Cynopsis: DIGITAL
8/07/07
Good Morning, it’s Tuesday, August 7, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Former president of Nickelodeon Albie Hecht has raised $9 million and secured distribution partners for his new family-friendly digital production studios Worldwide Biggies. NBC Universal, Hearst Corp., Alan Patricof’s Greycroft LLC, Platform Equity and PrismVentureWorks have backed the venture, which will focus on digital fare including web shorts, games and broadband series. The company is known for such as multiplatform projects as The Naked Brother Band releases, dog video site WorldwideFido.com and celebrity scandal game starvsstar.com. In addition to its investment, NBC Universal will have first right of negotiation to the studio’s properties in addition to ad sales opportunities.
The Weather Channel‘s weather.com launched a new interactive video player powered by Brightcove that utilizes DoubleClick‘s In-Stream video ad serving solution. The “Blue Box” player features enhanced search, share and embed options and offers easy-to-browse category tabs to navigate back and forth between multiple genres. Weather Channel Interactive also signed a deal to adopt the Brightcove IPTV platform on a corporate-wide basis, allowing the company to syndicate video content to website affiliates through blogs, emails and social networks.
Fremantle Media Enterprises will launch a new direct-to-consumer web portal to offer classic shows for purchase or rental via download. TVComedyClassics .com, due to launch later this month, will feature comedy shows from the Fremantle archive including Tommy Cooper Half Hour, George and Mildred and Bless This House. TVComedyClassics.com will be cross-promoted on branded DVD releases, which FME is looking to expand by introducing local versions of the site around the world.
TBS talent Bill Engvall (The Bill Engvall Show) and Jim Gaffigan (My Boys) will headline new broadband projects on TBS.com. Bill Engvall, also a regular on Blue Collar TV, will offer advice to viewers who submit “Ask Bill” letters to the site. The “Andy’s Car” segments feature Gaffigan gaffes as he commutes each day from the suburbs.
Comcast‘s Eonline announced a new online game to promote the fifth season of Dr. 90210. “Celebrity Face Lift” will allow users to create an avatar by utilizing facial features from multiple celebrities and embed or email their creation to friends.
ABC Family‘s entry into the social networking arena VirtualRush.com, a web component for the original series Greek, helped more than double the network’s online unique user base in July. VirtualRush and the Kyle XY Continuum helped grow unique users by 114% with users spending an average of 12 minutes on the site each time they logged on, according to ABC Family.
Conde Nast launched Concierge.com, offering travel clips from a new 57-video library of Insider Guides – first person tours of top restaurants, clubs, shops and attractions.
Online personal media network Slide.com is launching a widget-based ad network offering advertisers “sponsored skins” applied to slideshows spread virally around the web via social network pages and blogs. Discovery and Paramount Pictures will use Slide’s photo and video widgets to promote shows and movies across networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Slide was launched in 2005 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and has received funding from Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.
Multimedia channels widget SplashCast launched a new Facebook version of its player. The “white label” service creates a custom media wrapper for clients and loads the application into Facebook, sharing revenue based on ad impressions. NPR is one if its first clients with the NPR Podcast Player, allowing Facebook users listen to and share the latest NPR podcasts.
Digital music retailer AmieStreet received Series A funding from Amazon.com. The site, founded by three Brown University students, offers a unique pricing model for DRM-free MP3s; prices for songs start out free then climb as they become more popular. Users earn credits for recommending songs to each other, essentially rewarding them for their promotional efforts. If AmieStreet also uses web-based means to promote its artists, such as sponsoring episodes of LonelyGirl15.
This one is a more of a family skirmish than a corporate one: Rudy Giuliani‘s 17 year-old daughter Caroline has been outed as an online supporter of Barack Obama for President. Her name was found on Obama’s Facebook profile by Slate magazine, with a political representation listed as “liberal”. When Slate emailed her about it, she promptly removed her name.
Search engine marketing agency AdGooroo has signed a deal with Publicis Groupe to provide SMG Search, Digitas, Moxie Interactive and Publicis Groupe Media with proprietary search query and trend data to improve consumer trend analysis. AdGooroo automates a number of competitive intelligence and data collection tasks, including keyword optimization and competitive intelligence tools, to support strategic decision-making and provide structure and direction for managing campaigns across platforms.
Popular Science adopted the AdPerk online video ad network to help grow its circulation. AdPerk invites users to watch online video ads in exchange for a free annual 12-month subscription. Sponsors pay based on the number of videos viewed in multiple categories.
A new Bivings Research survey of the U.S.’s top 100 newspaper sites found video to be more of a central component of its content. About 92% of paper sites now offer video (up from 61% in 2006). Within this group, 39 sites offer original video content, 26 use AP’s video service and 13 offer video content from local news outlets.
Jody Jones joined Scripps Networks Interactive as SVP, reporting directly to Interactive Group President Deanna Brown. Jody will be responsible for day-to-day operations of broadband sites and other interactive properties including HGTV.com, FoodNetwork.com, DIYnetwork.com, FineLiving.com, GACTV.com and Recipezaar.com.
Gemstar-TV Guide named Ian Wallin to VP/National Sales for TV Guide Online. He will be based in New York, reporting to Richard Cusick, SVP and GM/Digital Media. Ian’s most recent position was National Director, Sports for Microsoft.
Reed Business Publications announced a new editorial structure for Multichannel News and Broadcasting and Cable to “accelerate growth in online media.”
- Tom Steinhert-Threlkeld will now serve as Editorial Director for both Multichannel News and B&C, with Max Robins leaving his post of Editor & Chief of B&C.
- Mark Robichaux will oversee daily operations at B&C
- Joel Topcik will serve as Online News Editor of B&C
- David Cohen becomes Web Editor of B&C
- Mike Reynolds was named Online News Editor
- Steve Donohue was appointed Web Editor of Multichannel News
The author of the popular Fake Steve Jobs blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs (subtitle: Dude, I Invented The Friggin iPhone, Have You Heard Of It?) has been unmasked! The satirical blog was created by Daniel Lyons, a Senior Editor at Forbes magazine, starting out as a parody of corporate blog and evolving into a playful platform in which to explore Apple’s high-profile happenings. Forbes has the whole story on video, (with lots of commercials).
Cynopsis Digital Glossary Entry:
White Label Product or Service – A product or service created by one company and sold to another to be rebranded as their own. In the digital world, white labels can apply to web applications, widgets or even entire networks. For instance Ning is a white label social networking service started by Netscape founder Marc Anderssen that companies can use to create their own social network.
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
08.07.07
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