Cynopsis: Digital

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09.12.13 Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 12, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Target is jumping into the digital video-streaming world. Target Ticket will include 30,000 TV and movie titles for rent or purchase when it launches on or before Oct. 1, and aim for […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09.11.13 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, September 11, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS U.K.’s Virgin Media signed an agreement with Netflix, making it the first pay-TV platform to include the streaming service. Netflix will be integrated into Virgin’s branded TiVo boxes; after a test with […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09.10.13 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, September 10, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Bloomberg BusinessWeek releases HANK: Five Years From the Brink exclusively on Netflix on Sept. 16. The doc, showing the 2008 financial crisis from the perspective of former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson, […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09.09.13 Good morning. It’s Monday, September 9, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS AOL announced its $405 million purchase of ad marketplace Adap.tv on Friday, an acquisition it hopes will help nab it a bigger slice of the $4 billion spent on digital video ads. […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09.06.13 Good morning. It’s Friday, September 6, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS The smallest screen in the business, YouTube, is launching its first film celebration with the YouTube Buffer Festival. Canadian YouTube star Corey Vidal and his ApprenticeA Productions are producing the festival […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09.05.13 Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 5, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS ABC is kicking off its fall television line-up by premiering The Goldbergs, The Trophy Wife and Back in the Game through WATCHABC.com and the WATCH ABC app for mobile devices. The first episode […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09.04.13 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, September 4, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Microsoft dished out an impressive $7.8 billion for Nokia’s Device and Services as well as the licensing of its patent portfolio, both companies announced on Tuesday. Nokia and Microsoft have been a […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09.03.13 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, September 3, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS ESPN and Verizon Wireless are teaming up with Twitter for “Did You See That?” this football season. ESPN will immediately insert a game’s replays in ESPN College Football tweets, and will also run […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL08.30.13 Good morning. It’s Friday, August 30, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Netflix is turning on the laugh track with the premiere of its first “original” stand-up comedy special: Buried Alive, featuring Parks and Recreation’s Aziz Ansari. The new show debuts Nov. 1, and […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL08.29.13 Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 29, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS YouTube is signing on with Dreamworks Animation for its first traditional production stint for a daily web series titled YouTube Nation. VideoInk reports that up until this point, YouTube has only […]