The two company’s just announced separate streaming deals with the Walt Disney Co. that will provide subscribers with even more content from Mickey & Co. Under these agreements, both streaming services will see even more Disney/ABC content, expanding their respective libraries with current and past TV programming.
Sony has bought control of Ericsson's mobile phone business for $1.45 billion, reports Reuters
Meredith Corporation CEO Steve Lacy made no bones in Wednesday’s quarterly conference call about having taken a good, hard look at the four-station McGraw-Hill TV group when an analyst asked about the potential to grow the TV side of Meredith, which is a fraction of the size of its magazine division. So, why did Scripps win the McGraw-Hill bidding, not Meredith?
Livestream is unveiling a major upgrade to its live video service today. It won’t be fully rolled out until December, but you can see a preview of it here or watch the video below. The new player brings a few firsts to live video: an adaptive bitrate which can adjust dynamically based on the viewers bandwidth up to HD quality (720p); an instant playback DVR feature; a live blogging platform to add text, photos, and video clips underneath the main video; and social networking features.
Former Publicis digital chief David Kenny has stepped down as president of cloud computing giant Akamai, fueling renewed speculation that he may be a prime candidate to take the helm of Yahoo.
Each year, as part of the Big Broadcast Survey (BBS), we ask broadcast professionals worldwide to rank a variety of technology vendor brands on a wide range of metrics. We use this information to create a series of reports, which through benchmarking and industry “league tables” enable each vendors to understand its position in the market relative to their the industry as a whole as well as their direct competitors.
Mobile advertising campaigns run with rich media ad units show a significant performance lift over those with standard media, according to a new report from Jumptap.
Eighteen months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. About half (53%) get news on their tablet every day, and they read long articles as well as get headlines. But a majority says they would not be willing to pay for news content on these devices, according to the most detailed study to date of tablet users and how they interact with this new technology.
In yet another indication of how the iPad still rules the tablet roost, the Apple tablet accounted for 97 percent of all ads shown on such devices.
Local search is big business and big opportunity. How big? The folks at MDG Advertising have produced a “Local Search Evolved” infographic with statistics and info about the subject that you might find interesting:
What a week Sencha is having. Just minutes ago, they announced their new HTML 5 cloud services suite, Sencha.io. Tomorrow morning, the company will announce they’ve raised a $15 million Series B.
It's not easy to replicate a culture as innovative as Apple or Google's. But venture capitalists are pouring money into start-ups they hope is Silicon Valley's next big thing. According to Booz & Co.'s latest Global Innovation 1000 report, this may be the right strategy – because corporations that are throwing tons of money into R&D aren't necessarily the most innovative.
Groupon Now is a mobile app that shows users all the deals surrounding them on a map. Because it allows Groupon to offer more deals than one per day, Groupon Now is the future of Groupon's business.
How fast is the average virtual infrastructure growing? Would you believe that 80% of them are adding 10-50 VMs annually?
Netflix announced disappointing earnings today, and its expectations to go slide into unprofitability next year.
Back in 1999, Barron’s memorably splashed that headline across its cover. The article was a virtual indictment of Amazon: it questioned the company’s ability ever to turn a profit, it argued that it was spending far too much money on marketing
It looks like all of those people scooping up new iPhones and Androids are embracing video in a big way—a new Nielsen poll reports that 36% more mobile subscribers watched video on their phones this year than last year. Also popular: watching TV without commercials, which would explain the 31% jump in DVR usage over the last two years.
The second day of Nuxeworld began with a keynote presentation from Laurence Hart of Washington Consulting, who tackled the enterprise content management trends and how we are going to handle a level of content that will be the equivalent of around 35 billion Libraries of Congress by 2020.
A good glass of wine is one of life’s simple pleasures. However, industry “experts” often make it sound complicated. This is the case with online display advertising today. But marketers need to know that display advertising today is a lot simpler than many of them believe.
Despite C-suite changes and an uncertain ad market, Gannett Co. on Monday posted a 10% digital revenue gain for the third quarter of the year.
