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AllStory (Sam Baltrusis): Month in Review: Our Top 10 Stories for March - April 1, 2009While new products, services, and the constant shift in power within the digital media industry grabbing our readers' interest in March, over-the-top Internet video services like Boxee, Sling Media, and the soon-to-be-launched ZillionTV dominated our top stories for the month Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: News Corp.'s Domino Effect - March 30, 2009Former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller is expected to join News Corp. as its chief digital officer, replacing Peter Levinsohn Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Non-Stop Boxee - March 27, 2009Boxee, the software application which aggregates online videos and allows owners of PCs and set-tops such as Apple TV to feed them into one screen, dominated headlines this week Story (Sam Baltrusis): Blockbuster Integrates OnDemand Service Into TiVo - March 25, 2009In a move to better position its online digital-download service against competitors like Netflix, Blockbuster announced that it is teaming up with TiVo to offer its library of digital movie titles on TiVo DVRs Story (Sam Baltrusis): ComScore: Hulu Spikes 33% in February - March 23, 2009Hulu's online video traffic soared in February, including a 42% spike in unique viewers, a 33% increase in overall streams, and a 16% gain in total minutes, according to comScore Story (Sam Baltrusis): Q&A: Boxee CEO Chats About the 'Hulu Situation' - March 23, 2009Avner Ronen, the founder and CEO of the NYC-based Boxee, should be spewing venom at the mere mention of the four-letter word known as Hulu. But he’s not Story (Interviews): Avner Ronen, Boxee CEO & Founder - March 23, 2009In a candid interview with Contentinople, Boxee CEO Avner Ronen chats about what he calls 'the Hulu situation' Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Media Wars - March 20, 2009Here's a roundup of the week's news, views, and virtual tug-of-war between old and new at the New York City-based Media Summit Story (Sam Baltrusis): News Bits: ZillionTV Assembles Exec Team - March 18, 2009ZillionTV announced its executive management team responsible for spearheading the free, ad-supported on-demand solution Story (Sam Baltrusis): Seth MacFarlane Joins Hulu's 'Evil Plot' - March 18, 2009Hulu served up a sneak peek of its latest ad in the 'evil plot to destroy the world' saga slotted to premiere Thursday, March 19 on prime-time TV Story (Sam Baltrusis): Former NBC Digital Chief Heads to Hearst - March 16, 2009Media giant Hearst Corp. today named George Kliavkoff, formerly the chief digital officer at NBC Universal, as its new executive vice president of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication Story (Sam Baltrusis): Quantcast Targets Locally With DMA Breakdown - March 16, 2009Quantcast announced plans to target local-content publishers by teaming up with big media groups such as Hearst Corp., CBS Interactive, Media General, and American City Business Journals Inc. Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Targeted Ads - March 13, 2009Here's a roundup of the week's news, views, and Google's push for interest-based advertising which will allow advertisers to show ads based on users' previous interaction and to reach users based on their interests. Big Brother-esque? You decide
Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: Studios Slash More Jobs - March 11, 2009After announcing a major reorg among its senior management staff, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced plans to reduce its workforce by about 3.5% in response to sagging DVD sales Story (Sam Baltrusis): Hulu Blocks Boxee's Workaround Solution - March 9, 2009With a one-two punch happening in rapid succession over the weekend, the cat-and-mouse game between Hulu LLC and Boxee continues. According to a post from Boxee CEO Avner Ronen, Hulu blocked Boxee from accessing its feeds in the early evening of Friday, March 6 Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Comebacks - March 6, 2009Here's a roundup of the week's news, views, and comebacks including Boxee finding a workaround solution after Hulu's content providers requested that the video portal turn off access to the content on Boxee Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: MySpace Execs Depart - March 4, 2009MySpace announced in a memo from CEO Chris DeWolfe that Amit Kapur, its No. 2 guy, plans to leave the company to start a new venture Story (Sam Baltrusis): ComScore: Hulu Views Spike After February Ad Blitz - March 2, 2009While Hulu LLC boasted only modest growth in a preliminary report released today by comScore, early numbers suggest a dramatic spike in traffic after Hulu launched an aggressive ad campaign Story (Sam Baltrusis): ComScore: YouTube Soars, Hulu Stagnates in January - March 2, 2009YouTube's online video traffic grew by a staggering 400M views in January, but Hulu boasted only modest growth, clocking in 25M views in January compared to 24M in December, a gain of less than 1M Story (Sam Baltrusis): Month in Review: Our Top 10 Stories for February - February 27, 2009Here's a roundup of news, views, and shockers -- like CBS-owned TV.com emerging as a major player in the race among Internet TV portals -- that generated buzz in February Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Smack Downs - February 20, 2009Was it the best week ever for the digital media industry? Here's a roundup of the news, views, and the shocking one-two punch that gives new meaning to Hulu's so-called evil plot to destroy the world. Enjoy Story (Sam Baltrusis): CBS Bites Back at Hulu - February 20, 2009The plot thickens in the emerging rivalry between CBS-owned TV.com and Hulu Story (Sam Baltrusis): Hulu Smacks Down Boxee, TV.com - February 18, 2009In a one-two punch that’s sending shock waves across the digital media industry, Hulu announced that its content will no longer be available through Boxee Story (Sam Baltrusis): As TV.com Numbers Spike, Hulu Pulls the Plug - February 18, 2009CBS-owned TV.com is emerging as a major player in the race among Internet TV portals, but rival Hulu isn't taking the news lying down Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Scary Press Pics - February 13, 2009Was it the best week ever for the digital media industry? Here's a roundup of the news, views, and arguably the most frightening photo of a new executive in a company press release. Enjoy Story (Interviews): Dan Hassan, Co-CEO of Backchannelmedia - February 13, 2009Dan Hassan is co-CEO of the Boston-based technology provider Backchannelmedia Inc., a group emerging as a leader in the race for a viable Internet-enabled ad solution for television Story (Sam Baltrusis): Backchannelmedia Taking Advantage of Digital Transition - February 13, 2009Contentinople interviews Dan Hassan, co-CEO of the Boston-based technology provider Backchannelmedia, a group emerging as a leader in the race for a viable Internet-enabled ad solution for television Story (Sam Baltrusis): Disney, DreamWorks Confirm Distribution Deal - February 9, 2009Will E.T. head over to the House of Mouse? Walt Disney Co. confirms that the group has entered a long-term movie distribution deal with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Story (Sam Baltrusis): DreamWorks Dumps Universal for Disney? - February 6, 2009After hashing out a much-hyped distribution deal with DreamWorks SKG in October, Universal Pictures announced that Steven Spielberg's boutique production company is shopping elsewhere, fueling industry buzz that it may ink a deal with Walt Disney Co. Story (Sam Baltrusis): ComScore: YouTube Views Surged in December - February 5, 2009Posting record-setting numbers in December 2008, according to comScore’s Video Metrix service, YouTube's online video traffic increased a whopping 49 percent when compared to November Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: AOL's Platform-A Plots Plan B - February 3, 2009Greg Coleman, former EVP of global sales at Yahoo, has been tapped to replace Lynda Clarizio as president of Platform-A Story (Sam Baltrusis): Traffic Spikes During Super Bowl Ad Blitz - February 2, 2009Hulu's Alec in Huluwood commercial scored a touchdown, according to real-time Website traffic numbers generated by Akamai's Ad Index during yesterday's Super Bowl XLIII game Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: Blockbuster Taps Exec for Digital Unit - January 29, 2009In a move to position its digital-download service to compete with leaders like Netflix's booming 'Watch Instantly' video-on-demand streaming service, Blockbuster today named Robert 'Bob' Barr as their new VP of Blockbuster.com Story (Sam Baltrusis): TV in 3D Craze Hits the Super Bowl - January 28, 2009Over 150M pairs of Intel-sponsored 3D glasses have been delivered nationwide for what NBC is calling a 'monsterous' event airing during Super Bowl XLIII Story (Sam Baltrusis): Paramount Pushes Digital Direct to Theaters - January 23, 2009Paramount Pictures today announced plans for a direct-to-exhibitors digital movie deal fueling the push for cinemas to integrate digital projection and 3D systems in theaters Story (Sam Baltrusis): Pixsy Launches 'Premium Feed' Video Platform - January 21, 2009Video search engine Pixsy tomorrow plans to unveil Premium Feed, a collection of licensed and syndicated video content with embedded monetization of pre-rolls and overlay ads Story (Sam Baltrusis): Adap.tv, Eyewonder Join Forces - January 21, 2009OneSource creator Adap.tv and digital video advertising guru Eyewonder announced plans yesterday to team up on a seamless multi-player, in-stream video ad solution Story (Sam Baltrusis): Next New Networks Boasts Huge Growth in '08 - January 14, 2009Online television juggernaut Next New Networks announced today that its strategy of 'superdistributing' audience-targeted content through non-exclusive distribution agreements has topped 300M views in 2008, marking 200% growth since 2007 Story (Sam Baltrusis): Ad Associations Team Up for Behavioral Standards - January 13, 2009In an attempt to avoid public and legislative scrutiny regarding privacy issues, four major marketing and advertising industry associations announced today their plan to beef up self-regulatory guidelines regarding online behavioral advertising Story (Sam Baltrusis): Slam Dunk? Metacafe Launches NBA Video Channel - January 7, 2009Metacafe, a short-form online video site boasting 38M unique users per month, shoots and scores with the launch of its NBA channel yesterday featuring game highlights, top plays and weekly recaps Story (Sam Baltrusis): ffwd Unveils Channel-Surfing API, Boxee Partnership - January 6, 2009For those enamored with channel-surfing video on the Web, ffwd announced today that it's releasing an API to aid in delivering its video-recommendation engine to a slew of Web-enabled video devices Story (Sam Baltrusis): P2P Music Site What.cd Signs Indie Partnership - December 31, 2008Will 2009 be the year mainstream record executives and artists recognize the power of BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) protocol, as an effective tool to promote music releases online? Story (Sam Baltrusis): Backchannelmedia Adds Interactivity to TV Ads - December 29, 2008As the Super Bowl ad season draws near, Boston-based technology provider Backchannelmedia is tuning up Internet-enabled TV ads that will allow consumers to easily purchase products featured during television broadcasts Story (Sam Baltrusis): Quantcast Bulks Up, ComScore Speaks Up - December 23, 2008A market battle appears to be developing in the audience measurement field with Quantcast gaining momentum and comScore and Nielsen defending their positions Story (Sam Baltrusis): Avid Launches Mobile-Friendly Management - December 22, 2008Avid Technology last week unveiled its Avid Active ContentManager 3.0, a digital asset management and distribution solution for TV broadcasters
StoriesStory (Sam Baltrusis): Month in Review: Our Top 10 Stories for March - April 1, 2009While new products, services, and the constant shift in power within the digital media industry grabbing our readers' interest in March, over-the-top Internet video services like Boxee, Sling Media, and the soon-to-be-launched ZillionTV dominated our top stories for the month Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: News Corp.'s Domino Effect - March 30, 2009Former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller is expected to join News Corp. as its chief digital officer, replacing Peter Levinsohn Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Non-Stop Boxee - March 27, 2009Boxee, the software application which aggregates online videos and allows owners of PCs and set-tops such as Apple TV to feed them into one screen, dominated headlines this week Story (Sam Baltrusis): Blockbuster Integrates OnDemand Service Into TiVo - March 25, 2009In a move to better position its online digital-download service against competitors like Netflix, Blockbuster announced that it is teaming up with TiVo to offer its library of digital movie titles on TiVo DVRs Story (Sam Baltrusis): ComScore: Hulu Spikes 33% in February - March 23, 2009Hulu's online video traffic soared in February, including a 42% spike in unique viewers, a 33% increase in overall streams, and a 16% gain in total minutes, according to comScore Story (Sam Baltrusis): Q&A: Boxee CEO Chats About the 'Hulu Situation' - March 23, 2009Avner Ronen, the founder and CEO of the NYC-based Boxee, should be spewing venom at the mere mention of the four-letter word known as Hulu. But he’s not Story (Interviews): Avner Ronen, Boxee CEO & Founder - March 23, 2009In a candid interview with Contentinople, Boxee CEO Avner Ronen chats about what he calls 'the Hulu situation' Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Media Wars - March 20, 2009Here's a roundup of the week's news, views, and virtual tug-of-war between old and new at the New York City-based Media Summit Story (Sam Baltrusis): News Bits: ZillionTV Assembles Exec Team - March 18, 2009ZillionTV announced its executive management team responsible for spearheading the free, ad-supported on-demand solution Story (Sam Baltrusis): Seth MacFarlane Joins Hulu's 'Evil Plot' - March 18, 2009Hulu served up a sneak peek of its latest ad in the 'evil plot to destroy the world' saga slotted to premiere Thursday, March 19 on prime-time TV Story (Sam Baltrusis): Former NBC Digital Chief Heads to Hearst - March 16, 2009Media giant Hearst Corp. today named George Kliavkoff, formerly the chief digital officer at NBC Universal, as its new executive vice president of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication Story (Sam Baltrusis): Quantcast Targets Locally With DMA Breakdown - March 16, 2009Quantcast announced plans to target local-content publishers by teaming up with big media groups such as Hearst Corp., CBS Interactive, Media General, and American City Business Journals Inc. Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Targeted Ads - March 13, 2009Here's a roundup of the week's news, views, and Google's push for interest-based advertising which will allow advertisers to show ads based on users' previous interaction and to reach users based on their interests. Big Brother-esque? You decide
Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: Studios Slash More Jobs - March 11, 2009After announcing a major reorg among its senior management staff, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced plans to reduce its workforce by about 3.5% in response to sagging DVD sales Story (Sam Baltrusis): Hulu Blocks Boxee's Workaround Solution - March 9, 2009With a one-two punch happening in rapid succession over the weekend, the cat-and-mouse game between Hulu LLC and Boxee continues. According to a post from Boxee CEO Avner Ronen, Hulu blocked Boxee from accessing its feeds in the early evening of Friday, March 6 Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Comebacks - March 6, 2009Here's a roundup of the week's news, views, and comebacks including Boxee finding a workaround solution after Hulu's content providers requested that the video portal turn off access to the content on Boxee Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: MySpace Execs Depart - March 4, 2009MySpace announced in a memo from CEO Chris DeWolfe that Amit Kapur, its No. 2 guy, plans to leave the company to start a new venture Story (Sam Baltrusis): ComScore: Hulu Views Spike After February Ad Blitz - March 2, 2009While Hulu LLC boasted only modest growth in a preliminary report released today by comScore, early numbers suggest a dramatic spike in traffic after Hulu launched an aggressive ad campaign Story (Sam Baltrusis): ComScore: YouTube Soars, Hulu Stagnates in January - March 2, 2009YouTube's online video traffic grew by a staggering 400M views in January, but Hulu boasted only modest growth, clocking in 25M views in January compared to 24M in December, a gain of less than 1M Story (Sam Baltrusis): Month in Review: Our Top 10 Stories for February - February 27, 2009Here's a roundup of news, views, and shockers -- like CBS-owned TV.com emerging as a major player in the race among Internet TV portals -- that generated buzz in February Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Smack Downs - February 20, 2009Was it the best week ever for the digital media industry? Here's a roundup of the news, views, and the shocking one-two punch that gives new meaning to Hulu's so-called evil plot to destroy the world. Enjoy Story (Sam Baltrusis): CBS Bites Back at Hulu - February 20, 2009The plot thickens in the emerging rivalry between CBS-owned TV.com and Hulu Story (Sam Baltrusis): Hulu Smacks Down Boxee, TV.com - February 18, 2009In a one-two punch that’s sending shock waves across the digital media industry, Hulu announced that its content will no longer be available through Boxee Story (Sam Baltrusis): As TV.com Numbers Spike, Hulu Pulls the Plug - February 18, 2009CBS-owned TV.com is emerging as a major player in the race among Internet TV portals, but rival Hulu isn't taking the news lying down Story (Sam Baltrusis): Week in Review: News, Views & Scary Press Pics - February 13, 2009Was it the best week ever for the digital media industry? Here's a roundup of the news, views, and arguably the most frightening photo of a new executive in a company press release. Enjoy Story (Interviews): Dan Hassan, Co-CEO of Backchannelmedia - February 13, 2009Dan Hassan is co-CEO of the Boston-based technology provider Backchannelmedia Inc., a group emerging as a leader in the race for a viable Internet-enabled ad solution for television Story (Sam Baltrusis): Backchannelmedia Taking Advantage of Digital Transition - February 13, 2009Contentinople interviews Dan Hassan, co-CEO of the Boston-based technology provider Backchannelmedia, a group emerging as a leader in the race for a viable Internet-enabled ad solution for television Story (Sam Baltrusis): Disney, DreamWorks Confirm Distribution Deal - February 9, 2009Will E.T. head over to the House of Mouse? Walt Disney Co. confirms that the group has entered a long-term movie distribution deal with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Story (Sam Baltrusis): DreamWorks Dumps Universal for Disney? - February 6, 2009After hashing out a much-hyped distribution deal with DreamWorks SKG in October, Universal Pictures announced that Steven Spielberg's boutique production company is shopping elsewhere, fueling industry buzz that it may ink a deal with Walt Disney Co. Story (Sam Baltrusis): ComScore: YouTube Views Surged in December - February 5, 2009Posting record-setting numbers in December 2008, according to comScore’s Video Metrix service, YouTube's online video traffic increased a whopping 49 percent when compared to November Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: AOL's Platform-A Plots Plan B - February 3, 2009Greg Coleman, former EVP of global sales at Yahoo, has been tapped to replace Lynda Clarizio as president of Platform-A Story (Sam Baltrusis): Traffic Spikes During Super Bowl Ad Blitz - February 2, 2009Hulu's Alec in Huluwood commercial scored a touchdown, according to real-time Website traffic numbers generated by Akamai's Ad Index during yesterday's Super Bowl XLIII game Story (Sam Baltrusis): Headcount: Blockbuster Taps Exec for Digital Unit - January 29, 2009In a move to position its digital-download service to compete with leaders like Netflix's booming 'Watch Instantly' video-on-demand streaming service, Blockbuster today named Robert 'Bob' Barr as their new VP of Blockbuster.com Story (Sam Baltrusis): TV in 3D Craze Hits the Super Bowl - January 28, 2009Over 150M pairs of Intel-sponsored 3D glasses have been delivered nationwide for what NBC is calling a 'monsterous' event airing during Super Bowl XLIII Story (Sam Baltrusis): Paramount Pushes Digital Direct to Theaters - January 23, 2009Paramount Pictures today announced plans for a direct-to-exhibitors digital movie deal fueling the push for cinemas to integrate digital projection and 3D systems in theaters Story (Sam Baltrusis): Pixsy Launches 'Premium Feed' Video Platform - January 21, 2009Video search engine Pixsy tomorrow plans to unveil Premium Feed, a collection of licensed and syndicated video content with embedded monetization of pre-rolls and overlay ads Story (Sam Baltrusis): Adap.tv, Eyewonder Join Forces - January 21, 2009OneSource creator Adap.tv and digital video advertising guru Eyewonder announced plans yesterday to team up on a seamless multi-player, in-stream video ad solution Story (Sam Baltrusis): Next New Networks Boasts Huge Growth in '08 - January 14, 2009Online television juggernaut Next New Networks announced today that its strategy of 'superdistributing' audience-targeted content through non-exclusive distribution agreements has topped 300M views in 2008, marking 200% growth since 2007 Story (Sam Baltrusis): Ad Associations Team Up for Behavioral Standards - January 13, 2009In an attempt to avoid public and legislative scrutiny regarding privacy issues, four major marketing and advertising industry associations announced today their plan to beef up self-regulatory guidelines regarding online behavioral advertising Story (Sam Baltrusis): Slam Dunk? Metacafe Launches NBA Video Channel - January 7, 2009Metacafe, a short-form online video site boasting 38M unique users per month, shoots and scores with the launch of its NBA channel yesterday featuring game highlights, top plays and weekly recaps Story (Sam Baltrusis): ffwd Unveils Channel-Surfing API, Boxee Partnership - January 6, 2009For those enamored with channel-surfing video on the Web, ffwd announced today that it's releasing an API to aid in delivering its video-recommendation engine to a slew of Web-enabled video devices Story (Sam Baltrusis): P2P Music Site What.cd Signs Indie Partnership - December 31, 2008Will 2009 be the year mainstream record executives and artists recognize the power of BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) protocol, as an effective tool to promote music releases online? Story (Sam Baltrusis): Backchannelmedia Adds Interactivity to TV Ads - December 29, 2008As the Super Bowl ad season draws near, Boston-based technology provider Backchannelmedia is tuning up Internet-enabled TV ads that will allow consumers to easily purchase products featured during television broadcasts Story (Sam Baltrusis): Quantcast Bulks Up, ComScore Speaks Up - December 23, 2008A market battle appears to be developing in the audience measurement field with Quantcast gaining momentum and comScore and Nielsen defending their positions Story (Sam Baltrusis): Avid Launches Mobile-Friendly Management - December 22, 2008Avid Technology last week unveiled its Avid Active ContentManager 3.0, a digital asset management and distribution solution for TV broadcasters
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