Cynopsis: DIGITAL
12.16.13

Good morning. It’s Monday, December 16, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

Charter Communications is preparing an offer to acquire Time Warner Cable for less than $140 a share, according to a report from Bloomberg. Charter is the fourth largest U.S. cable company; TWC, which is the second largest, lost more than 300,000 customers during this year’s CBS battle, and continues to fall behind Verizon’s FIOS. With competition increasing from streaming companies like Netflix and retrans fees rising, consolidation would give Charter more bargaining muscle in future discussions with content providers; TWC talked to Comcast about a merger earlier this year.TWC is still expanding its residential Internet and phone businesses.

Video advertising platform BrightRoll is partnering with Nielsen. Per the deal, Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings will be integrated into BrightRoll’s console platform for advanced measurement and analytics with digital video ads.

Telemundo Media struck a licensing deal with online video service DramaFever to stream 1000 episodes of its telenovelas. DramaFever will make the telenovelas, with English subtitles, available on its website and mobile apps.

Weather.com launched Alive today, the new series from AOL‘s Home of the Brave creator Efran Films. Consisting of six episodes about people surviving brushes with death, “Alive is our fifth weather film series this year and it’s a knockout punch,” Weather.com Editor and Chief and Vice President Neil Katz told Cynopsis. “I would put it up against any web series in 2013.” The series will also be the basis to a two-hour television show, to be produced next summer.

On Friday, we reported on HBO’s Game of Thrones‘ social media campaign to “roast” the show’s King Joffrey Baratheon. Since Thursday, the campaign has brought in more than 40,000 tweets with a total of more than 62,000 roasts from Facebook, Vine, Instagram and www.RoastJoffrey.com. GOT premieres in Spring 2014.

Instagram released its top photos and hashtags of 2013, and surprisingly not one of was a photo of a dog from the 55 million daily posts. The top photo was of Will Smith and Justin Bieber, with almost 1.5 million likes and more than 60,000 comments. The most Instagrammed day of the year was “Thanksgivukkah” (overlap of the Thanksgiving and Hannukkah holidays). The top hashtag of the year was…#love.

The five remaining episodes of GQ’s NFL doc-series Casualties of the Gridiron were released today on the GQ Digital Network. The show examines how players who’ve sustained serious injuries in NFL play are healing and faring, post-retirement.

AwesomenessTV kicked off the 12 Days of Awesomeness yesterday; the show features performances from stars such as Fifth Harmony and Cody Simpson. Aquafina FlavorSplash presents the Christmas-themed content, as part of its #MakeitMerry campaign.

Beyonce gave her fans an early Christmas gift overnight on Friday when she dropped her self-titled new album on iTunes without any notice. It’s being called a “visual album,” because it includes 17 music videos in addition to 14 tracks. The social media reaction was so intense that it crashed the iTunes site. “Beyonce” is available only through Apple’s music store; it will hit shelves on Thursday.

Google will now be selling display ads based on viewability. Business Insider reports that to solve the problem of half of all online ads living in places that users aren’t able to see, Google customers can now make real-time display ad purchases that meet the Interactive Advertising Bureau‘s viewability standard, which requires the ad to be at least half viewable on the page for one second or more. “We applaud Google’s announcement,” Ad platform company GumGum COO Phil Schraeder told Cynopsis. “As brand dollars continue to shift to digital, there’s an inherent increased expectation on ROI.” GumGum recently added a similar viewability metric to its platform in a partnership with DoubleVerify.

TV Binge-viewing is no longer a weekend-in-pajamas activity; it’s the norm, according to a Harris Interactive study on behalf of Netflix. The study surveyed 1,500 online U.S. adults who stream TV shows at least once a week, and found that people binge watch (defined as watching two to six episodes in one sitting) 61 percent of the time.

Man Made Music has named Dan Venne as Vice President, Supervising Producer and also hired Kristy Zeigler as Manager of Brand Partnerships & Music Strategy. Venne was previously Man Made’s Senior Producer. Zeigler, formerly of The Music Playground/The Lodge, worked in music licensing.

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Media company DeskSite just launched a new video network app, which DeskSite CEO Richard Gillam says could leave Hulu in the dust. The free (for now) app for desktops, tablets game consoles, smart TVs and Blu-ray players, is partnering with NFL teams to provide fans with hours of exclusive team content every day. DeskSite users can choose their favorite team from a list including the New York Giants and Jets, Baltimore Ravens, St. Louis Rams, and gain access to 20 to 50 hours per month of HD video during the regular season. So far, DeskSite’s users watch 12 hours per month during the regular NFL season, compared to Hulu’s four hours per month in the same time period. Marketers can target video ads by age and gender, because DeskSite assigns each video player a unique identity with the person’s demographic profile. (i.e., if the app is used by a woman it will specifically feature advertising from female-focused brands, which is hardly seen during NFL programming even though women make-up 45 percent of the 180 million NFL viewing audience.) Check out a demo video of the DeskSite app at www.cynopsis.com.

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CYNOPSIS SPORTS MEDIA AWARDS
Entry Deadline:Jan. 17, 2014 |Late Submissions: Jan. 24, 2014

Here are the NEW categories added to this year’s awards:
Best B2B Program, Integrated Campaign, On-air Technological Innovation, On-air Technological Innovation in a Sponsorship,Partnership with an Athlete, Proprietary Asset, Retail Activation, Sales Professional & Best Sports Blog.

Learn about the awards program & how to enter:
http://www.cynopsis.com/events/sports-awards.

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Jessica Reese
12.16.13

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