Cynopsis: DIGITAL

6/12/07

Good Morning, it’s Tuesday, June 12, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

Oh My God! – Yahoo and Access Hollywood teamed up to launch a celebrity web portal to try and compete with Time Warner’s TMZ.com, chock full of breaking news, videos, photos from paparazzi the world over. Unilever and Pepsi have signed on as exclusive sponsors. Omg! is the first major Yahoo collaboration with Hollywood since former ABC programming chief Lloyd Braun was phased out in December. The timing certainly couldn’t be better”: Paris Hilton’s stint in prison has led to a feeding frenzy on the web. Check out the music video Paris in Jail on YouTube – it’s got nearly 3 million views already!

 
Users crashed the HBO website on Sunday night trying to leave their two bits about the climax, or as many would say, anti-climax of The Sopranos. Suppositions flew that HBO toyed with David Chase’s ending, that something went wrong with the sound, that the real ending is being held for the DVD release or that the open-ended thing was just a set-up for a feature film. Withdrawal symptoms are never pleasant.
 
ESPN is buying Bangalore-based cricinfo, the world’s leading cricket site with more than 7 million users. The site provides live scoring and ball-by-ball commentary for most international cricket matches and has built a database that includes every one of the 3,000 international and 45,000 first-class cricketers to have played the game.
 
ABCNews.com and Gannett’s USA Today.com will pool resources leading up to the 2008 elections. USA Today will provide ABCNews.com with political stories and blog entries, and ABC will offer USAToday.com video coverage of debates and candidate appearances.
 
Full-length episodes and highlight clips from Big Brother 8 will be available on the CBS Audience Network allowing fans to watch the programs online and incorporate clips into their blogs, wikis, widgets and community pages. CBS and RealNetworks will again provide exclusive 24/7 live streaming video from inside the BIG BROTHER 8 house, following the July 5 premiere. A mobile subscription package will also be available at CBSmobile.com, giving fans around-the-clock access into the house.
 
Microsoft and Games for Change announced a new initiative to encourage global problem solving through digital gaming. Microsoft is hosting the Xbox 360 Games for Change Challenge inviting college students from more than 100 countries to come up with the best game based on the theme of global warming. 
 
MTV is doing its part to spread awareness of the crisis in Darfur by translating the student-developed Darfur is Dying online viral video game into Chinese, Arabic and Spanish for a worldwide relaunch. MTV will promote the game across all its on-air and online properties.
 
Oxygen and Glam Media partnered to create an online game around the premiere of Fight Girls, allowing participants to draft fighters from the series, who earn or lose points based on how they “perform” on the show. The game was developed by Fafarazzi.
 
 

 
NATPE announced the details of this year’s LATV Festival and second annual NextGen TV Competition being held July 25-27. Wednesday the 25th is “Digital Day” at The Highlands, including a session hosted by The Digital Coast Roundtable and a presentation by the AFI Digital Content Lab.
 
Canada’s Heritage Ministry announced a digital media fund at The Banff World TV Festival of $27.3 million created to support the development, production, marketing and distribution of original Canadian new media projects. Over the past six years, the fund has supported projects including PC & console games, historical and educational websites, DVDs and streaming audio and video online.
 
Melodeo Inc. announced nuTsie, a new mobile music service that allows consumers to get their entire iTunes library on their mobile phone. Melodeo will pay royalties for each song streaming via the service, giving artists a chance to finally make money off songs that have been shared between friends or copied illegally.

 

YouTube says it will begin testing its homegrown video fingerprinting technology with media partners such as Time Warner and Walt Disney beginning next month, reports The Wall Street Journal. The system was promised by Google CEO Eric Schmidt a couple of months back as a way to stop the flow of pirated content on the site.
 
Apple will make it easy for Developers to create Safari-based applications that will integrate with iPhone services. Steve Jobs envisions Apple’s faithful coming up with hundreds of new widgets for the device to tie the phone in with other popular web tools such as Google Maps. (More than 3,000 widgets have been written so far for Mac OS X.) Jobs also announced a new version of Safari for Windows and demoed Leopard, the newest version of OS X that boasts more than 300 new features including new email, calendar, chat and clip functions. Leopard is due to ship in October.
 
Cartoon Network New Media developed a new browser application at AFI’s Digital Content Lab to deliver interactive video to broadband-enabled gaming consoles. Compatible with Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s Wii platforms, the “Mega Series” will work while simultaneously streaming Cartoon Network and Adult Swim programming to provide a real-time immersive experience for gamers.
 
Univision named Maven Networks to power its new consumer video portal that launched last week on Univision.com. The portal features clips from Univision novellas, news programs, sporting events, music videos and celebrity interviews.
 
Google was rated the worst in privacy controls for the way it handles personal data of its users in a new report by cyber rights watchdog Privacy International. Yahoo and AOL were said to have “substantial threats” to privacy. Microsoft came in having “serious lapses.” EBay and Last.fm were found to be “generally privacy aware but in need of improvement.”
 

 
Online video ad firm Visible World and licensing automation platform Imagespan announced a new online dashboard that allows advertisers to streamline the process of getting video and photo rights cleared. The platform enables easy acquisition of rights-cleared images and videos from more than 7,000 artists to be used for creating online ads, mash-ups and original works.
 
Behavioral-targeted online display advertising spending will soar from $575 million this year to $1 billion next year, projects eMarketer in a new report Behavioral Targeting: Advertising Gets Personal. The market, which is served by many of the companies that have been snapped up in recent weeks including DoubleClick, Right Media and 24/7 Real Media, is expected to quadruple by the end of 2011 to $3.8 billion.
 

 

 
Comcast Network Advertising Sales added three new hires to its online sales team. New account executives Nick Gorzkowski, Samantha Hyatt and Alicia Driskill will be part of the Marketing Innovations and Interactive Media team, with a focus on advertising sales for all Comcast Network interactive media assets, including web sites for E! Entertainment, The Style Network, G4, VERSUS and its emerging networks. Nick will be based in New York. Samantha will be based in Los Angeles. Alicia will work from Chicago.
 
NBCU’s iVillage made several additions/promotions to its sales team. Wanda Weber was named VP/Ad Sales & Marketing for iVillage Properties, reporting to Peter Naylor, SVP Digital Sales. Debbie Wogan was appointed VP/Sales for iVillage Lifestyles, reporting to Ms. Wogan. Brenda Coan was also promoted, and Matthew Schulte was added to serve as National Sales Directors.
 
TitanTV Media announced today that Morgan Jones has joined the company as Producer for Original Content. She is a veteran of ESPN’s “Quite Frankly” and ABC News Now. Reality TV veteran Angela Campos also joined the company as Producer. Both will work on developing and producing original content for TitanTV’s channels.
 
Social networking site Reunion.com named Dipik Rai as VP/Business Analysis and Strategy. He will be based in Los Angeles and report to Jeffrey Tinsley, CEO.
 

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HBO just launched JohnMonad.com, a minimalist new interactive feature of the John From Cincinnati site created to support its newest original series. The site guides users through the latest David Milch experience by prompting them to explore thematically relevant content as a means to explore questions they may have after they watch each episode. (Rest assured, there’ll be plenty of questions.) HBO and Deep Focus built it with new Flash format ActionScript 3.0 and Papervision 3D, an open source 3D engine for the Flash platform currently in private beta testing. It takes some playing around with, but the interface is pretty cool. If you didn’t catch the John from Cincy premiere after The Sopranos finale, you can watch it on the main HBO site for the show.

A new website will be featured here everyday for you to check out. Some are TV-centric, some creative, some just plain strange, but all have something to do with this crazy business. Email me your suggestions at wayne@cynopsis.com and if I include the site you mention, your name, company and city will be credited. Only one mention per calendar week, to make it fair.
 
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digitals
06.12.07

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