The speech by Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday has been viewed more than 1.3 million times online in less than 48 hours. That accounts for views across the Web, with most coming…
Early returns indicate the old maverick may be more popular than the young maverick on the Republican presidential ticket. GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech drew a combined audience of 18.11 million viewers on ABC, CBS and NBC…
Online video distribution and research firm TubeMogul has launched a Web marketplace to connect advertisers with Web video producers. The marketplace includes profiles of popular Web shows and creators, along with viewership data and audience demographics. For instance, YouTube producer…
Elizabeth Herbst-Brady has been named president of Magna, a unit of Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands division that gathers media market intelligence for the company’s agencies and clients. Magna had been a centralized media negotiating unit of Interpublic, but its function changed…
Presidential candidate John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention drew more television viewers than his rival Barack Obama attracted at the Democratic party’s event last week, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research. Across all broadcast networks…
Google is scheduled to release many new animated shorts from “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane next Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reports. The videos are an “experiment” on online distribution, MacFarlane says as one of the first major TV producers…
In the first season TV season after the WGA strike the crippled Hollywood, the major broadcast networks will only debut 14 new series this fall, and critics have seen only a handful of those, USA Today reports. Some shows are…
With some of this fall’s new and returning series having already made their debuts this week, USA Today evaluates the changing schedules for this fall and how the network competition will play out. NBC and Fox will duke it out…
ESPN’s “NFL Countdown” will introduce new virtual technology as part of its season debut broadcast Sunday, the New York Times reports. The sports network has teamed up with video game company Electronic Arts to allow electronic versions of its anchors…
“Entourage” creator and executive producer Doug Ellin faces a unique challenge—telling a familiar Hollywood story in Hollywood to other Hollywood types, the Los Angeles Times reports. His series, which returns for its fifth season on Sunday night on HBO, will…