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by martino on December 22, 2005
"With this agreement, AOL's sales force will now be able to sell all types of Online Advertising ... and we'll explore expanding the partnership into selling television and print...
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by martino on December 22, 2005
Verizon, confirmed that it is using SeaChange International's IP Video System to enable VOD on its FiOS TV service. The solution automates FiOS TV's VOD service from content ingest to set-top...
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by martino on December 21, 2005
It looks like CBS is continuing its exploration of how to test new distribution of its digital media assets. The following story is from Rebecca Stropoli at Broadcasting and Cable. James Van Praagh is...
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by martino on December 20, 2005
... search is gynormous and continuing to grow but ... it's bid-based text messaging. If you can take that behavior and find them [consumers] later and serve display advertising to them, all of a...
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by martino on December 20, 2005
Ultramercial says they have a patent on a business model for VOD advertising. In an email, they said "it allows the viewer to make the choice: watch an ad that 'earns' them each segment...
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by martino on December 19, 2005
My brother and I still rent our apartments, and we don't drive fancy cars. We're profitable because we pinch pennies. Gregg Spiridellis, 34, one of the Spiridellis brothers who started JibJab....
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by martino on December 19, 2005
Starz Entertainment conducted a study amoung nearly 500 Comcast subscribers who were also users of Starz VOD package. Some of the conclusions: "More than half -- even among those who described...
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by martino on December 18, 2005
Do you want to watch video on your cell phone? Are you willing to pay for it? An April 2005 JupiterResearch ask 1,100 people questions like those. Of those respondents, 44 percent said they would be...
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by martino on December 18, 2005
I see that the recent video podcasts at Washingtonpost.com want to be monetized with video advertising. For the next month, they signed up EarthLink as a sponsor. Here is how it will work. Viewers see...
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by martino on December 17, 2005
When it comes to preparing one's company for the Digital revolution, some companies just knuckle down and accomplish more than others. The six-year-old independent TV and movie company known as...
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by martino on December 14, 2005
Forbes author Peter Kafka notes that the combined value of all Dreamworks assets totals $3.4 billion. After comparing it to the the original $2.7 billion value when the company was capitalized he...
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by martino on December 14, 2005
Every week there are 436,000 illegal downloads of battlestar galactica. Clearly, someone is downloading it and watching it on a smaller screen. Ever since iTunes went online with video, there have...
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by martino on December 14, 2005
Apple's Video iPod has contributed to an acceptance of watching mobile video on a tiny 2" screen. If so, then my original opinion that people would not watch TV on their cell phones could be...
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by martino on December 13, 2005
It is popular throughout the blogosphere to point out traditional media companies are in trouble. The most common theme is that these dinosaurs will die off; eventually replaced by online companies...
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by martino on December 09, 2005
TiVo announced nearly a month ago new services that include movie tickets from fandango, shared photo slide shows, weather and traffic information from Yahoo!, and Internet radio shows and podcasts....
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by martino on December 09, 2005
We are a pretty simple company. We are trying to make content and then we want to be able to get it into viewers' homes ... without gatekeepers, without intermediaries. Peter Chernin, News...
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by martino on December 08, 2005
There is no need to come up with additional puns or insights. Click on the link to read the entire article, but here are the best excerpts. (excerpts from George Will's article 'The...
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by martino on December 08, 2005
interactive advertising is an idea that opens up a 2-way connection between advertiser and consumer. We all know that online interactive advertising has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 10...
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