Take one popular Video Podcast (TikiBar TV) add in a Firefox extension/social surfing Network (Me.dium) and you have the kind of cocktail that could breathe new life into TV’s beleaguered soul. The combination of the two will air August 22nd at 3 Pm (Timezone unknown). Article from WebTVHub.com discuses how viewers of the online show [...]
ABCNews has launched a new show and web site to capitalize on the YouTube and User-generated content bandwagon called I caught, which aired for the first time last night. Now I couldn’t actually watch the show, but will next time. Anyone who saw it care to comment? Certainly putting YouTube on TV is not the [...]
I was recently watching an amazing TV show called This American Life. It is a brilliant documentary show spun-off from the popular NPR radio show of the same name. As a Canadian without regular access to NPR except for the podcasts, I wasn’t aware of this show (it also has a podcast, which I will [...]
According to e-marketer, 22% of ads recorded on DVRs get watched. Now common-sense and media spending trends would indicate that mainstream advertising folk are fairly down on the rise of digital TV recording devices and believe that this technology will reduce attention paid to ads. Now I don’t have the skills to de-bunk the research [...]
Steve Rubel had an interesting post on Ad Age talking about the trend towards television services that are experimenting with different distribution models. We now have a growing arrary of options to view our TV shows and movies. A few of the alternative forms of TV distribution (and their status with advertisements) that have been [...]