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05/15/08
Good morning, it’s Thursday, May 15, 2008, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
In a true marriage of new and old media, CBS has struck a partnership with viral web drama studio EQAL to create a slate of multiplatform programming for existing and future CBS television productions. The creators of lonelygirl15 and KateModern – Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried – will consult with CBS to help create social experiences around traditional shows, working with CBS writers at the script level to tie online narratives in directly with TV plot lines. The deal also gives CBS “first look” at any new multiplatform show concepts developed by the studio.
Lifetime Networks reached a wide-ranging agreement with Cox Communications, which agreed to launch all of the network’s new services beginning in June. Cox will carry Lifetime Television HD, Lifetime Movie Network HD, Lifetime On Demand and Lifetime Movie Network Espanol On Demand. Cox will begin rolling out Lifetime HD to its customers in June, it time for the second season of its signature original series Army Wives.
Dish Network dropped 10 of the 15 Voom HD networks this week to make room for those new HD network additions just announced. The satellite provider also plans to drop the remaining 5 “as soon as possible” in response to an ongoing dispute over the companies’ carriage agreement. Rainbow Media’s Voom suite is now only available on its parent company’s Cablevision systems.
NationalGeographic.com launched a minisite devoted to the Summer Olympics in Beijing featuring loads of video content, photos, trivia, educational games and travel tips.
CMT.com enjoyed its best traffic month ever in April with unique users growing by 68% year-on-year to more than 4.3 million visitors, according to comScore.
TV executive Lawrence Lyttle and Manager/Producer JP Williams have teamed up with the Or Die Networks folks on yet another video humor site called kungfutodd.com. This one has a politically incorrect/pop culture bent with the usual ratings system that relegates also-rans to the scrap heap.
Comedy.com launches three new online series this week including Glitch in the System, aimed at video game fans; Do Unto Others, based on the popular humor book of the same name; and Incognegro, starring “The Colbert Report” regular Jordan Carlos.
AtomicOnine’s female targeted SheKnows acquired community site PregnancyandBaby for an undisclosed amount.
Call for Content: Filmaka is accepting concepts for short films which promote SAB Miller’s selected theme “Because Life is What Your Pour Into It.” 15 finalists will receive $1,500 to turn their ideas into short films for the brewer.
Mobile content portal Zedge completed a redesign of its site making it easier to find tools, profiles and content. One of its cooler apps is a program that allows you to upload an mp3 file then select a short bit of it to use as a custom ringtone.
Check out Phonesheet.com to demo its cool new web-based phone message tracking software, free for the first 30 days. No more jotting down messages on balled up pieces of paper.
D-Link released a new Wireless Bridge device to accomplish what the Tivo Wireless USB network adapter does – transfer data to DVRs, game consoles and digital media players via a home Wi-Fi network. But this version supports 2.4GHz or 5GHz bands, both part of the upcoming lightning fast 802.11n standard.
Rival Korean chaebols LG Electronics (who brought us the ravishing Scarlett “TV series”) and Samsung announced a rare partnership to jointly develop a single standard for mobile digital broadcasting in the U.S. The technology will be based on findings of a test conducted by Washington D.C.-based industry group MSTV, to be submitted today to the Advanced Television Systems Committee. ATSC is expected to choose a standard for North America in early 2009 after trials are conducted by the Open Mobile Video Coalition.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is going ahead with plans to make a run at the Yahoo board, planning to nominate 10 new directors more amenable to restarting sale discussions with Microsoft.
Comcast‘s Interactive Media division is acquiring address book/social networking service Plaxo for a reported $175 million in cash, planning to integrate its software across digital set top boxes. Plaxo hosts the online-based address books of 40 million+ users and integrates accounts to other popular sites including microbolgging site Twitter and photo-sharing site Flickr. Plaxo has been working on an address book app for Comcast’s SmartZone communications center as well as hosting all the accounts for Comcast’s webmail users for the past year.
Turner revealed its own contextual advertising initiative at its upfront presentation yesterday, looking to place appropriate spots adjacent to relevant scenes from Turner’s library of movies and TV series. The “TV in Context” program will begin placing ads with a select number of clients in the fall.
Unilever struck a number of interactive TV campaign deals with marketing firm BrightLine ITV that will roll out across Comcast and DirecTV systems during the coming year, reports the WSJ, the first ever upfront commitment for iTV ads.
Following News Corp’s disappointing revenue announcement eMarketer downgraded its projected revenue growth of leading social networks such as MySpace and Facebook, trimming this year’s forecast of U.S. social network ad spending from $1.6 billion to $1.4 billion.
Meanwhile evidence is piling up that Facebook has lost some of its luster among developers. Competition from dominant players such as Slide and Rock You and the influence of Google’s open API program OpenSocial has dampened some of the enthusiasm to create applications for the platform. Data culled from Facebook developer/blogger Jesse Farmer, who developed the Adonomics Facebook analytics and developer services system, breaks down some compelling tracking numbers.
Monthly Statistics for the Facebook Developer Forum
Month Jan. 2008 April 2008 % change
Posts per day 461 225 -51%
Signups per day 38 27 -29%
Threads per day 80 44 -44%
Active users 1,606 1,168 -27%
Highly active users 461 225 -47%
Source: 20bits.com, from data provided by Adonomics
Google accounted for 67.9% of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending April 26, 2008, according to Hitwise. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.28%, 6.26% and 4.17% respectively.
Smart phone app creator Handango hired wireless content veteran Alex Bloom as VP/Content and International. Alex is charged with leading content acquisition efforts, developing revenue strategies and optimizing content and e-commerce services both domestically and internationally. He will report to Handango CEO Bill Stone.
SpiralFrog expanded its sales team with the addition of industry veterans Jesse Paynter as SVP/Sales and Paul Rothkopf as SVP/Sales Strategy. Both will report to CEO Mel Schrieberg in the music service’s New York headquarters.
Online movie streaming service Jaman launches its first free ad-supported channel today, offering 100 initial indie and international titles. There’s a mixture of stuff here, including plenty of Bollywood movies and classics like Hitch’s The 39 Steps. But all in all it’s a smart way to promote what is still mainly a paid download-to-rent service. Jaman, founded by former Informatica CEO Gaurav Dhillon, has built a nice interface that does a couple of things very well. The movie finder function allows you to browse movies based on what mood you’re in, ranging from serious to funny, mellow to charged, deep to shallow and tears to bullets. (How many times have you spent an hour in Blockbuster because it’s so hard to narrow your choices?) It also interfaces with AppleTV.
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
05.15.08
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