MTV Networks says it served up 1.2 billion video streams in ‘07 from MTV.com, VH1.com and CMT.com. That’s a 30 percent increase over 2006. The top clip? Britney Spears’ embarrassing return performance. Duh.
December 27th, 2007
Three months on the air, TMZ is the top-rated new show in syndication. “The website was such a breakout that a lot of people were scoffing at the notion that we would, as they put it, ‘revert back to TV,’” said Harvey Levin, the managing editor of TMZ.com and the host of the series. “I think people were almost writing it off as something that would fail, something that everyone else was doing on TV, and that it wouldn’t have the freshness of the website, and I think it does.” While it has yet to beat Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood, TMZ is drawing a younger demographic.
December 27th, 2007