Cynopsis: DIGITAL
04/20/12

Good morning. It’s Friday, April 20, 2012, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. If you would like to read this or any other Cynopsis editions online, click here.

Hulu kicked off the Digital Content NewFronts (DCNF) yesterday with its presentation in New York. Among the highlights:

Data:

• Hulu has more than 360 content partners between Hulu and Hulu Plus, and offers current season programming from five of the six major U.S. broadcast networks.
• As of March 2012, Hulu has approximately 40,000 hours of content.
• In February 2012, Americans watched 2.5 billion videos on Hulu.
• Hulu represents 20% of the overall online video marketplace, and 40% of the online premium video marketplace.
• Has served over 1,000 brand advertisers in its history.

Programming:

• Battleground, from Marc Webb and J.D. Walsh: Hulu’s first original series, a political drama about a Senate campaign (aiming for the 18-34 age demographic).
• A Day in the Life, from Morgan Spurlock: Now in its second season, the documentary series chronicles one day in the life of various personalities (18-34 demographic).
• Up To Speed, from Richard Linklater: It is coming to Hulu this summer, and is intended for the 18-49 demographic.
• We Got Next, from Kenya Barris: A new series to debut this year about four friends who battle on and off a pick-up basketball court (18-49).
• The Awesomes, from Seth Meyers and Michael Shoemaker: An animated action series that follows a team of superheroes that battle villains and the paparazzi. It will come to Hulu in 2013 (18-49).

In development, available for sponsor support:

• Don’t Quit Your Daydream, from Adrian Grenier and Virgin: A cast of musicians travel across America in search of artists to collaborate on a new song, based on a documentary by Grenier and John Loar (18-34).
• Flow, from Michael Wendschuh, David Belle, Agility Studios and the Shine Group: A series that follows an individual’s quest for justice after being framed for a crime he didn’t commit (18-34).

 

NBCUniversal’s Integrated Media group, its cross-company marketing and creative content unit, has launched The Curve Films, focused on developing and distributing films that are based on proprietary consumer data gleaned from Integrated Media’s new hardcover book, The Curve. The first film, Y Now, provides a portrait of Generation Y, with nine Gen Y men and women personifying the insights gathered about their generation. “The Curve Films initiates a first-person dialogue between our audience and our clients, providing them with a keen understanding of their consumer target and how to speak to them with messages that resonate,” said John Shea, EVP and CMO/Integrated Media. To that end, the film will feature annotated video, where the viewer can choose to click on a statistic that appears on the screen, which will pause the film and show relevant data points. The film will be distributed via email to select advertisers and marketers, and will also be available online at TheCurveFilms.com for the public. The plan is to produce and distribute the films on a quarterly basis.

Ford and SHFT.com have unveiled The Big SHFT: 10 Innovators Changing Our World a new documentary web series that profiles leaders who are trying to transform industries with new sustainability solutions. The series was developed with SHFT.com Co-Founders Adrian Grenier and Peter Glatzer, and was directed by Gilly Barnes. The series is comprised of 10 short films, each focusing on a different individual. The series will be distributed on SHFT.com, the Huffington Post, AOL and U.S. Virgin Airlines in-fight entertainment. For Ford, it’s part of a national education program intended to help drivers determine which car is right for them. Specifically, it’s set up a website that features a lifestyle quiz for that purpose. So far, the site has received over 200,000 visitors. Ford wants to boost that by 50% this spring.

YouTube personality Toby Turner is joining the cast of Cartoon Network’s upcoming TV series Annoying Orange, which is based on the successful web video series that has racked up more than 1 billion total YouTube views. Turner will play the only human character that can interact with the titular fruit. Turner’s three YouTube channels combined have over 3 million subscribers and have attracted more than 750 million total views. The Collective has developed and will be producing the series. Dane Boedigheimer, the creator of the web series, is co-creator of the TV version alongside Tom Sheppard (writer, Pinky and the Brain).

Veteran commercial director/DP Patrick Donnelly has launched Cinema Five Films, a new full-service production/post house that will focus on advertising, integrated marketing campaigns, network branding, as well as long-form online, TV and feature film projects. The company says it has already inked several creative assignments from leading brands such as Sobe, Neutrogena, Chevy and P&G to develop integrated marketing campaigns with MTV.

Mobile video communications company Tango has closed a $40 million Series C round of funding with participation from new investors Qualcomm Inc. and Access Industries. This brings the start-up’s total funding number to nearly $100 million. The capital will be directed toward developing products and services that align with the company’s vision of connecting people through video on multiple platforms. Tango is also reporting significant growth: It has 45 million users, with over 10% using Tango daily, and 44% actives. Tango, which allows users to make video calls and send video messages, has also updated its Video Messages feature to include group messaging.

Google has released the Google AdMob SDK 6.0 for Android and iOS developers. It features the free AdMob Ad Network Mediation solution that allows developers to allocate inventory across numerous third party ad networks on a country-by-country basis. Google says developers will retain full control and choice over the ad networks they use with a single UI. The new SDK is also introducing new banner ad formats that automatically expand to the fit the size of any smartphone screen, even if it’s sitting in landscape mode. The SDK is also compliant with MRAID, which is a common API for mobile rich media ads. The latter is an effort to establish a standard for mobile rich media ads so that it’s easier for advertisers to build ads and developers to run them in their apps.

Dachis Group has launched Content Insight, a new service that analyzes all of a brand’s Facebook posts and provides data on how they’re performing. This includes the post’s reach; the number of users who have interacted with it; overall sentiment (measured from -100 to 100); a Virality Score, which calculates the number of unique users who have created a story from the brand’s page post as a percentage of the number of unique users who have seen that post; and the number of unique users who have created a story about a page in a seven-day period. Content Insight also integrates with Advocate Insight to show whether a Facebook visitor is one of the brand’s advocates. It is immediately available to customers of the social software and solutions firm’s Social Performance Monitor SaaS product. Dachis Group has also integrated the Facebook Insights API into its social analytics platform. The company is certified to be in three of four groups (Insights, Pages, Apps) within the recently updated Facebook Preferred Developer Program.

ELLE and Hearst Digital Media have teamed up to launch an s-commerce initiative on the ELLE Facebook fan page, which will offer consumers a curated “Trend Guide” with content that links to product pages where items can be purchased. The Trend Guide features a custom tab that highlights six editorially selected seasonal trends, with each trend linking to a gallery of related products. All featured items within each trend link to a detailed page on the brand’s e-commerce site where the product(s) can be purchased. The Trend Guide is also equipped with Facebook’s Open Graph tools, allowing users to take actions such as “love,” “want,” or “own,” rather than just “likes.”

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VOD is on the verge of becoming a potentially lucrative ad medium, according to Rentrak‘s State of VOD: Trend Report 2011. Overall, VOD grew from 7.8 billion transactions in 2010 to 8.8 billion in 2011. The report also shows that Free-on-demand (FOD) content, which Rentrak defines as programs that run on ad-supported broadcast, cable or on-demand only networks, witnessed a 17% growth in 2011 to 6.8 billion transactions. Since FOD accounted for a vast majority (77%) of VOD transactions, there is a significant opportunity for revenue growth in the coming years as ad insertion technology becomes more common, according to Rentrak. Additionally, based on Rentrak estimates, the potential value of ad inventory in FOD programs is at least $1 billion dollars. FOD averages five hours and 17 television shows or videos watched per month. Furthermore, over 55 million U.S. homes currently have access to VOD and the average home spends eight hours per month watching VOD content.

The latest SMART report from Millennial Media, which was produced in conjunction with the IAB and conducted by Harris Interactive, analyzed mobile activity around the most recent NCAA basketball tournament. 69% of consumers watching the NCAA Tournament on TV this year used a mobile device while watching, and 69% of consumers who followed the tournament said a mobile device allowed them to access content in a convenient manner. Among passionate fans, which the report describes as fans with a favorite team that is competing in the tournament, 26% followed the tournament primarily through their smartphones. Other highlights from the report include:

• Among passionate fans, 88% used their mobile devices for March Madness-related activity and 40% bought an app related to the tournament.
• On the first day of the tournament, impressions on sports apps increased 31% week-over-week and social media apps increased 42%. From 5-7pm ET on the first day, impressions on sports app increased 158%.
• 48%% used mobile during the tournament to check scores; 25% to read about teams/players; 23% to check brackets; 20% to watch highlights.

In its Q1 2012 earnings report, Verizon announced that it sold 3.2 million iPhones. For comparison, Verizon sold a total of 6.3 million smartphones in the same timeframe. Overall, Verizon said 47% of its mobile customers own smartphones, up 3% from Q4 2011, and about 9% of customers own LTE devices.

 

One Small Act is a new app from Green Is Universal that offers about 20 different types of easy eco-pledges (“wash your clothes in cold water,” “turn out the lights when you leave the room”) for those who want to do something in honor of Earth Week and Earth Day. Some of the pledges feature a green tip from an NBCUniversal celebrity. Every time a user makes a pledge, an item is planted in a virtual garden. Users will be able to see the flower, tree or plant they’ve contributed. Green Is Universal will unveil the full virtual garden tonight, which will be viewable online and via a large projection on a city-wall in downtown Philadelphia. As more pledges come in, the virtual garden will continue to grow.

Gina Garrubbo has joined Hearst Magazines International (HMI) as SVP/Hearst Global Women’s Digital Advertising Network. Garrubbo had been consulting for Hearst on strategic development in the digital advertising space since January 2012. In her new role, Garrubbo will look to offer advertisers an opportunity to reach consumers across HMI’s network of 190 websites worldwide, targeting consumers by geography, brand or demographic information. Assuming her new role immediately, she will report to Duncan Edwards, President and CEO of HMI.

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HBO premiered Lena Dunham’s (Tiny Furniture) new comedy series, Girls, last Sunday night. The series has received a lot of critical attention, a majority of which skews toward the positive, discussing and dissecting at great length. If you haven’t had the opportunity to check it out, HBO has put the first episode up on YouTube in its entirety, for free. Give it a look, especially if you’re Sunday nights aren’t already preoccupied with Mad Men or Game of Thrones.

Later – Sahil
Sahil Patel, Associate Reporter for Cynopsis Digital
04.20.12

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