CYNOPSISDIGITAL
12.07.16

Good morning. It’s Wednesday December 7, 2016 and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

 
The Supreme Court overturned Apple‘s $400 million award in its long-running patent lawsuit against Samsung, ruling that juries need not award damages based on the profits for an entire product if the item consists of many parts. The case will be returned to the Federal Circuit so that the damages can be reassessed.
 
Twitter says the Rio Summer Olympics Games were the top global trending topics of 2016, with some 187 million tweets. One TV program made the top 10: Game of Thrones (#10).
 
Innovid’s newly launched Marketing Cloud Suite provides integrations for video with Adobe, IBM, and Oracle. First- and third-party data can be used to create personalized video experiences.
 
KIDOZ, the content discovery platform for kids, announced it’s collaborating with ToonsTV, Rovio Animation’s multi-channel video entertainment service. It marks the first time ToonsTV video content will be available outside of Rovio Animation’s own digital platforms.
 
In the last 12 months, YouTube has paid out $1 billion to the music industry from advertising alone, according to TubeFilter. YouTube has come under fire from artists and labels seeking more compensation and better copyright protection.
 
The Keys of Christmas, a holiday special from Endemol Shine Beyond USA starring Mariah Carey, YouTube star Rudy Mancuso, and DJ Khaled, will debut on YouTube Red on Dec. 19.
 

 
VIZIO has added XUMO, the live and OTT/VOD platform available to more than 20 million smart TVs in the U.S., to VIZIO SmartCast. XUMO‘s catalogue of more than 70 premium OTT channels includes FOX Sports, People/Entertainment Weekly Network and Sports Illustrated.
 
 

 
Sonos officially rolled out third-party app support for Spotify on Tuesday, making it possible for Spotify users to control playback on Sonos speakers directly from the music service’s mobile apps. The feature was announced in August, and went to beta trial in early November.
 
Jason Goldberg of e-commerce company Fab said his new startup Pepo has raised $2.3 million in seed funding, according to BusinessInsider. Pepo is a messaging app.
 

 
During 3Q16, 52% of all video viewing came from mobile devices, says Ooyala’s Global Index report – up a whopping 233% since 3Q13. Viewing on phones is more extended, too, with 48 percent of viewing on smartphones related to clips that are five minutes or longer, and 30 percent of viewing about videos that are 20 minutes or longer.
 
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 capture 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 (11/28/16 – 12/4/16)
 
 
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.
 
 

 
Rob Roy has joined Sprint as Chief Digital Officer. He most recently was Senior Vice President, Digital Revenue, for Comcast.
 
Conde Nast named Bruce Perlmutter SVP of Production. He joins Conde Nast from BuzzFeed, where he was Executive Producer.
 
 

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