‘Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert’ embedded clips expire
I didn’t notice this amid my joy that Comedy Central was enabling bloggers to embed video clips. The embedded clips from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report expire. That’s right: they only allow them to live online for about two weeks. I was about to embed a clip in this space from Colbert when [...]
Yahoo TV unveils new design
The new TV section on Yahoo now features an embedded player.
Radio station sites add Reuters video
Two hundred Clear Channel radio station websites will offer Reuters text and video stories in a new deal announced this week. The radio stations will also be able to upload their own video to the service. Clear Channel is paying a licensing fee and retains all the advertising. Which means, folks, that local TV sites [...]
Over half of internet users shooting video
A new study found that 54 percent of adult internet users are shooting video but only 11 percent upload it to the internet. Interactive agency Sharpe Partners says the study illustrates the opportunity for companies to facilitate the migration of consumer video to the web. (Hint hint!)
Former MTVN digital chief lands at Sling Media
Jason Hirschhorn along with fellow MTV Networks veteran Ben White are joining Sling Media, the makers of Slingbox. They’ll head up a new entertainment unit designed to forge partnerships with both content producers and distributors. “The minute I demoed Sling, I felt the same way I felt when someone showed me the iPod for the [...]
Editorial: I’m pulling for a Philly newspaper strike
I want to see the Philadelphia newspaper strike happen. Not out of solidarity with the unions or sympathy with the struggling owners of a dated medium. No, I want the strike to happen because of the fascinating possibility that the newsroom will continue to publish the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News online in some form. Ironically, both the union and the ownership would win. Continued, after the jump.
Online ad search doesn’t grab the heart, video has emotion
Beet.tv interviews eMarketer senior analyst David Hallerman on the future of online advertising. Hallerman agrees that paid search is the gorilla of the market right now, but says it’s essentially direct marketing and “doesnt’ engage people’s hearts and minds and emotions like a good video ad.” But Hallerman says repurposed TV ads don’t work either, [...]
Study: Nearly half of home Apple owners are 55 and older
I like stats that challenge my notions, and this one does – big time. I pictured the average Mac user to be a young hipster, toting around a MacBook in a backpack. According to at least one study – I couldn’t be more wrong. MetaFacts released its Home PC Brand Profile Report and found that 46% of Apple’s base is age 55 and older. (This is among home users, not business users.) Who has the lead among the 18-24s? Gateway. Dell leads overall with a 46% share of the overall market. Don’t tell Jarvis. Full release after the jump. (Via Spymac)
A match made in sponsorship heaven
An innovative ad deal has been struck between Match.com and the new TBS series My Boys which began airing last night. The show features a Chicago sportswriter named “Stephanie Layne” (played by Kelee Stewart), who is on the dating scene – and uses Match.com to find guys. (Yep – that’s her page to the right.) [...]
Lost Remote interviews CNN’s Jacki Schechner
Lost Remote recently interviewed Jacki Schechner, web reporter on CNN’s The Situation Room. Click here to listen to LR’s very first audio interview. (We know we need to do some work on sound, but we are learning!) We discussed blogs, how to better integrated the web with TV, and what it’s like to be a [...]
NBC ‘Nightly News’ to experiment with single sponsor
Coming this Monday, NBC Nightly News will feature just three commercials from the same advertiser, Philips Electronics. “By taking the interruptions out,” said Eric M. Plaskonos, director for brand communications at Philips, “it’s our demonstration of the gift of simplicity.” That means the newscast will end up with an extra 5 minutes and 45 seconds [...]
BitTorrent inks more media deals
Earlier this year, BitTorrent signed a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Now the P2P company has partnered with Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate and MTV. BitTorrent plans to launch a video download site in February. But the competition will be tough, as iTunes, Amazon and others (including WalMart now) are selling movie and TV [...]
Diller to launch local city guide sites
Barry Diller, who heads up InterActiveCorp, will launch a new network of local sites next week called “AskCity” that promise to offer a new model for web search. The sites will combine the assets of Ask.com, CitySearch, Evite and TicketMaster, among other IAC properties. It’s yet another example of a pure play moving aggressively into [...]
