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Cynopsis: DIGITAL
07.11.13

Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 11, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

New speakers announced daily! Book your tickets now to the Cynopsis Sports Business Summit and Women of Action as our events have ALWAYS sold out. On Aug. 13, don’t miss our state of women in sports business session that will include: Lesa France Kennedy– Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors for International Speedway Corporation; Heidi Ueberroth-President of NBA International; CSN Mid-Atlantic President Rebecca Schulte; Pac-12 Networks President Lydia Murphy-Stephans; and Christina Miller– Turner Sports SVP and GM of NBA Digital. The panel will be moderated by espnW VP Laura Gentile. Tickets are on sale now for WoA as well as the Cynopsis Sports Business Summit on Aug. 14 at http://www.cynopsissportssummit.com.

Andrew Jenks gained fame for his documentary The Zen of Bobby V for ESPN and his World of Jenks series on MTV that had him chronicling his life as he spent a week living with various contemporaries. Now the filmmaker is taking a crack at acting in a new web series that he’s created called It’s About a Girl. The project took him a decade to complete and follows a young man in New York who happens to be looking for love. New episodes will appear every Tuesday on his YouTube page.

Conde Nast Entertainment has launched the Vanity Fair Digital Channel with four web series inspired by the magazine: Vanity Code, an animated How-To series to help folks with such problems as How To…Behave at a Swinger’s Party; @VFHollywoodwith Krista Smith, an interview show with the magazine’s senior west coast editor talking to Hollywood celebs; The Snob’s Dictionary, a window into the world of the cultural snob; and Eminent Domains {NYC}, an eight-part series that takes viewers into some of the most interesting, historic, and legendary addresses in New York City.

The rise of mobile video monetization is growing rapidly, according to a new report from Business Insider‘s BI Intelligence. Below are five key findings:
* As of January 2013, 41% of U.S. smartphone owners said they watched a video on their phone at least once. Nine months earlier, only 20% said the same.
* Playing videos and sharing videos are two of the top 10 favorite things to do for tablet users.
* Tablet owners tend to watch longer videos: 63% of the videos they watched were more than 10 minutes long.
* Video-enabled mobile ads can command up to 10 times the CPM of standard mobile ads.
* Advertisers will spend $520 million on mobile video ads this year. That’s 13% of the expected digital video ad market.

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Moderator: Chris Pursell: Director of Sports Content [Cynopsis: Sports]

Speakers: Rob Shaw: VP, Content/Media [Bloomberg Sports]
Gus Weber: Sr. Director of Digital Products [ESPN]
Chris Lencheski: President [Front Row Marketing Services] with Special Guest: Hall of Fame Coach, Barry Switzer

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Mark Coleman is apparently a betting man. The former sales director of Google has joined personalized mobile content recommender my6Sense as the senior vice president of global sales and will head up the newly created New York office as the company makes its first real foray into the States. “It’s a big transition for me to go from thousands of employees to a dozen,” Coleman told Cynopsis. “I’m in all departments here.” my6sense currently services about 80% of the publishers in Israel and aims to collect as many American digital publishers as it can. “It’s a new solution in terms of mobile monetization and we’re able to get a premium CPM, which is unusual in mobile,” Coleman said. The company’s recently announced Content Discovery Bar appears when mobile users click on a More button at the bottom of a partner publisher’s content. The Bar offers up suggestions of other content within that publisher’s archives. With that comes obvious targeted advertising opportunities. “We’re taking the publisher’s own inventory and creating a new unique white-label ad unit,” Coleman said. “Around this new ad unit, we’re able to bring branding dollars to it by adding rich media and emerging activity around it.”

Broadcast TV is still the main form of advertising that the top 10 automakers invest in, but digital is making inroads. According to Advertising Age‘s annual list of the 100 Leading National Advertisers, those advertisers spent $6.25 billion on TV commercials last year last year, up 7.3 percent from 2011. But those same advertisers also spent $5.82 billion on unmeasured advertising such as search-engine marketing, online videos, and social media up 34 percent from 2011.

Mobile advertising accounted for $8.6 billion of revenue in 2012, up 83% from 2011’s $5.3 billion, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and IHS. This is still not much compared with Internet ad revenues, which topped $9.6 billion in the first quarter in America alone. Search is the leading ad format, bringing in 52.8% of all of the mobile dollars. Display ads were 38.7% of all mobile ad revenues, or $3.4 billion, in 2012 while messaging accounted for 8.5%, or $756.5 million. The single biggest geographic region for mobile ads is Asia Pacific with 40.2%, but the U.S. isn’t far behind with 39.8% of the pie.

In response to more and more brands advertising across numerous devices, video advertising platform provider Videology has introduced a new product in order to unify video planning and management for both reservation-based and RTB buying within one platform. Descartes is designed to fulfill the needs of both linear TV and digital buyers. Since video-consumption behavior has changed, Videology wants to create one tool that will bridge both the linear and digital viewing worlds.

Tablets are the preferred mobile gaming device in America, according to a new study from mobile game maker PlayFirst Inc. and media and entertainment research firm Frank N. Magid. The study shows that 69% of tablet owners play games on their devices and 31% of them bought in-game virtual goods. That accounts for $914 million in spending, nearly three times what smartphone in-game virtual good spending is. Those gamers account for $341 million spent on in-game virtual goods.
Still, smartphone gaming is still strong: 51 million users play games on their smartphones, which is almost a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Tablets, though, have 61 million gamers that prefer it, a 70 percent increase over the previous year. The average tablet gamer downloaded nearly 25 games in the last 12 months, and one out of five of those are paid games. The average smartphone gamer downloaded nearly 20 games in the last 12 months.

Hasbro recently extended its licensing deal with Electronic Arts to keep making cool games using Hasbro products. The game maker is now showing that it is seriously invested in the videogame market by taking a majority stake in mobile-games publisher Backflip Studios, according to the Guardian. Hasbro has shelled out $112 million for the 70% stake for the maker of such games as DragonVale, NinJump, and Paper Toss. Does this mean there will be an eventual battle between an EA Mr. Potato Head and a Backflip Mr. Potato Head?

CartoonNetwork.com has launched an all-new Adventure Time free-to-play online game, Adventure Time Game Creator that, just as the title suggests, allows gamers to create the games themselves. Players are given two characters to arm with powers along with a wide variety of hazards and environments to select. After creating the game, a player can share it in an online gallery and have it played by others.

To help YouTube contributors put together more professional-looking content, the Google-owned company has shelled out a few bucks to build a 41,000-square-foot studio, YouTube Space LA, in Southern California. In it, top-of-the-line YouTubers can use top-of-the-line video production tools at no cost. And it’s not just for folks who’ve had viral hits. But the place is more than an equipment storehouse; YouTube will also train creators on how to use the gear as well.

Free-TV service Aereo has been raising the blood pressure of television execs for some time and now it might just worsen. As of yesterday, PlayOn, the creator of a PC-based browser and media server that brings television content to PCs and mobile devices will begin airing Aereo’s channels – though there is no business relationship between the two entities. Those who wish to see Aereo’s channels through PlayOn on their screens or Android devices must have subscriptions to both. Aereo costs $8 a month while PlayOn costs $50 for a lifetime subscription, or $25 annually.

A new global online aggregator of video content that’s based in Ireland, VideoElephant, has launched with more than 50,000 short-form videos for purchase and download. Those who purchase the videos can use it again and again, and the videos can either be bought individually or in bundles broken down by genre or language-related. It is partnered with such organizations as the AFP, ABC, and National Geographic and could help such places bring in more revenue selling their archived video.

Marketing agency PPC Associates has appointed Dave Yoo as Chief Operating Officer. Yoo is a former client of PPC, which has more than 70 clients and more than $150 million in annual spend. He has previously worked at Sugar, Inc. and was the founder of both Social Concepts Inc. and Netblue.

Digital publisher Livingly has added five new members to its sales team: Sasha Kravetz and Rebecca Catti (Account Executives, Sales), Jackie Monteforte (Account Manager, Sales), Jessica Casey (Marketing Manager) and Liz DeMarco (Marketing Solutions Designer).

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With each release of its Grand Theft Auto series, Rockstar Games has had to up the ante somehow. Whether you like it or hate it, fans of the game are finally getting a good gander at the next version, Grand Theft Auto V, which is due out on September 17 for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. (It also amusingly has the word “five” written across the V in its title, for those who don’t know their Roman numerals.) Players will be able to control three characters – Michael, Trevor, and Franklin – who are working together to save the fictional city of Los Santos.

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See you tomorrow,
Mark Miller 
07.11.13

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