YouTube is on a roll at the moment, which looks like being a good thing for users, advertisers and agencies alike after a period of what felt like continual negative press. The video-sharing website has revealed it got close to 10m streams for a live broadcast of a U2's Rosebowl concert on Sunday...
I was at MIPCOM last week and talking to the great and good of the TV industry got me thinking will the internet replace TV or does TV just need to adapt. For 50 years, the TV industry has delivered content and generated revenue effortlessly along the way. But technology is in danger of pulling its plug...
News Corporation's new digital boss Jonathan Miller has been banging the paid content drum. His spin was "content bundling" kind of like the charging equivalent of pick 'n' mix. Speaking in New York at the Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power event, Miller said News Corp wants...
I'm still trying to figure out the point of GakiAttack , a Twitter application that allows followers to attack one another in a variety of exotic Japanese-branded methods... but I fear that would be looking too far into its inane simplicity. According to its website, Gaki is: "not only Japanese...
The online TV wars in the US just got a little more interesting. Seemingly out of leftfield, CBS has announced a large content deal with MGM, PBS, Showtime, Sony and Endemol USA to broadcast popular television shows on its TV.com website. The new service should at least take a bite out of emerging market...
What would Tarantino make of it all ? Mr Blonde flogging laptops ? Well it beats cutting off a policemans ear. What the hell am I referring to you might wonder ? Well, actor Michael Madsen (the aforementioned Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs) is now starring in a new piece of branded content from Sony entitled...
