Cynopsis: DIGITAL
10/19/11
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, October 19, 2011, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. If you would like to read this or any other Cynopsis edition online, click here.
In a double whammy of news items, Dropbox announced that not only did it raise $250 million in Series B funding, but also revealed how it declined a nine-figure acquisition offer from Steve Jobs and Apple in late 2009. This latest round of financing makes Dropbox’s valuation at $4 billion. The company boasts a user base of more than 45 million saving more than one billion files every three days. As for the interesting news item regarding Apple, the revelation came from a Forbes interview with Dropbox co-founders Arash Ferdowsi and Drew Houston, who recount the story of being invited to meet with Jobs at his office, being offered the large sum of money, declining and then being notified that they should sell because Apple was going to come after them with a competing product, or as we now call it, iCloud.
Universal Pictures is expanding its Social Cinema Facebook app by offering the first Johnny English film for rent in the U.S., U.K. and Australia for 30 Facebook Credits for a 48-hour span. Social Cinema offers viewers the chance to comment and engage with friends and other viewers while watching the movie. The offering coincides with the release of the film’s sequel, Johnny English Reborn.
TVGuide.com has launched Social Spotlight, a second-screen Social TV experience that offers information to users and allows them to engage in discussions on Facebook, Twitter and its own website while watching a TV show. The service is launched with ION‘s Flashpoint as its first series sponsor.
To coincide with the release of the new Battlefield 3 T video game, EA, GameSpot and Bunim/Murray Productions are teaming up to produce a web-based reality show called The Controller. The show will team up six top gamers with six amateurs as they compete to win $50,000. Starting October 21, the show will air every Friday at 2pm ET on gamespot.com. In addition, host Jonny Moseley and Freddie Wong will team up to produce segments to air within the show.
Starting on November 3, and continuing for the span of one week, the Cooking Channel will offer full episodes of two of the network’s popular shows, and a sneak preview of a one-hour special airing on November 6, on CookingChannelTV.com.
The U.S. Library of Congress has selected A+E Networks‘ interactive Civil War 150 website for preservation in its collection of digital materials and content related to the American Civil War’s sesquicentennial, or 150-year anniversary for those who, like me, had to take a second to read that term.
SugarSync, a cloud-based file storage service similar to Dropbox, now enables you to share large media files within emails without having to embed or attach them in the traditional sense, says TechCrunch. How it works: once you’ve selected a file, the SugarSync plug-in creates a link for the file and attaches it to the email. It also lets you to track and shut down links as you see fit. The service is free and is compatible with Outlook 2007 and 2010 for Windows.
To promote Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon mobile processor technology, social media marketing house Denizen Company has launched a new video short and Facebook campaign, titled Bug Circus. The video campaign playfully shows how Snapdragon requires very little energy by showing insects on different electricity-generating equipment such as a unicycle and treadmill powering the technology. The video racked up 170,000+ views within two days of the launch.
Cognitive Match has selected eXelate‘s audience data to improve Cognitive’s ad creative and content targeting in real-time. For both Cognitive’s ad targeting solution and site targeting solution, the company will integrate eXelate’s audience data to match the consumer with the most relevant ads for them and then package and deliver the ad to the viewer in real-time.
Viacom and Google are back in the courtroom as Viacom seeks to appeal a 2010 ruling in Google’s favor over copyright violations the media conglomerate threw at YouTube, reports AllThingsD. The matter concerns the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which protects sites like YouTube from being held responsible for content users upload that they do not own, as long as they remove offending content when asked by copyright owners.
Keeping with the courtroom drama, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge has made a preliminary ruling that Apple did not infringe on four patents held by HTC, reports AllThingsD. However, an HTC spokesperson stressed that the company still believes it has “a strong case for the ITC appeals process.”
Great Lakes Data Systems, a provider of billing, subscriber management and provisioning systems for small-to-medium global broadband companies, announced that its WinCable in the Cloud billing platform, for clients with 300-300,000 subscribers, is currently being used by over 80 operators worldwide.
During the summer of 2011, Booz & Co. and Buddy Media surveyed managers from Fortune 100 companies to gauge the current and future status of their social media usage. While only 67% indicated that social media made up less than 5% of their total digital spend in 2011, they forecasted that these numbers will increase in the coming years. Specifically, 28% predicted social media will take up between 10-20% of their total digital spend, with 28% answering it will take up more than 20%, in three years. Other findings from the survey, as reported by eMarketer, include:
- 57% said that the money will be invested in hiring full-time employees and 39% said it will be used to create more content.
- 63% indicated that their companies have plans to integrate social media into the overall marketing strategy.
- 56% said they are building plans to use social media for customer insights generation.
From a report in The Telegraph, an interesting Goldsmith survey at the University of London finds that one out of every ten people in the U.K. leave their social networking password(s) in their will. In addition, more than 25% feel they have digital media that they have to pass on to family members. In related news from the same report, the European Union is currently has a proposed law on the table that will offer online users the chance to be “forgotten online.”
Amped Wireless has unveiled a free Wi-Fi Analytics Tool Android app that makes it easier for users to install, and test the performance of, their wireless networks. Among its features, the app has tools that measure signal strengths and provide visually-delivered information of nearby wireless networks.
Zipcar has released a new Facebook app that allows users to reserve a car without having to leave the social media site. The app is currently in beta phase, so be advised that it might sprout a couple of glitches.
Skyreader Media, a publisher of interactive children’s eBooks for the iPad, has unveiled five new eBooks: Ghost House, Hawk Mansion, Daedalus Reinvented, Master of the Hounds and Move Over. The apps are available in the App Store for $2.99 each.
Brad Collar has been named the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Digital Media eXchange (GDMX), a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Reporting to executive vice president of product operations Brian McKay, Collar will oversee all of GDMX, which offers supply chain operations and content distribution services across broadband, syndicated programming, VOD, DVD and Blu-ray.
This one is going to hit a little close to home. Lookout Mobile Security has expanded its app offering to the iOS. The free app helps Apple users protect their mobile devices by offering such services as helping you find it or send a voice message (VOIP) to it if it gets lost, manage the iOS device over the web, warn you about unsecure wireless networks, warn you about outdated versions of iOS, caution you about the threats associated with a jailbroken device, backup your data and protect your personal information. Unfortunately, they have yet to figure out how to incorporate its Plan B software (which is currently offered on the Android version of the app and lets you track down a lost phone even if you hadn’t set safeguards against that ahead of time) on to iOS. If/when they do, that will be incredible, because maybe then I’ll find my iPhone that is currently hanging out with some stranger somewhere in Manhattan. Sigh.
Later – Sahil
Sahil Patel, Access Intelligence, filling in for Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
10.19.11
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