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What you need to know about social media: Social media is dead. It’s a boom time for social media. Online ads rule. Online ads don’t work. Twitter is hot. Twitter is passé. Marketers peddling media properties find the confusing and contradictory headlines an invitation to reach for the Maalox or tune...
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Guess who’s getting married? One lucky engaged couple will be tying the knot and saying their vows live online this summer. Hollywood production studio Endemol (producer of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality series “Married on MySpace,” kicking off...
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Paramount Digital Entertainment and Gaumont said they are developing an interactive Web series that will be distributed via MySpace in the United States. “Section 8” is a supernatural thriller that will give viewers a chance to interact with one another, have an impact on how the series plays out and...
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Piracy is a fact of life on the Web, and network television shows now exist everywhere, even where they aren’t supposed to be. That was the conclusion of a panel at South by Southwest Interactive on how the companies creating content can find ways to profit from the piracy. The first step is to understand...
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Flying in the face of the recession—and the dip in attendance at industry events so far this year, including the Consumer Electronics Show—this week’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, is expecting at least a 20% rise over last year’s attendance figure of 9,000. SXSW boasts a...
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The world’s largest social networking site is betting about half of its users will be accessing MySpace on mobile phones in the next few years. That was the prediction issued today by MySpace, which also announced it had launched a new version of its mobile Web site for its 20 million-plus worldwide...
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The top five most popular online video sites stayed mostly steady in visitors and videos viewed in December compared with the month before, Nielsen Online reported. That suggests viewing habits for sites such as YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Yahoo and the Nickelodeon group have become entrenched, since those...
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Social networking site MySpace has partnered with production shop Endemol to create a new interactive reality Web series called “Get Married on MySpace,” the companies announced today. The show will award a free wedding to one couple in the United States in exchange for letting MySpace users plan and...
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MySpace will be on a television set near you soon. The social networking site has partnered with Toshiba, Yahoo and Intel to develop an extension of the MySpace experience for TV, the companies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today. The “MySpace Widget for TV” will let users interact...
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The world’s biggest video site and the world’s most popular premium video destination both served up more videos in November than the month before, according to the most recent figures from Nielsen Online. The dominant YouTube delivered nearly 5.6 billion streams to nearly 85 million unique visitors...
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Hulu is reaching farther into the mainstream with explosive growth in views in October, according to the latest video viewing figures from Nielsen Online. The site rocketed in October, delivering 206 million streams of video, up from 142 million in September. The number of unique visitors rose to 9 million...
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Despite a shortage of high-powered programmers as keynote speakers at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, television networks and Internet content providers have big plans to produce a number of shows at the massive convention’s 2009 edition in Las Vegas. Though the economy has turned south and the...
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Not only did Barack Obama come away with the election last night, he also tallied up more social media buzz during the last year, according to data from online tracking service Trendrr. Sen. Obama had the advantage in news mentions, blog buzz, MySpace followers and number of videos on YouTube, Trendrr...
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YouTube’s audience jumped in September to nearly 82 million unique viewers watching more than 5.3 billion streams, according to the latest figures from Nielsen Online. That’s a huge boost from August, when the site’s 77 million unique visitors checked out more than 4.7 billion streams. Seasonal fluctuations...
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Video consumption at the top two video sites in the world dipped slightly in August, according to the latest figures from online measurement service Nielsen Online. YouTube delivered 4.7 billion streams in August to nearly 77 million unique visitors. That’s a slight drop in streams from July, when YouTube...