Fox uses ElectionLink en route to hostage standoff
I blogged about the new ElectionLink vehicle that Fox News is rolling out to cover the campaign trail. Friday during the hostage standoff at the Clinton campaign office, Fox News used the vehicle and was live while on the way to the scene. At one point police cars could be seen racing past the camera. [...]
MySpace joining the news feed bandwagon
MySpace has launched its latest… um… innovation – the News Feed! OK, so it’s very smiliar to Facebook’s. Anyway, MySpacers can now opt-in or out of the system – deciding who they want to subscribe to, and who they want to block. Personally, I know several people who have turned it all off (me included). [...]
Facebook pulls back on Beacon
It’s a new service that alerts your Facebook friends (via the news feed) when you buy something on sites like Travelocity, Fandango and Overstock, but after 50,000 Facebook members signed a petition dissing the new service over privacy concerns, Facebook now asks if users want to participate. “Beacon crosses the line to being Big Brother,†[...]
NBC shows to be available on Netflix
As content gets distributed in more ways, NBC and Netflix announced a deal that will bring Heroes to Netflix subscribers the day after they air on NBC. It will work the same way Netflix users can watch movies on demand. In addition to the Heroes episodes, you will also be able to watch 30 Rock, [...]
NFL.com streams nearly all of the game
This was a new experience: propping my laptop on the kitchen counter so I could watch the Cowboys-Packers game live while I cooked dinner. At first, I was suspecting (as I blogged earlier) a terrible experience. After all, NFL.com said it would only provide live “look-ins” to NFL Network’s coverage every 30 minutes or so [...]
Report: Networks to hit $120M in web video ads
Of course, this is highly political, given the writers strike. But the Financial Times is quoting a media buyer’s estimates that the big four networks are in line to generate $120 million this year from streaming video ads. And that number is expected to rise sharply next year. “You get 85 percent recall [with web [...]
Reuters experiments with phone cameras
Armed with a Nokia N95 camera and a few accessories, a handful of Reuters reporters are beginning to experiment with shooting and feeding video, snapping photos and writing up text reports on location. If you can believe it, the phone even has it’s own mini-tripod in the “mobile journalism toolkit.” While the image quality and [...]
Tabloid shows text message ‘proof’ of story
You gotta love this. In Touch magazine is showing photos of a text message in an effort to prove that its story about Britney Spears’ pregnancy is true. Then Huffington Post shows how easy it is to fake text messages. Sigh.
Gannett preps online video network
Through partnerships with Maven and ThePlatform, Gannett is forming an online video network that spans most of the group’s 150 websites. “Our biggest need has been to find ways of growing our inventory,” explains Peter Lundquist, VP, content and product development for Gannett Digital in an interview with PaidContent. “Demand for advertising on our video [...]
It gets better, NFL.com to offer ‘look-ins’
Can’t watch the Cowboys-Packers game on the NFL Network? Aren’t you in luck! The NFL just announced that you can watch the game live on NFL.com. Uh, wait. Let’s go to the press release for the fine print: “Fans will get a live look at NFL Network game action at :15 and :45 past each [...]
First layoffs ‘in recent memory’ at NYT
A dozen support workers will be getting the axe in the New York Times, the first newsroom layoffs in recent memory. “We also expect to eliminate a few management jobs in administrative areas,” said Bill Keller, executive editor. “As we approach 2008, it is clear that the newsroom is going to have to do even [...]
FOX News votes for high-tech election vehicles
Ok, these are very cool looking. The blog BigHeadDC has the story about two vehicles that will be hitting the road this week to New Hampshire and Iowa to cover the election race for Fox News. The ElectionLink vehicles are tapeless, and use IP technology to provide a hefty 750kbps stream for live video streaming, [...]
We’re looking for YouTube goodies
We just added this nifty little video strip across the right of the site (powered by VodPod), and we’re looking for current media-related clips on YouTube to rotate through it. Bloopers, cool techie stuff, that sort of thing. If you have a recent one, please send it to us via our tip form.
Brightcove looks into 2008
A little promotional, sure, but Brightcove execs Jeremy Allaire and Adam Berrey have written a “state of the industry” report with some online video predictions for 2008. Like this one: To date the advertising focus in the Internet TV market has been on monetizing video streams. But this focus is both shortsighted and not nearly [...]
Did you catch the CNN YouTube debate?
Comments about tonight’s CNN YouTube debate? There sure was a lot more attacking of each other in this debate compared to the previous YouTube debate. I noticed CNN promoted CNNPolitics.com during the debate. They seem to be pushing people to this site more and more, instead of CNN.com. Update: Ooops, one of the questions came [...]
Hearst-Argyle expands Google partnership to sales
The partnership between Hearst-Argyle and Google that started with YouTube channels has now expanded to include a sales partnership with Google AdWords. According to Hearst-Argyle, the broadcaster “will use its Web sales force to provide marketers in its 26 local markets access to Google AdWords.” Press release after the jump. (Disclosure: You all know where I work.)
Adds Cory: Any comments about this? In essense, Hearst is saying that there’s no competing with Google, and businesses are going to learn about Adwords, anyway. So might as well get a cut of the action along the way.
News Corp. and LinkedIn in ‘serious talks’
Following up on TechCrunch’s “rumor” that News Corp. was thinking about acquiring LinkedIn, now there’s a report from VentureBeat that says “talks are serious.” VentureBeat also says the plan would be to integrate LinkedIn with the Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. papers. As I mentioned in an earlier post, LinkedIn’s best feature is [...]
Fans lose, thanks to the NFL Network
This Thursday is one of the biggest NFL games of the year: the Dallas Cowboys (10-1) take on the Green Bay Packers (10-1), two teams with a national fan base. But… the game is airing on the NFL Network, which is not available in two-thirds of the country. That is, unless you want to pay [...]
