Starcom MediaVest Group named Ken Taylor as president and general manager of a reconfigured GM Planworks, which handles media buying and planning for General Motors. Mr. Taylor, a Starcom veteran, succeeds Dennis Donlin, who announced plans to leave last week….
Google today completed its $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, acting quickly after the European Union gave its final approval to the deal that combines the world’s largest search marketer and the world’s largest ad-serving company. “We are thrilled that our…
Cisco Systems has made a strategic investment in GridNetworks, an Internet television startup. Seattle-based GridNetworks aims to provide a delivery system for streaming HDTV and film to computers and television via the Internet, and to furnish content providers with distribution…
NBC Universal and News Corp. online-video venture Hulu will start airing episodes of “Babylon 5” and “Welcome Back Potter” tomorrow as part of an agreement with Warner Bros. Television Group, the Hollywood Reporter says. Hulu, which received $100 million in…
The South by Southwest conference this week in Austin is drawing Web video producers, networks and talent, and Daisy Whitney is covering the event live on video for TVWeek and Beet.TV. Daisy is scoring interviews with Lindsay Campbell of Wallstrip…
By the time you read this, I will be in Austin. For those of you who aren’t in the ultra hip know, that means I’ll be at South by Southwest. That’s SXSW, for the hipness-impaired. I’ll be there Sunday March…
“Gilmore Girls,” “Everwood” and “What I Like About You” will be part of a Web site that will bring the WB television network back to life, Media Week reports. Ad supported WB.com would run five-minute versions of episodes from shows…
Digital media company Entriq acquired technology provider DayPort for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced today. The acquisition is one of the latest in a string of mergers in the online video business, fulfilling experts’ predictions that consolidation would begin…
When online television network Revision3’s “Pop Siren” premieres March 10, it will follow a familiar formula: The hosts are female and they’re good-looking. Sure, they’re smart, too, but that they’re easy on the eyes is a time-honored programming strategy that…
The South by Southwest Conference, which has become the networking event for the Internet TV business, kicked off in Austin, Texas, over the weekend, and anyone who’s anyone—or anyone who’s trying to be someone—in the online video world likely will…