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12.01.15

Good morning. It’s Tuesday December 1, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

 
Yesterday at 8pm EST, Amazon Prime subscribers gained access to the season 2 premiere of Transparent. News of the sneak preview emerged about eight hours ahead of time, via a tweet from show-creator Jill Soloway. The full season debuts December 11 in the U.S., Germany, Austria, and the U.K.
 
Jukin Media is doing what it does best: Licensing viral videos. The company is partnering with Sky Q, the upcoming entertainment service from the British broadcaster Sky. Jukin’s main brands – FailArmy, People Are Awesome, The Pet Collective, and JukinVideo – will all provide content to Sky Q for an early 2016 launch
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Goodbye ugly, hello gorgeous. Amazon Prime in the U.K. has ordered The Collection, a new fashion drama from former Ugly Betty showrunner Oliver Goldstick. The series, about a post-World War II Paris fashion house, begins production in January.

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Seems like Facebook does everything these days. Next up: Documentary.  As part of the new #TreatmentForAll global AIDS awareness campaign helmed by digital influencers, UN Assistant Secretary-General Ray Chambers has debuted a new short documentary, the first doc ever to make its debut on Facebook. (Find it here.) The film features TV host Ricki Lake, as well as digital influencers such as Wesley Stromberg and Megan Nicole.

2015 was a billion-dollar year for virtual and augmented reality investments – and a lot of that was driven by one company. A new report from tech advisory firm Digi-Capital found that, of the more than one billion dollars in capital poured into VR and AR over the last year, Magic Leap’s $542 million funding round in Q4 2014 accounted for over half of it. (The augmented reality company’s mammoth funding round was led by Google.) The report found that VR and AR investment in general have grown in each of the last two quarters, with Q3 2015 investments reaching over $150 million.
 
The VR train is moving fast – to get up to speed, register for the December 8 Cynopsis webinar, Virtual Reality: What Programmers need to Know Now to Lure Viewers and Advertisers.
 
Chromecast reigned supreme in Q3. According to the market research firm Strategic Analytics, Google’s streaming device accounted for 35% of streamers sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2015. Apple TV placed second with 20%, followed by Amazon Fire TV with 16% and Roku with 16%. As Variety notes, it’s impossible to say whether Chromecast’s dominance will continue: Apple is marketing its next-gen Apple TV more aggressively than previous iterations. And Amazon’s decision to block online sales of Chromecast and Apple TV may factor into things as well. Bottom line: The holiday season is up for grabs.
 
OpenSlate Engagement Data for the Gaming Vertical, based on the engagement metric for the week ending 11/29.
Channel (Engagement)/Monthly Views/Total Subs/SlateScore
markiplierGAME (9.8) / 155,357,550 / 10,563,488 / 768
elrubiusOMG (9.8) / 98,664,600 / 14,763,092 /808
jacksepticeye (9.8) / 178,826,700 / 7,460,868 /767
PewDiePie (9.8) / 232,444,380 / 40,626,259 /833
juegagerman (9.8) / 74,958,660 / 10,009,295 / 764
rezendeevil (9.8) / 96,345,720 / 4,496,761 /804
eeoneguy (9.7) / 69,235,770 / 5,177,175 /727
Gameplayrj (9.7) / 42,604,770 / 2,646,056 /798
SSundee(9.6) / 50,471,220 / 5,424,696 /781
fernanfloo  (9.6) / 111,475,140 / 7,452,268 /732
Source: The Engagement metric is one of OpenSlate’s component scores, and is a measure of a producer’s ability to evoke meaningful interaction with their audience. It is calculated on a scale of 1-10 with higher being better. The OpenSlate Engagement score uses a subset of the data incorporated in the SlateScore to perform a set of unique calculations. It factors in views, comments, likes, and more.
 
The ListenFirst Television Interest (TVI) Rating (TM) is a standardized measurement of the most buzzed-about TV programs on linear TV and streaming services. A complement to ListenFirst’s other syndicated data products (such as the ListenFirst Digital Audience Rating – TV), the metrics included in the rating are the purest form of showing interest digitally, since they’re organic actions that are largely unaffected by paid media. Programs that surface on the TVI leaderboards are the most hashtagged on Facebook, Google+, and Tumblr, as well as most searched for on Wikipedia (used as a proxy for organic search volume).

Series/TVI:
Marvel’s Jessica Jones (Netflix)/4.89
The Man in the High Castle (Amazon Prime)/2.82
The Walking Dead (AMC)/2.67
Supernatural (CW)/1.74
Game of Thrones (HBO)/1.48
Quantico (ABC)/1.31
Supergirl (CBS)/1.28
Arrow (CW)/1.26
The Flash (CW)/1.22
Doctor Who (BBC)/0.97
Source:ListenFirst. The TVI Rating aggregates metrics that measure organically generated activity by fans of the TV show. The metric includes total volume of official hashtag mentions onFacebook,Google+, andTumblr, along withWikipediapage views (as a proxy for organic search volume) for a show as a percentage of the total volume of the same activities for all shows.

This week saw two streaming series top the TVI rankings. “It’s abnormal to see streaming programs surfacing higher than notable cable/broadcast shows,” says Meghan Hakim, Client Strategist at ListenFirst Media. “However, the drivers for these two shows appear to be due to the fact that they’re new/upcoming. For these two specifically, we’re seeing a high volume of organic interest coming through Wikipedia page views, where it’s not atypical to see higher volumes for new programs as fans are in the discovery phase for the shows.This week alone, the Jessica Jones program Wikipedia page has been viewed nearly 600K times, and The Man in the High Castle page received 350K views (compared to 179K for The Walking Dead and 97K for Game of Thrones), likely driven by the high volume of press around the upcoming premieres.”

Digital media company and multi-channel network Fullscreen has a new COO. The job falls to Andy Forssell, who served as Hulu’s SVP of Content and Distribution for about five years. He also served as Hulu’s acting CEO for most of 2013.

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Members of the rock band Eagles of Death Metal found themselves at the center of the Paris terror attacks last month. And if you haven’t caught their heart-wrenching interview with Vice, you need to go see it. Find it on Vice.com  check out the promo here.

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