Cynopsis: DIGITAL
07/08/11

Good morning, it’s Friday, July 8, 2011, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.  If you would like to read this or any other Cynopsis edition online, click here. 

Major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and movie, TV and music industry groups including the RIAA and MPAA unveiled a new 6 strikes-and-you’re-out system to help curb online copyright infringement. The “Copyright Alerts” system, which works from a blacklist of illegal sites, calls for ISPs to warn subscribers who have been identified downloading content illegally; after five notices they are subject to “mitigation measures” including speed throttling, or permanently redirecting their start-up page to a primer site on copyright infringement. Users can appeal at the Mitigation Measures stage, on the grounds that the wrong account was targeted, but that process will cost $35. Participating ISPs include AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon.
 

 
Long-running soaps All My Children and One Life to Live are to have a new life thanks to an exclusive multiplatform deal between ABC and Prospect Park, the production company founded by Jeffrey Kwatinetz and former Disney Studios head Rich Frank. The licensing agreement allows Prospect Park to produce and deliver new full-length episodes of the shows to consumers via online formats and additional emerging platforms including IP-connected television sets. Both shows were cancelled when ABC decided to replace them with health and lifestyle shows, The Chew, premiering Sept. 26 and The Revolution, replacing One Life To Live in Jan. 2012.
 
Trying to make the company more attractive to prospective buyers, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar released some updated info about the portal’s Q2 performance. Hulu Plus subscribers are expected to reach the 1 million mark by the end of the summer – earlier than previously forecast. The subscription service has also increased its content library by 67% to 15,000 hours and is now accessible on an installed base of more than 100 million connected devices.
 
Amazon announced that Kindle New York Times subscribers can now finally gain access to NYTimes.com’s pay site through this link page for no extra charge, as print subscribers do.
 
Apple announced some that 15 billion apps have now been downloaded from the App Store by 200 million+ iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users worldwide. There are now more than 425k iPhone apps and 100k native iPad apps to choose from.
 
The Investigation Discovery network has launched a new site soliciting horror relationship stories. IDExFiles.com is a companion to season two of Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry, premiering next Wed. at 10p ET. Scorned lovers are also invited to record video testimonials at a “confessional kiosk” set up in a trio of locations in New York City next week. The booth will be in Penn Plaza on Monday, Times Square on Tuesday and at Grand Central Vanderbilt Hall on Wed.
 

 
Is the U.K.- based Spotify online music service finally ready to launch in the U.S.? The service’s international website says yes it is and is taking invite emails, but the site is vague on the details, such as when and on what devices. (Although there are pictures of Android, iPhone and Windows smartphones on the site.)
 

 
In this YouTube post, Google+ Advertising Product Manager Christian Oestlien has asked brands, businesses and other entities to sit tight for now and wait before creating their own profile pages on Google’s new social network. The company is busy testing business-related elements such as rich analytics and interfaces with other Google products such as Adwords. But he is inviting a few applicants to participate in the process.
 
Apple is planning to cut its rates for its expensive iAd mobile ad platform by as much as 70% for some top-shelf clients, according to a Bloomberg report. The company has already cut the minimum ad buy from $1 million when it first introduced the platform a year ago to $500k and will reportedly go as low as $300k if agencies bring multiple campaigns into the mix.
 

 
Cisco unveiled a new software/hardware enterprise solution to manage and distribute live and on demand video to thousands of users. Dubbed the Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS,) the system can be configured to maximize video quality and minimize bandwidth consumption by pushing video out across a network during off-peak hours, and then caching it locally for access by multiple users.
 
#4 MSO Charter Communications has competed a deal to distribute Rovi‘s next generation TotalGuide Solution on its set top boxes. The solution features advanced search, discovery and recommendation features and includes an application that can extend and connect Charter’s video experience to tablets, smartphones and PCs.
 

 
Games continue to be the most popular app category, and according to Nielsen, 93% of app downloaders are willing to pay for the games they play. (In contrast, only 76% of downloaders are willing to pay for news apps.) Among smartphone consumers who have played mobile games in the past 30 days, those with iPhones, Windows 7 phones or Android phones are the most likely to have downloaded the games they played, while those with Blackberry phones or featurephones tend to play pre-loaded games. The average mobile gamer plays an average of 7.8 hours a month. iPhone users top the charts with 14.7 hours of game playing/month while Android users play around 9.3 hours per month.
 

 
Time Warner Cable launched an updated version of its TWCable TV iPad app with new remote control features, a new 7-day interactive programming guide, a remote DVR Manager and a total of more than 100 live channels. (Viacom channels are still missing – TWC has reached agreements with many programmers to offer live programming on the app within subscribers’ homes and has agreed to a cease fire with Viacom as they negotiate an agreement.)
 
The Motorola Droid 3 is now available online from Verizon for $199.99 with a two-year agreement. The 3G phone runs on Android’s Gingerbread OS and features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 4-inch touchscreen, a dual-core processor and an 8MP camera. It also features a HDMI port in order to view content from the phone on a large screen TV.
 
America’s Funniest Home Videos has launched its first app, the AFV App for iPhone and iPod touch, featuring 14 channels of classic AFV clips and an upload feature enabling users to submit videos to be considered for the show.
 
The Weather Channel updated its Android app, improving the user interface, adding international language support and integrating TWC’s iWitness Weather user-generated resource. The app also includes several new features offered exclusively to Verizon customers with 4G LTE smartphones through the end of the year, including TruPoint maps and near-HD quality videos.
 
The NYTimes’ Calorie Count.com announced the launch of a new barcode scanning feature for its Calorie Count iPhone app. The barcode addition scans and locates nutritional data for approximately 100,000 nationally-available packaged foods.
 

 
E! Entertainment has promoted top marketing, news and online executive Suzanne Kolb to President. Suzanne began with the Comcast-owned network in 2005 as SVP/Marketing and most was most recently credited with unifying and expanding E!’s news entities, including E! News, E! Online and E! News Now.
 
Victoria, B.C.-based ecommerce market research company Terapeak has named Colin How to the position of President, effective immediately.
 

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

 
Handwritten letters are a unique form of expression going the way of the dodo bird, thanks to digital platforms. But they’re not dead yet. Check out Letters of Note.com, an archive of over 500 letters compiled by freelance copywriter Shaun Usher, most of which are scanned then transcribed. Yesterday’s entry is from a 31-year-old Stanley Kubrick, who felt compelled to write to Ingmar Bergman to tell him how much he admired his work. This one is a message to aspiring artists from Pixar animator Austin Madison to PERSIST on staying true to your vision, no matter the obstacles. “Next time you hit writer’s block, or your computer crashes and you lose an entire night’s work because you didn’t hit save (always hit save), just remember: you’re never far from that next burst of divine creativity,” he writes.
 
Correction: Michael Thornton has just joined Starz Entertainment, not PRNewswire, as EVP/Business and Legal Affairs. Michael, who held the same position with Disney/ABC Domestic Television since 2005, is working out of the company’s Englewood, CO offices.
 
Later – Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
07.08.11

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