Good morning, it’s Monday, December 13, 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. 

If you celebrate Christmas, you might be getting a video game under the tree. NPD just released new sales figures from November showing that retailers sold nearly $3 billion in videos games in November, up 8% from the year before. Microsoft is driving a lot of this growth thanks to the Xbox 360 and the new Kinect. “The 360 platform accounted for over 40% of total industry sales driven by the successful launch of Microsoft’s Kinect. Xbox 360 accessories accounted for 60% of that categories’ dollar sales this month,” said Anita Frazier, analyst at NPD. The game Black Ops helped the growth too, driving one-quarter of all video game sales in November and debuting as the best selling video game in history in its launch month. What’s more, Black Ops is already the 7th best selling game of all time having logged 8.4 million retails units sold to date, NPD said. Frazier added that the Xbox 360 was the best-selling console hardware system for the month, with a 68% increase over last November.
 

 
The CW is giving fans a chance to appear in an episode of Smallville on the show’s 10th and final season. To win that coveted on-air slot, fans must submit a video testimonial as a “hopeful citizen” appealing to Clark about the important role he is playing in crime fighting. The video will then be “shown” to the Clark in the storyline of an upcoming episode. Details can be found on the Smallville site.The contest runs through Dec. 20.
 

Live streaming service Justin.TV introduced an upgrade to its mobile applications last week to improve quality for uploads. The new versions build on the launch of Justin’s Apple and Android apps released a month ago that are proving quite popular with Justin.tv users. Justin users watch more than 300 million videos each month.
 

 
As issues of online privacy and net neutrality rise in importance, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has decided to bolster its presence in Washington by creating an Office of General Counsel and promoting Mike Zaneis to SVP and General Counsel from VP of Public Policy. He will be joined by two other IAB execs ­ David Doty and Patrick Dolan ­ who have also been promoted to more expansive roles. “Public policy has taken center-stage as one of the most critical issues facing the digital marketing industry, and no one is better equipped to represent the IAB and our members than Mike,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of IAB.
 
November was good to CNBC digitally. The network’s online home registered its best November ever with 5.9 million unique visitors, up 33% from a year ago, according to comScore data shared by CNBC. The network’s mobile site logged 1.7 million uniques viewing 61 million pages, a 34% rise.
 

More than 80 grassroots groups, civil rights organizations and businesses filed a letter with the FCC last week voicing their support for strong net neutrality rules, according to Free Press. The groups want the FCC to ensure the Internet remains fully open and that priority in moving traffic is not given to the highest paying companies, Free Press said. Others signing include New America Foundation, Media Access Project, Reporters without Borders, Center for Media Justice, National Hispanic Media Coalition and Public Knowledge.

Meanwhile, the WSJ reported that in the last two weeks alone executives from Verizon and AT&T have logged at least nine meetings or phone calls with senior FCC staff. Verizon and AT&T have been among the most vocal players in campaigning against more government regulation of the Internet. Expect the lobbying to continue for another week or so. The FCC is expected to vote on net neutrality on Dec. 21.

The effectiveness of automotive holiday ads is up 10% over 2009 due both to increased consumer demand for cars and to more relevant ads, said a study from TV ad researcher Ace Metrix.

Internet shopping is alive and well, says a new report from comScore. The online audience research firm found that Internet spending for the first 40 days of the holiday retail shopping season ­ starting in November ­ has surpassed $21.95 billion, for a 12% rise over last year.

The prolific app creator Oceanhouse Media said it’s now developing apps for Android devices. The company has licensed many of the Dr. Seuss books and characters for apps and is now offering Android versions of its How The Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Cat in the Hat apps.

Online ad technology company Resonate Networks added former comScore exec Sung Shin as VP of product management. Resonate also hired Elaine Harvey from Parature as the new VP of software engineering.
 

The Internet excels at irreverence. And among today’s crop of Web video stars, perhaps no one is better at this than My Damn Channel’s Grace Helbig. She’s the face of the online TV network with her daily video blog that features her irreverent and, yes, NFSW sense of humor. Check her out.

Correction : Here is the correct link from Friday’s Web site of the day – Google Zeitgeist.  http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2010/#review

Later – Daisy
Daisy Whitney, new media reporter and author of The Mockingbirds, filling in for Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
12.13.10

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