Cynopsis: DIGITAL
08/17/10
Good morning, it’s Tuesday, August 17, 2010, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. If you would like to read this or any other Cynopsis edition online, click here.
House Democrats heaped criticism on Google and Verizon’s “industry centered” net neutrality plan on Monday, warning against “cable-izing” the internet and calling on the FCC to move ahead with its “third way” proposal to regulate broadband. Congressmen Ed Markey, Anna Eshoo, Mike Doyle and Jay Inslee outlined 4 priorities for the legislation, including reclassification of broadband as a Title II service, prohibiting paid prioritization, including wireless services in the regulations and warning against “managed services” exceptions that would create a loophole for content producers and distributors.
NBCU, Fox and Disney joint online video venture Hulu is preparing for an IPO this fall looking to raise more than $2 billion in funding, reports the NYTimes. Hulu is on track to more than double the $100 million it earned in revenue last year and is getting ready to launch a multiplatform subscription service for $9.99/mo.
Turner Sports-managed PGA.com delivered a record-breaking 4.8 million total video (live + on-demand) streams during the final round and playoff of the PGA Championship on Sunday. For four rounds of coverage, the site delivered a record 11.9 million total video streams (live + on-demand), a 250% increase over last year.
Yahoo UK began streaming ad supported highlights of Barclays Premier League soccer matches with support from such brands as Adidas, Heineken, BT and Sony Pictures.
Facebook kicked off its live streaming channel powered by Livestream, Facebook Live, on Friday with a live user-interactive chat with Ugly Betty star America Ferrera, who was plugging her new veteran-themed film “The Dry Land,” which she also executive produced. A series of widgets (a Player widget, Video Library widget and Chat widget) allow live shows to be streamed and interacted with on multiple pages simultaneously.
Music blog network and subscriptions music service MOG launched a new online music editorial destination dubbed the MOG Music Network. The site, edited by former Flavorwire editor Andrew Phillips, aggregates news, blog entries and video clips from across the MOG network.
In game ad network IGA Worldwide announced it closed on a “significant” investment round led by T-Venture Funds, the venture arm of Deutsche Telecom.
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Apple‘s newly launched interactive iAd service is a little slow taking off with only two of the program’s original 17 launch partners – Unilever PLC and Nissan – getting around to launching a campaign, reports the WSJ. One reason is that the control freaks at Apple are keeping a tight reign on the creative aspects of the platform, with mobile campaigns taking 8-10 weeks to pull off from gestation to launch.
India-based digital marketing conglomerate Ybrant Digital bought what’s left of search and email brand Lycos from South Korea’s Daum Communications for $36 million in cash.
Digital media transcoding company Telestream has acquired Grab Networks’ Anystream division for an undisclosed amount in a bid to strengthen its position in large-scale transcoding for online or VOD.
Facebook became the #3 most popular site to watch video online in July, according to ComScore attracting 46.6 million viewers, third only to YouTube (143.2 million) and Yahoo sites (55.1 million). Fox Interactive sites like MySpace had the most precipitous drop, falling from 41.5 million to 38.1 million viewers in a single month. While Hulu only ranked 10th in terms of viewers, (28.4 million), the site led the way with most video ads viewed (783 million impressions), reaching some 7.8% of the U.S. population. The top video ad networks in terms of potential reach were: ScanScout Network at 40.5%, BrightRoll at 39.4% and Break Media Network at 38.7%. The ave. video watched online was 4.8 minutes and the ave. video ad was 0.4 minutes. Video ads accounted for 9.8% of all videos viewed and 0.9% of all minutes spent viewing video online.
Top U.S. Online Video Properties by Video Content Views
Ranked by Unique Video Viewers – July 2010.
Property Total Unique Viewing Sessions Minutes per
Viewers (000) (000) Viewer
Total Internet : Total Aud. 178,148 5,234,655 882.0
Google Sites 143,226 1,884,498 282.7
Yahoo! Sites 55,107 238,322 28.6
Facebook.com 46,571 166,186 18.3
Microsoft Sites 45,558 219,149 40.2
VEVO 43,911 202,091 68.5
Fox Interactive Media 38,136 164,760 27.2
Turner Network 33,442 107,793 25.3
Viacom Digital 30,715 70,617 44.8
Disney Online 28,475 64,104 6.0
Hulu 28,455 153,845 158.0
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Traffic from the explosion of smartphones and other connected mobile devices will expand data traffic by a factor of 30 in the coming years, meaning that offloaded data will expand 100-fold by 2015, according to an alarming new study from ABI Research. About 16% of mobile data is diverted from mobile networks today, but that is expected to increase to 48% by 2015. Several approaches and technologies will play specific roles in relieving network congestion, including better compression, Wi-Fi, femtocells, mobile content delivery networks and media optimization.
Recognizing that the iPad is a perfect companion for the TV junkie, TV Guide Digital has launched its own free iPad app developed with Roundbox featuring a customized programming grid, social features and entertainment news and editorial from TVGuide.com. The app makes it easy to share what you’re watching by integrating Facebook and Twitter buttons in with the listings grid. Premium network Showtime is the exclusive launch sponsor. TV Guide says over 1.3 million iPhone/iPod Touch users have downloaded its listings app.
An elegant TV discovery engine/sharing solution for the iPhone is Tunerfish‘s new iPhone app, which also allows you to share what your watching via Facebook or Twitter (simply touch the I’m Watching button and choose from a pull down menu of programs) and see what shows are trending up and down among your friends. Tunerfish, also in the works for the iPad, was developed by the team that built Plaxo, acquired by Comcast in 2008.
G4 extended its mobile brand to Android with a new free app featuring gaming news, trailers, reviews, tricks, cheats and video clips from G4 shows.
Former top creative executive David Madden has been named President of Fox Television Studios after overseeing development of such shows as USA’s Burn Notice and FX’s The Shield. He replaces Emiliano Calemzuk, who resigned last week to become chief executive of the U.S. arm of UK-based production studio the Shine Group.
Cameron Death has been upped to SVP/GM of NBC Universal Digital Studio, which creates and distributes original digital content for advertisers across multiple NBCU platforms. Cameron will continue to report to Vivi Zigler, President, NBC Universal Digital Entertainment.
MTV Networks veteran Friday Abernethy has been named EVP/Affiliate Sales and Marketing for TV Guide Network, effective immediately.
Michael Grover and Cindy Slocki have joined the marketing department of Discovery’s new The Hub network both reporting to Greg Heanue, VP/Marketing and Promotions. Michael has been named Director, Consumer Marketing and Cindy joins as Director, Integrated Marketing Solutions.
Online video platform OneScreen has hired Biff Burns for the newly created position of VP/Sales and Marketing. Biff came from direct response TV ad agency Mercury Media and will be based in the start-up’s Boston office.
Social gaming companies are the hottest online properties at the moment with the big studios like Disney (which snapped up Playdom for up to $763 million) and EA (which gobbled up Playfish for up to $400 million) rushing to make sure they have one before they’re all gone. Of course the big tuna in the space is Farmville creator Zynga which, with the hiring of Owen Van Natta, seems destined for an IPO. England-based online and social gaming company Zattikka, purveyor of addictive little games like Saucer Panic, recently secured $5.5m in funding through its parent company Expedite 5 and has added a new executive of its own to its ranks. (Former UK Head of Business Development at Amazon.co.uk, Dave Mutton, has been appointed as VP/Sales and Marketing.) Zattikka may be one to watch because its games are fun and its management seems to understand just how mercurial the space is. In a new interview with MCV, Zattikka CEO Tim Chaney says that the company is quietly acquiring more IP-based companies in the hopes of finding the next big breakthrough game. And with the elimination of “spamming off the Facebook activity page,” the cream will end up rising to the top.
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
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08.17.10
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