CYNOPSISDIGITAL
03.26.15

Good morning. It’s Thursday March 26, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

 
At F8 yesterday, the Facebook developer conference held in San Francisco over the last two days, it was announced that the social network’s Messenger app is introducing a platform for developers to create apps. At the moment, more than 40 integrated apps such as those from ESPN, The Weather Channel and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot company enhance conversations between users. The service can also support 360-degree videos with FB’s Oculus VR format; Messenger now has more than 600 million monthly active users worldwide.
 
Shaw Media and Shaftesbury’s digital studio, Smokebomb Entertainment, launched a fashion-focused multiplatform comedy series called MsLabelled. Partnered with brand agency shift2 and Schick Quattro for Women, the 20 four-minute episodes follow a fashion blogger who lands a job at a magazine and stars Jeanne Beker (Fashion Television) and Rebecca Liddiard (Between). The series extends through Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, and is available on VervegirlTV YouTube channel and women’s site Slice. “We believe there’s a strong future in bringing brands and broadcasters together in a ‘lasercast’ model of scripted YouTube content creation and social fan engagement,” Shaftesbury/Smokebomb CEO and Chairman of shift2 Christina Jennings said. “MsLabelled has been designed to engage millennials and move seamlessly from YouTube to other platforms.”
 
Spring break is extended: The Travel Channel debuted the second season of original web series You Get the Picture with Lizzy Snaps on TravelChannel.com. Each of the five new episodes is between 3-5 minutes and was shot in the Bahamas to demo photography tips for shooting beach locales and underwater sharks as well as how to use natural light and wind.
 
The Science Channel unveiled a new digital destination for the NASA spacecraft launch to the International Space Station (ISS) broadcast on March 27 at 3:35p ET. Users will be able to switch among three live NASA TV cameras (including one in the space capsule), participate in social feeds where scientist will provide commentary, read through InSCIder blogs and watch a Google Hangout with NASA astronaut Leland Melvin.
 
Vevo premiered a new episode of Do It Yourselfie today (Thursday). Other Vevo shows Guess The Video premiered on Monday and Superfan Showdown returned for a second season on Tuesday. Vevo programming is available at Vevo.com and on its app.
 
Cynopsis Kids !magination Awards honor the year’s best in children’s, tween and family programming and marketing. Recognizing outstanding achievements in content creation across platforms and the campaigns that promote it, this unique awards program from Cynopsis Media is judged by a panel of industry experts. Winners will be recognized at the 4th annual awards event on September 18, 2015 in New York City. We look forward to seeing you there  – enter today. 
 

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Our annual Cynopsis Sports Media Awards Breakfast is set for Thursday, April 16 from 8:00-10:00am at NYAC. Network with your peers and hear about the year’s best sports programming and marketing.

Preview the list of finalists & register for the Awards event
 
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Video ad tech company Unruly launched Unruly Custom Audiences, which employs Unruly ShareRank‘s 1.3 trillion tracked views over 250,000 consumer data points to target those consumers most likely to experience a strong connection to a specific video. “Consumers who are more emotionally engaged with a branded video are more likely to share it, more likely to remember the brand, and more likely to buy the product,” Unruly CEO Scott Button said. “For marketers, this means more engagement, more earned media and, ultimately, more sales.”
 
Twitter is teaming up with Foursquare to expand its location-based feature. The partnership will provide Twitter users with more geographically relevant information and give Foursquare more exposure. According to the National Retail Association, 90 percent of smartphones will include GPS technology by 2016, making the real-time, mobile location-based advertising and marketing market hit $9 billion by 2017.
 
EXCLUSIVE: Interactive video advertising company Innovid released its 2015 Interactive Video Benchmarks Report, an analysis of video campaigns (interactive and pre-roll) and billions of impressions from the past year. “Companies like Apple, Google and Sling TV are making moves on the traditional TV landscape and devices, [while] content and publishers have all advanced,” Innovid CEO and Co-founder Zvika Netter told Cynopsis. “But broadcast media is still unable to match and measure advertising to viewer behavior, or even know with complete certainty how much of the ad was watched and how many times it was seen.” The results of the analysis include:
– Interactive ads should extend time with a user an average of 34 seconds, compared to 0 seconds with pre-roll ads.
– Using interactive video instead of pre-roll earns brands 149 percent more awareness­a benchmark of 31 percent awareness, as compared to 12.5 percent awareness with pre-roll.
– Interactive broadcast placements gained an additional 20 seconds of time earned than other content providers and aggregators.
– Engagement rate increased by 50 percent when interactive units are placed on premium publishers, and improves by 34 percent with 30-second vs. 15-second spots.
– Click-thru rates jump by 41 percent using interactive units designed for CTR, than static pre-roll video.
– Ads are 75 percent more viewable on broadcast placements than on lower tier publishers.
– Mobile video commands 165 percent more interactive engagement when it comes to cross-device campaigns than desktop.
– Roku devices specifically hit a 98 percent completion rate and percent ad viewed rate for interactive video.
 
 

 
What if today’s major media and tech companies were a bunch of ninth graders? In a clever new video from Cracked, the channel imagines what it would be like If The Internet Was a High School. In the vid, YouTube is portrayed as the know-it-all student, Twitter is head of the school’s rumor mill and Facebook is the “big man on campus.” Check it out at www.cynopsis.com/#video.

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See you tomorrow,
Jessica Reese  @JMarieReese
03.26.15

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