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07.18.14 Good morning. It’s Friday, July 18, 2014, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Microsoft’s bad news kept rolling in yesterday after Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella announced plans to cut 18,000 jobs in the next 12 months, with Xbox Entertainment Studios getting the boot shortly after. Head of Microsoft’s Xbox division and Microsoft Studios Phil Spencer confirmed that it will shut down the studio in the coming months, but those programs currently in production – the doc Signal to Noise, digital series Halo: Nightfall and the Halo TV series – will be completed. XES will continue to supply interactive sports content NFL on Xbox, and its app partnerships will not be impacted. Xbox Originals just debuted last month with the street soccer series Every Street United, and the Xbox console sales doubled in the same period after the $399 Kinect-free version of the Xbox One hit store shelves.
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True Blood actress Deborah Ann Woll’s next gig will be in Marvel’s upcoming Netflix series. As the HBO series ends this year, Woll will play the character “Karen Page” and the love interest to Daredevil’s (Charlie Cox) alter ego “Matt Murdock.” The series will hit the streaming service next year. Additionally, Netflix cast June Diane Raphael in its next original comedy Grace and Frankie starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. The New Girl and Burning Love actress will play the daughter of Fonda’s Character.
More Netflix news: the streaming service and Walt Disney Studios announced a new multiyear licensing deal starting in 2015, which will provide Canadian subscribers with live-action and animated movies eight months after the theatre release. Netflix has a comparable deal with Disney and U.S. subs, which will begin in 2016.
The New York Times debuted its new science video channel for the series Out There. With the new channel, the show’s second episode was also released; new eps will come out the first Wednesday of each month.
The Travel Channel premiered the ten-episode digital series All American Sideshow on TravelChannel.com yesterday. Each seven-minute ep goes behind the scenes of the performers who headline the only big-tent traveling sideshow left, World of Wonders.
CraveOnline is partnering with TNT’s The Last Ship to throw an offline/online Comic-Con happening, called CraveOnline Conquers The Con. For the companies’ third collaboration, an event will be held on the USS Midway Navy ship to go along with the theme of the show. CraveOnline readers can keep up on all Comic-Con events in branded takeovers by TNT.
Crackle’s upcoming original series Sports Jeopardy! with Dan Patrick, expected this fall, has already attracted more than 25,000 fans to try out for the show. “It seems that all of the fantasy sports addicts have found a way to cash in on all that invested time: by auditioning for Sports Jeopardy!” said Patrick. Auditions included a qualifying test with 30 clues in 30 sports categories, and those who passed played a mock game and participated in a short interview.
The seventh and final season of FX’s Sons of Anarchy premieres Tuesday, September 9 at 10p with a one hour and 45 minute episode, followed by live post-show Anarchy Afterward. The after-show, hosted by Chris Franjola (Chelsea Lately), will air live on FX for the premiere and series finale, and stream on FXNOW three other times during the season.
MTV announced a multi-year pro-social campaign Look Different that includes a “Good Look Panel” of experts, musicians and MTV talent to help young people see issues in a new light. The first panel will participate in a Twitter conversation today. The campaign will also feature a contest to challenge the audience to create a safe place online for these conversations and a series of new on-air and online spots.
Fusion CEO Isaac Lee gave a tip of the hat to his staff Thursday in a note congratulating them on the net’s wide-ranging World Cup coverage. Lee pointed to digital efforts that made great strides building a community around the net’s Soccer Gods franchise, “increasing the social following of @SoccerGods by over 1000 percent,” with followers “ actively engaged at levels that surpassed all our benchmarks.”
AOL, Ora TV and The New York Times scooped up nominations for the 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmys that were announced this week. The NYT took a total of seven noms, for its doc A Game of Shark and Minnow, Gun Country and other videos. Ora TV snagged recognition for its Larry King Now show, and AOL’s The Future Starts Here was nominated. AOL was also nominated for Steve Buscemi’s Park Bench at the Primetime Emmys. The ceremony will take place in New York City on Sept. 30.
Look out, Bay Area! Cynopsis is holding its first west coast Video Summit – Small Screen, Big Ideas on Wednesday, August 6 at the StumbleUpon office in San Francisco. Speakers from comScore, Comcast Ventures, Mediasmith, Discovery Digital Networks, 5by, LiveRail, PopSugar Studios, Portal A, Tubular Labs, Union+Webster, Videology, and other experts, startups, tech providers and content creators will discuss the future of digital video, from content development and marketing to advertising and measurement. Early bird registration ends July 18, so register now at http://www.cynopsis.com/event/digital-video-business-summit/.
Time for Plan C? After the Supreme Court’s June ruling that Aereo violated broadcast networks’ copyrights, the Internet broadcast streaming service applied for the copyright license available to cable systems. But on Wednesday, the U.S. Copyright Office informed Aereo in a letter that it does not consider it Aereo a cable system. “In the view of the Copyright Office,” wrote general counsel Jacqueline Charlesworth, “Internet retransmissions of broadcast television fall outside the scope of the Section 111 license.
Former TV news producer and current President of Pace Public Relations, Annie Scranton, is marrying The Blaze TV’s Senior News Producer Michael Sorrentino on August 16. The two met as producers for Geraldo Rivera’s syndicated show, Geraldo at Large, almost ten years ago. Congratulations!
If you’ve got happy news, weddings, babies, engagements you’d like shared with your industry colleagues for a new feature going up soon on our web site, send to [email protected].
AD PLATFORMS
Yesterday, NetSeer announced its new mobile ad unit, called FixedLinks. The platform is specifically meant for “outside the app” using just mobile web content to drive click-through rates.
EXEC MOVES
Jay Bienstock was named Talpa Media USA’s new CEO yesterday. He joins the company from A. Smith & Co. where he was Managing Director.
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ESPN held its annual ESPY’s Awards earlier this week, and Sports Center veteran and cancer survivor Stuart Scott was given the Jimmy V Award, tied to The V Foundation for Cancer Research. Stuart’s speech circulated quickly on social media; in it he declared that “you beat cancer by how you live,” and ended by giving his youngest daughter a hug on stage. Get the tissues ready and check out his acceptance at www.cynopsis.com/#video.
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