Scripps Networks Interactive online lifestyle platform Ulive added two new series, and second seasons of originals EstheKitchen and Sick Kitchens with Nadia G. New offerings come from comedian and mom Carey Reilly, who searches for inner peace in Dear Buddha; Fit Nonstop arrives courtesy of SoulCycle instructor and YouTuber Kym Perfetto. The shows are available […]
AMC ordered eight episodes of the web series All-star Celebrity Bowling from host of Comedy Central’s @Midnight, Chris Hardwick. The show, which has attracted major stars like Jon Hamm and Bryan Cranston, was originally a hit on Nerdist’s YouTube channel, with 1,049,368 total views. Hardwick also hosts AMC’s The Walking Dead talk show, Talking Dead.
Ryan Seacrest and Conde Nast parent company Advance Publications announced a $2 million investment in web-artist music festival DigiTour Media. DigiTour started in 2010, and this year boy band Our Second Life and Vine star Nash Grier will headline the festival, with close to 100,000 attendees expected in a dozen cities. “It’s becoming easier to […]
Over-the-top content provider Beauty TV is bringing back digital video series Beauty TV Minute on its YouTube, Roku, TiVo’s Hot List app and more. YT make-up and nail guru Julie G (500,000+ subs, 118 million total views) hosts the beauty how-to episodes, with occasional appearances from make-up artists JoJo McCarthy and other experts.
Cinema network NCM Media Networks presented its upfront at New York’s AMC Lincoln Square movie theatre yesterday, unveiling a pre-show called FirstLook, a Shazam integration, and a digital companion series called FirstLook5. The shazamable series will allow advertisers to push deals and digital content directly to mobile devices – which makes sense, since 85% of […]
Netflix U.S. broadband traffic increased by 31.6 percent since 2013, and accounted for 34.2 percent of traffic during primetime hours in March 2014. Variety reports research from network equipment company Sandvine also showed YouTube’s traffic dipped to 13.2 percent, from 18.6 percent last year. Amazon Instant Video slightly increased from 1.6 percent to 1.9 percent, […]
Comcast and Turner Broadcast System signed a deal to bring Turner’s current seasons and select original series from networks like TBS, TNT, Adult Swim and more to Xfinity TV consumers. Variety reports the shows will be available the day after they premiere and stick around for the rest of a current season. Turner will provide […]
Shareablee’s Q1 2014 Social TV Rankings revealed ABC is the top network when it came to viewers most likely to share a network’s content. The findings included: Networks / Facebook and Twitter Sharing (Retweet, shares) / Percent change from Q4 2014. 1. TV Broadcast Category Average / 4,155,137 / 25 percent 2. ABC Network Total […]
Time Warner may have passed on multiscreen network Fullscreen after all. In a previous report from Bloomberg, TW was talking with the MCN, but the deal fell through after the company concluded the high price would not financially pay off, according to Variety. The discussion started soon after Disney closed the $950 acquisition with Maker […]
Instagram ads are supposedly reaping success according to the social photo app. Adweek reports Taco Bell saw a 29 percent gain in ad recall in April, and a 45 percent jump in followers at a total of 411,000. Instagram also reports Michael Kors and Ben & Jerry’s are averaging 60 percent high engagement rates for […]
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