A fresh batch of family-friendly content is headed to the pipeline from a new studio writer/producer Dan Angel (R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, Goosebumps) and TV industry vet Tom Mazza just formed with Larrikin Entertainment. EveryWhere Studios will develop cross-platform programming geared to gathering mom, dad and kids around the TV and the tablet. Angel […]
France Televisions sweetened its programming roster by picking up CAKE‘s animated preschool series Space Racers. Its France 5 will begin airing the show June 1. Other new international deals for the show include Tiji in Russia, which will premiere the series on April 12, the “Day of Cosmonautics,” marking the anniversary of the first manned […]
Maker Studios struck a deal with Music Choice cable channels to feature Maker’s Bart Baker (2.5 million subs, 568 million views) and his parody music videos for a month-long takeover in April. Baker’s videos poke fun at artists such as Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus, and he has fifty songs on iTunes and his own […]
Multi-channel network Fullscreen acquired video game entertainment company ScrewAttack Network (850,000 subs, 215 million total views) on Friday. Fullscreen will rebrand its own gaming content hub Fullscreen Arcade to be called ScrewAttack Network. Fullscreen is known for The Fine Bros., Lindsey Stirling and O2L.
Aereo is defending its TV-streaming service as the “next technological step,” according to its final written argument before the Supreme Court case against broadcasters on April 22. “The evolution of technology from a black-and-white television connected to a rabbit-ear antenna and a Betamax to a high-definition television connected to a digital antenna and DVR had […]
Bravo Media announced new digital initiatives for the upcoming year, including: Select a Scene: Viewers can use the Bravo’s Play Live experience to influence on-air broadcasts, and decide what content they want to see most. For example, during The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Pt. 1 on April 27, viewers get to decide what […]
Amazon’s next gig may be an ad-supported streaming service meant for everyone not just Amazon Prime subscribers, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The service will feature original and third-party programming much like Hulu. No release date has been set yet, or word on if it will debut with the over-the-top box Amazon is also working on.
Multi-channel network Collective Digital Studio (CDS), the force behind YouTube hits Video Game High School and channel The Annoying Orange, announced its major investment in Europe’s largest media network ProSiebenSat.1 today. ProSiebenSat.1 formed a MCN Studio 71, which hits 100 million video views a month, and will start receiving video content from CDS and marketing […]
Cynopsis sat down with Wall Street Journal‘s Global Head of Ad Sales Trevor Fellows to discuss what it has in store for the digital content NewFronts event on May 2. DCNF will feature 22 publishers this year, including the founding partners Hulu, YouTube/Google, AOL, DigitasLBI and Microsoft. How do you think this year’s NewFront will […]
The Webby Awards announced comedian Patton Oswalt (The Goldbergs) will return as host of the 18th annual ceremony on May 19 at the Cipriani Wall Street. The Webby Awards is known as the “internets highest honor” for the best on the web, interactive ads and media, online film and video, mobile apps and social media.
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