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Cynopsis: DIGITAL
04/30/08
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, April 30, 2008, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
The BBC has won rave reviews and a loyal following for its iPlayer catch-up service launched last Christmas in the UK. The BBC says 42 million shows have been viewed so far. (iPlayer has been so successful that it’s being blamed for slowing down ISPs in the UK, but that’s another story.) Now complete episodes of BBC programming are finally available digitally in the U.S. on ITunes, under the BBC America shingle. Robin Hood, Torchwood and Little Britain are currently available as single episodes or complete seasons, with more shows to come in the near future.
National Geographic Channel completed an overhaul of its website, featuring over 800 hours of embeddable video viewable in 16:9 with full-screen capabilities. A useful new Flash-based video interface allows users to browse clips by topic such as Animals & Nature, Science & Technology or Preserve Our Planet. Submenus allow even further sorting. A new schedule app embeds preview videos for each primetime show.
CBS says it raked in $23 million in ad revenue from streaming March Madness this year and that CBS Radio’s online revenue grew to $30 million in 2007. Interestingly 92% of the tournament games were viewed at the workplace, according to Nielsen.
Call for Content: MySpace users are invited to upload talent reels to audition for FremantleMedia & NBC’s America’s Got Talent, now through Monday, May 5. The show’s producers will review submissions and the selected participants will be flown to Las Vegas to join in a real life audition show. A Virtual Audition City episode will feature the selected MySpace acts.
Universal Music Investments, Sony BMG Music Investments and The Angels Forum 74 have invested $2.8 million into Berkeley, CA-based Mog, reports VentureBeat, nearly doubling its total capital intake. With the tagline “Where Bad Music Comes to Die,” Mog is another music discovery service (Imeem, Last.fm) that scans users’ hard drives for content to share, aggregating MP3s, news, reviews, and music videos.
A little confused about the whole social networking thing? Check out Social Brew, Revision3‘s latest internet series featuring news, reviews and how-to’s for all the leading platforms. It’s hosted by Irene McGee, creator of No One’s Listening.
IPTV platform Babelgum signed one of its biggest content deals to date, securing over a 100 hours of PBS programming for U.S. distribution including the award winning Empires series. Babelgum also launched an international PBS channel featuring 18 episodes of Scientific American Frontiers.
The ongoing price war between mobile carriers is about to pay more dividends for consumers. AT&T is prepared to subsidize the 3G iPhone due out this summer by as much as $200, according to Fortune. Customers who commit to a 2-year contract will be able to land one for $199. Meanwhile, Rogers inked a deal to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. Maybe Apple’s guidance of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008 is not so farfetched after all.
Google Maps has integrated Street View imagery into its driving directions functionality. In the 44 cities where Street View is available, users can click on a camera icon to see a visual of what each step in their journey will look like.
Like opposing Civil War generals meeting on the River Queen steamer anchored near Ft. Monroe, Microsoft and Yahoo execs are thinking of attending a powwow on neutral grounds in Oregon, reports Boomtown.
Gemstar-TV Guide International‘s shareholders approved the sale of the company to DRM provider Macrovision for $2.8 billion. The company says it wants to peel off TV Guide Network, TV Guide Magazine and horse racing channel TVG.
In its latest attempt to remain relevant in the digital age, Blockbuster is in talks to join MGM and Lions Gate in Viacom’s new pay TV channel venture, according to The WSJ. Blockbuster acquired failed online movie download service Movielink last year and once tried to launch a broadband VOD service with Enron.
With the old “in for a penny, in for a pound” adage in mind, Cox Enterprises decided to acquire targeted vertical online ad firm Adify for a reported $300 million instead of participating in an investment round with the start-up.
Contextual in-video ad company ScanScout struck a distribution deal with widget expert Clearspring Technologies to give ScanScout advertisers viral access and tracking abilities across its network of more than 25 sites including MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo and Google.
Top Visited US Broadcast Network TV Show Sites (Week ending April 26, 2008)
Rank Network Website Market Share of Visits
1 FOX American Idol 26.10%
2 NBC Deal or No Deal 7.77%
3 CBS Big Brother 9 7.68%
4 CBS Survivor: Micronesia 7.15%
5 ABC Dancing with the Stars 7.15%
6 FOX America’s Most Wanted 4.33%
7 ABC Lost 2.45%
8 NBC The Office 2.04%
9 ABC The Bachelor 1.75%
10 ABC Grey’s Anatomy 1.72%
Source: Custom report from Hitwise
Top Visited US Broadcast Network TV Websites (Week ending April 26, 2008)
Rank Network Website Market Share of Visits
1 ABC www.abc.com 24.81%
2 CBS www.cbs.com 24.70%
3 FOX* www.fox.com 24.43%
4 NBC www.nbc.com 17.86%
5 The CW www.cwtv.com 7.60%
6 MNT www.mynetworktv.com .60%
Source: Custom report from Hitwise, *includes traffic aggregated from stand alone websites americanidol.com, amw.com, familyguy.com, thelot.com and thesimpsons.com.
Rainbow Media Holdings, LLC., a subsidiary of Cablevision, upped Mike DiPasquale to EVP/Operations. Mike will add oversight and management of PVI Virtual Media Services to his responsibilities, which provides real-time virtual enhancement technology solutions for television. He will continue to report to Josh Sapan, President and CEO, Rainbow Media.
With all the comic book-themed movies and content deals coming down the pike, it’s interesting to remember that comic geeks were one of the first subcultures to embrace the social nature of the web. Most fan sites were built as labors of love instead of as get rich quick schemes. Check out The Comic Vine, a social encyclopedia started by a couple of CNET veterans who helped launch TV.com and MP3.com. These guys custom built a massive database and toolset to allow users to catalog their favorite heroes. You can browse by character profile or super-hero rank in terms of powers, teams or popularity then cross reference what issues they appeared in. The site keeps track of top contributors by rewarding points for their efforts. There’s even a psychographic dating quiz to test what hero type you’d be most compatible with. Great stuff!
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
04.30.08
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