Archive for April, 2009
What a day! LAGC on a roll, AO Hollywood a few blocks away, and in SF tonight the SF International Film Festival has Robert Redford onstage to screen Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. (On Friday, its Francis Ford Coppola). If you’re in SF at 6pm tonight stop by the Castro Theatre for red carpet [...]
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LAGC Twitter Stream
Follow all the fun at the LA Games Conference on Twitter #LAGC. Most controversial quote: ”32% music revenue last year was from video games.” Lots of NE1 know…click here and here for Tommy Tallarico’s response. Here’s the rest:
TRENDS
Nick Williams presentation at www.gameplaninsights.com/lagc.pdf
Most anticipated titles: Halo 3, ModernWarfare 2, Madden 2010
Wii and DS chasing mass market, big opportunity [...]
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Tags: Sony, Paramount, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Wii, OnLive, NBC, Tommy Tallarico, Ted Cohen, BigStage, GameStop, DS, SMARG
LA Games Conference/The Guide
LAGC begins today at 1pm at the Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles. Details are at www.lagamesconference.com. We’ll post video once links are available. Here’s the guide:
Tu 4/28
1-2, Gaming Trends
2-2:45, Gaming & Music
Speakers include: Alex Hackford, Head of A&R, Sony Computer Entertainment, Tommy Tallarico, Video Games Live,Scott Scherer, Hands-On Mobile, Ted Cohen
2:45-3:45, Roundtables – Monetizing Your [...]
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Tags: Atari & Chuck E Cheese, Bejeweled, Benchmark Capital, Best Buy Capital, Denuo, Digital Media Wire, EA, Facebook, Founder, Glu, Guitar Hero, Habbo, Hands-On Mobile, IBM Games/Interactive Entertainment, Ken Rutkowski, LA Games Conference, Massive Microsoft, Mitch Lasky, MTV Addicting Games, MySpace, NBCU, Nokia, Nolan Bushnell, Offerpal, Paramount, Playstation, PopCap Games, Qualcomm, Raptr, Rock Band, Sanrio Digital, Sony Pictures TV, Ted Cohen, Tommy Tallarico, USA Network, uWink, Video Games Live, Vivox, XBox, Yahoo! Games, Zeebo
NAB Show/Thinking Big
NAB was good to the last drop! Every moment so action packed I wound up tweeting live via my iPhone the entire conference in an attempt to capture it in the moment, the vibe, the scene, the big ideas vetted by industry’s top executives. Of the 83,000 B2B attendees on the Expo floor, only about [...]
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NAB/The Guide
Here’s a rough guide on what Content NOW is covering at NAB this year. The EXPO floor is open M-W 9-6, Th 9-2 and flooded with additional programming from exhibitors and pavilions. As always, we’ll be live blogging via the WordPress iPhone app and will be tweeting tips and tidbits along the way.
M 4/20
7:30-8:30, Mobile TV [...]
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Tags: 24, 3Ality, 48 Hour Film Fest, Accenture, Adobe, Battlestar Galactica, CBS, Chuck, CNET, Demand Studios, Discovery, Disney, ESPN, Gartner, LG, Malcolm Gladwell, Mandalay Entertainment, Mary Tyler Moore, MEF, NAB, Outliers, Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class, Robin Leach, Second Life, Starz, Stu Mashuwitz, The Orphanage, Turner, ZillionTV
Lately, I’ve been dreaming up apps like Twyme, intuitive pull down menus that make tweets rhyme…Twing, which adds in tunes to make it sing…Shake-a-Date, upload your photo, profile, time and location of desired date – and shake – in a flash you’re matched and got something going on tonight…Shake-a-Deal, a variation of Shake-a-Date which matches BD execs [...]
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Tags: Ashton Kutcher, LeVar Burton, Rent-A-Coder, Twitter, Wordpress
Susan Boyle to Headline NAB!
Just kidding! But wouldn’t be surprised. Edelman has been doing such a great job hyping this year’s NAB show with Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Henry Selick and Robin Leach, it’s starting to feel more like NATPE’s content show than the dry engineers Mecca of the past. With over 100,000 expected, Vegas is [...]
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Tags: Bob Newhart, Britain's Got Talent, Edelman, Henry Selick, Les Miserables, Mary Tyler Moore, NAB, Robin Leach, Simon Cowell, Susan Boyle, YouTube
Mediaweek’s Upfronts conference, where industry analysts, brand marketers and television programmers meet to opine on the $18B upfront marketplace, is in full swing right now at the Time Life Building in NYC today and Ian Baer, President of Big Fuel, the fa shizzle consumer engagement agency, has been guest blogging live. Excerpts below, full transcript at the Content to Commerce blog: [...]
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Tags: Twitter, Yahoo, Google, Fox, Discovery, Turner, MTV, Nintendo, Big Fuel, ESPN, Wii, MSN, Comcast, Mediaweek, Upfronts, Telemundo, Ian Baer, AMC, Mindshare, CBS, ABC, NBC, CW, Scripps, Jay Leno, Nielsen, Nickelodeon, Hallmark, Cartoon Network, Bloomberg, Bravo, MSNBC, AETN, Oxygen, BET, National Geographic
Here’s a movie in time for Passover that’ll make you laugh all the way to the seder especially if you downloaded it to your iPhone and then were subject to a four hour weather delay trying to get into NYC. “When Do We Eat?” available on iTunes for the flight ($9.99), Netflix Instant Watch for [...]
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Tags: Amazon, Ben Feldman, Hulu, iTunes, Jack Klugman, Keeping Up With The Steins, Lesley Ann Warren, Netflix, New Video, When Do We Eat, YouTube
I’m in NYC to cover some of the excitement with the Upfronts and have been having fun running up and down Fifth Avenue meeting with content licensors, distributors and agencies for my clients. I love my hometown but have mixed feelings about the weather. So we’re all just hunkering down when Scott Kirsner’s [...]
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Tags: iPhone, Kindle, MTV, Pogue, Scott Kirsner, Twitter
