Cynopsis: DIGITAL

04/26/11

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, April 26, 2011, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.  If you would like to read this or any other Cynopsis edition online, click here. 

Netflix took a symbolic step in its quest to rival traditional media providers, adding 3.3 million new subscribers to reach 23.6 million subs – nearly double the number added Q1 last year and matching Comcast, the top cable MSO. Worldwide revenue jumped 47% to $719 million and net income increased 88% to $60 million as streaming-only and hybrid plans were added in equal measure. But the company admitted increased competition (from rivals such as Amazon, Hulu and Dish Network/Blockbuster) would slow down growth going forward. In a letter to shareholders, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings and Chief Financial Officer David Wells played down the threat it poses to established entertainment companies such as pay cable networks and syndication, noting that shows such as Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy don’t appear on the service until a season after they air.
 

 
ESPN launches a newly enhanced version of its woman-targeted espnW this morning, which is slowly evolving from a blog to a full-featured site. The site, sponsored by Nike and Gatorade, will add a broader range of coverage of women’s and men’s sports from a female perspective. New sections include an expanded Opinion section, News & Information, Features & Profiles and Training. “Ask the Pros” will enable readers to ask questions of espnW’s panel of pro athletes.
 
E!’s Royal Wedding coverage on April 29 will include an extensive social media component with E! News’ Jason Kennedy manning a “Social Central” hub to track celebrity tweets and Skype calls from viewing parties around the world. E! Online’s Facebook page will also feature a live stream of the network’s broadcast embeddable on your wall.
 
Amazon introduced a new Author Interview series providing The Backstory from many best selling authors including Candace Bushnell, Stephen King and Sarah Dessen. The site features interviews, podcasts, videos, tweet sessions and guest reviews.
 
CBS Sports.com is streaming a live NFL Draft video show starting Thur. on CBSSports.com and CBS Sports Mobile from its studios in New York City. Fans will have the opportunity to view team Twitter feeds and interact with fans while viewing draft selection results.
 

 
Hayden Black’s online sitcom Goodnight Burbank debuted on Hulu yesterday, brought back and lengthened this year to become “the first half-hour scripted comedy made for the web.” It’s full of lovable characters (including unfiltered Entertainment reporter and Asperger’s Syndrome afflicted Elizabeth Chivers) and ingenious rips and roars.
 
A new digital content company dubbed DoubleBounce, headed my former MTV Networks and Fuse executive Matt Farber, launched to create low-cost, short form digital series for the web and mobile devices. The company is working with a group of 16 production companies who produce shows for lifestyle-themed cable networks – including HGTV, Food Network, TLC and MTV. It already has signed agreements with Evolve Media Corp. and Metacafe to distribute and sell the shows to advertisers.
 
A new start-up named Storify launched yesterday as an online news and information filtering service, funded with $2 million from Khosla Ventures. The site, tested during a beta period by reporters from The Washington Post, NPR and PBS, offers a platform to sift through publicly available content from sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube with an emphasis on social media context and reaction.
 

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Premiere Retail Networks and Revision3 are co-producing an advertiser-sponsored series of :60 segments on the history and evolution of video gaming, hosted by GeekBeat,TV’s Cali Lewis. The original content is now playing at major retail outlets.
 

 
Outages continue to plague the cloud-computing space, making clients question whether the technology is truly ready for full-time deployment. Amazon Web Services’ outage was finally restored on Monday after knocking sites such as Foursquare, Reddit and Quora offline for more than 3 days. (Amazon attributed the outages to latency and connectivity issues affecting its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service (RDS)). Meanwhile, Sony‘s PlayStation Network and Qriocity services remain dark after being shut down last week to investigate a security breach.
 
Comcast has completed the digital upgrade of its Santa Barbara County system, offering more than 100 new channels and faster internet speeds to residents of Ballard, Buellton, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, Solvang, Santa Maria, Lompoc, Orcutt and Vandenberg Village.
 

 
The only thing (Seattle Mariners owner) Nintendo needs more than an RBI hitter is an upgrade to the low-res Wii. The company promised it will upgrade the console in 2012 and have a demo of the new system ready for E3 in June. Nintendo could use a boost – it reported quarterly profit of just 12 billion yen on Monday, down from 60 billion a year ago.
 
Barnes & Noble released some new features for its $250 7″ Nook Color eReader. B&N introduced the Nook Apps store offering games such as Uno and Angry Birds, content apps including Pandora and Epicurious, and productivity apps for email, calendars and contacts. The Nook Friends app allows users to share books, quotes and comments with readers and the NOOK Color now also includes support for Adobe Flash video.
 
ESPN has updated its Passport mobile app to include a “check in” feature, encouraging fans to check in while their at the game or watching it online or on television. The app will keep a record of games attended or viewed, where you sat and users will have the ability to upload mobile photos to share with friends via social media platforms.
 
The new 99 cent DUI Dodger iPhone app purports to cut down on drunk driving but increasing awareness of DUI checkpoints in users’ area. It relies on location-based markers placed by other users and includes a Blood Alcohol Content calculator and a game that aims to detect a person’s sobriety level by simulating a police field sobriety test.
 

 
Reader’s Digest Association Holding Co. President/CEO Mary Berner, past publisher of TV Guide and Glamour, announced she was stepping down after a four-year stint. Former Affinion Group CFO Tom Williams will take her place and join the board of directors. Randall Curran has also been named Chairman of the board.
 
Tara Tzirlin has been upped to VP/Consumer Marketing for Crown Media Networks, a newly created position.  She will continue to be based in the networks’ Los Angeles office and report to Susanne McAvoy, EVP/Marketing.
 
Nicola Bridges has been named SVP/Product and Audience Development of consumer health media firm RealAge, a newly created position. She will be responsible for product management, innovation and development across all key platforms, reporting in San Diego to Gregg Zegras, President.
 
Forbes Media tapped Todd Woody to cover environmental issues including green technology for the magazine and web site as Environment Editor. He will manage the Green Tech section on Forbes.com and report to Eric Savtiz, San Francisco Bureau Chief.
 
Bravo Media appointed Jennifer Geisser as SVP/Bravo Communications, overseeing strategic communications for the network, including programming, digital and merchandising initiatives.
 

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Getting viewers to “check in” to an online service while their watching TV has become a competitive business and Yahoo wants a piece of the action. Yahoo has acquired TV Check-in service IntoNow for a reported $20 million in cash and stock plus incentives, just 12 weeks after it launched. The IntoNow platform, spun out of contextual online video management and technology company Auditude, set itself apart from competitors with an elegant iPhone app that integrates with Netflix and, like Shazam, recognizes precise episodes of shows by listening to them through the mike in your phone for a few seconds. Yahoo will utilize the technology to improve engagement and user experience across online video, search, mobile and connected TV. Look for IntoNow to add apps for browsers, Android and iPad and eventually expand into international markets.     

Later – Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
04.26.11

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