Tweek Launches in London, Aims to Unclutter iPad TV

Tweek Launches in London, Aims to Unclutter iPad TV
Forbes
Tweek, the German startup behind the eponymous iPad social TV app launched from closed beta at the London Web Summit Monday, are applying their talents to television at an interesting time. According to Clay Shirky's book Cognitive Surplus,...

Forbes

Martini Media Opens Offices in Atlanta and Chicago, Announces New Team Members ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Martini Media, the digital media and content platform for engaging the audience with the most money and influence online, today announced the opening of offices in Chicago and Atlanta, ...

Research and Markets: New Zealand - Broadcasting - FTA, Pay TV, Digital TV and ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Business Wire FTA television and the pay TV sector like many other entertainment markets are looking for ways to keep advertising revenue growing. But with many ways of communicating now available, the broadcasting and digital media industries also ...

TV: Viacom Bundling TV, Digital Bu…
Adweek
Right now nearly no brand knows for sure who's watching their TV ad. Viacom isn't about to change that, but the media giant has hatched a way to help TV advertisers make sure the intended audience at least sees a brand's display or mobile ad.

Simple.tv's Cord-Cutting DVR Set to Ship in June
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman In June, cord cutters could get a new pair of scissors: Simple.tv, a DVR that can be attached to either a digital antenna or a basic cable connection. "It's basically a TiVo experience, but remoted onto a connected television," said ...

Yahoo! to Unveil Visionary Storyteller Anthony E. Zuiker's Innovative New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Inc, the premier digital media company, today announced that casting and production will officially begin on the much anticipated “Cybergeddon” project, a groundbreaking motion picture event which will bring to life the growing threat of cybercrime.

Digital Media Revenues to Boost a Sluggish Local Media US Market
Daily Deal Media
The latest US Local Media Forecast for the period, 2011 to 2016 has hinted at robust growth, particularly in the niche of Digital Advertising. The firm has forecasted revenues for the interactive, digital advertising and local onlineadvertising to ...

Daily Deal Media

Trada Hires Digital Media Veteran Warren Kay as Chief Revenue Officer to ...
PR Web (press release)
Trada, the world's only performance-based search marketing and Facebook advertising marketplace, has hired Warren Kay, a veteran in the digital media advertising industry. Kay will become Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for sales, marketing and ...

BSkyB announces Now TV, offering pay-as-you-go Internet TV to the masses
The Next Web
The Next Web is at the Guardian Changing Media Summit this week, a conference promising to deliver insights from the organisations and individuals capitalising on disruption within the digital content space. You can monitor all our coverage here.

The Next Web

WVUE Hires GM for Bounce TV Subchannel
Broadcasting & Cable
By Michael Malone -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/21/2012 12:08:09 PM WVUE New Orleans revealed its commitment to its Bounce TV digital network by hiring Curtis Pace to be the general manager of Bounce TV-New Orleans. Bounce says WVUE, a Fox affiliate owned ...

ProPublica asks for help posting TV political ad spending reports online
Poynter.org
“We tend to like the idea of public data being online,” writes ProPublica Social Media Editor Daniel Victor. “Since TV stations won't put it online themselves, we decided to do it ourselves — and we want your help.” He enlisted students at Medill to ...

100 million TVs will be Internet-connected by 2016
Los Angeles Times
Soon, the living room TV will become as hyper-connected as the people watching it. A new report from researcher NPD In-Stat predicts that 100 million homes in North America and Western Europe will own television sets that blend traditional programs ...

MOUSE Awarded $100000 as Winner of HASTAC "Badges for Lifelong Learning ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- MOUSE, a national nonprofit organization providing technology programs that empower and inspire underserved youth, is pleased to announce being awarded $100000 as a winner of the Digital Media and ...

Espial Media Service Platform Introduces Powerful TV Everywhere Capabilities
Broadcast Newsroom
Espial, a leader in on-demand TV software and solutions, today announced the latest enhancements to its Espial Media Service Platform, a TV service management and delivery solution that enables operators to deliver TV services over managed and OTT ...

Wannabe Murdochs crash Ofcom's local telly party
Register
By Bill Ray • Get more from this author Ofcom's consultation on Local TV has now closed, and the responses offer a slightly worrying insight into what to expect from the new tiny telly stations. The UK government is completely committed to launching ...

Sky announces on-demand web service NOW TV
Econsultancy (blog)
Not to be outdone by Channel 4's announcement about new channel 4Seven at the FT Digital Media Conference a few weeks ago, Sky this morning confirmed details of its new web TVservice, called NOW TV, at the opening keynote of the Media Guardian ...

Getting Ad Agencies Into Reality TV
New York Times
We're not doing this to become reality TV stars; it gets our brand in front of our consumers, marketers.” After the sneak peek, the Subway episode will be available on digital platforms likeamctv.com, Hulu, iTunes and YouTube, and then be rerun on AMC ...

Guardian app for Google TV: an introduction
The Guardian (blog)
If you don't have Google TV, be warned: we'll be making our way to an internet-connected television set near you soon. Our app is a significant move forward for our strategy to open up journalism to a global audience through digital media.

The Guardian (blog)

TV App Agency: Connecting the brand to the heart of the home
Utalkmarketing
Smart TV is a new growth opportunity for digital. A TV is the ultimate shared device for watching videos and viewing large images from the comfort of the living room, rather than hunched over a 15” laptop. Certain types of content are best viewed on a ...

Social media predicts unemployment spikes
msnbc.com (blog)
Those are the findings of a recent study by software firm SAS and a United Nation's data initiative UN Global Pulse that looked at online discussions in the United States and Ireland over a two-year period and found increased social media talk about ...

Social Networking Eclipses Portals as the Most Engaging Web Activity in Latin ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The 2012 Latin America Digital Future in Focus examines how the prevailing trends in social media, online video, digital advertising, mobile and search are defining the current marketplace and how they are likely to shape the coming year.

Research and Markets: Social Media Trend Report
SunHerald.com
The Social Media Trend Report includes 63 PRO Trends and 543 examples of social mediamarket research and social media consumer trends related to: Twitter, Facebook, Skype, social networking, social networks, Blogspot, online marketing, ...

Anevia Deploys IPTV Solution for the BNF National Library of France
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, FRANCE, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Anevia, a leader in video streaming solutions and service infrastructure for live TV and video on demand (VOD), today announced that it has deployed an IPTV solution for the BNF (Bibliotheque ...

100 million TVs will be Internet-connected by 2016, report predicts
Kansas City Star
By DAWN C. CHMIELEWSKI LOS ANGELES -- Soon, the living room TV will become as hyper-connected as the people watching it. A new report from researcher NPD In-Stat predicts that 100 million homes in North America and Western Europe will own television ...

The Importance of Social Media ROI
CMSWire
GOSS Interactive took part in an online discussion hosted by the Guardian recently , titled “What's wrong with local government communications?” The discussion swayed towards social media and whilst it was public sector focused, there were some ...

CMSWire

Pew Report: News Consumption Grows Across Multiple Screens
RedOrbit
Online, which encompasses digital formats including web and mobile such as smartphones and tablets, experienced 17.2 percent audience growth from 2010 to 2011. Network TV experienced 4.5 percent audience growth; local TV, audio and cable TV each ...

RedOrbit

Fora.tv hosts 'Mad Men' live webcast - Digital Media Wire ...
By Chris Marlowe
AMC's hit series Mad Men returns for its fifth season Sunday, but tonight (March 20) Fora.tv is hosting a free live streamcast with the show's cast and creator that will include an early peek at what will happen. The whole “sex”tet is participating: ...
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Sky announces NOW TV internet pay ... - The Digital Lifestyle.com
By podcast@thedigitallifestyle.com (TDL)
Sky have announced an internet pay streaming service called NOW TV. The service is internetonly streaming of TV and movies and will work on a pay-as-you-go modal and will be available on PCs,Mac, tablets and internet connected TVs.
The Digital Lifestyle.com

Washington Capitals Director of Digital Media Talks Social Media ...
By Trevor Turnbull
Sean Parker - Director of Digital Media talks about how the Capitals use social media, ways they are monetizing their efforts and sports jobs. ... Sean Parker is the Director of Digital Media for the Washington Capitals. He has over 15 years of ... I know I've talked to Anthony about this before too but back in 2003 obviously those were the pre-Ovechkin days too so even though things have changed a lot on the online space fortunes have definitely changed for the team too right? Yeah.
Take Your Sports Career To The...

Kaonmedia Partners With Verimatrix for Etisalat's ... - Digital TV News
By Digital TV News
Kaonmedia (KOSDAQ: 078890) and Verimatrix have announced a partnership that has enabled the delivery of a next-generation, high quality over-the-top (OTT) TV experience for the Etisalat OnWeb service, which is part of eLife. ... new Android smart pay-TV solution, which features Kaonmedia's Android-based SmartCube/TV+ consumer devices with proven digital TV revenue security from Verimatrix and its award-winning Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) forInternet TV.
Digital TV News

Latin America Has Quite The Emerging Online Culture | WebProNews
By Drew Bowling
The report looked at significant trends in areas like social media, online video, digital advertising, mobile, and search and how those aspects are shaping the current marketplace for the upcoming year. “2011 was an extraordinary year for digital media in Latin America as more people than ever before went online and began adopting behaviors like social networking and watching online video with increasing frequency,” said Alejandro Fosk, comScore senior vice president for Latin ...
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Sky announces on-demand web service NOW TV | Econsultancy
By Vikki Chowney
Not to be outdone by Channel 4's announcement about new channel 4Seven at the FT Digital Media Conference a few weeks ago, Sky this morning confirmed details of its new web TVservice, called NOW TV, at the opening keynote of the ...
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Rogers Live TV: Stream TV on your Tablet – Connected Magazine
*Available in Ontario only for existing Rogers customers with a My Rogers account who subscribe to Hi-Speed Internet (Lite tier or above) and Rogers Digital TV (excluding Digital TVStarter Pack) with select Rogers HD digital set-top box ...
Connected Magazine

Here's The #1 Complaint About Google TV
By Matt Rosoff
The World's Biggest Internet Piracy Site Plans To Use Aerial Drones To Keep Its Servers Out Of Reach · Strategy · Strategy · Careers .... Summary. Apple TV is a digital media receiver made and sold by Apple Inc. It is a small form factor network appliance designed to play IPTV digitalcontent originating from the iTunes Store, Netflix , YouTube, Flickr, MobileMe or any... More » ...
Business Insider

TV overtakes newspapers on the ad revenue charts :: Idealog :: the ...
Hoar said advertisers were using television reach and engage a large audience and then drive that audience through other, increasingly digital, media channels direct to point of sale. “Television becomes the starting point for a brand's deeper ...
Idealog

Sky reveals Now TV brand for web TV
By Robert Briel
Shop. Country Profiles; Digital TV Eastern Europe; IPTV World Forecasts; Satellite TV Forecasts;Digital TV World Databook · Video · Subscribe ... Sky's new internet TV service, offering access to the broadcaster's content on a wide range of broadband-connected devices, will be called Now TV. Jeremy Darroch, CEO CEO, revealed the new brand this morning as he delivered the opening keynote at the Media Guardian Changing Media Summit in London. Launching later this year, ...
Broadband TV News

Recommended Links of the Week | Alex Gamela - Digital Media ...
By Alex Gamela
The problem with canned TV…: from The FJP. delicious (feed #4). Alex Gamela shared FairSearch.org | Good to Know. Recently, Google launched an advertising campaign “to empower users” to “make more informed decisions about their ...
Alex Gamela - Digital Media & Journalism

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