Cynopsis: Digital

Cynopsis: DIGITAL10/10/12 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, October 10, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. Put one in the win column for copyright holders. A US District Judge has denied Megaupload’s request to dismiss the US Justice Department’s criminal case against it. In its request for dismissal, lawyers for the Hong […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL10/09/12 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, October 9, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. So how is YouTube’s original programming initiative doing? According to some numbers released by the company: The top 25 original channels average over a million views a week; 800 million viewers are watching 4 billion hours […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL10/08/12 Good morning. It’s Monday, October 8, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. RightThisMinute is a twice-daily news show from Cox Media Group, Raycom Media, E.W. Scripps Company, and Magic Dust Television, focused entirely on covering viral videos that are trending on the web. It airs in 45 […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL10/05/12 Good morning. It’s Friday, October 5, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. The Washington Post has launched The Fold, a nightly “newscast designed specifically for Google TV and made for cord-cutters.” Produced by the paper’s newsroom, The Fold offers daily news coverage, analysis, and original journalism, all […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL10/04/12 Good morning. It’s Thursday, October 4, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. Sprint Nextel has launched Pinsight Media+, a new mobile advertising service for advertisers and mobile ad networks to deliver targeted ads on Sprint-owned online and mobile properties as well as on third-party publishers’ properties. The carrier […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL10/03/12 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, October 3, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. At Advertising Week yesterday, Google introduced Lightbox, a new interactive ad format — the first in a “new family of display ads” — that only charges marketers when a user engages with it. What first appears […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL10/02/12 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, October 2, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. AOL’s entire original video content library will now be available on YouTube. A new deal between the two companies will bring nearly 20,000 videos from AOL brands such as The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and Moviefone to […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL10/01/12 Good morning. It’s Monday, October 1, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. Atul Patel (no relation) is the CEO and Founder of OneScreen, a company that is pretty much trying to do it all in terms of providing technology for almost everyone involved in the digital video […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09/28/12 Good morning. It’s Friday, September 28, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. Dish Network is in discussions with Viacom, Univision, and Scripps about offering an over-the-top (OTT) service that would deliver live cable TV over the internet, according to Bloomberg. With a smaller bundle of channels, such a […]

Cynopsis: DIGITAL09/27/12 Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 27, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. The television is the most popular screen for watching paid and free streaming video content. According to data from The NPD Group‘s Digital Video Outlook report, in the past year the number of consumers reporting that […]