Google is finding it harder than expected to sell ads on the Internet video offerings on YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reports. One ad buyer says marketers are still testing the waters on YouTube, according to the paper. YouTube, which…
CBS is teaming with Internet game supplier AirPlay to launch the first interactive game linked to “Big Brother.” The “Big Brother Live TV Challenge” joins the annual array of multiplatform initiatives associated with the network’s 9-year-old reality show, including live…
Daisy Whitney has a guest co-host in this week’s New Media Minute: Sarah Lane, the star of Revision3’s “PopSiren,” joins her on the set of Sarah’s own Web show. You’ll get the details from the duo on how David Price,…
NBC Universal will broadcast 3,600 hours of coverage from this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing across its various networks and NBCOlympics.com. This year’s coverage sets the record as the most televised coverage in Summer Olympics broadcast history, amounting to more…
The first in a series of new “three-screen” reports by Nielsen revealed that consumers are using the Internet more and more for video, with the average American spending 26 hours on the Internet in May, the New York Times reports….
About 27% more people are illegally copying DVDs this year than a year ago, according to a May survey. Much of the growth was driven by a surge in television show duplication by U.K. customers. U.S. consumers were more successful…
The Web site for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama had drawn 2.3 million unique users as of May; that’s four times as many as Sen. John McCain’s site, MediaWeek reports. Nielsen found that McCain’s site attracted 563,000 individual visitors,…
A report by Lehman Brothers analyst Anthony DiClemente states that the “film and TV businesses are on the verge of structural changes that appear to impact the core revenue and profits of entertainment business models,” Wired reports. DiClemente predicts the…
Interpublic’s Magna Global released a report revealing the “hyper-acceleration” of emerging media platforms such as search, social media, online video, gaming, interactive TV and digital out-of-home is slowing down, Online Media Daily reports. However, the outlook called for a 31.1%…
I’m going to make a prediction: The next big money-making venue for new-media producers is in local online video ads. So all you Web producers, creators and videographers who want to add to your resumes, my advice is: Start pounding…