Las Vegas Sun’s terrific online fire coverage
WashingtonPost Interactive’s Rob Curley breaks down how the Las Vegas Sun covered last week’s fire at the Monte Carlo. “My jaw nearly hit the ground,” Curley writes of how well the newspaper site covered the breaking story. A live blog, photos, backgrounders, video and the ability for users to upload video through YouTube and photos [...]
Current TV files for IPO
The parent company of Current TV, Current Media, has filed for a $100 million IPO on NASDAQ. Explains PaidContent’s Joseph Weisenthal, “Reading through the management’s discussion and the risks section highlights Current’s challenge, as it attempts to pitch a cable channel to a crowd increasingly watching video online.” (Full disclosure: Current is advertising on Lost [...]
Interview with WorldNow’s Gannaway
WorldNow President and CEO Gary Gannaway sat down for an interview with Broadcasting & Cable. Interestingly, WorldNow just closed a deal to manage the online ad inventory for the ABC reality program Supernanny.
NBC acquires video site LX.tv
For a year now, WNBC has been airing videos from LX.tv, a New York startup that produces high-end entertainment videos about NY and LA (with plans to expand to other cities). Now NBC’s Local Media Division has purchased the company for an undisclosed amount. LX.tv was founded in ’06 by former MTV executives Morgan Hertzan [...]
Target to blogosphere: you’re irrelevant
A blog asks Target a question. Target blows it off with an email that says, “Target does not participate with nontraditional media outlets.” Then the New York Times does a story on it. Ooops.
Top news sites for December ’07
The Nielsen-Netratings monthly list for news sites (ranked by uniques): 1. Yahoo News 35,362 2. CNN Digital Network 33,090 3. MSNBC Digital Network 30,417 4. AOL News 22,601 5. NYTimes.com 17,177 The next 15 in order: Tribune, Gannett, Google News, USAToday, ABCNews Digital Network, Fox News Digital Network, WashingtonPost, WorldNow, [...]
Hulu launch slated for end of March
The NBCU-News Corp. video joint venture Hulu.com is currently running in private beta with “hundreds of thousands” of users, says CTO Eric Feng. And while fresh video is hard to find because of the writers strike, Feng told NewTeeVee that the demand for archived shows has spiked (I’ve been watching old Arrested Development shows on [...]
Best banner ad campaign I’ve seen
Ad campaign currently on Yahoo News… PC walks up the ladder from one ad unit into another… … to staple up a “NOT” sign on the Wall Street Journal quote. The ad auto-plays, but you have to click for audio. Very, very well done.
WSJ.com to expand free content, keep paid model
Rupert Murdoch told a crowd in Davos, Switzerland that WSJ.com would expand its free content offerings – but would still charge for “really special things.” He didn’t say exactly what those things are – but did note that the price would likely go up.
BBC blog admits they don’t know what’s going on
Thursday BBC Worldwide announced a deal with MySpace.com that brings content from the BBC to the huge social networking website. Apparently the editorial team at BBC News didn’t know, and on the same day ran a story about how hard it is to delete your profile from MySpace. Bad timing? Sure. But this blog entry [...]
KPIX launches local blog aggregator
The CBS5.com team in San Francisco along with new hire Brittney Gilbert (formerly of WKRN fame) have launched Eye on the Blogs, a local blog and blog aggregator. “It’s a weblog about blogs in the Bay Area,” writes Gilbert in her first blog post. “Any blog produced within the Bay Area that I can find [...]
YouTube to soon allow mobile video uploads
In an upcoming feature, YouTube says it will make it possible for 3G-enabled cell phone users to shoot a video clip and upload it directly to the site. In other words, YouTube is enabling a wireless video army — a development that should be of immediate interest to TV news operations.
ESPN mobile site beats ESPN.com
Whoa, I just heard about this a couple weeks after the fact. During the NFL playoffs for a day in the first week of January, ESPN’s mobile site racked up more page views than ESPN.com itself. This folks, is a watershed moment. “We’re having extraordinary growth on ESPN.com’s NFL pages, but we’re also seeing extraordinary [...]
Everyblock has launched, and it’s very cool
Adrian Holovaty’s much-anticipated hyperlocal site Everyblock just launched for Chicago, New York and San Francisco. At it’s core, it’s a powerful aggregator of news, user-generated content and data — all geotagged and mapped. News stories, blog posts, Flick photos, building permits, crime data, restaurant reviews, Craigslist postings… etc… you can map it all around your [...]
CSTV.com partners with USAToday.com
The CBS college sports site will provide stats and video to USAToday.com.
A simplified vision of online video’s future
No, there’s not much money out there for independent web video publishers. In fact, Perez Hilton said he only made $5,000 on 25 million video views on YouTube (that works out to a lousy .20 CPM, if my math is correct.) So video producers are starting to look for product placement opportunities, explains this TV [...]
Our digital jobs board keeps growing
Since we’ve switched to JobThread to power our digital media jobs board, we’ve seen a big increase in the number of job postings. It also has this nifty interface that lets me look at how many people are applying for certain jobs (assuming the email address isn’t listed in the job copy.) And some jobs [...]
CBS: Music to stream free on Last.fm
In today’s much-anticipated announcement, CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves revealed plans to make the company’s music acquisition, Last.fm, completely free for streaming music. CBS has done deals with all the major labels to make songs — and entire albums — available to stream for free. And you won’t even have to register. Alongside the [...]
Syndicaster.tv aims to simplify video publishing
The company behind ClipSyndicate, the video syndication service used by quite a few TV stations, has launched a new service called Syndicaster.tv. Basically, it translates all the video that’s aired into text. Then you can select clips using the transcript and publish them directly into ClipSyndicate or iTunes (see screen grab here). “Bloomberg has been [...]
New York Times invests in… WordPress?
Yep. The commercial arm of the free blogging platform WordPress — my favorite blogging software and the content management system powering Lost Remote — just got a second round of funding that includes an investment from the New York Times Company.
