Cynopsis: DIGITAL
08.13.13

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, August 13, 2013, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

Things are much clearer now. At least they are if you’re looking at Skype on the most recent iPhone or iPad. The just-released Skype 4.10 for iOS works to maintain better call quality and stability, but its biggest improvement is that it now supports HD video.

The QVC, Playboy, and Galavision channels have all been tested by DirecTV in recent weeks and it appears the service might be ready to release them to the general public this week. DirecTV has also been found to be testing streams for beIN Sport Espanol and ESPN Desportes. It isn’t official when any of them will be released to subscribers, but it’s being said that the first three will get the go-ahead on August 15.

NBC News has made a deal to buy Stringwire, a startup company that will enable the network to stream user-generated video from cell phones to its studio in New York, who will then push the content to the rest of the world.
In Other Words: NBC will no longer have to wait for a cameraperson to get to the scene. To get their on-the-street camera people, NBC will monitor Twitter to find those tweeting about events as they happen. The network will then send them a message asking them to shoot live video for the network.

Bravo Media is adding some digital extras to its Top Chef. Set in New Orleans this year, the show doesn’t premiere till Oct. 2. But starting Wednesday, the program will launch on BravoTV.com a web-series Cigna-sponsored spinoff, Padma’s Picks, that features host and judge Padma Lakshmi going to some of the city’s best restaurants and selecting 10 chefs to battle for a spot on this year’s Top Chefs. This is in addition to another digital web series attached to the show, Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen, which is about to launch into its third season and features two eliminated chefs battling for a spot in the Top Chef finale.
In Other Words: Bravo is being tactical in leveraging a strong broadcast entity into an extended digital product and generating a nice stash of sponsorship dollars along the way.

Strategic communications and engagement firm Fastlane Communications has partnered with Latergy Video Marketing and Public Relations. The pairing will allow the two companies to provide clients with a single source to create and distribute content via earned, paid, owned, and shared media.

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League of Legends by Riot Games has millions of gamers singing its praises and most of them are the elusive Millennials. American Express aims to cash in on that fact with a partnership that it will announce Wednesday with Riot, the New York Times reports. The credit-card company will begin offering prepaid debit cards with images of the game’s characters emblazoned on them. Each cardholder will receive 1,000 points that can be used in the game. In addition, another 1,000 points are given to the consumer when he or she puts $20 onto the debit card, and a whopping 10,000 points are given to the user if the card is linked to a direct-deposit account.
In Other Words: Amex is smartly finding a way to not only get its name in front of an audience that is difficult to connect with, but giving gamers actual incentives to use the card that they care about.

Facebook has upgraded its iOS and Android mobile options so that members can find air times, channel info, and content descriptions for their favorite television shows.

Anti-ad startup Disconnect has now debuted an app for parents who don’t like that their kids are being served ads based on their online behavior: Disconnect Kids is a free iOS app that not only helps them control how their online and mobile browsing actions are used and educates them about online privacy at the same time. The technology behind the whole shebang was designed by Patrick Jackson, a former NSA engineer.
In Other Words: Media buyers should look to see how Disconnect works. Consumer attempts at self-protection are bound to rise as targeted ads become even more pervasive.

The word from MobileCasinos.co is that mobile gambling on smartphones is expected to grow 19% annually up till 2016 when revenue from smartphone gambling should hit $13.9 billion. That’s a lot of virtual poker chips.

By the time the PGA Championship ended Sunday with American Jason Dufner bringing home the victory, TNT had averaged a 1.2 U.S. household rating and 1.6 million viewers across four days of broadcasts. Live streaming viewership on PGA.com was up 69% (down from the 83% increase point it had hit after the first two days of golfing) and the hours of live streaming video consumed was up 85% from last year.

Kantar Media, has named George Pappachen executive vice president of strategy and business development for its Ad Intelligence group. Previously, Pappachen was global strategy and business development director at WPP’s Data Alliance as well as Kantar’s chief privacy officer… Gary Perrelli is the new senior vice president, interactive sales-content providers at Ensequence. Perrelli used to hold the title of vice president, national accounts and affiliate advertising sales for Disney and ESPN Media Networks… Tricon Films & Television is making a new push to build its digital sales team and has announced a number of related hires: Karthiga Ratnasabapathy is now the director, digital sales and acquisitions, there. The company also promoted Paul Lancaric to senior director, business affairs Lia Dolente to director, international sales & communications; Nick Solowski to director, international sales and acquisitions; Ashley Rite to director development & international sales; and Liz Coucean to manager, marketing & acquisitions… Social ad company 140 Proof has hired Ed Darmanin as its new chief revenue officer. Darmanin was formerly a vice president at The Weather Channel… A+E Networks is promoting four of its programming execs. Elaine Frontain Bryant is now senior vice president, development and programming, History. Paul Cabana has moved up to become senior vice president, head of programming, H2. Mary Donahue has been promoted to senior vice president, non-fiction programming, Lifetime, and Gena McCarthy has been named senior vice president, programming at Bio… Chris Lederer has been appointed to principal in PwC’s Advisory business.

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