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04/06/16: Twitter nabs Thursday Night Football NFL streaming rights; Yahoo gets MLB streaming rights; Comcast and Disney ink licensing deal

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 04.06.16 Good morning. It’s Wednesday April 6, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER   HDMI: An abbreviation of High-Definition Multimedia Interface. An HDMI interface is used for transferring video data and digital audio data from a source device to a different, compatible device, such as a television or […]

04/05/16: AOL launches programmatic TV buying platform; NBCU and Vox partner on digital ad initiative; go90 acquires eSports news series

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 04.05.16 Good morning. It’s Tuesday April 5, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER   Omni-Channel Marketing: A marketing strategy that targets consumers across all channels and devices as part of a seamless and consistent customer experience. An omni-channel strategy accounts for the likelihood that a consumer’s path to […]

04/04/16: Facebook pulls out of talks to live-stream NFL games; FTC schedules smart TV consumer privacy seminar; Amazon renews ‘Bosch’

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 04.04.16 Good morning. It’s Monday April 4, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER   DSP: An abbreviation for demand-side platform. A DSP is a system that lets digital ad buyers manage multiple ad exchange and data exchange accounts through a single interface. Or, to translate it into English, […]

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04/01/16: Lionsgate and Kevin Hart partner on OTT service; Facebook and TubeMogul team up on targeted video ads; WWE strikes a deal with Snapchat

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 04.01.16 Good morning. It’s Friday April 1, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER:   TrueView Ads: A popular Google ad format, most widely used for YouTube’s pre-roll ads. The format gives viewers options – most commonly, the ability to skip the ad after five seconds. As many advertising […]

03/31/16: Fullscreen sets launch date for SVOD service; AOL CEO looks to build massive ad network; Microsoft HoloLens AR headsets ship to developers

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03/30/16: Vice gets controlling stake in Pulse Films; One by AOL adds viewable video players; Sony set to launch 4K movie platform

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 03.30.16 Good morning. It’s Wednesday March 30, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER   Bandwidth Throttling: A company engages in “throttling” over a wireless mobile network when it manually limits the speed of users’ data connections. In the case of video, throttling data inevitably leads to lower quality. […]

03/29/16: Periscope has been used for over 200 million broadcasts; Facebook to give publishers more live video tools; Vimeo launches on Roku

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 03.29.16 Good morning. It’s Tuesday March 29, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER Augmented Reality: While virtual reality creates a wholly simulated environment for the user, augmented reality, or AR, creates computer-generated sensory information – images, videos, sounds, graphics, etc. – within a real-world environment. Imagine, for instance, […]

03/28/16: Netflix cops to throttling mobile video speeds; Snapchat buys animated avatar-creator Bitstrips; Google launches open source app competition

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 03.28.16 Good morning. It’s Monday March 28, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER   Open Source App: An app designed using “open source” software. With open source software, the copyright holder makes the source code publicly available, allowing anyone to change, study, or distribute it. Open source apps […]

03/25/16: Yahoo contends with activist investor over Board of Directors; Rovi in talks to buy TiVo; Apple greenlights original unscripted series

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 03.25.16 Good morning. It’s Friday March 25, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TOP NEWS   Yahoo has a new headache to deal with. Starboard Value, a New York hedge fund that owns 1.7% of Yahoo’s outstanding shares, has gone full activist. Starboard has nominated nine candidates (including its own […]

03/24/16: Nielsen to measure connected TV devices; AwesomenessTV producing new film for YouTube Red; Univision launches digital innovation lab

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 03.24.16 Good morning. It’s Thursday March 24, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TOP NEWS   Nielsen’s much-anticipated Total Audience Measurement product won’t be available for another few months, but in the meantime, this is still a pretty big deal: Starting April 25, the company will make brand-level data available […]

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