Although Maker Studios approved the $500 million Disney deal, another lawsuit has hit the digital network. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Maker stockholder Andy Faberlle’s lawsuit is similar to the previous one made by ex-CEO Danny Zappin. Faberlle claims: “[Maker’s Board of Directors] orchestrated a scheme to illegally issue enough shares to themselves and those […]
ComScore’s Top 10 U.S. Video Ad Properties by Video Ads Viewed for March 2014. Property / Video Ads (000) / Total Ad Minutes (MM) / Frequency / % Reach 1. Live Rail / 3,891,534 / 1,598 / 25.5 / 49.0 2. AOL, Inc / 3,806,253 / 1,744 / 28.0 / 43.7 3. BrightRoll Platform / […]
With less than a week away until the Supreme Court case, Aereo is making its customer base as aware of the battle as possible. On the new site ProtectMyAttenna.org, Aereo is posting legal opinions, briefs, and the ability for customers to register directly for updates as the case unfolds. “The broadcasters are asking the court […]
Capitalizing on the success of telenovela El Senor de los Cielos, which averaged 2.3 million viewers nightly and generated over 35 million page views, Telemundo is launching a seven-part, mid-season web series to bridge the freshman season cliffhanger with the unprecedented upcoming second season. Two digital chapters a week starting Tuesday, April 22 lead up […]
Univision announced its first over-the-top (OTT) digital network, Flama. TheFlama.com will provide English-language Latin-culture programming for 15-30 year olds including five original series. The slate includes: a six-ep mockumentay precursor to the World Cup 2014 Brazil series called Super Accurate Soccer History, weekly comedy series Left Unattended with D-stroy, reality series around hip-hop artist […]
The Tribeca Film Festival named the winners of its second Vine video competition #6SecFilms. Culled from 500+ entries, the champs include: Animation: Matt Willis, Australia, for Wrap Dancer Drama: Jessica Harmon, USA, for Addiction Comedy: Albert Birney, USA, for Sylvio Let’s Go Genre: Lawrence Becker, USA, for The Vortext Finds a Host #6SecFilms Audience Award: […]
NBCUniversal is expected to bring a slate of new series to its digital partners, in order to capitalize on advertisers’ increasing appetite for the format in addition to traditional TV. Titles include: Tesla and Wain, Last Single Girl, Saturday Night Line and Heroes Reborn: Digital Series, and will be made available on digital channel Hulu, […]
Yahoo may be eyeing a comedy from former HBO Girls and MTV Awkward writer Lesley Arfin. Variety reports the show is a spoof of MTV‘s 16 and Pregnant, called 34 and Pregnant, and was originally being produced as a digital-only series for HBO Go. It is not been confirmed whether or not the show […]
Although it looked like Disney‘s deal to acquire online video producer Maker Studios for $500 million had hit a snag, yesterday’s Maker shareholder vote approved the Disney bid. The move swiftly knocked out a counter-offer from Relativity. Maker co-founder and former CEO Danny Zappin and three other former execs last week filed a lawsuit to […]
Second-screen TV app Zeebox rebranded to Beamly, focusing further on the social side of the app with the female demographic in mind. “Zeebox becoming Beamly speaks to the major revolution it has undergone since launching in the U.S. 18 months ago,” Beamly’s SVP of Marketing Jen Kavanagh told Cynopsis. “From a TV guide to a […]
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