Cynopsis: DIGITAL
03/10/10
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, March 10, 2010, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Spurred on by location based social networking services like FourSquare and Loopt, Facebook is getting ready to launch its own location-based service at the company’s f8 developer’s conference in April, reports the NYTimes. Facebook is apparently planning to allow users to both share their current location with friends and allow developers to build applications that take location into account. The move is designed to help the company compete with Google in the growing local small business advertising space. Of course with a user base over 400 million, Facebook must be careful to address privacy concerns when considering such a feature.
Verizon Wireless wrestled away a major content contract away from Sprint, signing on to offer access to the NFL Network’s popular NFL RedZone channel in a 4-year deal worth a reported $720 million. The deal, which kicks off next month with coverage of the NFL Draft, includes mobile access to Thursday night NFL games on the NFL Network and Sunday night games on NBC. Verizon will use the NFL to help market its 4G network launch, expected to roll out in 25-30 markets in 2010.
Hockey Night in Canada can now be enjoyed online. Yahoo! Canada has landed the rights to stream the rest of the Saturday night hockey games live from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. this season at a newly branded CBC Yahoo site.
NBCU’s Bicultural teen-targeted mun2 launched a new mobile WAP site at m.holamun2.com to serve Latinos using legacy mobile devices. A smartphone version of the site is planned for later this year.
Paris-based video sharing site Dailymotion signed a deal with the once digitally-reluctant Warner Music to feature ad supported music videos on the site, allowing users to create and share playlists of their favorite tracks. The site also features music videos from Universal, EMI and The Orchard.
Indie studio Media Rights Capital announced its second partnership with priceline.com and Seth MacFarlane’s well-publicized “Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.” William Shatner’s “Priceline Negotiator” character will be featured in four new animated intros of the shorts, now available on YouTube, the new Cavalcade Hulu channel, on priceline.com, as well as being distributed via Tremor Media and Google’s content networks.
Online video ad platform Auditude has signed a deal to manage Dailymotion’s catalog of 12 million+ videos.
Tremor media led video ad networks in Jan. in terms of potential reach, according to ComScore, but BrightRoll led in actual reach delivered with 27.2% of the online video world reached. BrightRoll was followed in this category by SpotXchange Video Ad Network with 19.8% and Tremor Media Video Network with 16.6%.
Top U.S. Online Video Ad Networks by Potential Reach of Unique Viewers – Jan. 2010
Property Unique Viewers (000) Viewer Penetration
Total Internet : Total Audience 173,361 100.0
Tremor Media – Potential Reach 86,047 49.6
BBE – Potential Reach 78,327 45.2
Advertising.com Video Network – Pot. Reach 77,946 45.0
BrightRoll Video Network – Potential Reach 67,377 38.9
YuMe Video Network – Potential Reach 65,666 37.9
ScanScout Network – Potential Reach 65,298 37.7
SpotXchange Video Ad Network – Pot. Reach 63,406 36.6
Break Media Network – Potential Reach 63,108 36.4
TidalTV – Potential Reach 49,264 28.4
Adconion Video Network – Potential Reach 47,913 27.6
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Following last week’s battle between WABC and Cablevision, a group of pay TV providers and two trade associations filed a petition with the FCC calling on the group to review rules governing carriage negotiations between broadcast TV station owners and cable, satellite and telco operators. Distributors would like to see broadcasters be required to enter into arbitration before pulling their signals during fee negotiations.
The FCC proposed a National Digital Literacy Corps at the Digital Inclusion Summit at the Newseum in Washington D.C. yesterday to help bridge the digital divide as part of a national broadband plan due out March 17. The Digital Literacy Corps, modeled after volunteer programs such as AmeriCorps, will target communities with low broadband penetration including rural areas, low-income housing developments and tribal lands.
British rock band Pink Floyd is suing music label EMI over online royalty payments and the sale of single tracks from albums such as “The Dark Side of the Moon,” per Bloomberg – the best selling album of all time. Pink Floyd claims that its contract with EMI specifies that albums are to be sold as a whole with tracks in a specified order and not as singles and that the same configuration should apply online.
NACS Media Solutions, a subsidiary of the National Association of College Stores, signed a deal with On Demand Books – maker of the Espresso Book Machine – to market the on demand print book machine around colleges for distribution of text books and course catalogues.
Traffic to Disney/ABC-managed Oscars.com surged 57% on Sunday compared to Oscar Sunday a year ago, according to Hitwise, while time spent increased 40% y/y for the day. Google, ABC, Yahoo Search and Facebook referred the most traffic to the site, accounting for 77% of the referred visits. Meanwhile, The Hurt Locker website received the most US visits on Monday among a custom category of the 10 nominated best films. Prior to that day, Avatar’s site had to most visits dating back to Dec. 5, 2009.
Mobile location-based social network Foursquare is introducing a new analytics dashboard in the coming weeks to give local businesses an idea of where they are pulling customers from, per the NYTimes. The tool will allow businesses to see who has checked in from the network along with basic demographic info.
Location-based check-in service Gowalla, a hit on the iPhone, is now available as a native app for the Android mobile OS (previously Android users could only access Gowalla through the mobile browser.) To showcase the application, Gowalla signed a new agreement with the Travel Channel and its new Food Wars series. Locations used in the series will be integrated into the Gowalla platform and users will be able to check in to find specific show information, pick up items specific to the show and be awarded specially created passport stamps to record their visit.
Sony will become the next manufacturer to introduce 3D TV’s in Japan on June 10 and in the shortly thereafter, closer to the date when 3D DVDs and Blu-ray’s will begin to hit the market. A 46″ Sony LCD set will sell for about $3,500 in Japan and at a similar price point in the U.S., 50% more than comparable 2D LCD models.
Chicago native Rosemarie Rivera became the biggest winner to date in GSN‘s interactive Bingo Blitz on-screen and online game, raking in $41,000. The cross-platform game invites players to log on to GSN.com every day to pick three sets of Bingo cards, then tune in every weeknight to discover if they’ve won a share of the jackpot.
Amid a wave of layoffs and an editorial reorganization, Variety let go off Chief Film Critic Todd McCarthy after 31 years with the trade daily. Seven other staffers including Chief Theatre Critic David Rooney were also laid off. Meanwhile, Kirstin Wilder was upped to Managing Editor and Steven Gaydos was named Executive Editor.
Video ad platform Auditude announced the opening of a new London office hiring Damian Scragg as VP/International Sales and Services. Prior to joining Auditude, Damian served as European Sales Director for Right Media.
Los Angeles-based Panache has added former Yahoo! VP of Product Strategy Cheryl Kellond to its management team. Cheryl has more than 15 years experience on the display and online video ad space.
Rainbow Advertising Sales Corp. has upped Kim Norris to EVP/Advanced Advertising Strategy and Operations. She will help oversee new interactive, addressable television advertising and advanced advertising initiatives, reporting to David Kline, President and COO of the group.
Futurestates is the name of a new forward-looking fictional online series from San Francisco’s Independent Television Service (ITVS – producers of the Independent Lens series on PBS.) Eleven thoughtful films take a look at alarming trends and extrapolate out to look at how things may end up in the not-to-distant future. They’re longer (15 min. +) and more ambitious than your typical online comedy, featuring some compelling visuals and interesting nonlinear storytelling. For instance, Ben Rekhi’s Fallout utilizes stripped down digital effects to place us in the aftermath of a nuclear attack in L.A. Ramin Bahrani’s (Goodbye Solo) Plastic Bag, narrated by German auteur Werner Hertzog, follows the (never-ending) life of a plastic bag. Watch a film then visit the interactive Predict-O-Meter to comment on these future glimpses or to submit your own predictions about what the future will bring.
Clarification: Microsoft’s video platform is named Silverlight – the software is currently in its third generation, supporting HD 720p playback.
Later – Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
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