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05/13/09
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, May 13, 2009, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
The iPhone and the App Store continue to shape the mobile content space. UK-based Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile operator by revenue, plans to launch a mobile online store to sell games, news and travel applications. It will allow developers to write apps once for use on any Vodafone handset. The platform will offer the advantage of billing users for purchased apps directly to their mobile accounts and would be the biggest in the world by far – giving access to up to 1 billion customers by integrating with partner networks including Verizon Wireless in the U.S. and China Mobile. The Vodafone store will go live during the second half of this year.
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PBS‘s nightly newscast NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is getting a new name and a digitally-motivated makeover. From September, “PBS NewsHour” will return to a two-anchor format with Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff or Jeffrey Brown alternately joining Jim in the anchor chair. Meanwhile the online and broadcast news gathering efforts will merge and a new correspondent will be hired to serve as a bridge between the show’s broadcast and digital platforms. Lehrer will remain executive editor and primary anchor of the new PBS NewsHour and will lead the transition.
Studios are finally getting around to utilizing Blu-ray’s BD Live interactive functionality. The Watchmen Director’s Cut release by Warner Home Video in July will enable “community screenings,” per THR, allowing users to share comments with Facebook friends while watching the movie. “Watchmen” also will premier simultaneously on various platforms, including On Demand cable and satellite PPV, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game consoles.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams launched a new independent music-themed web video series called BriTunes, notes methodshop (even he apologizes for the name.) His first interview subject is Deer Tick, dubbed the top breaking band at SWSW 2009 by Rolling Stone.
Fingerprinting technologies can be used for more than just policing piracy. Content monitoring and monetization specialist Attributor and online video distribution and analytics platform Tube Mogul are partnering to create a newly unified service for measuring the reach and pop of viral videos. Attributor’s platform will continuously monitor the web for TubeMogul’s 80,000+ users, using advanced audio and visual fingerprinting algorithms to discover instances of viral videos postings on video-sharing sites.
Cinetic Rights Management and Balbelgum are teaming to distribute Sally Potter’s latest narrative feature in digital piecemeal as it’s released theatrically in Sept., per THR. The fashion-themed “Rage,” starring Steve Buscemi, Judi Dench, Jude Law and Eddie Izzard, will be a made available in mobile and webisode snippets on Babelgum day-and-date of its release. The thriller takes the form of a series of cell phone interviews of New York fashionistas.
Production company Gotham City Films has founded a new non-profit charity production division and the company dreamed up a web series to launch it. Nights At The Round Table, (think Jon Favreu’s Dinner for Five without the film focus) will premiere on multiple portals, feature a different celebrity and tackle a different cause each week. Gotham principle Beth Beasley has already lined up Hilary Duff, Shane Black and others and will host each dinner at her West Hollywood abode.
The IAB announced the release of its Click Measurement Guidelines, establishing parameters for the accurate buying and selling of cost-per-click advertising, to improve transparency and consistency and to try to rein in click fraud. The guidelines include extensive definitions, auditing guidelines and basic measurement methodology and requirements.
Adap.tv Launched a new Player Partner Program, integrating its OneSource ad platform with video tools from Brightcove, Kaltura, thePlatform, Mogulus, and others. The idea is to pre-integrate tools to simplify process of serving multiple ad formats from multiple sources.
Yahoo remained the top online display advertisers in March serving 13% of all graphic ads according to ComScore‘s Ad Metrix. However Facebook continued its rapid rise, ranking third behind MySpace parent FIM and capturing 7.7% of total ad views. Ad network Glam Media ranked #9 with 2.1 billion ad views.
Top 10 Online Display Ad Publishers* – March 2009
Total Display Share of Display Advertising Exposed
Ad Views(MM) Ads Unique Visitors (000)
Total Internet 323,647 100.0% 184,002
Yahoo! Sites 42,847 13.2% 138,968
Fox Interactive Media 31,402 9.7% 82,527
Facebook.com 24,847 7.7% 52,931
Microsoft Sites 17,788 5.5% 89,135
AOL LLC 17,380 5.4% 91,272
Google Sites 4,235 1.3% 97,416
eBay 2,811 0.9% 47,991
Viacom Digital 2,367 0.7% 36,876
Glam Media 2,127 0.7% 37,237
CNN 1,984 0.6% 27,616
Source: comScore Ad Metrix
*Reflects display advertising only, both standard and non-standard IAB sizes; excludes house ads and small ads (<2,500 pixels in dimension)
IMAX and AMC may have some damage control to do here. Bloggers, Diggers and tweeters are passing around a posting by Parks and Recreation co-star Aziz Ansari calling for a boycott of the companies, claiming that the exhibitors are selling an inferior bill of goods. Aziz complains that he paid $5 extra to see Star Trek on an IMAX-branded screen at an AMC multiplex in Burbank, only to discover that the screen size was a fraction of the size of the traditional 76 x 97 feet IMAX screen. The two companies teamed last year to begin offering cheaper co-branded screens in multiple AMC locations.
Video publishing platform Delve Networks is unveiling a series of upgrades to its online video management platform today including support of the H.264 Codec, improvements to APIs, analytics, encoding speeds and scalability. The Seattle-based CDN says its customer base has grown to over 100 clients and that its revenue has increased by over 130% since January.
On-demand billing and customer lifecycle management solutions provider Aria Systems has teamed with social media tool provider Work [at] Play to create a new scalable platform to manage the burgeoning virtual goods economy. Velocity is a virtual goods management and payment solution for online games, communities or any virtual world environment, enabling publishers to collect and manage a variety of activities including gifting, music or virtual goods purchases.
Online video usage is up by nearly 25% from a year ago in terms of total streams and up by 58% in terms of time spent per viewer, according to Nielsen Online‘s latest VideoCensus numbers. Some 116 million active video users viewed 9.4 million streams in April, an average of 81 streams per viewer. Time per viewer averaged 205.7 minutes, up from 130 minutes in April, 2008. Google increased both its unique audience and engagement metrics, with its average time spent/user approaching 2 hours. Microsoft surpassed Yahoo in the #2 spot with an audience of 124,416 uniques.
Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions – April 2009
Parent Unique Audience Time Per Person
(000) (hh:mm:ss
Google 138,749 1:58:39
Microsoft 124,416 2:34:55
Yahoo! 120,013 3:22:20
AOL LLC 86,809 3:45:16
News Corp. Online 79,517 1:18:40
Facebook 71,287 3:14:36
InterActiveCorp 64,040 0:16:00
eBay 63,671 1:47:36
Amazon 59,357 0:26:35
Wikimedia 59,072 0:17:16
Source: Nielsen Online
Among broadcasters, ABC.com’s website led in terms of unique viewers and Lost episodes continued to dominate the premium web video space according to Nielsen. Dancing With the Stars attracted the most unique viewers for the second straight month (one of 7 ABC shows in the top 10 unique rankings.) Note: Nielsen’s broadcast network category does not include Hulu as the venture has opted not to tag its video for measurement on Nielsen servers.
Broadcast Network Websites – Unique Viewers – April ’09
Name Unique Viewers
ABC.com 5.0 million
CBS Television 3.4 million
NBC.com 3.3 million
Fox Broadcasting 2.1 million
Cwtv.com 549,000
Top 10 Programs – Unique Viewers – April ’09
Program Net Unique Viewers
Dancing with the Stars ABC 1.711 million
Lost ABC 1.708 million
The Unusuals ABC 1.069 million
Desperate Housewives ABC 1.053 million
Grey’s Anatomy ABC 998,000
Ugly Betty ABC 721,000
Saturday Night Live NBC 672,000
Survivor CBS 561,000
Castle ABC 537,000
NCIS CBS 528,000
Top 10 Programs – Total Streams – April ’09
Program Net Unique Viewers
Lost ABC 36.7 million
The Office NBC 16.9 million
Heroes NBC 14.3 million
Dancing with the Stars ABC 13.7 million
Young and the Restless CBS 12.3 million
Grey’s Anatomy ABC 11.7 million
NCIS CBS 9.82 million
Desperate Housewives ABC 9.79 million
Castle ABC 8.27 million
House FOX 7.7 million
Source: Nielsen Online
Broadband-connected on demand HD movie service Vudu has partnered with Brightcove to enable distribution of web video content to Vudu users. The content will be part of Vudu Labs, the company’s open source attempt to expand the platform. Sony Music’s MyPlay Video network is the first programming partner to take advantage of the integration. The Vudu player has slowly dropped in price but still retails for $150.
Gaming industry veterans Jim Veevaert and Jay Cohen have been hired to lead MTV Games/ Jerry Bruckheimer joint venture Jerry Bruckheimer Games, Inc. as President of Production and President of Development respectively.
David Levy has expanded his oversight at TBS, Inc. In the newly created position of President of Sales, Distribution and Sports he will lead advertising sales strategy and operations and all affiliate sales, marketing promotion, interactive television and technology business development for the Turner Broadcasting domestic news, entertainment and animation and young adults networks and businesses. He also continues his oversight of Turner Sports from in New York and reports to Phil Kent, Chairman and CEO of TBS, Inc.
Online ad network Brand.net hired Scott Thompson from WebMD to run the Central region, and Laura Lasiter from AOL to open a new Atlanta office and lead the Southeast region.
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If you’re the type of web surfer who likes to leave your two cents on postings, this is for you. The folks who launched RocketOn are introducing a brand new social tool today in Alpha they call Blerp. (Excuse me.) Using the same overlay technology that powers the virtual RocketOn world, Blerp allows users to post comments on any widgetized site on the web. When you’re logged in you can create your own “blerps” or thought bubbles to add funny comments to photos or articles. The site itself takes the form of a real-time, Twitter-like forum, connecting users to discussions and sites that interest them. The whole process is much more visual (an more fun) than simply adding comments to the bottom of an article. It will be interesting to see how folks use it.
Correction: Anyone who thought that Microsoft’s first bond offering of $3.75 million was a little paltry – well, you were right. Add a zero – we meant $3.75 billion. The former wouldn’t keep Redmond in Starbucks for the year.
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