By Michael Lowe, President, A Parent Media Co. Inc. and founder, Kidoodle.TV When you work in the children’s programming space, the phrase “Generation Z” comes up frequently. But while defining Gen Z as the kids born roughly after 1995 is easy, actually understanding the needs and desires of the youngest, most digitally ensconced […]
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Why TV Audiences Find “Satisfaction” in Complex, Modern Love Stories
By Sean Jablonski, Creator/EP of USA’s Satisfaction My wife has never slept with an escort. I want to get that out of the way up front. Since production began on Satisfaction early this year I have, believe it or not, been asked that question numerous times. If not outright, the implication […]
Reality TV Must Either Evolve or Die — Here’s Why & How
By Jeff Collins, President, Collins Avenue “A show about girls who take dance class, and their mothers? You must be kidding. Who wants to watch that?” I heard it more than once when my company was developing the Lifetime reality series Dance Moms, and it taught me a great lesson: If you bring […]
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A New Window on Kids and Screen Time
By David Kleeman, SVP of Insights Programs and PlayVangelist for PlayCollective When I was a child, my grandmother had an amazing apartment above the East River in New York. I could sit for hours watching the boats and no one ever expressed concern that I was getting too much “window time.” Today, as […]
What the Ice Bucket Challenge Teaches About Charitable Marketing
By Erica Martinez, planning director at Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness A month ago, the phrase “ice bucket challenge” didn’t have much meaning. But fast forward to today, and there are world leaders, celebrities and regular folks getting dunked over the head on with an ice-cold bucket of water on video … all in […]
Respect the Hustle, Mind the Medium: A New Era of Bands, Fans, and Artists
By Keith Clinkscales, CEO of REVOLT Media & TV “Our freedom of speech is freedom or death. You gotta fight the powers that be” – Public Enemy “A mind full of fire and a fistful of steel” – Rage Against the Machine This was the heartbeat of music culture not so long ago […]
Open Wide The Gates
by Dan Wade, Activation Lead for LockerDome Facebook’s rules for liking pages have shifted once again, and this time a staple of Facebook marketing is on the chopping block. As of November 5, like-gating — the name for forcing users to like a page in order to enter a contest or receive access to […]
When Tricky Dick Met His Match
On August 8, 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned his presidency in the wake of a 26 month-long investigation into the June 1972 Watergate burglary. Forty years later, it is difficult to imagine a major political scandal taking more than 2 years to unfold. News didn’t go viral….there was no “viral.” The story developed slowly by […]
Sports…And How They Feed the Needy, Greedy Second Screen Beast.
By Matt Smith, Chief Evangelist, Anvato As the above headline suggests, near-real time video clips and TV Everywhere experiences have become the 800-pound great white shark that Captain Quint hunted in the classic movie, Jaws. Constantly moving, constantly feeding and constantly growing. I don’t think it should come as any surprise […]
Television and The Modern Family Mash-Up
By Kate Canada Obregon, Partner, Oishii Creative. We gravitate towards stories about families because they capture the quirky, imperfect, and often hilarious dynamics of our own lives. As a content creator, television is uniquely positioned to mirror our changing families and to help audiences navigate what it all means. The Guardian Media Network recently […]
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