TV Everywhere: Hurry Up or Wait?

TV Everywhere: Hurry Up or Wait?
Multichannel News
Bewkes, speaking at the Deutsche Bank Media & Telecom conference in Palm Beach, Fla., last Tuesday (Feb. 28), said his company has embraced the technology across the board and urged others to follow suit. Bewkes was one of the pioneers of the TV ... 

"Hockey Stick" Upturn in Digital Media Industry Scores Expansions of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Ontario also has a tremendous team of home-grown all-stars fed by 22 colleges and universities that produce18,000 graduates per year from 174 specialized digital media programs including 3D animation, film studies, advanced computer programming, math, ...

SocialGuide Intelligence: TV's New Twitter Spy Is Powerful And Precise
Forbes
What began as a company to help TV viewers find shows they like through social media chatter, is now rolling out a powerful news collector of Twitter data that will empower those shows talk back to its viewers. SocialGuide was built to aggregate ...

TV repair holdouts plug along in a digital age
Philadelphia Inquirer
It did for many of his colleagues in the TV and stereo repair business. In the '80s and '90s, every town or neighborhood seemed to have one or two men - they were almost always men - who eked out a living fixing TV sets, amplifiers, turntables, ...

Canadians Rank High for Internet Activity, Online Video, Social Media
WhatsYourTech.ca
Among several digital activity categories, including online video watching, mobile search and social media, Canada is a world leader. Pro rated, we have among the most Internet users of any country, and we lead the world in Internet engagement, ...

Apple Wants to Upend the TV Business: Will Big Content Play Ball?
TIME
By Sam Gustin | @samgustin | March 5, 2012 | + Over the course of his career, Steve Jobs revolutionized three industries — personal computing, digital music, and mobile communication. Before his death last fall, he had turned his attention to a fourth ...

TIME

Plans for 'TV Everywhere' Bog Down in Tangled Pacts
Wall Street Journal
But for many TV viewers, it has had trouble going anywhere. Nearly three years after Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. kicked off a drive to make cable programming available online for cable subscribers, the idea of TV Everywhere remains mired in ...

Wall Street Journal

UK Internet TV service YouView could finally be set for launch in May
The Next Web (blog)
The project aims to bring together catch up TV services together on one platform, but it has faced delay-after-delay over the past couple of years. Founded initially in September 2010, the project could have led the way for digital TV-viewing platforms ...

The Next Web (blog)

Cablevision Media Sales Delivers Nearly Four Billion Advanced Advertising ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Even with Canoe's shift in direction, advertisers should know that the cable providers, like Cablevision, continue to offer and enhance their advanced advertising products," said David Kline, president and COO of Cablevision Media Sales.

Why the TV Industry is Vulnerable To Apple
Tech.pinions
And one of the examples I gave was that I could see someday when people would be able to call up a TV show on demand and view it at will. Now, remember that this was before the Internet and few were even thinking about new forms of media distribution.

Tech.pinions

Yahoo! Maktoob promotes digital entrepreneurship at QITCOM 2012
AME Info
Maktoob, the premier digital media company, is taking part in the second annual edition of the information and communication technology conference and exhibition, QITCOM 2012, in Doha, Qatar this week as the official online and media partner.

AME Info

2012 Elections Will Drive TV Ad Prices Up, Media Publisher Says
PR Leap (press release)
COM) Advertisers, media planners, media buyers: get ready to pay higher advertising rates for spot or local television buys in 2012— thanks to the elections, the Summer Olympics from London, and an expected rise in auto and retail business, ...

PR Leap (press release)

Three contenders ... mobile TV
The Canberra Times
YOU'VE probably heard of time-shifting, which is basically watching a TV show when it suits you. Then there's format-shifting, which involves copying your CDs to your computer and listening to your favourite songs on your device of choice.

The Canberra Times

Asia's SingTel buys mobile ad co. Amobee for $321M
VatorNews
SingTel is one of Asia's leading communications groups offering services, including voice and data solutions over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms as well as infocomm technology and pay TV. This acquisition is a clear move by SingTel to assist ...

Media: People and place create a magnet
Financial Times
By Andrew Bounds With former docks the new home of part of the BBC, a warehouse making TV programmes and former factories buzzing as they make digital material from computer games to ad campaigns, the media sector is transforming Manchester.

Financial Times

Optus readies itself for online battle
The Australian
SINGTEL - owner of Australia's No 2 telecommunications company, Optus - will restructure its business to challenge online marketing behemoths Google and Facebook for a share of the lucrative digital advertising market.

Get set for switchover
Hertfordshire Mercury
With just weeks to go until the first analogue TV signals are switched off in London and parts of the Home Counties, Hertfordshire Mercury has teamed up with Digital UK to provide readers with this special guide to digital TV switchover.

Hertfordshire Mercury

comScore releases the 2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus report
Bizcommunity.com
TORONTO, CANADA: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, recently released the 2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus report. This annual report examines how the prevailing trends in general web usage and demographics, social media, online ...

Local woodworker becomes Internet sensation
Shreveport Times
Local carpenter, George Parker, has created an Internet buzz after a Lafayette radio DJ posted pictures of his TV commercial online. The DJ, and now handfuls of national blogs like Buzz Feed and VH1, noted Parker's uncanny resemblance to the character ...

Oz children's TV quotas could face the chop
Rapid tv news
Australia could lose protection over the amount of children's drama shown on television, and digital platforms such as YouTube could be forced to subsidise local content in a major overhaul of media regulations. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, ...

Event Preview: MIPCube
World Screen
... which aims to spotlight innovation in digital media. One of MIPTV's accelerator events, taking place alongside MIPDoc and MIPFormats on the Friday and Saturday before the market, MIPCube is being billed as "the innovation lab for the future of TV.

“Team Sprint” Releases First Work for Brand: TV Spot Featured Kevin Durant ...
Missouri Sports Magazine
(Daniel Johnson, Missouri Sports Magazine) – Team Sprint, comprised of integrated brand agency Digitas and global ad agency Leo Burnett, released the first TV spot [of series] for Sprint (NYSE: S). The 30-second spot features NBA star forward Kevin ...

48 New Digital Media Resources You Might Have Missed
By Matt Petronzio
For whatever reason you've missed our new digital media resources this week, let us catch you up in a flash with our features roundup. ... How a Team of Doctors Uses Social Media to Drive Awareness and Save Lives For small ...
Mashable » Business

5 ways to build trust and win the deals you want | Public Relations ...
By DMG
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Mediaocean CEO Wise: Media Buying Is Broken, We Plan To Fix It
By AdExchanger
Now that the merger of Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank into Mediaocean has passed regulatory muster, it's worth asking whether the combination will accelerate the adoption of online media buying methods to the TV space or if it will ... It's hard to believe though that after 15 years since internet advertising became mainstream, that many of the orders for those ads are still done manually. ... BW: Digital display is broken because there's no single currency to process mediabuys.
AdExchanger.com: Exchanging Ideas...

Rentrak Expands Contract With Music Choice to Include TV Essentials
By EntertainmentNews
A long-time client of Rentrak's OnDemand Essentials, Music Choice is now subscribing to a limited subscription of Rentrak's TV Essentials service to better understand viewing behavior and facilitate distribution of Music Choice's emerging network, SWRV, as well as continuing to serve its 46 linear music channels. ... Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a ...
International Entertainment News

Aereo - Digital Media Update

By Peter D. Csathy (Twitter name pcsathy)
Digital media execs all over are talking about Barry Diller's new company and service Aereo, which just recently launched. Aereo enables customers to "catch" so-called "free" (i.e., ad-driven) broadcast TV (i.e., the major networks) and stream ...
Digital Media Update

BBC YouView IPTV Service Could Launch In May
By admin
BBC YouView IPTV Service Could Launch In May. The IPTV project YouView, which has been beset by problems and numerous delays, could finally have a release date. Reports say that the streaminginternet TV set-top box will be launched ...
World Internet TV on PC

Social Media Accounts Potentially Problematic for Scholarship ...
By Clay Duda
Nearly a quarter of those screening via social media said information found online helped support their original decision, proving social media has the potential to be both good and bad. Facebook was by far the most popular, with 92 percent using the platform to vet ... Clay Duda is a Digital MediaSpecialist with the Center for Sustainable Journalism, JJIE's parent company, at Kennesaw State University. He splits his time between the CSJ's Digital Communications department and the ...
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WD TV Live Wireless Streaming Media Player - Living Digital Review
A user may buy an HD TV but getting enough HD content to be able to leverage the investment is again a problematic task. The WD TV Live streaming media player is a handy intermediary device which gives the option of non HD to HD ...
LD2.in

Creating the most interesting commercial for digital media | Video ...
By Julie
The videos are made with utmost diligence and the video producers make sure that the video has something interactive about it once it comes to the digital media. In the internet a video is very easy to terminate. If a person does not like it he or ...
Video Production Blog

The end of the world as we know it - Cream Blog
By Cream Editorial
Those who carry the advertising market as a whole, namely the major brands with big budgets, had no motivation to establish online marketing activities in addition to print and TV initiatives. ... The market needs TV-relevant coverage, intelligent target group management and, finally, a means of market research that can measure the branding effect and give media planners the exact tools they already know from traditional media – but with all the added value offered by digital media.
Cream Blog - commentary on the...

Digital media device (WD TV, Boxee, etc)
I have wired my home with CAT cable and use my PC as a server sending content to a WD TV Live HD. The results are for the most part satisfactory. The WD is ...
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digitaljournal.tv info. Digital Journal: A Global Digital Media Network
Digital Journal: A Global Digital Media Network. Description: Digital Journal is a digital medianews network with thousands of Digital Journalists in 200 ...
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Online Advertising Trends | Digital Media News | Centro
DoubleVerify Report Shows That Media Verification Improves Compliance for Online Advertising Industry. 9-8-11 on Local Media Insider ...
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Refreshed Strategic Vision, Investment in ... - Rogers Media TV Access
OMNI TV Citytv Bio OLN G4 FX Canada City News Rogers Radio ... Unveiled today is the new Rogers Digital Media (RDM), with a redefined vision and new ...
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