Cynopsis: DIGITAL

10/07/09

Good morning, it’s Wednesday, October 7, 2009, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

Just because Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits on the Apple board it doesn’t mean he can’t see other people. The internet software giant announced a new partnership with Verizon Wireless that will result in a brand new version of Google’s Android mobile OS, optimized for the Verizon network. (Can You Hear Me Now, iPhone?) Verizon says it plans to launch its first Android handsets in the coming weeks (not specifying which manufacturers.) With a base of over 85 million users in the U.S., support from Verizon should give a huge boost to the nascent Android platform. Meanwhile, Microsoft launched version 6.5 of the Windows Mobile OS, set to power a plethora of new smartphones including the HTC Pure and Tilt on AT&T and the Samsung Intrepid on Sprint. The new Windows OS is going after both business and casual users with two new key services, “My Phone” and “Windows Marketplace.” My Phone helps people back up and manage photos, applications and other content while Windows Marketplace is Microsoft’s version of the App store.

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Conde Nast sent a memo out to staffers on Monday saying it was shuttering the print publications Gourmet, Cookie, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride as part of a massive restructuring effort. The publisher hired consultancy McKinsey & Company to help figure out how to cut down on costs and grow its digital businesses, in the face of deep drops in print advertising revenue.
 
Bigger, Longer, Uncut and now Streaming. Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s 1999 South Park feature film will be available on SouthParkStudios.com through Oct. 28 to promote the release of a new Blu-ray version of the film next week. Both the streaming version and the Blu-ray feature new commentary from the co-creators.
 
Here’s one way to save the newspaper business: FremantleMedia is teaming with Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun to launch a live interactive pay-to-play game show in the UK on thesun.co.uk, powered by Illumina Digital. Pay 15p to log on and compete for cash and prizes. There’s also a social networking component; players are able to interact directly with the flirty hosts as well as one another via their video screens.
 
Art and contemporary culture themed cable network Ovation TV announced plans to launch an HD simulcast channel in Q3 2010. The network has also just added 500,000 additional subscribers through recent distribution deals with Comcast, Charter and Time Warner Cable.
 

 
Omniture  announced the public beta launch of the Developer Sandbox to incubate development of third-party digital marketing apps integrated with the Omniture Online Marketing Suite. Part of the Omniture Genesis open integration platform, the Developer Sandbox program features tools and technologies that simplify creation of custom applications utilizing Omniture usage data.
 
Mobile text-based Q&A service ChaCha introduced a new retail coupon service that allows users to print coupons from the home PCs or pull up coupons on their mobile devices. The service begins this week in Indiana with plans to roll out across most of the top 20 DMAs within a year.
 

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In the complex world of online video, simple is better and two major players have teamed up to make online video a little more plug-and-play. Comcast’s white label video management firm thePlatform (which powers online video for cable MSOs and portals such as Fancast) and Tremor Media have teamed up to establish a new set of advertising management features for online video. The newly revamped Acudeo ad management platform will allow premium online video publishers to manage advertising policies, patterns, formats and delivery from a single interface, simplifying the process of monetizing and syndicating videos across the web. Publishers can manage pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll ads, or add overlays and banner ads. Ad operation teams can set IAB-compliant in-stream and overlay formats, define playback policies, and sync companion banner ads with ad streams.
 
Google launched a feature for AdSense mobile that enables publishers to take advantage of the smartphone mobile browsing experience by allowing them to run larger AdSense ads visible on high-end phones. (Previously, AdSense mobile publishers could only serve smaller text and image ads.) The feature displays only on mobile sites searched on web-browsing mobile phones such as the Palm Pre, iPhone or phones running Google’s Android OS.
 
In an effort to diversify and further grown its business, Google has been working closely with ad agencies to create media custom campaigns that push beyond basic search advertising for clients such as HP, Ford and J.C. Penney, per the WSJ.
 

 
Viacom may have emails in their possession revealing that YouTube knowingly violated copyrights by not removing protected videos quickly enough, reports CNET, citing unnamed sources. If YouTube management possessed “actual knowledge” of copyright infringement and did not quickly enough, the company may not be entitled to protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe-harbor provision.
 
WPP’s GroupM has tapped TidalTV as a third-party technology partner for its interactive TV initiative. TidalTV will handle GroupM’s television advertising optimization and yield management for its addressable television media products.
 
Local TV station owner LIN TV acquired online advertising services firm Red McCombs Media for an undisclosed sum. Austin, TX-based RM Media specializes in enhanced services for national advertisers including targeted display, rich media, video advertising, custom-built vertical channels, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, and mobile marketing.
 

 
More and more viewers are turning to alternative screens to watch their favorite TV shows. Among multichannel subscribers, monthly incidence of multiplatform TV or video viewing on a computer or handheld device reached 17% (15% on a computer, 3% on an iPod/iTouch/other MP3 player, 2% on a cell phone, and 1% on a PSP/Nintendo DS,) according to Horowitz Associates’ latest State of Digital and Interactive Television survey. What’s more, viewers are coming to expect to see their shows available on multiple platforms:

• Multichannel subscribers watch an average of 130.2 hours of TV programming on a TV set, 1.7 hours on a computer, and 0.3 on a handheld device
• Over one-third (36%) of those who watch video on alternative platforms (PC or handhelds) say they wish all their favorite shows were available online
• 30% wish all their favorite shows were available on their handheld devices 
• Overall, 7% of all multichannel subscribers say that if all/most of the TV programs they want to watch were available on their PC, they would get rid of their TV service and just watch them on their PC

 
Mobile broadband phone penetration will rise to reach 244 million users in the U.S. by 2015, up from 37% penetration in 2009, at which time smartphone penetration will surpass 50% of U.S. mobile phone users, according to an in depth study from UK-based Coda Research Consultancy. Video traffic will be responsible for the majority of traffic growth, forming nearly two thirds (63%) of mobile broadband traffic by 2015 – chiefly made up of short form content including comedy, music, news clips, and viral videos. Netbook ownership and traffic levels will also rise to reach 58 million U.S. users by in 2015.
 
Hitwise also has Bing’s share of U.S searches declining in Sept. as the novelty factor may have warn off. Google received 71.08% of all searches during the month, a 1% uptick from the previous month.
 
Percentage of U.S. Searches among leading search engine providers
Domain           Aug. 2009  Sept. 2009 % Change
google.com      70.24%       71.08%         1%
yahoo.com       16.96%       16.38%       -3%
bing.com*          9.48%        8.96%       -5%
ask.com             2.37%        2.56%         8%
Source: Hitwise. Data is based on four-week rolling periods (ending Oct. 3, 2009, and Aug. 29, 2009) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S.Internet users. * includes executed searches on Bing.com, Live.com and MSN Search but does not include searches on Club.Live.com.
 

 
NBC’s 10 O&O’s launched their own free iPhone apps yesterday, pairing breaking news, weather, information and entertainment content with social networking functionality. Residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Dallas Fort Worth, New York, San Diego, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Connecticut and Miami can utilize the app’s “SoMyCity” feature to post photos and observations on NBC’s “Locals Only” station sites as well as to Twitter and Facebook. Each app’s interface is customizable and a filter function allows you to organize content by source.
 
Showtime also launched a new video-powered iPhone app, streaming clips, interviews and sample full episodes of its original shows including The United States of Tara, Weeds, Nurse Jackie and The Tudors. The free app is being powered by the Transpera’s ad platform. There’s also a “click to call” enabling users to order the pay service directly from the app for a limited-time cut rate price of $7.99/month.
 
Pandora is promoting its new subscription-based Pandora One desktop music app that features some bells and whistles the free ad-supported version does not contain. Features include customizable skins, unlimited listening (free Pandora streaming is limited to 40 hours/month) and improved 192k bits per sec. streaming quality. Pandora One costs $36/year.
 
Archival photo and video hosting company Phanfare launched new version of Photon for the iPhone that enables home printing of photos from any iPhone or iPod touch to networked HP printers.
 

 
President of Disney Channels Worldwide Rich Ross has been picked to fill the head of Walt Disney Studios as Chairman, overseeing the Walt Disney, Touchstone, Miramax and Disney/Pixar film studios. The appointment of Mr. Ross, who helped grow Disney’s cable channel empire to a total of 94 channels and channel feeds along with several successful multiplatform offerings, follows the surprise departure of Dick Cook from the studio last month.
 
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) and Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) has hired Natalie Farsi to a newly created position managing mobile business efforts. Natalie formerly served as SVP/mCommerce & Content for Fox as well as a Warner Bros. consultant, helping to launch a multi-format mobile product suite for TMZ. She will report to Brett Bouttier, SVP/Digital, Warner Bros. Television Group, and to Andy Mellett, SVP, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.
 
TV Guide.com named Douglas J. Rowe as Senior Editor, based in New York. The site has also established a West Coast bureau and has hired two new staff editors based full-time in Los Angeles. The West Coast bureau will include Natalie Abrams, most recently a reporter for E! Online, and Kate Stanhope, who formerly wrote for LATimes.com and TheEnvelope.com. All three editors will report to Tim Molloy, Managing Editor, TVGuide.com.
 
John Davison has been named EVP/Content at San Francisco-based GamePro Media, publisher of GamePro Magazine and GamePro.com, effective immediately. John was most recently the co-founder and President of family entertainment guide What They Like, Inc.
 

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It’s up to you, New York, New York. Inspired perhaps by the well publicized Netflix crowdsourcing initiative, The Big Apple launched a new software app development competition to spur local developers into creating new mobile apps to help the city run more efficiently. Entrants will be able to mine data sets supplied by over 30 city agencies, giving them access to scheduled film shoots, traffic updates, property sales, restaurant inspections or park festivals, including mappable data around school and voting districts. The general public will vote on which apps are the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable and the winning entrants will vie for more than $20,000 in cash prizes. (One lucky winner even gets to have a private dinner with Mayor Bloomberg.) Developers have until Dec. 8 to submit their software applications.

Later — Wayne
 Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
10.07.09

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