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08.24.15 Good morning. It’s Monday August 24, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Watcheroo Premieres and Tune-in Alerts for August 24-30:
– People Now at People.com, Monday-Friday at 8:30a ET and 11:30a ET: Guests include Snowboarder Amy Purdy, Actress Soleil Moon Frye, Charlotte McKinney (Joe Dirt), YouTube celeb Frankie Grande, actor Ed Burns (TNT’s Public Morals), singer Jordan Sparks and British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (Z for Zachariah).
– Hulu: the complete first season of Fargo (FX) will be available to stream on Aug. 27.
Consumers are opting for Amazon Fire TV devices over Apple TV, according to a new survey from Parks Associates. Roku (34%) continued to lead the way in consumer set-top-box choice, followed by Google Chromecast (23%) devices. New entrant Amazon snatched third place from Apple, which held the slot in 2014. “The market consolidation around these four brands forces new entrants to develop more creative features and functionality to tap into the strong consumer demand for streaming content,” said Barbara Kraus, Director of Research, Parks Associates. The report found that 20 % of U.S. broadband households own at least one streaming media player, such as a Roku 3, Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV; 8% own at least one streaming stick, such as a Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV Stick, or Roku’s HDMI Streaming Stick, and 2 percent own both types of devices.
In more Amazon news…the e-commerce company signed a multiyear content-licensing deal with Open Road Films landing Prime Instant Video exclusive streaming rights to theatrical releases. Films coming to Prime users starting in 2017 include titles such as Fifty Shades of Black, thriller Triple 9 and Mother’s Day.
Shareablee signed an agreement with Bloomberg LP to bring social data to Bloomberg Terminals starting in September. Initially, Shareablee will provide info on 134 public retail companies. “The data will enable our research team and clients to monitor and analyze how different brands interact with their audience online and to what extent a brand’s efforts gain traction in the market,” said Chen Grazutis, a retail analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. “The ability to track key performance data has become imperative in order to identify industry trends.”
YouTube expanded its music catalogue, adding more than 1,000 new, royalty-free tracks for its YouTube Audio Library. The top five most popular tracks used by creators from the collection include “The Creek” and “Mr. Pink” by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena, “Good Starts” and “Sound Off” by Jingle Punks and “Dub Zap” by Gunnar Olsen. Creators can use the free songs for background music and sound effects.
On the heels of its CraveOnline relaunch, Evolve Media’s TotalBeauty announced the winners of its sixth annual TotalBeauty Awards. For the Readers’ Choice division of the awards, the publication’s 11 million monthly readers (comScore, June 2015) cast votes for their all-time favorite products, tools and technologies. “TotalBeauty is the largest beauty-focused site, and now as part of the TotallyHer Style and Beauty portfolio has even greater visibility – it’s no wonder that we received more votes than ever before,” Rebecca Schmitt, General Manager of TotallyHer Media, told Cynopsis. Check out the winners online.
Univision News entered into a partnership with Miami Dade College to implement fellowship and internship programs in the digital fields of animation and game development. Beginning in the summer of 2016, a student from MDC’s new academic program in Computer Programming and Analysis – with concentrations in Animation and Game Art or Game Development and Design– will be selected as the first Fellow assigned to Univision’s Digital Newsroom.
OTT + VOD
VOD Service CuriosityStream is going back to school with two original series for kids and parents this fall. The shows, Quarx and Mind Blowing Breakthroughs, will each feature 26 episodes focused on history and science. CuriosityStream is also offering a special back-to-school subscription discount to new members who sign up online.
Celebrity wardrobe stylist Ali Levine joined OWNZONES with a new channel for the ad-free network. “We’re always looking for ways to tap into new audiences, and we’re thrilled to have Ali and her army of fashion followers join the OWNZONES family,” Dan Goman, Founder and CEO of OWNZONES, told Cynopsis. “She brings such great energy and enthusiasm to everything she does, and her content is extremely engaging – it’s exactly what we were looking for.” Levine credits include styling for TV series such as Happily Divorced, In Time and New Girl.
Last week, Endemol Beyond made 700 videos available to Vessel members, including eight formats from Michelle Phan’s ICON Network and programming from Pitbull, Jessica Sanchez, Brittany Furlan, Drea de Matteo and Andy Milonakis. Users can also stream eight series from ICON Network, such as Pretty Little Pranksters, Everyday Luxe, The FAQs and Fascinating Women.
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The Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA) released its annual survey of media planners to identify the disruption in television and trends in mobile and programmatic advertising. Key results include:
– More than two-thirds (68 percent) of media planners rated TV high in effectiveness today, but just under one-half (49 percent) believe TV will be as effective in three years.
– Planners expect other screens’ shares of media budgets to rise over the next three years: +86 percent mobile, +67 percent online, +34 percent digital-place based media (DPB).
– Nearly nine out of ten planners (88 percent) said they are buying programmatically for all brands they work on today. Among this group, 28 percent of their total media spend is being bought programmatically. Three years from now, they expect this figure to grow to 48 percent of budgets.
RESEARCH
EXCLUSIVE TO CYNOPSIS: Shareablee Unified Social TV Ratings of Top Streaming TV Shows based on the action metrics across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the week of August 10-August 16.
Show (Channel) / Total Actions / Total Content / Actions Per Post / Fans/Followers
1. Orange Is The New Black (Netflix) / 365,204 / 23 / 15,878 / 6,522,384
2. Arrested Development (Netflix) / 132,892 / 12 / 11,074 / 2,303,546
3. BoJack Horseman (Netflix) / 56,962 / 61 / 934 / 418,447
4. Community (Yahoo! Screen) / 43,337 / 22 / 1,970 / 2,088,443
5. Daredevil (Netflix) / 36,328 / 30 / 1,211 / 1,317,747
6. Trailer Park Boys (Netflix) / 35,972 / 12 / 2,998 / 1,538,775
7. House of Cards (Netflix) / 32,215 / 14 / 2,301 / 2,759,921
8. Sense8 (Netflix) / 25,641 / 12 / 2,137 / 707,068
9. Dinotrux (Netflix) / 14,092 / 16 / 881 / 27,601
10. East Los High (Hulu) / 13,141 / 44 / 299 / 40,656
Source: Shareablee is an authority on audience intelligence, competitive benchmarking and actionable insights for social media. The official social media analytics partner of comScore, Shareablee measures a census of global properties and collects brand audience and engagement data across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Tumblr, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest. To access and subscribe to the full weekly ratings for TV shows, new fall premieres, primetime by day and genre visit here. Actions based on post-level likes, shares, favorites, retweets and comments.
Endemol Shine Group appointed Wim Ponnet as Group Director of Strategy + Commercial Development. Ponnet comes from Yahoo EMEA, where he was the Senior Director, Strategy + Operations since 2011.
Ranker launched its video division, and hired Inger Lund Carter to further its content offerings as the Vice President, Content and Programming. Carter was previously the Yahoo! Front Page Editorial Director. Ramping up its advertising operations, Ranker named David Cohn, formerly of Askmen and Crave Online.com, as the new Executive Vice President, Sales.
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1) Celebrate the Winners and industry achievements of 2015 (view finalist list)
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See you tomorrow,
Jessica Reese
08.24.15
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JOB OPENING: TREASURY ANALYST/Fox/LA: Work within the Fox Entertainment Group Treasury Team assisting with liquidity risk mngmnt, cash mngmnt, & foreign exchange exposure mngmnt. 2 to 4 yrs related treasury, finance or accounting. Experience. Full info/apply HERE (8/26)
JOB OPENING: MGR, CONNECTED CONTENT PRGRMNG/MTV/NYC: Help oversee strategy/mngmnt of brand’s YouTube channels. Prioritize content from our series, editorial/dig/orig/events teams on key pages. 2 yrs exp content strategy. BA req’d mktg/pref’d. Full info/apply HERE (8/26)
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JOB OPENING: SR MGR AD SALES MKTG/TLC/LA: Client focused, relationship builder to develop/execute intgrtd ad sales partnerships for TLC. Resp for Upfront, CY Renewals, responding to RFPs. 5-7 yrs ad sales mktg exp req’d, movie studio and digital exp pref. Full info/apply HERE (8/26)
JOB OPENING: SR MGR PUBLICITY/History/NYC: HISTORY is looking for a self-starter to join the NY communications team, reporting to the VP Publicity. 4-7 yrs exp in television program publicity. Must have background in television – network or cable news a must. Full info/apply HERE (8/26)
JOB OPENING: MGR, SALES ADMIN/TV ONE/NY: Sprvs team/coordinators to review allocations & flighting; ensure that inventory load is sufficient for effective placement. BA deg &/or 3 yrs exp operations, traffic or ad sales. Exp w/brdway traffic sys pref’d. Full info/apply HERE (8/26)
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JOB OPENING: MOTION/BROADCAST DESIGNER/Comedy Central/NYC: Oversees prod for many of our toolkit-based promotions. 3-5 yrs motion graphic design exp req’d. Previous exp at TV ntwk is strongly pref’d. Exp w/Flash and Cinema 4D a + Full info/apply HERE (8/26)
JOB OPENING: RSCH ANALYST/WME/IMG/NY: Support media rsch activities, sports mrkt. Dom. & Int’l focus. Min 2 yr media rsrch exp. Strong quant req’d. Exp w/rsch sys (ie Nielsen, Simmons, Scarborough). Resume: [email protected] (8/26)
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JOB OPENING: UNIT PUBLICIST (Nat’l Synd Talk Show)/Summerdale Productions/Culver City CA: Resp for daily consumer publicity efforts & dvlpng/implementing episodic PR strategies to drive tune-in. 5 yrs exp TV PR req’d. Excl writing/verbal/interpersonal skills. Resume HERE (8/26)
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