Archive for the ‘ digital vs analogue media ’ Category
It’s not big news that viewers are heading online more lately. Recent research shows online viewership has doubled in two years. What’s more remarkable about this study is 65% of people head to a broadcaster’s website over 41%, who log into YouTube. 43% of those surveyed go online to watch news, and 15% for user-generated content. [ READ MORE ]
There are reports NBC didn’t make massive amounts of coin for its online Olympics coverage…. estimates are at about $5million - a whole lot less than the $1billion it reportedly made off of its traditional TV coverage. But is making $5 million online a failure? Really? Given NBC’s relatively non-user friendly approach (such as only [ READ MORE ]
Engadget suggested it and then confirmation: Yahoo! and Intel have announced a partnership that will put widgets on our television. The Widget Channel looks pretty cool, and it’s personalized so you don’t need to see ESPN stuff if you’d rather see the latest Flickr updates by your friends. This is a pretty cool opportunity for partnerships with [ READ MORE ]
Shut your office door. Pretend you’re on a conference call or something. Or if you don’t have an office, get a wifi-enabled laptop and sneak into the stock room. Why? Because these videos are important. The first is an interview with Ze Frank. I’ve mentioned him before. He managed to turn a small experiment into a [ READ MORE ]
Television execs must be biting their fingernails over this one. With the 12 hour time difference between Beijing and the eastern coast of North America, plus the now instantaneous submission of user news generated via sites such as Twitter an Facebook (and there’s already a leak of the opening ceremonies that appeared online this week), [ READ MORE ]
I only call the math horrifying because I still panic when presented with simple math equations. As I previously mentioned, Joss Whedon’s online experiment Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog is a hit. Now someone has been nice enough to answer the age-old question “But how do we monetize this?” Jeffrey McManus did some math on the distribution model for [ READ MORE ]
Adobe Media Player just announced a deal with Sony, allowing those who download the player to watch full movies such as Ghostbusters and complete TV shows such as 90210. OK- it’s not all retro programming. There’s CBS programming, Food Network stuff and Daily Show with Jon Stewart. That’s a little exciting. Everything is ad supported, [ READ MORE ]
Lorne Michaels has decided to give Jimmy Fallon’s debut as the new Late Night talk show a testing ground – online. Even though he won’t debut on the traditional media until Fall ‘09, he’ll start his web debut in the coming months. It’s a clever way to kick some tires before committing to a traditional TV [ READ MORE ]
Short tidbits… Amazon launched a VOD service last week, Amazon Unbox. It streams over 40,000 television and movie titles, but only for US subscribers. Sigh. Does this mean TV and film fans will leave their cable companies en masse to download programming on Amazon? Maybe – but there’s a lot of speculation these same cablecos will stop [ READ MORE ]
Joss Whedon, that fella behind those Buffy shows everyone told me to watch 10 years ago, has done something quite amazing. He financed and created an online musical, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, with a distribution model that perfectly illustrates the new medium. This is a 42-minute musical separated into 3 episodes. The first episode was [ READ MORE ]