CYNOPSISDIGITAL
07.27.16

Good morning. It’s Wednesday July 27, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

Ad tech stack: In ad tech, a stack refers to a single vendor that offers a variety of marketing services. Stacks are designed to consolidate the steps of ad-buying, ad-selling, inventor management, billing, measurement, and reporting into a single integrated software suite. Depending on which package is chosen, services such as social media, search, retargeting, and offline media might also be part of the offering.

Twitter reported lackluster Q2 earnings. The company saw $602 million worth of revenue in the second quarter of 2016 – good for a net loss of $107 million. The company did improve over Q2 of 2015, when it lost $136.6 million. Twitter’s monthly active users increased a bit for the quarter, from 310 million to 313 million. Twitter’s $535 million of ad revenue made for a year-over-year increase of 18%. (Mobile revenue accounted for 89% of Twitter’s ad revenue.) Data licensing and other revenue added up to $67 million – a 35% year-over-year increase. Wall Street wasn’t thrilled; Twitter’s stock fell over 9% in after-hours trading.

Apple Music has acquired an unscripted series based on the Carpool Karaoke segments from James Corden’s The Late Late Show. The Late Late Show’s Carpool Karaoke segments have been extremely popular, regularly going viral. Not surprisingly, the new series had set off something of a bidding war among cable outlets and SVOD services. Apple’s decision was surprising, but it makes sense: The company has found that Carpool Karaoke segments, which feature celebrities and musicians singing hit songs, actually drive Apple Music users to the featured songs.

In April, Facebook unveiled the Surround 360, its new 360-degree video camera. The social media giant has now made good on its promise to open source the camera: Yesterday, Facebook posted the camera’s blueprints, as well as a video overview demonstrating how to assemble it, online. It’s probably safe to guess that only professional developers and production companies will be building their own Surround 360; Facebook says the materials needed to build the camera cost about $30,000.

The VR technology startup Kite & Lightning announced that it has raised $2.5 in new funding. Raine Ventures led the seed round. Kite & Lightning, which is known for working in cinematic VR, says that it will use the funding to create Babylon Battle Royale, a virtual world built around competitive spectator gaming.

Samira Wiley

(Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black) is headed to Hulu. The actress will join the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s upcoming drama series based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. The show, which will star Elisabeth Moss (AMC’s Mad Men) is slated to debut next year.

BuzzFeed Video has premiered its first series on Verizon’s Go90 mobile video service. The unscripted show, called Modern Sex, centers on real millennial couples who consult with “intimacy experts” and try new experiences. The first episode is now available. The first episode is rated TV-MA, and comes with a viewer discretion warning.

In a February Hulu special, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog lampooned the 2016 presidential primary circus. But clearly the year in politics has been far too ridiculous for just one Triumph special. The dirty-minded, Robert Smigel-voiced puppet was awarded a follow-up special, and now that special has a release date. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Summer Election Special 2016 will debut on Hulu August 11. The special will feature footage and interviews from the major parties’ political conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia. The special, created and co-EP’d by Smigel, is made in partnership with Funny or Die.

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The multi-platform production company HooplaHa-Only Good News recently announced a partnership with the live-streaming network Roker Media. HooplaHa will produce Roker Media’s first slate of original programming. The first production to emerge from the deal will be JoyStory, a series that follows the JoyRide cycling instructors Jared Marinelli and Adam Keller as they plan their wedding. (The same-sex couple’s flash mob marriage proposal gained some viral attention earlier this year.) JoyStory premieres in August; other HooplaHa-produced content will also aim for an uplifting, socially aware tone. Roker Media was launched in April by Al Roker, JR Jackson, Charlie Stettler, Lyor Cohen, and Fred Seibert. “Live streaming enables us to get closer to our audience than ever before possible,” Roker Media CEO Ron Pruett told Cynopsis Digital. “By incorporating HooplaHa into our slate of programming, we have a great opportunity to truly pay it forward, to inspire people to think differently and make a positive impact.”

T-Mobile

has added several new services to Binge On, its mobile data plan that allows for unlimited streaming of select digital services. The new services include ABC, Apple Music, Dish Anywhere, FOX Now, and a number of others. Binge On already featured networks such as NBC and ESPN, and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. T-Mobile says that Binge On now includes over 100 video services.

Our stars may be young, but oh do they shine… The 2016 Rising Star Awards winners have been announced and will be honored at a swanky reception on Thursday, September 15 in NYC. Visit the site for more information and join us to celebrate!

According to a detailed new IAB report conduced by C3Research, two thirds of U.S. consumers using ad blockers could potentially be convinced to uninstall their ad blocking software. The report finds that 26 percent of desktop users and 15 percent of mobile consumers use ad blockers. About 32 percent of ad blockers are men between the ages of 18 and 34, and 22 percent are women of the same age range. The report concludes that giving users controls (such as a video skip button, or thumbs up/down ratings) can prove effective at getting users to refrain from blocking ads. Also effective: assuring users of site safety; for instance, providing guarantees that a site and its ads are malware- and virus-free, and won’t slow down browsing. Meanwhile, the report finds that disrupting the flow of a user’s experience makes it harder to win them over. (Users, for instance, will be repelled by ads that block content, by long video ads that come before short videos, by pop-ups, and by full-page ads.) You can find the report here.

The ListenFirst Television Interest (TVI) Rating (TM) is a standardized measurement of the most buzzed-about TV programs on linear TV and streaming services. A complement to ListenFirst’s other syndicated data products (such as the ListenFirst Digital Audience Rating – TV), the metrics included in the rating are the purest form of showing interest digitally, since they’re organic actions that are largely unaffected by paid media. Programs that surface on the TVI leaderboards are the most hashtagged on Facebook, Google+, and Tumblr, as well as most searched for on Wikipedia (used as a proxy for organic search volume).

Streaming Series (7/18/16 – 7/24/16)

Source: ListenFirst. The TVI Rating aggregates metrics that measure organically generated activity by fans of the TV show. The metric includes total volume of official hashtag mentions on Facebook, Google+, and Tumblr, along with Wikipedia page views (as a proxy for organic search volume) for a show as a percentage of the total volume of the same activities for all shows.

To determine the TV ads generating the most digital response, iSpot.tv measures digital actions across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and all major search engines. Below, a complete look at the brands that backed all four days of major-network coverage of the Republican National Convention last week, plus the brands backing the Democratic National Convention broadcasts so far.

“Live from Cleveland and Philly”

“Last week we gave you a partial (two-day) view of the advertising during the primetime RNC specials airing each night on ABC, CBS and NBC while the Cleveland convention was still going. Now the full four-day data is in, and the top 5 advertisers by estimated spend across the three nets were: Novartis heart-drug brand Entresto, Pfizer (with an ad spotlighting its R&D efforts rather than a specific drug), Liberty University, Tylenol and Mazda. The winner in terms of digital share of voice: Entresto (27.93%). As for the DNC, the brands with the top estimated spend from the first night of the Philadelphia convention were: Ancestry, Aleve, Safelite Auto Glass, Mazda and Pfizer. The winner in terms of digital share of voice: Ancestry, whose ad for its AncestryDNA product featured the story of a woman who discovered, to her surprise, that she had Native American heritage.” ­iSpot.tv

Turner has made some moves. Pola Changnon, who previously served for a decade as VP and Brand Creative Director for Turner Classic Movies (TCM), has been promoted to SVP of Marketing, Creative and Brand. In the newly created roll, she’ll develop strategic, integrated marketing and social media plans for TCM’s brand extensions. She’ll also oversee brand management, design, and creative vision for both TCM and FilmStruck, the streaming movie service from TCM and the Criterion Collection. Meanwhile, E.B. O’Neill has been hired as FilmStruck’s Senior Director of Subscription Acquisition & Management. She previously served as Director of Acquisition Marketing at edX. In her new role, O’Neill will lead FilmStruck’s strategic planning and day-to-day operations, such as consumer outreach, acquisition, and subscriber analytics.

Tough one: In Amazon’s dystopian drama The Man In the High Castle, what’s the name of the film reel that shows an “alternate” history in which the Allies won World War II? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone.)

Our Last Trivia Question: Along with Mike Shoemaker, who co-created the now-concluded Hulu animated series The Awesomes? Answer: Seth Meyers. Kudos to Andy Pittman-TAMU/TX, Louis Lewow-Lewow Media Group/GA, Rachel Wohlfeld-OMD/NY, Matt Meachem-Gracenote, David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/CA, Dan Nolan-Monumental Sports & Entertainment, and Connie Korngold-Hulu

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For close to a year, IBM has been letting Watson, its cognitive supercomputer, make the decisions on some of its digital ad campaigns. The company says that, on average, Watson reduces cost-per-click by 35%. Now the company says that Watson will be used in all of its programmatic campaigns by the end of 2016. You can check out IBM’s video overview of its Watson-driven programmatic efforts here (video produced by Magnet Media).

See you on tomorrow,
David Teich
07.27.16

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JOB OPENING: MGR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT & INSIGHTS/DISCOVERY/NYC: Strategic thinker to develop/create the roadmap for measuring and valuing audiences at Discovery across linear/digital. Turn findings into stories/trends to provide strategic direction. Work directly w. Nielsen, Comscore/Rentrak, etc. Full info/apply HERE (7/31) 

JOB OPENING: ACCOUNT MANAGER/comScore Inc/NYC: Establish strong & productive relationships with clients. Direct Network & Research Exp a must. 3-5 Years Ntwrk Sales or Research Experience Req’d. Competency working with complex research/measurement data. Cover/resume to: [email protected] (7/31)

JOB OPENING: SUPERVISING PRODUCER/CSI Sports/NYC: Produce original programming for 24/7 Live Sports Network + National/Intl Synd. +7 yrs Post-Prod TV exp. Management and sports background req’d. Strong organizational skills necessary for broadcast and multi-media projects. Res HERE [email protected] (7/30)

JOB OPENING: DIGITAL RESEARCH MGR/NYC: Provide quantitative research for entertainment programming and media landscape. Track & analyze digital and linear traffic across all platform using internal & external data. Full info/apply HERE (7/29)

JOB OPENING: SR. RESEARCH ANALYST/ANIMAL PLANET/NY: Energetic critical thinker to analyze/report Nielsen TV ratings & consumer findings for Animal Planet. Manage submissions of Nielsen program lineups. 2+ yrs Nielsen exp req’d. Full info/apply HERE (7/29)

JOB OPENING: PROJECT MGR, SHORT FORM-VIDEO/DIGITAL/Nickelodeon/NYC: Mng plan’g, briefing & management of all Nick owned & operated digital platforms. Min 5 yrs project mngmnt, prod mngmnt or related exp. Demonstrated orgnz’d self-starter who is able to mng mult tasks deftly & see the big pic. Full info/apply HERE (7/29)

JOB OPENING: MGR INSIGHTS & INNOVATION/DISCOVERY/CHI or NYC: Strong sales storyteller to empower Ad Sales Team w/insights to drive digital sales using data to prove the value of partnering w/Discovery. Manage+deliver ad hoc analytics requests. 4+ yrs exp req’d. Full info/apply HERE (7/29)

JOB OPENING: SUPERVISING PRODUCER-BE/TLC/MD: Creative leader to concept/write/produce/edit branded entertainment + integrated mktg cmpgns. Collab w/ad sales to create content for advertisers+ true to TLC brand. Proven success a must, 7 yrs exp. Full info/apply HERE (7/29)

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JOB OPENING: MKTG MGR/FX Networks/LA: Work on development of mktg & media ideas tied to consumer launches. He/she will identify, dvlp & work w/media & creative agencies on mktg & media campaigns 5 yrs work exp mktg/media for a TV network or TV acct at an ad agency req’d http://bit.ly/29PbIwl (7/28)

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FALL INTERNSHIP CREDITS ONLY: FALL INTERNS/ONE World Sports/Stamford: College student to Asst w/prgrm sched’g duties & prod coord for live sports. Interest or knwldg of video editing prgrms pref’d (Adobe Premier) Strong knwlg variety of sports & sports statistics.? Social Media & Graphic Desig exp req’d. Res/cver: [email protected] (7/31)

FALL INTERNSHIPS CREDITS ONLY: FALL INTERN/Bookmarks4Fun/NYC or REMOTE: Consumer goods company seeks motivated interns to work on social media, research and marketing for a fun new kid’s product. Should be articulate and comfortable writing. No experience necessary. Apply: [email protected] (7/29)

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