The Bannen Way Earns Seven Streamy Award Nominations, Followed by The Guild, Auto-Tune the News, and Easy To Assemble; Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow Receive Nods for Web Therapy, as Does Soap Star Crystal Chappell for Venice The 2nd Annual Streamy Award Events Will be Held on April 11, 2010 at The Music Box @ [...]

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Hear Speakers From A&E Television, Boxee, Bravo, Brightcove, CableLabs, Cablevision, Dailymotion, DirecTV, DISH Network, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Panasonic, Revision3, Roku, Showtime Networks, Starcom Worldwide, Starz Entertainment, Syabas, thePlatform, TiVo, Time Warner Cable, Twitter, Verizon FiOS, and Yahoo! As They Discuss Entertainment Marketplace Realities and Industry Innovations Around Interactive TV For Consumers San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) [...]

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InteractiveTV Today Announces Call For Entries For The Seventh Annual Awards For Leadership In Interactive And Multiplatform Television New Click Awards Sub-Category Introduced To Honor Creative Excellence in Emerging Areas of Broadband/Internet Video; Submission Deadline is February 9, 2010 InteractiveTV Today [itvt] has issued a call for entries for the Seventh Annual Awards for Leadership [...]

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Hulu Leaps Into Original Web Series Game

Published on 09 February 2010 by in Blog, Web TV

(Excerpts of my article for Tubefilter News.) Back in December Hulu, along with Clear Channel, MySpace, Ford and Pepsi all signed on as sponsors and production partners for “If I Can Dream,” a new online docusoap Web series by reality programming mastermind Simon Fuller (“American Idol”). TheWrap (and Tubefilter) covered the deal announcement, but overall, [...]

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VIZIO Scores Big With Super Bowl Ads

Published on 08 February 2010 by in Blog, Web TV

VIZIO took an exciting plunge into mainstream consumer marketing of their top-selling HDTVs and new Internet-connected VIA models during the Super Bowl yesterday. The brand campaign was everywhere, from providing the playback monitors in studio, with an on-air plug by host James Brown, to a number of smart ad spots throughout the game. Overall, an elegantly [...]

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(Excerpts of my article for Tubefilter News.) Today at NATPE in Las Vegas, legendary Hollywood creative and entertainment business leader Michael Eisner, CEO of The Tornante Company and its digital entertainment studio Vuguru, shared his thoughts about originally produced content for the Web. First off, Eisner is the first to admit that he doesn’t know [...]

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Boxee: Web TV Payment System Coming

Published on 20 January 2010 by in Blog, Web TV

(Excerpts of my article for Tubefilter News.) It’s the New Year and a good time to reassess your digital entertainment viewing options—especially if you’ve recently disconnected your cable box or satellite dish. If you can wait a few months, check out the new Boxee Box by D-Link. At CES this month, we spoke with Avner [...]

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(Excerpts of my article for Tubefilter News.) Intel isn’t just inside our computers these days. They’re in our TVs too. These smart chips power widgets available on Internet-connect HDTVs, and are also in a number of set-top boxes and Blu-ray players that stream Internet content to our TV screens. In fact, Intel’s Digital Home Grouphas [...]

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(Excerpts of my article for Tubefilter News.) VIZIO believes that consumers will stop buying “dumb TV’s” and start buying smart ones that are Internet connected. We talked to Matt McRae, VP of VIZIO, at the Consumer Electronics Show (above) to learn more about their new Internet connected HDTVs, the VIZIO TV app store (yes, a [...]

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(Excerpts of my article for Tubefilter News.) At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Joy Marcus, general manager, North America and Eric Cremer SVP, Media Development, joined us to offer tips on how content creators can work with Dailymotion and also shared the many places you can find Dailymotion’s shows across the digital entertainment universe. [...]

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