Friday, August 31st, 2007

Cynopsis: DIGITAL

8/31/07

Good Morning, it’s Friday, August 31, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing. 

In a move to try to compete with Apple’s iPods, Sony unveiled a new line of Walkmans in the U.S. that come with FM tuners and support video for the first time in a number of formats. The players will support Windows Media Audio (WMA), AAC and MP3 music formats, show JPEG photos and playback MPEG-4 video files. The top-of-the-line Walkman video players (NWZ-A810 series) have a 2-inch QVGA LCD screen (measured diagonally). The same day Sony admitted it is throwing in the towel in its attempt to compete with the iTunes music store, announcing it will shutter its Connect digital music outlet.
 

~ MULTIPLATFORM CONTENT NEWS ~

 
MTV’s 2007 Music Awards in Las Vegas will offer unprecedented interactivity this year with an extensive array of digital initiatives geared toward the web, mobile devices, virtual worlds and on demand environments:

  • Sprint TV will simulcast the awards live for the first time
  • Viewers can go to VMA.MTV.com to shop for music and vote for their favorite show elements. “Viewers’ choice remixes” will air on MTV based on viewer submissions
  • MTV’s virtual world will host the first Virtual VMA at the virtual Palms Casino & Resort
  • Comcast and Time Warner Cable will offer highlights of the show and user generated content nearly instantaneously on September 9, the day of the event.

 
CNN said it will stop subscribing to the Reuters news service after 27 years, choosing instead to focus on its own news gathering operations. Ownership of its content in the digital age is seen as priority as the network seeks to monetize material across multiple platforms.
 
Fox signed on to become the latest content providers for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Video Marketplace, offering episodes of Family Guy for download on a pay-per-view basis. Fox joins CBS, NBC Universal and MTV Networks in the TV realm and Warner Bros., Paramount, Lionsgate and New Line among the movie studios.
 
Sundance Channel unveiled a new short-form HD series featuring 1-minute vignettes of writers, musicians and designers discussing what inspires and motivates them as artists. Grey Goose Presents The Next Garde shorts will appear as interstitials from September 1 and be available on sundancechannel.com throughout the month.
 
NBC began streaming full-length episodes of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the first late night talk show host to officially stream on the web. Episodes will be made available on NBC.com at 9 am ET/ 12 noon PT the morning after each telecast. Conan has been one of TV’s more web-savvy comedians; his animated series Pale Force was one of the first original series featured on NBC.com.


~ INNOVATORS & START-UPS ~

 
Blinkx announced 28 new partnerships with small “long tail” publishers adding to its index of more than 14 million hours of searchable video content. Internet broadcasters Cycling TV, Wedding TV and Eye Music Network are among the new content providers.
 
 

~ TECHNOLOGY DEALS, MERGERS AND SKIRMISHES ~

 
The Monster.com security breach could be scarier that originally thought as an internal investigation revealed that the website had been hacked previously to the publicized break in. Monster CEO Sal Iannuzzi told Reuters that “millions” of users could be affected and that anyone who had submitted a resume on the site should assume the worst.

U.S.-based GekTV Entertainment is launching a new IPTV service on September 16 offering several Asian channels and on-demand television shows and films.  With content from Tai Seng Entertainment and its President, Bernard Soo, GekTV will have Cantonese, Mandarin, and English-language programming with Vietnamese and Cambodian shows coming on board by the end of 2007.  Future plans also include content from India and the Philippines.  GekTV is the exclusive U.S. broadband distribution rights holder for Hong Kong’s Television Broadcasts channel.  Content from i-Cable News, i-Cable Entertainment News, Fashion TV-Asia, Pearl River Channel, and U.S.-based Setanta Sports Channel will also be offered on GekTV.
 
CNET Networks acquired the TechTracker family of websites including VersionTracker, MacFixIt and iPhone Atlas.
 

~ TRENDS, RESEARCH, ETC.  ~
 

Nielsen is reporting a jump of 4.4% and 3.9% in Hispanic and Asian U.S. households for the 2007-2008 television season. The number African American households also grew faster than the national average at 1.5% vs. the average growth rate of 1.3%. Within the Black or African-American household estimates, there was a change within the top-three DMAs. Atlanta moved up from third to second in rank, due to a 6.3% increase in its Black or African-American TV household population. New Orleans climbed two ranks to #23 indicating the strong recovery of Black or African-American populations in the market.
 
This may surprise some. A new study of 500 random users by Advertising.com and InsightExpress found that a majority of streaming video fans are over 35, favor news clips over other genres and are willing to tolerate short video ads. In the first half of 2007, 62% of consumers viewed news clips online, followed by movie trailers at 38%. Music videos came in third at 36%, decreasing from 47% in the second half of 2006.
 
Despite enormous hype and popularity social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube are just beginning to monetize their services, according to IDC Digital Marketplace. However, the research firm predicts new advertising models and tools should help quickly correct the imbalance, increasing social networking ad revenue from $400 million in 2006 to as much as $1 billion this year.
 

~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~

 
Head of Sales Gregory Coleman will exit Yahoo, to be replaced by Knight Ridder executive Hilary Schneider in September. Greg is the second sales executive to leave the company this summer, following the departure of Wenda Harris Millard in June. Hilary will be responsible for creating, delivering and coordinating global best practices for solutions to all Yahoo partners.
 


~ WEBSITE OF THE DAY ~

 
Twentieth Century Fox‘s Licensing & Merchandising department has come up with a line of skins on TheSimpsonsShop.com customizable for virtually any electronic device. Click on the character and motif of your choice and an extensive menu of gadgets pops up – chose from iPods, PDAs, laptops, digital cameras and even printers. Then you can further drill down to find the right manufacturer. Call it merchandising for the digital age.
 
Thanks to: Evan Goldberg, Bender/Helper Impact, New York, NY

Have a great holiday — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
08.31.07

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