BuzzFeed has developed a respectable journalistic reputation, but that’s mostly been based on the written word. Now the digital media company will focus more heavily on hard news-based video, according to NiemanLab. According to the report, BuzzFeed will develop a team within the company’s New York headquarters focused on creating news videos. BuzzFeed Executive […]
Welcome to the Apocalypse. For a full 24 hours yesterday, 20th Century Fox took over Snapchat’s “Lenses” animated selfie feature. Instead of the usual stable of Lenses, Snapchatters could make themselves look like characters from the upcoming film X-Men: Apocalypse. The biggest take-away here is that major companies are willing to spend the big bucks […]
NBC Sports Digital is introducing Playmaker Media in a move to offer “end-to-end support for companies in need of best-in-class live streaming and VOD solutions” by leveraging the company’s experience streaming sports events. At launch, Playmaker is partnering with technology companies Adobe, Akamai, Microsoft, iStreamPlanet, and Comcast Wholesale with the International Olympic Committee on board […]
The Thunder’s win on Sunday on TNT reeled in averaged eight million viewers with a 4.7 rating, according to Nielsen Fast Nationals, to rank as the most-viewed program of the night on cable for the third straight time this series. The numbers mark the most viewed and highest rated Conference Finals Game 3 airing on […]
Just days after Fox’s Upfront presentation, the net made a change to its fall schedule. Baseball-themed Pitch, which was to launch in the spring, stole the fall Thursday-at-9p timeslot once reserved for the final season of Bones. (Synergy alert: Fox starts airing Major League Baseball’s Fall Classic starting October 25.) Moved to Thursdays at 9p […]
Ewan McGregor (Star Wars) will play two brothers in FX anthology Fargo: Emmit, the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, and younger brother Ray, a balding, pot-bellied loser. Season three premieres in 2017.
And the Yahoo sales saga continues. According to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo’s prospective buyers are expected to offer somewhere between $2 billion and $3 billion during the next round of bidding. Yahoo had been expecting something closer to $8 billion (or more). It’s worth noting that bidders in any auction […]
Are we going to have a President Trump? If so, this is a key step: The Republican National Committee is finalizing $150 million worth of digital video ad inventory for the presidential election – buy far its largest-ever digital ad spend. The buy will be made in partnership with dozens of partners, the largest being […]
Earlier this month, the Atlanta Braves hit the next phase in its transition from one era to another, not with the firing of manager Fredi Gonzalez, but with season tickets to the club’s upcoming home at SunTrust Park going on sale to the general public. The move away from Turner Field and its history with […]
NBC Sports Group is adding another contender to the field, announcing a multi-year agreement for exclusive US media rights to the Royal Ascot in England in 2017. The prestigious horse racing meet will see NBCSN offer live coverage of the mid-June event from Tuesday-Saturday for at least 3.5 hours each day starting at 8:30a. The […]
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