkey system for the distribution, marketing, merchandising, and selling of bothdigital media and physical goods in a single store and a single, unified shopping cart....

Digital Media Wire

Budget app contest winners selected
Londoner
"(The winning apps) really looked at the different dimensions," said Adam Caplan, president and co-founder of UnLondon Digital Media Association. "It really shows the breadth of skills and talents that we have in our city. ...

Proof positive that social media can deliver results
Herald Scotland (blog)
I made sure to take note as these brands are living proof that ROI (return on investment) can be made from digital media. The development of social media monitoring tools has made this even easier for marketers to assess which activity delivered the ...

Medical Insight, Inc. Announces Aesthetic TV, a One-Stop Online Consumer ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Aesthetic TV, a property of Medical Insight, Inc., produces original content designed to inform, entertain, and engage specific targeted audience groups across multiple digital media channels with proprietary, state-of-the-art online and mobile ...

YouTube introduces video clip battles with Slam service
Digital Spy
"YouTube is in a process of reinvention at the moment - Vevo is basically taking all of the music videos away from them," digital media analyst Mark Mulligan told BBC News. "YouTube desperately need to create a new relevancy for themselves, ...

Rovi Signs Up Honda, BT & Ladbrokes For Smart TV Ad Network
HDTV Test
By Richard Carlton • Tuesday, 27 December 2011, 10:58 pm GMT US-based digital media management company Rovi Corporation this month announced that it has signed up some major players to develop interactive advertising campaigns to run on the Rovi ...

HDTV Test

Highland Adds Two New Partners, Loses One
Xconomy
Based in the firm's Menlo Park office, de Silva focuses on digital media investments and has been at Highland since 2003. Bell, former CEO of StorageNetworks, joined the firm last year. He works in the Lexington office and concentrates on technology ...

5 Steps to Keep Your Employees Engaged and Committed
HR.BLR.com
But marketing teams have taken more quickly to using digital media to deliver more efficient and effective messages. Through such media, they build personalized relationships with the brand. HR needs to follow suit, striving to build personalized ...

GTBill Named 2012 XBIZ LA Corporate Sponsor
XBIZ
By Lyla Katz, XBIZ.com LOS ANGELES — XBIZ is pleased to announce GTBill as the Corporate Sponsor of the industry's leading digital media conference XBIZ LA 2012. “We are really excited and proud to sponsor a great event like XBIZ LA,” GTBill's Andy K ...

MetroPCS Steps Inside the Octagon® as Exclusive Wireless Partner of UFC®
MarketWatch (press release)
MetroPCS will be integrated within UFC's digital media assets and will produce exclusive content that will be distributed across several MetroPCS channels, including metropcs.com, MetroVISION, MetroSTUDIO and the company's social media channels. ...

Our Outlook for Consumer Cyclical Stocks
Morningstar.com
Moreover, the Kindle Fire will exacerbate customer acquisition trends, particularly at the prime level, and this also offers multiple layers to our base-case assumptions, including accelerating digital media sales and a positive halo effect in general ...

Digital Media in Indonesia Begins a New Chapter… with plasamsn ...
By Ken Chang - MSFT
There's more to the Digital Story With the growth in internet consumption, having an online strategy has become an essential element of a successful marketing strategy. Social Media, Mobile and Internet Portals have seen explosive growth ...
Microsoft Advertising Community

The Crossroads of Art and Technology: Creating The Creators ...
By admin
By for Digital Innovation Gazette. Digital Innovation Gazette · Technology has revolutionized social interaction, giving individuals unprecedented access to global distribution channels. Thanks to incredible advances in content creation ...
Tech Universe

Appification: Will Apps Save or Spoil Digital Media Consumption ...
By Navneet Alang
Appification: Will Apps Save or Spoil Digital Media Consumption? While two years ago, they were nothing but novelty, apps have now gotten out of hand, media consumption wise. By Navneet Alang | December 28, 2011. If only two or three ...
Toronto Standard | News, Media,...

Digital Tactics that Enhance Disaster Response « BulletProof
By Richard Levick
Real-time Twitter updates can share developments as they happen. YouTube video of the recovery effort and messages of concern can be disseminated across all social and digital media channels. With all of these tools, companies can reach ...
BulletProof

Sears and Kmart Announce Store Closures
By Emily Patterson
I'm the Digital Media Manager for the Council of Better Business Bureaus based out of Arlington, VA. Originally from the mitten state, I graduated from Western Michigan University and relocated to the DC area to pursue my career. Prior to ...
BBB Consumer News and Opinion Blog

DigitisedArt teams up with London master paintings week - ikonotv
By blog-author
This is the first time an arts event of this calibre has decided to use digital media as opposed to a traditional printed catalogue. DigitisedArt will provide the following: • All participants will be given a free (restricted) account on DigitisedArt, ...
ikonotv

What's Missing From The New Twitter | tech.li
By Dean Jayson
Dean Jayson is the author of Overheard in Digital Media, a blog that reports on the impact of digital media on advertising, business, entertainment and politics. Dean's passion for digital media is on full display on Twitter at @dinoj1 ...
tech.li

5 Ways to Boost Your Digital Media Career in 2012 - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Hanson Hosein is the Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Mediaat the University of Washington. He's written Storyteller ...
news.yahoo.com/5-ways-boost-digital-media-career-2012-141...

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