Hollywood is set to add movie downloads to its revenue mix.
Instant gratification has a new name.
It has several, actually. CinemaNOW. Amazon Unbox. AppleTV. Netflix Watch Now.
These products and services are at the forefront of a budding legal Internet-delivered movie industry, which will reach $5.8 billion in revenues by 2011, according to a new report by Adams Media Research (AMR).
Surprise, surprise: Some DVR owners like watching ads.
The numbers are in, and it looks like digital video recorder (DVR) owners are watching some ads after all.
Spectacle and surprises abounded Thursday night on the 19th edition of “Premio Lo Nuestro a La Música Latina,” America’s most popular and most-watched Latin music awards show, broadcast live on the Univision Television Network.
Outdoor advertising will never be looked at the same way again by advertisers and agencies with the development of a new integrated audience measurement system, the first of its kind able to report real commercial data on the number of people likely to see a given ad. The new system, being implemented in phases by the Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement (TAB), will provide comprehensive measures of both pedestrian and vehicular audiences with a complete rollout scheduled by third quarter 2008.
The Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc. (CRB) have announced that they will collaborate with Edison Media Research to undertake the first-ever study of Hispanic Americans and their relationship with Country Radio and Country Music.
According to a front page story in The New York Times (Feb. 24), the FCC ruling is expected to cost Univision about $24 million and will be the largest fine ever imposed by the FCC against any company. The decision was made public during a NYT interview with FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin.
The legend of Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata (the silver masked man) will reach new heights in the animated action series currently being produced for Cartoon Network.
Everyone agrees that women and men are different. During the process of migration, these differences take a toll. Different women will react different to the same situations regardless of their age or country of origin. During my interviews with four very different women I was surprised to learn how they view the world and how they have learned to live in a place so different from ‘home.’
According to a report in today’s NY Post, another potential candidate for the CEO post at Univision Communications beside Jim McNamara ex-CEO of Telemundo is the former Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Their sources indicate that the intent is to have a new CEO of Univision that is a “high-status bilingual exec with close ties to Mexico”.
Pick a language, any language, and it translates into HTML.
The US remains the single largest Internet market in the world with 181.9 million Internet users in 2006, but China is likely to take the lead before the decade is out.
Not long ago, many people believed setting up an entertainment center was simply a stereo system, a VCR and a television larger than 25″. These days, the promise from the consumer electronic industry to establish the computer as the new “media center” is beginning to gain traction with consumers.
