Although there is nothing surprising about the release of the Adobe’s video player I’m still not sure why it’s meaningful.
It is basically the same thing as Joost and that hasn’t exactly been a grand prize winner. Sure, it’s Adobe so they have great market recognition but you still have to offer something really special today [...]
There is a somewhat amusing post in one of the supposed titans of the advertising trade, AdWeek, in which the author breaks the news that digital media might threaten traditional TV! No way!
“Who would have believed that consumers would move away from listening to music on home and car stereos and toward personal music devices [...]
Following up on what I’ve got to assume was a fruitful partnership for the Scion with Adult Swim’s Frisky Dingo, the carmaker has signed on to another in-show sponsorship.
This time the Scion brand will be worked into Assy McGee, an animated series featuring a gun-toting ass with legs (see pic above).
According to TVWeek:
“During each “Assy” [...]
I’m not a huge t-shirt geek, though I am kind of envious of those that are - the hunt for and displaying of that perfect tee seems kind of wonderful.
One site that has emerged as a big player in the “indie tee” world is Threadless. They are a marketplace for all sorts of original designers [...]
Ok, that might be untrue in the sense that you interact directly with the TV (there are a few limited examples of this but none of any import) but many people, especially Gen Y and younger, are spending plenty of time interacting with their TV via the internet.
ArsTech has some great overview on the Grunwald [...]
NewTeeVee is reporting that original web content producer/distributor ManiaTV has put together some more funding.
“ManiaTV’s strongest content comes from so-called D-list celebrities such as Dave Navarro and Tom Green. The company had 8.8 million visitors last month, according to comScore. Hoskins would not quantify revenue, which comes primarily from “blue-chip advertisers,” but said “We tripled [...]
LostRemote has a brief look on the latest restrictions the MLB is placing on websites in terms of what sorts of pro baseball footage they are allowed to distribute.
It sounds like an extremely rigid and mean-spirited set of guidelines that are meant to ensure people are forced to go to the official MLB site for [...]
PaidContent is reporting that TidalTV has pocketed a nice chunk of venture capital. Who are they are what do they want to do. Well:
“TidalTV wants to position itself as a provider of streaming video that’s professionally produced.”
Ya know, the more I think about the more it seems to me that professionally produced streaming video is, [...]
NewTeeVee has the inside scoop on the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research study on TV advertising:
“Of all the new formats the industry is eyeing, 65 percent of advertisers surveyed were looking to try ads in online shows, compared with ads embedded in VOD (55 percent), interactive television ads (43 percent) and ads [...]
There is a very interesting post over on TorrentFreak about the incredibly high number of TV shows illegally (though I have yet to hear of any prosecution for this in the vein of what RIAA has been doing in the music industry) being downloaded and viewed via BitTorrent.
“It is safe to say that BitTorrent is [...]
