Cynopsis: DIGITAL
01.30.14
Good morning. It’s Thursday, January 30, 2014, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Maker Studios is partnering with musician will.i.am to develop an online video platform. will.i.am will produce original content to showcase his own creative projects and affiliated artists like YouTube’s Baby Kaely, recording artist Cody Wise and The Voice UK runner-up Leah McFall. The content will stream on will.i.am’s YouTube channel, and will include e-commerce and interactive mobile components.
Digital sports agency SendtoNews signed a partnership deal with Sports News Television, which is itself a partnership between IMG Media and The Associated Press. SendtoNews will distribute SNTV digital and broadcast content throughout its online news outlets throughout North America with its News Partnership Network.
Video production company Poptent and social video soundtrack provider Rumblefish have teamed up to create Poptent Soundtracks. The joint production will give Poptent’s 70,000 filmmakers access to a copyright-cleared soundtrack catalog of two million tracks.
In time for the Super Bowl, IFC’s Portlandia is releasing a new web series: Prairie Home Companion Tailgating, which follows Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein waiting for Garrison Keillor and their favorite NPR show. The four- parter can be seen on IFC.com/Portlandia. The fourth season of Portlanida premieres Feb. 27 on IFC.
E! late night talk show Chelsea Lately will simulcast on radio’s Raw Dog SiriusXM Comedy Hits channel starting Tuesday, February 18. President of E! Suzanne Kolb cited the net’s “ongoing efforts to provide fans new ways to engage with our shows across all platforms” as the reason for the move. The 11p show will also be available through the SiriusXM app and online at siriusxm.com.
Defy Media’s entertainment news franchise Clevver (883 million views and 2.4 million subs) has a new show: Totally Clevver. It will include a panel of celebrities, is hosted by Traci Stumpf and Jarrett Sleeper, and will air every Tuesday on ClevverTV. The first guest is 30 Rock‘s Katrina Bowden.
Discovery Digital Networks’ Animalist launched Weird Gross Beautiful yesterday. Host Catie Wayne (YouTube’s Boxxy) discusses the strange and beautiful aspects of animals in a video blog format. New episodes will be available every Tuesday on Animalist.com and its YouTube channel.
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Esquire Network has greenlit a second season of White Collar Brawler, the reality fighter series based on Portal A’s original web series. This season, the show will take place in New York City and Brooklyn. Filming is set to start in March.
Yesterday, Facebook delivered quarterly earnings and revenue that surpassed analysts’ expectations. Revenue increased to $2.59 billion from 1.59 billion a year ago. Revenue from advertising came in at $2.34 billion, a 76% increase from a year ago. Mobile ad revenue accounted for about 53% of ad revenue for the fourth quarter. After the announcement, FB shares rose as much as 9%.
Super Bowl viewers will most likely be using social media, gaming and weather apps simultaneously during the game, according to Soasta‘s Super Bowl Second Screen January study. Of the 2,035 adults surveyed, 1,289 own smartphones or tablets; 53 percent of that group cited social media (specifically Twitter and Facebook) as the most critical mobile service to use while watching the game. Candy Crush and Angry Birds were the apps most referenced from the 27 percent who say they’d watch the game while using an app. Weather apps (16 percent), sports apps (15 percent) and news apps (13 percent) were other top categories.
E! is teaming with Bud Light for Super Bowl party coverage. The net will report from the Bud Light Hotel (aka a 4028-person Norwegian Getaway cruise ship, docked along NYC’s West Side), offering fans a multi-platform experience covering concerts, celebrity interviews and “the hottest parties.” Said Blaise D’Sylva, VP of sports, media and entertainment marketing, Anheuser-Busch, “Our partnership with E! will allow us to take the Bud Light Hotel experience and share it with fans across the country.”
SodaStream wasn’t happy about editing its Super Bowl ad, which included a mention of rival (and Super Bowl halftime sponsor) Pepsi. “This is the kind of stuff that happens in China,” SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum told USA Today, after being asked to cut the Pepsi reference. Silver lining? The controversy has pushed viewing of the uncut ad on the company’s YouTube site through the roof.
GroupM is creating a new division, Multicultural Marketing Analytics, “dedicated to unearthing consumer insight and measuring the impact of multicultural media investments,” said Gonzalo Del Fa, president of GroupM Multicultural.
Stat-tracking app Numbeez is following Super Bowl Teaser Ad Viewership all this week for Cynopsis, leading up to the big game on Feb. 2. Download the app for free and follow these stats for yourself in real time by searching ‘Cynopsis’ in the app. Additionally, check out the video compilation of today’s top performers here.
Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014
| Brand and Spot | Views | Viewership change (from previous day) |
|---|---|---|
| SodaStream “Sorry, Coke & Pepsi” | 3,542,294 | 3.49% |
| AXE Peace “Make Love Not War” | 3,511,248 | 2.72% |
| Butterfinger Cups “Big Game Teaser” | 2,747,422 | 16.66% |
| Hyundai “Nice” | 2,385,470 | New |
| Dannon Oikos “The Spill” | 2,311,335 | 12.26% |
| Bud Light “Arnold Zipper” | 1,940,775 | 0.99% |
| Volkswagen “Game Day Teaser” | 1,925,209 | 8.49% |
| Bud Light “Arnold Warmup” | 1,695,477 | 0.61% |
| Beats Music Vision | 1,559,180 | 0.21% |
| Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl 2014 Finalists Announced” | 1,419,842 | 3.24% |
Source: Numbeez is a new stat-tracking app for iOS that acts like Pinterest for numbers. Whether it is sports scores, stocks, weather, or the historical prices of advertising during the Super Bowl, Numbeez curates data in fun dashboards that can be shared with others and update in realtime.We’re tracking Super Bowl teaser ad viewership on the Cynopsis board – just download the app and search “Cynopsis.”
Internet ad spending grew 32 percent in the first three quarters of 2013 compared to the previous year, according to Nielsen’s Quarterly Global AdView Pulse Report. Yet, even with the growth of web ad budgets, TV continued to take the top spot with 57.6 percent share of all ad spending, investing 4.3 percent more in the platform. Not surprisingly, newspapers (2.2 percent), magazine (1.1 percent) and cinema (1.3 percent) ad spending had the least growth among mediums.
Integral Ad Science released a quarterly media quality report yesterday showing that ad fraud decreased 30 percent in Q4 2012 to 13 percent in Q4 2013. Other findings from the study that reviewed more than two billion impressions each day:
- 66 percent of ads through direct publishers were in view, 50.6 percent of ads placed through networks were in view and 47.4 percent of ads placed through exchanges were in view.
- Direct publishers had the lowest rate of “suspicious activity” at two percent, and Networks had the highest at 15 percent.
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Integri Entertainment has hired Josh Ettwein as its new Chief Technology Officer. Ettwein was most recently the Director of Engineering and User Experience at PRIMA Cinema.
Video software and content distributor Penthera has elected Melani Griffith to its board. Prior to Penthera, Griffith was with Insight Communications as Head of Programming and Video Product Management. Griffith currently serves as Executive Vice President of Business Development for Penthera.
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Skype’s new web destination, The Skype Collaboration Project, debuted its first original creative today: Five Years The Victoria Beckham Fashion Story. Skype’s site will include a multimedia experience with articles, videos images and interviews from Beckham and her fashion collaborators. After New York Fashion Week in February, Beckham will hold an In Conversation With panel during which Skype users can submit questions. Watch the documentary’s trailer at www.cynopsis.com.
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