Cynopsis: DIGITAL
8/20/07
Good Morning, it’s Monday, August 20, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Media Rights Capital‘s digital arm struck a deal to use Google’s AdSense network to monetize and distribute branded content. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and That’s So Raven star Raven-Symone have signed on to create original online content. MRC Digital will finance by selling online sponsorships integrated with the original videos. Banner ads, pre-rolls and other kinds of digital ads will be served by AdSense across multiple sites.
CBS Mobile is teaming up with Verizon Wireless and MediaFLO USA to launch a new Big Brother 8 mobile channel, offering V Cast subscribers 24/7 live coverage from inside the Big Brother home. Additional mobile offerings around the show include full episodes, highlight clips, breaking house alerts and daily insider summaries. Coverage will continue through the season finale on Sept. 18.
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart launches “Operation Silent Thunder” this week, broadcasting special reports filed directly from Iraq. The segments will be available on ComedyCentral.com for viewing with URL and embeddable links the day after they air on the network.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced its call for entries for the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards, awarded to interesting interactive, broadband, net-based or IPTV-oriented content. Entries can be submitted online, with a deadline set for September 20. The Emmys will be awarded at NATAS’ annual gala at CES on January 7. Go to http://www.emmyonline.org/tech/call_for_entries_flyer.html for a full list of categories.
Raw, uncensored video entertainment site No Good TV is shopping a latenight linear TV franchise, according to Variety. The site specializes in profanity-laded interviews with celebrities who are usually sitting down to promote their latest releases. Late Show With David Letterman producer Robert Morton has signed on to executive produce the project, along with NGTV.com, Endeavor and 3 Arts Entertainment.
Video sharing site MetaCafe launched a Facebook application, allowing users to watch videos and grab them to share and embed elsewhere. The application allows users to view the most popular videos within their Facebook network and search the entire archive on MetaCafe.com.
Facebook launched the Facebook Diaries project with Comcast’s Ziddio, featuring real life video submissions from Facebook users. Clips can be submitted on Ziddio.com and can be viewed on either site or via Comcast’s VOD platform. (Registered Facebook users can view them at facebook.com/diaries.) New episodes based on different topics will be added each Thursday.
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Sony is working with Waste Management’s Recycle America program to help customers recycle Sony TVs, computers and other electronics equipment. The Sony Take Back Recycling Program will accept devices at 7 drop-off centers throughout the country, taking Sony equipment for no charge or competitors’ products for a nominal fee. A list of drop-off centers can be found at sony.com.
Comcast has begun the practice of cutting off users who try to download files from P2P file sharing site BitTorrent, reports the blog TorrentFreak. Cable MSO and other ISPs have long limited bandwidth for heavy P2P users, but this new practice is preventing BitTorrent users from completing downloads by severing the connection between the BitTorrent client software and other peers contributing content. Comcast is utilizing an application provided by Sandvine to choke BitTorrent traffic, according to the blog.
American Airlines filed a lawsuit against Google accusing the search giant of selling search words to competitors that use AA’s name, trademarks or service marks to grab users attention.
The NAB weighed in on the “white space” debate, agreeing with the FCC that wireless broadband devices would indeed interfere with broadcast signals. The association is asking further tests of such devices, requested by Microsoft, be delayed until the DTV transition in 2009. The NAB estimates portable devices could disrupt as many as 15% – 20% of viewers who watch TV over the air.
UK-based WPP reported digital revenue from group agencies OgilvyOne, Wunderman, rmg:connect, G2, GroupM, Milward Brown, RI and Lightspeed increased by 10% during the first half of 2007 compared to the same period last year. Revenue from PR activities was up 14.8% due to the “positive impact on the sector’s growth of social networking on the web.” North America accounted for 38.5% of the group’s revenue during the period.
The 19 largest cable and telco providers added a combined 1.7 million new high speed internet subscribers during the second quarter, according to Leichtman Research Group. The top providers now collectively account for 58 million subscribers, representing about 94% of the market in the U.S. Growth is leveling off, with only Charter recording more net broadband additions compared to second quarter last year. Telcos added about 925,000 new subs – 54% of the net new additions. But cable still serves 31.5 million broadband customers vs. telco’s 26.4 million subscribers.
A new Harvard study released by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy concludes that the internet is redistributing news audiences at a rapid rate with the biggest gains in coming to non-traditional providers including news feeds, search engines and bloggers. Traffic to national web portals such as nytimes.com and usatoday.com are also increasing, by 10% on average during the past year. The trend threatens daily newspapers and local news organizations the most as national brands tend to eclipse local ones on the web.
The Errant Aesthete is a blog for culturally curious, high-brow web surfers. Its anonymous postings call attention to notable events and trends in art, food, politics and entertainment with wit and verve, if not a little snobbery. (It boasts of sporting “a refined sensitivity toward all things beautiful, exquisite, deliciously de rigueur.”) At any rate, it is beautifully presented and will appeal to the Upper West Sider in us all.
Thanks to: Anna Crow Crowe Creative Inc.
Correction/Clarification: In last Friday’s item about the Skype outage, Teleblend was referred to as having acquired former customers of the shuttered VOIP service SunRocket. In fact, SunRocket’s liquidators only recommended Teleblend (via countless emails) as an alternative to its users – there was never a former acquisition completed.
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
08.20.07
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