AOL unveils “AOL On” at NewFront

AOL unveils “AOL On” at NewFront
Radio & Television Business Report
The video hub, “AOL On Network,” will feature 14 content channels distributed online, on mobile, via tablets and through TV-connected devices. It is estimated to reach an audience of 57 million US consumers. The network attracts 861 million video ...

Keynote Speaker Announced for APPNATION NYC + TV 3.0 Summit
MarketWatch (press release)
Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor in chief Josh Tyrangiel will moderate, exploring the impact of multiscreen convergence and second-screen services on the digital media industry. "We're pleased to have one of the industry's best and brightest kick-off this ...

GroundFloor Media Expands Communication Service Offerings with Launch of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DENVER, Apr 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GroundFloor Media (GFM), a Denver-based agency with a focus on strategic communications, social media, crisis communication and reputation management counseling for clients, today announced an expansion of its ...

Research and Markets: Australia - Digital TV - Interactive TV and EPGs
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Electronic program guide offerings are also available from some IPTV providers. For more information on the major players, see our separate report: Australia - Digital Media - IPTV - Major Players. This report provides an overview of the interactive TV ...

Research and Markets: Australia - Digital TV - Interactive TV and EPGs
SunHerald.com
While IPTV services have been launched by a number of Internet service providers and some TVmanufacturers including Samsung, Sony and LG, iTV has struggled to gain widespread popularity in Australia. However, concerns still remain about the emergence ...

Interactive TV News Round-Up (I): ACTV8.me, AOL, BCM
InteractiveTV Today [itvt]
Social-TV company, ACTV8.me, is trumpeting the success of the digital wallets it offers for viewers interacting with TV shows, and has also announced the launch of a loyalty program. "As major innovations are being made with Google Wallet...and PayPal.

InteractiveTV Today [itvt]

Griffin III Leads Draft Tweeters as NFL Seeks to Boost Revenue
BusinessWeek
The league has a squad of players, analysts, team executives and television personalities armed with laptops to play online host to the biggest offseason event in the US's most popular sport. Commissioner Roger Goodell has called digital media ...

Regional telecom company Bell Aliant helped by digital TV, Internet in Q1
CanadianBusiness.com
By LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | April 25, 2012 Regional telecom company Bell Aliant Inc. increased its profit to $87 million for the first quarter of 2012 as its digital TV and Internet services helped boost earnings. The Halifax-based company's ...

At Digital Video Upfront, Disney Interactive Pitches Talking Tom, Shows for Mom
AdAge.com
Unlike the web natives participating in the NewFront -- online video's attempt to tap TV ad budgets by aping the upfronts -- Disney Interactive was careful at its presentation Thursday morning not to compare its original digital shows to TV.

'Scrub your social media profiles.' Enough, already!
ZDNet (blog)
By Andrew Nusca | April 26, 2012, 8:09am PDT Summary: I'm tired of businesses and organizations expecting their employees to be faceless workers online. You can't scrub human behavior from the Internet. It's time to get real. Writer Kashmir Hill's sage...

ZDNet (blog)

Verimatrix Explores Extending Pay TV With OTT During Multi-Network Solutions ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Apr 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Connected TV World Summit -- Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, today announced that it is hosting the next installment of ...

Why You're Doing Social Media Wrong
Forbes
Being a digital copywriter is fun, I've found. What it means for me is that I write social media content for big brands. Unfortunately, not all big brands have me writing social media content for them. That means the voice of their brand online that ...

Canadian Broadcasters Call for Protection From US Digital Giants
Hollywood Reporter
TV networks and cablers called on the CRTC to act on Netflix Canada, even as the regulator insists they are not disadvantaged by the US video streaming giant's presence here. TORONTO – Canadian broadcasters on Wednesday urged the country's TV watchdog ...

Hollywood Reporter

TransGaming Reports Fiscal Year 2012 Third Quarter Results and Files Business ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Company also announced that it has filed its Business Acquisition Report ("BAR") related to the acquisition of the Interactive TV and Connected TV ("iTV") division of Oberon Media, Inc., closed January 6, 2012. -- Revenue for the first nine months ...

Hollywood & Politics: Current TV's Newest Talk Star Gavin Newsom Says 90 ...
Hollywood Reporter
California's lieutenant governor and host of Current TV's upcoming "The Gavin Newsom Show" is looking to upend the medium (and social media) into a real tool for government, not just elections. I started as mayor of San Francisco with a small radio...

Hollywood Reporter

Noises off: Will social media change the face of theatre?
The Guardian (blog)
Theatre bloggers have been discussing theatre as it exists on the internet. So that's an online writer writing about online writing about online theatre. Got that? Good. Broadly speaking, theatre exists in two forms online. There's theatre as digital ...

The Guardian (blog)

AOL On showcases new programs and ad opportunities
Digital Media Wire
The company said more than 450 brand advertisers, marketers, agencies and digitaland TV media buyers came to see what opportunities the new hub offered. To interest them further, AOL reiterated that it currently reaches an audience of 57 million ...

Digital Media Wire

Moonbot Studios: “Print, Movies, and Digital Media can Coexist” (Part Two)
PadGadget
O'Neal Jr. added, “We apply the story to the media that we have, so it can be delivered in the best way possible.” Rather than worrying that digital media is going to subsume its predecessors, causing the extinction of print publishing and film in the ...

PadGadget

Airport TV takes off in SA
ITWeb
Yesterday, out-of-home (OOH) media company Provantage announced its partnership with Airports Company SA (ACSA) in rolling out a digital TV network in SA's ACSA-owned airports. In what is a first for SA, ACSA's nine airports across the country will ...

ITWeb

Brand.net Appoints Advertising Veteran and Pioneer George Garrick to Board of ...
Sacramento Bee
By Brand.net SAN MATEO, Calif., April 25, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Brand.net, the leading digital media brand buying solution for the largest global brands, today announced that George Garrick has been named to the Board of Directors and will also serve ...

SeaChange Delivers Complete Video-on-Demand Solution for Cablenet of Cyprus
MarketWatch (press release)
The solution supports video-on-demand (VOD) services, time shift TV (start over TV, catch-up TVand network PVR) and price promotions. SeaChange installed the back office and integrated with Cablenet's existing SeaChange STAGIS and CASIS solutions for ...

Chernin's CA Media Takes 49% Stake in Endemol India
TheWrap
By Tim Molloy CA Media, the Asian investment arm of The Chernin Group, has aquired a 49 percent stake in Endemol India, the companies announced Thursday. They hope to build Endemol India into the leading TV, film, and digital content production company ...

Provantage and ACSA launch Airport.tv
Bizcommunity.com
A first for South Africa, Airport.tv™ will offer advertisers exceptional value and unparalleled access to the upper LSM market and Business travellers. Provantage Out of Home Media, in partnership with ACSA, is rolling out a fully-fledged digital ...

New NimbleTV service taps cloud, Internet for online TV delivery
Broadcast Engineering
NimbleTV is a new subscription TV service leverages the Internet and cloud-based software to deliver TV to customers anywhere via the Web. NimbleTV, a new subscription-based TV service, announced the launch of a beta test April 23 that will let...

Broadcast Engineering

VideoDaily Roundup: Digital Video Execs Urge Senate to Keep Web Open
MediaPost Communications
The AP reports from the front lines of the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on online video innovation, saying that the group of digital media execs called on to educate the committee on the issue believe that tremendous growth in online video will ...

Yahoo! Digital NewFront Provides Sneak Peak at Programming Line-Up for 2012 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
News/ABC News Premier Media Partnership Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) , the premier digital media company, showcased a stellar line-up of original video for its monthly global audience of 700 million users at its Digital Content NewFront event today in New ...

Forrester: Tablets to become 'primary' computer for many by 2016 ...
By admin
... Microsoft, RIM, Samsung, Lenovo, HP, Sony, Nokia, Barnes & Noble, Nook, Kindle, Kindle Fire, iPad, iOS, Windows 8, Windows Metro, frame, smart TV, personal cloud, consumer cloud, wearables, future, futures, quantified self, 2016, 2017, ...
Tech Universe

The Digital Ad Industry Needs To Innovate For Consumers
By Ad Traders
Jerry Neumann posed a question on AdExchanger the other day that should strike a chord with anyone who works in media and advertising: What If Online Doesn't Work For Branding? Branding plays a critical role in the development of a company and its products, and brand advertising has represented enormous investment from brands to garner consumer attention within quality content like magazines, TV, music, and news. Yet while digital disruption has flipped traditional media ...
AdExchanger.com: Exchanging Ideas...

Research and Markets: Digital Media - The Dynamic Digital ...
E-commerce is just one sector that will benefit from improvements in infrastructure and a trans-sector approach to governance; e-government, e-health, e-education, social media and e-science are also important elements of a digital economy. ... 2.1 The Internet of Things (IoT). 3. Can we fast-track thedigital economy? 3.1 The OECD on the Internet Economy. 3.2 The relationship between local content, internet development and access prices. 4. Key sectors for the digital economy ...
ITbriefing.net

Xbox Live To Add Advertisments - internet TV
By Matt
Viewers on the Xbox 360 accessing the online content (which in some cases (but generally not the affected ones) requires a premium to 'Xbox Live Gold'), will now have to sit through 15-30 second advert clips at various intervals during their ... Microsoft representative Ross Honey said of how the move will benefit potential advertisers: “With the growth of Xbox Live, advertisers no longer have to choose between digital and TV advertising – we're offering the impact of TV and the ...
World Internet TV on PC

Campaigns and Elections: Targeting the unreachable voter online ...
By Rebecca Hucker
Campaigns and Elections interviewed Targeted Victory co-founder Michael Beach about the increased importance of digital media and why campaigns are focusing on reaching out to voters through online targeting. As fewer people rely on traditional forms of media such as TV and printmedia, campaigns can use online targeting to communicate with unreachable voters and increase awareness about the candidate's positions and key messages. Take a look at the article here and tell ...
Targeted Victory

Top 10 Video Apps for your iPhone or other mobile device ...
By Don Goble
You don't need a professional camera, a production studio, or an editing bay to add videos to youronline publications. Take a look at these 10 apps to help students create simple, but effective videos for their print stories. Courtesy EdReach ...
jeadigitalmedia.org

Legacy Journalists: Keep Fighting the Good Fight | Martin Waymire ...
By Roger Martin
Digital, mobile, web-based communications have forever changed how information is delivered, and how we receive it. The fallout: a ... Longtime WXYZ TV-7 anchor Diana Lewis, a powerful and compassionate black woman who blazed many trails, including sharing the set as legendary anchor Bill Bonds's first female co-anchor. In their ... But realize this: the only way we ever see or read real news in the social media forums is if it is put there by real journalists doing real journalism.
Martin Waymire Advocacy Communications

NewFront Week: Online Ad Dollars Versus TV? Not For Collective
By TVexchanger.com
While the company has been in talks with Digitas about partnering on some NewFront activity, the ad tech firm is taking the opportunity to suggest that brand marketers tie their TV spending and onlineadvertising closer together, rather than calling for ... “There's a realization that most advertisers today are no longer planning online video as part of their digital budgets, they're planning video holistically across broadcast, cable and internet and ultimately, any video-enabled device,” said ...
TVexchanger.com: Interactive...

Five Reasons to Attend Ad Age's Social Engagement/Social TV ...
Ad Age's new Social TV/Social Engagement event will bring together the best minds from the media, social-analytics, brand and agency worlds. ... Lisa Hsia, Executive VP-Digital Media, Bravo Media * Kristin Frank, SVP-Digital, MTV and VH1 ...
Advertising Age - GoodWorks

Beet.TV: Yahoo! Media Chief: "Video on the Internet has Come of Age"
By Andy_Plesser
Video on the Internet has come of age and there is a big movement to premium content, says Mickie Rosen, SVP, Media Network, Yahoo! in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with her at the Yahoo!Digital New Front yesterday...
Beet.TV

Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, And Others Chart The Demise of ...
By Rex Harris
“51 years of print advertising revenue was lost in the last 8,” and the same will happen to TV, he surmised. But all is not lost, digital media comes equipped with tools that allow marketers to pinpoint their messages to the right audience at their exact point in the purchase funnel, eliminating the need to focus on metrics that only demonstrate mass reach. Or as Kaushik puts ... Of course, social media is Vaynerchuk's weapon of choice for enabling this one-to-one connection. Towards the ...
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