Posted on November 21, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Maha Ibrahim, general partner at venture capital firm, Canaan Partners, discusses her company’s investment strategy. Among other things, she explains why Canaan is interested in early-stage HD broadband video providers; outlines the criteria that guide the company’s [...]
Filed under: Financials, Industry, Interviews | Tagged: broadband, broadband tv, canaan, canaan partners, digital tv, financing, funding, funds, interactive television, interactive tv, internet, invest, investments, itv, vc, venture, venture capital, watercooler, web 2.0 | No Comments »
Posted on October 30, 2008 by itvtwp
San Francisco-based start-up, iWidgets, recently unveiled its flagship iWidgets Social Syndication Platform and announced that CBS Interactive had signed up as the platform’s first customer. The platform allows end-users to watch clips of CBS television shows directly within popular social networks and to interact with other viewers through such features as content-sharing, polls, ratings and [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: amazing race, broadband tv, cbs, widgets | No Comments »
Posted on October 30, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Dean Denhart, president and CEO of BlackArrow, a company that specializes in targeted advertising management technologies for on-demand platforms (note: among other things, the company recently announced that it had raised $20 million in new funding and that [...]
Filed under: Advertising, Industry, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: blackarrow, digital tv, vod, Advertising, dvr, broadband tv, canoe, cablevision, targeted advertising | No Comments »
Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Appoints New General Manager for its Japanese Subsidiary
Broadband video publishing solutions provider, Brightcove, has announced a number of new deals over the past few weeks, including three in the UK (a market which it has been targeting over the past few months and where its existing customers include BSkyB, Channel 4, Emap, Guardian News & [...]
Filed under: Content, Technology | Tagged: bksyb, brightcove, broadband tv, digital tv, no 10, sony, uk, uktv | No Comments »
Posted on October 6, 2008 by itvtwp
–Secures New Deal with the Associated Press
Comcast-owned white-label broadband video publishing company, thePlatform–which earlier this year launched a partner program, called thePlatform Framework, which it bills as the “industry’s largest collection of integrated partners for serving the professional online video market” (note: program members include companies providing ad campaign management systems, ad sales networks, content [...]
Filed under: Technology | Tagged: broadband tv, thePlatform | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 2, 2008 by itvtwp
Australian Web portal company, ninemsn (note: the company is a joint venture between Microsoft and Nine Network-parent, PBL Media), contacted [itvt] last month to let us know that it recently launched its first ever broadband video drama, “Cassie Has Dreams.” The series, which consisted of 20 two- to three-minute-long Webisodes located on www.scorched.tv, was designed [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2008 by itvtwp
At its annual Creative Arts awards ceremony in Los Angeles last
Saturday, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the
winners of the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding
Creative Achievement in Interactive Media. This year, the awards
recognized creative achievement in two areas of interactive media
endeavor: Fiction and Nonfiction:
The winner of the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for [...]
Filed under: Content, Events, Interviews | Tagged: awards, broadband tv, disney, emmys, heroes | No Comments »
Posted on August 27, 2008 by itvtwp
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last week, Yahoo! and
Intel announced plans to launch the Widget Channel, an application
framework which they say will allow operators, content providers,
advertisers and others to develop Internet-based mini-applications,
dubbed “TV Widgets,” for broadband-connected TV’s and other
consumer electronics devices, using Web standards and tools such as
JavaScript, XML, HTML and Adobe [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: broadband tv, digital tv, intel, widgets, yahoo | No Comments »
Posted on July 23, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Patrick Koppula, founder and
CEO of ffwd–a company that has just beta-launched a service that uses
social networking to facilitate Internet programming discovery and to
enhance the online viewing experience–discusses the service (which is
scheduled to launch commercially in September), the thinking behind
it, [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: broadband tv, epg, ffwd, interactive tv, social networking, social tv, web 2.0 | No Comments »
Posted on July 16, 2008 by itvtwp
Bill Bradford’s responsibilities at Fox Broadcasting include leading
the broadcaster’s broadband TV strategy. He recently spoke to [itvt]’s
Tracy Swedlow about the thinking behind that strategy, which sees
Fox distributing its programming through a wide range of online
venues; about the broadcaster’s plans to implement new broadband
TV advertising formats; about the ways in which broadband TV is
changing audience expectations; [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews | Tagged: on-demand, Advertising, Content, youtube, broadband tv, facebook, fox, bill bradford, 24, hell's kitchen | 1 Comment »
