as someone who is composing this blog entry as XHTML, in emacs, using a semantic CSS tag that will enable me to search for quotes by Mike Linksvayer and find the above fragment, Im obviously all about metadata coexisting with human-readable HTML.
Operating in that mode for years has given me a [...]
EMI has received a bid approach from Warner Music, the latest twist in a seven-year battle in which the two music groups have tried to buy each other. If a proposal is made, it will be considered with a particular focus on conditionality, the regulatory and operational risk profile, and on valuation in relation to the companys standalone value and the value creation available from a combination, EMI said in a statement.
Last July the two music firms terminated their pursuit of each other after a European court ruling over Sony Music and Bertelsmanns BMG merger cast doubt over the chances of this deal.
Viacom and online TV provider Joost have done a broad distribution deal, all of which should put more pressure on YouTube to work out its disagreements with content owners, the WSJ reported.
The content portion of the deal involves licensing hundreds of hours of programming from Viacom TV properties, as well as movies made by the companys Paramount studios. Viacom will contribute both current and archival programming to the venture, including programs such as Real World, Laguna Beach, Beavis & Butth
My ex-boss Kurt Andersen does a nice piece in NYMag, writing about how newspapers have taken to putting video and videoblogs online, and may just become better at it than TV news outlets themselves. And he has some great lines in there: Whereas the YouTube paradigm is amateurs doing interesting things with cameras, the newspapers Web videos are professional journalists operating like amateurs in the best old-fashioned sense. Example David Carrs Carpetbagger video blog on NYTimes.com.
I can easily imagine newspapers Web-video portals becoming the TV-journalism
Whether you call it a merger or an acquisition, the actual closing of a deal between Sirius and XM relies in great measure on a different definition: the meaning of competition in a multi-platform world. The satellite radio competitors content that there is enough competition in the radio space to merit federal approval of their plans. During an impromptu press conference last month at CES, I had the chance to ask FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about the impact of access to media in multiple formats and on multiple platforms when it comes to defining competition in FCC terms. Martin parsed through the question, then said: The changes
Updated : The official release is out, confirming the deal, pending regulatory approval. Mel Karmazin, the CEO of Sirius, would become CEO of the new company while Gary Parsons, the chairman of XM, would remain in that role.
Details:
-- A tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a combined enterprise value of approximately $13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately $1.6 billion.
-- XM shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 4.6 shares of Sirius common
If last months Golden Globe awards are any indication, next Sundays Oscars are going to be very good for the web traffic of traditional media outlets covering the Academy Awards, a NYT article suggested. While the TV audience drew 20 million viewers, within a day of the Golden Globes broadcast, People Magazines people.com attracted 39.6 million pageviews. Celebrity news magazine sites Vanity Fair (vanityfair.com), Entertainment Weekly (ew.com)
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If media companies attempts to track down unauthorized use of their video content on file-sharing services was akin to looking for a needle in a haystack, Audible Magic believes it has a very powerful magnet necessary to the task. In a NYT profile, the Los Gatos, CA company demonstrates its content-recognition software, which Audible Magic claims can locate even the blurriest forms of online video piracy. The demonstration involved Vance Ikezoye, Audible Magics chief executive, downloading a grainy clip with Chinese-language overdubs on YouTube that looked
A long article in Adweek examines how advertisers and media buyers consider the value of pageviews and uniques when deciding on where to place the bulk of their ad dollars. Eventually, Adweek says, it will come down to defining engagement and figuring out the value of word of mouth on the web. But right now, uniques rule in the minds of decision-makers, who bank on traditional media measurements like CPMs. Adweek wonders whether the trend in pageviews might affect the equation. Since pageviews for sites that rely on some form of user-content and social networking functions are outpacing traditional media brands, shouldnt adve
MTV has reinvented itself more times than Neil Young and Arianna Huffington combined. In The NYT, David Carr ponders the future of the Viacom-owned, once-dominant cultural touchstone, now at the crossroads at the ripe old age of 25. Carr walks through the various milestones in the history of what was once called Music Television and looks at how it expanded and invented new genres of television (particularly reality). But the meat of the article is considering what comes next. Carr does some prognosticating, as do the people he interviews. Most interesting is how the importance of digital media is implicit in almost everyones words. Christina Norman, MTV’s president, ackno
A weekend journey from the NBA-All-Star events in Las Vegas to a birthday party for the 4-and-under set landed me squarely in the marketing blitz known as kids TV. Permeating the Nick programming in between ads for Bratz beach dolls and the like: promos for ME:TV, Nickelodeons latest user-gen concept. Registered users can upload videos through Nick.com and broadband channel Turbo Nick. Some will be played on the live studio show Nickelodeons ME:TV that launches today; it will pop up between 5-7 p.m. around and between various Nick shows. Kids will be able to vote and some can participate from home via webcam. (Parents have to submit permission slips by fax or mail before a kid can upload.) The
The NBA Tech Summit was full of interesting people, some good panels and a lot of conversation. I can tell you that youll benefit from what I heard and learned in a lot of ways but I couldnt live blogunless a participant gives his or her ok after the fact, whats said in the room cant be published. If I can work some approvals out, Ill post more. Among those who participated: Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt; Mary Meeker; Turners Mark Lazarus, David Levy and Phil Kent;
It isnt enough that Anheuser Busch is using a system that checks registrants birthdates against drivers license databases as a way of weeding out underage access to new bud.tv. (This is the very same process that I questioned on privacy terms when I reviewed the site.) Twenty-one state attorneys general say A-B can and should be doing even more, reports AdAge. The AGs sent a stern warning to A-B via a letter thatas AdAge notescontradicts many of the critics who though A-B was building too high a barrier. It also draws a dir
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Online video solutions firm Anytream has bought software firm Cauldron Solutions, a company that helps TV networks manage rights and revenues for digital content, reports TVWeek. The combination of the two companies will provide content owners with a one-stop solution for formatting their programs for delivery across any new media form and keeping track of the rights issues and finances, the companies said. Financial details were not disclosed.
Also, we missed this earlier this month: Anystream
IHT has a nice profile of Schibsted, the Norwegian newspaper publisher which is doing very well online, contrary to tghe fate of other newspaper publishers worldwide. Earnings rose 28 percent in the Q4 for the company, and online operations will generate about 20 percent of the companys revenues this year, and will generate as much as 60 percent of the operating earnings by next year, according to analysts. And why is it doing so well? By sticking to its online investments, and launching new brands even if it undercuts its own print products.
It is now the biggest player on the Intern
Folio has a good cover story on what it considers the dealmakers in the magazine/B2B industry in 2006. It also lists the top 10 deals of last year: CMP Technology/United Business Media; 1105 Media; VNU (Renamed Nielsen); Penton (Prism); Reader’s Digest Association; Primedia; The Wicks Group; Metal Bulletin; Summit Business Media; and CondeNet.
Also read other stories in this series:
-- The Ones That Got Away
-- What’s Ahead for 2007?
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