Social news site Reddit is developing a TV show for PBS’ affiliate stations, CNET reports. “YourWeek” will put a youth-focused spin on news headlines chosen by Reddit users, the Web site says. No television broadcast date has been set, but…
Publicis Groupe has acquired EmporioAsia, one of China’s leading digital agencies, Online Media Daily reports, and will rename it EmporiaAsia Leo Burnett. Paris-based Publicis, parent of Leo Burnett, said the new company will operate as part of Leo Burnett’s growing…
Stage 9 Digital Media, Disney-ABC Television’s Web production studio, has signed a deal with Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film & Television in Los Angeles to allow students to develop short-form content. “These students are the demographic that looks to…
Video search and distribution platform ClipBlast has partnered with ClipSyndicate, a video syndication service of Critical Media’s Media & Publishing Services Group, Online Media Daily reports. ClipBlast will index ClipSyndicate’s stable of more than 80 news sources and 200,000 video…
Disney-ABC Television gave a little more detail on its plans to overhaul its full-episode player for a fall launch on flagship site ABC.com. The new player aims to increase ease and add customization for improved viewing, which the network hopes…
On air freakouts by TV news anchors are very popular on the Web, with sites showing clips of recent rants by anchors Bill O’Reilly of Fox News Channel and Sue Simmons of WNBC-TV, New York, drawing hundreds of thousands of…
ABC will improve its online video player for its Internet audience by this fall, the Hollywood Reporter says. ABC, whose Web site was the most popular among the major networks last month, will add features such as closed captioning and…
The new set top box that delivers movies over the Internet is easy to hook up and delivers at TV-quality picture, according to a review in the New York Times, which gave the new offering by Netflix and Roku a…
More Web ads are being produced by little-known overseas businesses, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ads for marketers including General Motors Microsoft and Bank of America are being made by companies like avVenta Worldwide which has employees in Costa Rica,…
Spanish-language network Univision in January will start offering video-on-demand programming, though without popular content from Televisa, Daily Variety reports. Univision and Televisa have been in a legal battle, with Televisa wanting out of its contract with Univision, the newspaper says….