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12.03.13
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, December 3, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Apple announced yesterday it has acquired the social analytics firm Topsy for $200 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Topsy is currently paying for access to Twitter data to analyze trends.
In Other Words: Apple just got an all-access-pass to Twitter’s secret sauce without actually purchasing the company. Nice move.
As kids programmers and distributors search for new ways to reach advertisers and viewers, online games and apps have emerged as an effective method to drive engagement–and ultimately revenue and ratings. Because tablets, game consoles and smart phones are often the first places kids connect with brands and shows, more and more kids marketers are using games and apps to connect with them. Join Cynopsis Kids for How to Drive Tune-In & Dollars with Apps and Games webinar on Dec. 11 from 1:30-3p to learn more. Sign up for the webinar at www.cynopsis.com.
Ford’s Fiesta Movement and What’s Trending announced it will host the Second Annual Tube-A-Thon, a digital social telethon bringing celebrities and musicians together to raise money for the homeless youth charity Covenant House. The Tube-A-Thon will be live-streamed from YT’s Space LA on What’s Trending Thursday on Dec. 12, at 9p ET.
To sell a website’s services and products, TV remains the best bet, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Trade association TVB found similar results in its Purchase Funnel Study, which showed that consumers refer to TV ads five times more than those on the web (43% versus 9%) when explaining what drives their buying decisions.
Music discovery app Shazam announced its Sounds of 2014 list today, which includes artists and song predictions for the coming year and trends on the app from the past year.
- 2014 New Artists to Watch: Lucy Hale from the ABC Family’s show, Pretty Little Liars.
- 2013 Year in Review (U.S.):
Top Shazamed Songs: Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines with 5.6 million tags, and Lorde’s Royals with 5.1 million tags.
Top Shazamed Artists: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with 11.7 million tags, and Rihanna with 8.4 million tags.
Top Shazamed TV Shows and Tracks: Girls with Icona Pop’s I Love It Shazamed more than two million times.
Most Popular Shazammed TV Shows: Grey’s Anatomy, Saturday Night Live and the 55th Grammy Awards.
Here are this week’s top ten YouTube channel ratings from OpenSlate, sorted by SlateScore, monthly views and subscriptions. Take a look at the winners in the Comedy category for the week ending November 30, 2013.
| Channel Name | Slate Score | Monthly Views | Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Rubius OMG | 830 | 53,862,570 | 4,514,164 |
| Hikakin TV | 785 | 30,724,110 | 798,262 |
| Jimmy Kimmel | 782 | 111,577,140 | 3,551,585 |
| College Humor | 780 | 55,529,100 | 5,470,083 |
| Enchufe TV | 779 | 49,976,400 | 4,440,660 |
| Nigahiga | 771 | 40,342,440 | 10,858,478 |
| Jenna Marbles | 764 | 36,106,620 | 11,468,237 |
| Comedy Central | 763 | 61,782,930 | 2,635,952 |
| Late Night | 760 | 58,868,760 | 1,686,195 |
| Just For Laughs | 737 | 38,394,060 | 3,716,095 |
Source: Outrigger Media’s OpenSlate is a video analytics platform producing targetable data about the nature and quality of content on YouTube. The SlateScore is a uniform quality rating based on measures of engagement, consistency, influence and momentum. It’s on a scale of 1-1000, with 1000 being better and the average usually around 300. www.openslatestudios.com
Nielsen Twitter TV Top Ten for the week of November 25, 2013
| Program | Date | Unique Audience (000) | Tweets (000) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Walking Dead (AMC) | 12/1 | 5,907.9 | 880.4 |
| 2013 Soul Train Awards (BET) | 12/1 | 3,509.2 | 417.1 |
| The Voice (NBC) | 11/26 | 3,201.5 | 940.7 |
| Dancing with the Stars (ABC) | 11/26 | 2,526.1 | 121.1 |
| Dancing with the Stars (ABC) | 11/25 | 2,148.4 | 91.1 |
| The Voice (NBC) | 11/25 | 1837.5 | 136.8 |
| Pit Bills and Parolees (Animal Planet) | 11/30 | 1,802.7 | 4.9 |
| WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) | 11/25 | 1,493.8 | 132.3 |
| Garth Brooks, Live from Los Vegas (CBS) | 11/29 | 1,450.7 | 39.4 |
| The X Factor (NBC) | 11/27 | 1,067.1 | 126.2 |
Source: Nielsen SocialGuide. SocialGuide captures relevant Tweets from three hours before, during and three hours after an episode’s initial broadcast, local time. Unique Audience measures the audience of relevant Tweets ascribed to an episode from when the Tweets are sent until the end of the broadcast day at 5am. The data includes new/live primetime and late fringe episodes only and excludes sports events. Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings are only available for English-language U.S. Broadcast and Cable Networks.
Digital company Evolve Media announced it has hired Mitch Rotter as its Senior Vice President of Marketing. Rotter joins Evolve from Break Media where he was Executive Vice President of Programming.
Digital video advertising agency Eyeview has hired Christina Calvaneso as its new Head of Finance and Business Operations, Amit Mashiah as its Senior Vice President of Marketing and Antony Chen as its Vice President of Product Development. Calvaneso joins the company from Criteo, Mashiah from McCann Erickson Israel and Chen from Yahoo.
Digital health source Precision Health Media has named Peter Fontana as its new Vice President of Advertising Sales and Richard O’Connor as its first Chief Financial Officer. Fontana was most recently Director-Digital Ad Sales at AMC Networks, and O’Connor was previously co-founder and CFO of Prime Visibility Networks. Additionally, Andy Chapman has joined the company’s Board of Advisors.
Data company Umbel has hired Jim McNamara as its new Senior Vice President of Global Sales. McNamara was previously Head of Sales for Verizon’s Precision Market insights.
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Just in time to boost the Cyber Monday buzz, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shared a peek of Amazon’s next major update: drone delivery. The new service, Prime Air, could deliver purchases within 30 minutes of placing an order. However, Bezos said the drone service won’t hit the skies for another four or five years because of Federal Aviation Administration standards. Check out the just-released demo of how PrimeAir would work at www.cynopsis.com.
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Wednesday *December 11, 2013*1:30-3:00 p.m. ET
Hosted by:Cathy Applefeld Olson, Editor, Cynopsis Kids
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~Determine what games and apps work best to reach different kids demos
~Analyze the difference between smart brand extensions vs. those that cannibalize the mothership
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12.03.13
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