Traditional television remains the screen of choice for Americans, according to Nielsen’s recent Three Screen Report. The average American watches 153 hours of TV every month at home, the report found. That’s a 1.2% increase from last year. While Americans are watching more TV than ever, viewing on the...
With travel budgets slashed and a big drop in attendance anticipated, exhibitors at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters convention plan to cater to the times with lower-priced products. NAB stalwarts such as Sony and Panasonic intend to showcase reduced-price cameras. Sony, for one, plans...
TelevisionWeek reporter Daisy Whitney has been drinking the mobile video Kool-Aid and she tells you why in this week’s New Media Minute. For starters, TV networks like TNT, A&E and VH1 have all recently launched iPhone applications in a bid to make money in the mobile video and features market, including...
NBC Universal said its television shows are driving a large portion of mobile video usage for its cell phone programming. The media company reported today that NBC.com generated more than 60% of traffic to NBCU programming on mobile phones, as cell phone users watched shows such as “30 Rock” and “The...
Could our proclivity to text message be a proxy for our budding interest in mobile video? Cyriac Roeding thinks so. The former head of CBS Mobile and now the entrepreneur in residence at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of the most prestigious venture-capital firms in the world, believes the...
Attention mobile video entrepreneurs: One of the top executives at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is eager to find a mobile video company that offers “truly mobile video” and he hasn’t seen it yet. “We need to think what is mobile about video,” said Cyriac Roeding...