| Cynopsis: DIGITAL 10/01/10 Good morning, it’s Friday, October 1, 2010, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. If you would like to read this or any other Cynopsis edition online, click here.The Net Neutrality bill that President Obama and the FCC have so publicly backed took a hit late Wednesday as Joe Barton, ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, refused to support the bill. The measure would have given the FCC power to prevent ISPs like Comcast from giving preference to its own content and limiting the capacity of consumers trying to view rivals’ fare. The development renewed calls for FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to move on to a “third way” to gain legislative sway over internet service providers – reclassifying the transmission of data as a telecommunications service that the agency could directly regulate. ~ MULTIPLATFORM CONTENT NEWS ~
Sci Fi action thriller The Resistance, originally envisioned as a web series by creator Adrian Picardi, makes its premiere on the SyFy channel on Oct. 4 at 11 pm ET, just before being made available on digital platforms. The following day the multi-episode web series will be up for purchase on iTunes, XBOX Live, Amazon Video and Sony’s PlayStation Network. Matt Passmore and Kiele Sanchez of A&E‘s crime drama The Glades will be hosting an online viewing party during the finale episode this Sunday from 10 pm ET and again at 10 pm PT for folks on the West Coast. Viewers can pitch questions via chat rooms on aetv.com and the show’s Facebook page. DIY Network is working on a 5th season of its interactive home building series Blog Cabin, identifying a site in Chesapeake Bay, Va. for the next creation. Viewers will be able to begin voting and blogging on design features of the planned renovation in Jan., as well as vie for a chance to take possession of the home when it’s all done. ~ INNOVATORS & START-UPS ~
Ready, Set, Dance is a new 12-episode competitive reality show sponsored by State Farm and featured on Yahoo Music – the first branded entertainment show from Ben Silverman’s Electus studio. Online viewers choose between two contestants each week, who must audition at unexpected times. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE Today on Cynopsis.com
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Online marketing company Lotame launched a self-serve audience data management platform dubbed “Crowd Control” that enables web publishers to create custom audiences and license anonymous audience data for use in interest-based advertising. One comforting feature is a toolset that enables publishers and visitors to monitor and manage their privacy settings. Classified ad software company Adicio has upgraded its Real Estate offering used by newspaper and other local media sites. New features include guided search, interactive maps, enhanced location search and advanced search engine optimization. ~ TECHNOLOGY DEALS, MERGERS AND SKIRMISHES ~
Video application provider Qoof struck a partnership with Brightcove to add interactive features to branded, advertising, and e-commerce-oriented videos. Qoof will provide Brightcove customers with access to all Qoof apps, deployed via Brightcove’s co-branded player. ~ TRENDS, RESEARCH, ETC. ~
Developers are coming around to Google’s Android mobile operating system to the point where they prefer it over Apple’s iOS long term, according to a new survey of 2,400 developers from IDC. Some 72% of developers say Android “is best positioned to power a large number and variety of connected devices in the future,” compared to 25% for iOS. As a result, 59% of developers now favor Android’s long-term outlook versus 35% for iOS, with this gap widening 10 points since a similar survey in June. Developers show interest in both platforms for tablet devices, with 62% expressing strong interest in Android-based tablets after 58% expressed similar interest in the iPad last Jan. Developers also show enthusiasm for connected TVs, with 44% saying they are “very interested” in developing for Google TV versus 40% for Apple TV. From an advertising perspective, iAd (52%) led AdMob (36%), with developers preferring iAd’s richer ad units and higher click-through rates. Major label music video site VEVO continued to make strides in Aug., attracting 45 million unique viewers and averaging an impressive 69 minutes of viewing/viewer for the month, according to ComScore – second only to YouTube with nearly 270 minutes/viewer. Google Sites also had the highest number of overall viewing sessions with 1.9 billion. Facebook edged out Yahoo sites with 58.5 million uniques and 243 million viewing sessions.
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Ann Arbor, MI-based Borders bookstore has released a Wi-Fi version of the Kobo e-Reader, now available for preorder for $140 on the Borders or Kobo site – just $10 more than the non-Wi-Fi version. The E Ink – powered device supports the ePub format, giving it access to more than half-million free, non-copyrighted library books now available through Google. ~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
The exodus of executives at Yahoo continues unabated as Hilary Schneider, EVP of he Americas; David Ko, SVP of Audience, Mobile and Local; and Jimmy Pitaro, VP of Media are leaving the company, as first reported in BoomTown. WiMax high speed internet provider Clearwire announced that three Sprint executives are exiting its board of directors, to address antitrust concerns and to likely clear the way for additional fundraising for the venture. Daniel R. Hesse, Keith O. Cowan, and Steven L. Elfman have resigned A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CTAM Summit
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Art programming is one genre that could be better suited for the web than for television, at least until interactive features become more widely available and easier to deploy across providers. This is apparent in the companion website for Thirteen‘s 13-part series “Art Through Time: A Global View,” featured on the educator-focused learner.org. Co-produced by Annenberg Media, the site could be seen as a blueprint for future interactive television explorations of visual subjects; each episode is streamed along with extensive jpegs of the art discussed. The best way to experience the site is to watch the episodes on the extracted video player (click on the symbol with two squares), freeing you up to click on works of art that can be magnified through a separate viewer. Audio commentary from curators and other experts are also available in audio files. 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