Cynopsis: DIGITAL
02.06.14
Good morning. It’s Thursday, February 6, 2014, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
On the eve of the Olympics, streamer-of-broadcast-TV Aereo has been forced to turn away customers in two cities. Last week the service said it was out of capacity in New York and could accept no more subscribers; now reports say the same is true in Atlanta. The company has not specified the nature of its capacity issue but on Monday, announced a February 19 launch date for San Antonio.
Twitter released its Q4 Earnings Report yesterday, announcing the site had reached 241 million average monthly users, with 184 million coming from mobile devices. Advertising revenue hit $220 million in Q4, with mobile ads accounting for 75 percent of total ad revenue.
In an earnings call Wednesday, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes acknowledged that while Netflix has more U.S. subscribers than HBO – 29.9 million to 28.5 million – that’s without throwing sister net Cinemax in the mix. That would add up to 43 million domestic subscribers, and 130 million overseas (Netflix has 44 million subscribers globally). Bewkes also pointed out HBO makes more money – $1.79 billion in operating income versus Netflix’s $228.3 million in 2013, and has added 2 million subs in 2013, the most in 17 years.
Hulu will include a YouTube original from the channel Geek and Sundry: a new series called Caper about three “immortals” and their human roommate. Caper’s nine episodes will premiere on the YT channel on Feb. 12, with the first two available on Hulu.TubeFilterreports that more of Geek and Sundry’s content, like Written by a Kid, TableTop, The Flog and Outlands, will get a similar Hulu treatment…
… Speaking of Hulu, CBS has signed a non-exclusive content licensing agreement with Hulu Plus for four seasons of Blue Bloods starting later this year. The company had already struck deals with WGN for basic cable and ION for weekday, primetime syndication rights for the drama, averaging 14 million viewers in its fourth season, up 7 percent versus last year.
Conde Nast Entertainment added a new digital channel to its video network for Self Magazine. The eighth channel for its digital network will include four new series: Girl vs. Sweat, 5 Ways To…, Which Is Worse… and Burn 100. The videos will be available on the magazine’s site, YouTube channel, AOL platforms and DailyMotion.
Hearst‘s Seventeen magazine debuted a new multi-channel network and updated YouTube channel yesterday, in partnership with AwesomenessTV. The new channel will include original series Seventeen Daily, Beauty Smarties, DIY Your Life, Fashion Remix, What’s In My Fridge? Promposals, Hot Guy Showdown, Seventeen on the Scene and Seventeen Stars.
ABC News Digital launched an interactive bracket, The Best Oscar Movie From The Past 64 Years, for fans to vote for through Facebook, Twitter and ABCNews.com. Voting will close Feb. 27, and the winning film will be announced on ABC News on Feb. 28. JCPenney is the exclusive launch sponsor. The Oscars air March 2 on ABC.
YouTube has started to audit video views as a way to weed out fraudulent views. Previously, YT would only remove the spam numbers only after reporting.
NBC News has redesigned its site. It now features continuously scrolling videos and a mobile-friendly design. In a note to staff, NBC News’ President Deborah Turness wrote, “The new site doesn’t feel like TV content chopped up for the web – it’s born of a seamless collaboration between TV and digital.”
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For Facebook’s tenth anniversary, Pew Research released a study on how people use the social site. Findings included:
- 36 percent of Facebook users hate it when people over-share, and equally dislike when friends post their pictures without their permission.
- 54 percent of women use the site to see photos and videos, versus 39 percent of men. Both genders use the site 39 percent of the time for comments and updates, and 31 percent of both use it to keep up with news and current events.
- 44 percent like to see content posted by friends at least once a day, and 31 percent comment, but only ten percent update their status every day.
- 24 percent of non-Facebook users who live with someone with an account look at photos and posts on that person’s account.
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Cisco released its annual study, Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update 2013-2018. It revealed:
Mobile Connections – 2018: 10.2 billion, Current: 7.0 billion
Mobile Video Traffic 2018: 69 percent traffic, Current: 53 percent
Average Global Mobile User Traffic Per Month
2018: 20 hours of video, 10 hours of audio, 10 video calls, 20 app downloads
Current: 2 hours of video, 2 hours of audio, 5 video calls, 2 app downloads
Wearable Mobile Devices Expected To Soar – 2018: 177 million wearables, Current: 22 million
A Nielsen TV Brand Effect study reports that “memorability” of Super Bowl ads improved versus last year, with some brands doing a particularly good job of hitting their mark. Based on memorability, likability and a new metric, Twitter TV reach, the research company ranked the following commercials as most memorable: Budweiser (“Hero’s Welcome”), Doritos (“Cowboy Kid”), Budweiser (“Puppy Love”), RadioShack (“The Phone Call”) and Cheerios (“Gracie”).
Google named Susan Wojcicki as the new CEO of YouTube yesterday. She was most recently the Senior Vice President of Advertising and Commerce for Google, and was the company’s 16th employee, originally hired in 1999.
Bedrocket hired Frank Kavilanz as General Manager of Partnership and Revenue. Kavilanz joins Bedrocket from NowThisNews (a partner company), and played a major role in the recent partnership with NBCUniversal News Group.
Ipsos MarketQuest appointed Jerry Forristal as the new President of the Censydiam Institute. Previously, Forristal was a Global Strategy Partner with Ipsos. Sue Phillips, whom Forristal succeeds, has been appointed Global Head of Insight at Ipsos UU.
Debbie Reichig has joined TV data and ad technology company PrecisionDemand as its Chief Revenue Officer. She was previously the founder of In-Media Consulting.
Regional News Network (RNN) hired Jeffrey L. Thompson as General Manager and Senior Vice President of Business Development. Thompson was most recently Vice President of Digital Strategy & Business Development for Shout! Factory.
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