TubeFilter released the Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide for the month of February, and the site’s co-founder Josh Cohen broke it down for Cynopsis. “It takes a lot to top PewDiePie and the gaming channel’s more than 24 million YouTube subscribers, but Shakira did it in February to become the Most Viewed […]
King Digital Entertainment (makers of the Candy Crush Saga mobile game) is planning to launch an IPO valuing $7.56 billion, which is worth more than 15 percent of S&P 500 companies. Each of King’s 22.2 million shares would be priced between $21 and $24, and is expected to debut the trading on March 26.
Little Airplane Productions is wading back into production waters with a new co-production in conjunction with SeaWorld Kids. Billy Green Builds! follows the adventures of a 7-year-old boy, his animal sidekick Moxy and his solar-paneled Chuggy Buggy as they travel the globe to build environmentally friendly, imaginative solutions that help animals in trouble. A new […]
Once upon a time there was a never-say-die rocker who decided to write a children’s book. Yep, Keith Richards is penning a kids tome for Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. “Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar,” will debut Sept. 9 as both a hardcover book/CD and an ebook. […]
The SEC Network found its voices for the football season, with ESPN formally announcing that Brent Musburger and analyst Jesse Palmer will team up in the booth on Saturdays for microphone duties this fall. Both reached an agreement with ESPN to be the lead college football game commentators on the new network and will kick […]
Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products unveiled its first look at the “Simpsonized” FC Barcelona for the company’s kind campaign featuring a partnership between The Simpsons and soccer. Fox and FC Barcelona will co-create a broad line of branded merchandise that will be available to consumers in 2014. The first line up of FC Barcelona players […]
Now this is how you reach Millennials. A deadpan President Obama was interviewed by Zach Galifianakis on the comedian’s mock talk show, Between Two Ferns. (Galifiniakis: “Which country were you rooting for in the Winter Olympics?” Obama: “Seriously? I’m the President of the United States.”) In a hilarious six-minute clip on Funny or Die […]
“If the government wants to give them permission to steal our signal, then we will come up with some other way to offer our content and get paid for it.” So said CBS CEO Leslie Moonves yesterday, about what he’d do if the Aereo video streaming service is declared legal by courts. Instead of broadcast, […]
CBS Sports and Turner Sports served up plans to cover all 67 games from the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship across four national television networks TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV, with some new elements spicing up the mix combined with some local flavor. For the first time, Final Four games will run live […]
CynKids Exclusive: Cupcake Digital is acquiring zuuka, developer of the iStoryTime app library. The purchase positions Cupcake as one of the largest independent children’s app developers, with a combined library of over 250 titles and a download base of over 8.5 million. The first app due out under the merged company will be Kung Fu […]