Archive for January, 2010
There were many laugh out loud moments today with Hugh Laurie and Judge Judy in the morning, and Chris Hartwick of Web Soup at the Digital Luminaries Awards, but no one could top Donald Trump who won over many fans when Andy Cohen of Bravo asked Jillian Michaels, Curtis Stone and Trump their thoughts on [...]
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Tags: @nerdist, Abrams Artists Agency, AETN, Android, Andy Cohen, ATT, Blackberry, Boxee, Bravo, Broadcasting & Cable, CAA, Celebrity Apprentice, Chris Hartwick, Curtis Stone, David E Kelley, Dilbert, DMA, E1, Easy to Assemble, ELectric Farm, Electus, Elisabeth Murdoch, fm78.tv, Fox, Fremantle, Generate, History, House, Hugh Laurie, ICM, iPhone, Irwin Gotlieb, Jeff Gaspin, Jillians Michaels, Jonathan Prince, Judge Judy, Lucasfilm, Microsoft, NATPE, NBCU, Phil Gurin, Reveille, RingToons, Roku, SyFy, Tandem, THE Hotel, Tim Street, Trump, TVGuide, UCB, USA, UTA, Weinstein Co, Woke Up Dead, Yahoo! Connected TV
Yesterday was action-packed all day long. From David Zaslav’s IMAX 3D visions and outlook on OWN, to the interesting details of how Fox’s Modern Family wound up on ABC, onto Shelly Palmer’s advice on loyalty, recency and bounce backs, then a tour of the floor. And that was just the morning. Michael Eisner gave a [...]
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Tags: Eady To Assemble, ELectric Farm, Electus, fm78.tv, Generate, Jonathan Prince, NATPE, The Booth, Vuguru
#NATPE/Kicks Off SXSW Style
The lemon drops and quesadillas kept coming as my table traded success stories of getting premium content onto OTT platforms. It was an exciting kick off to NATPE 2010 as guests from all around the world started to filter into the opening night party sponsored by SXSW. And it was only fitting to have Rick [...]
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Tags: Abrams Artists Agency, Advertising Week, Break, CAA, CBSi, Cougar Town, Discovery, DisneyABC, Hallmark, HRTS, ION, ITVS, Lionsgate, LMNO, Macworld, MGM, Michael Eisner, modern family, MTV, NATPE, OTT, Phil Gurin, Revision3, SXSW, TBS, Tim Street, USA, Wikked, YouTube
#NATPE/The Guide
With Midem, Sundance, and Grammy’s, January is still bubbling over with places to go, people to see, but the one stop shop for premium professional content is at the NATPE Market next week at Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas Strip, where on the floor, in suites, and on panels programming executives, brand managers, and showrunners [...]
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Tags: AETN, ATAS, Babelgum, Brandon Tartikoff, Bravo, Break, Brent Friedman, Bunim/Murray, CAA, Canoe Ventures, CBS, comScore, Cougar Town, David E Kelley, Demand Media, Diggnation, Digitas, Discovery, Donald Trump, E!, E1, Electus, Elisabeth Murdoch, Emmy's, FLO TV, fm78.tv, Fremantle, FT, Gannett, Generate, George Ruiz, Ghost Whisperer, Globo, GMX, grammys, Greycroft, GroupM, Gurin, Havas, History, IAWTV, ICM, Illeana Douglas, India: A Love Story, ION, Irwin Gotlieb, ITVS, Jeff Gaspin, Jonathan Prince, Jordan Levin, Justine Bateman, LadderUp, LAw & Order SVU, Lionsgate, LMNO, Meredith, Metranome, Michael Eisner, Midem, modern family, MTV, NAMM, NATPE, NBC, NBCU, Nokia, Oglivy, Planet DMA, RDF Media, Reveille, Revision3, Rox, Scrubs, Shelly Palmer, Shine, steve levitan, Stickam, Sundance, SXSW, Tandem, Telemundo, The Bold and The Beautiful, Tim Street, Top Chef, Tribune, Tubefiler, TubeMogul, Twitter, UTA, Warner Artist Management, Wikked, Woke Up Dead, Wynn, YouTube
#MIDEM/The Guide
For those of you jetting/not jetting off to Cannes for Midem, here’s a guide to follow #MIDEM. Top tweeps among the mix are @iancr, @spinaltap, @msutherlanduk, @amandapalmer, @hypebot, @petewentz, @ginab,@gleonhard, @lyricfind, @JeffreyHayzlett. Watch for brands (Converse, Kodak, Pepsi, Coke…), artists (Pete Wentz, Pharrell Williams, Adam Payne..) and unique opportunities like the Matching Room where bands are [...]
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Tags: Activision, Adam Payne, Arctic Monkeys, AWAL, Billboard, Blizzard, Bob Kohn, Converse, Cult of the Amateur, Dexter, DJ Hero, Ed O'Brien, Fall Out Boy, Frederic Mitterrand, Gap, Getty Images, Grey NYC, Habbo, House, Interscope/Geffen/A&M, Kodak, Kylie, Metropolitan Opera, Midem, Minogue, MTV, MySpace, NASCAR, Ning, Nokia, Pantene, Pepsi, Pete Wentz, Peter Gelb, Pharrell Williams, Pink Foyd, Radiohead, RoyaltyShare, San Francisco Symphony, SellaBand, Shazam, Six Feet Under, SonicBids, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Spotify, Sulake, Tapulous, Terry McBride, The Hills, The Orchard, TopSpin, True Blood, TuneWiki, Ubisoft, UMG, WMG, YouTube
It took a thundering downpour and the threat of hail for me to drop in on the final moments of the SF Fancy Food Show, after all I’m on a diet, but it occured to me that these small specialty food companies might have a content story worth telling. Turns out – yes and no. [...]
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Tags: Acme, Clover, Color-A-Cookie, Eleni's, Ford's Gourmet Foods, Ghiradelli, PopChips, Purity Organics, Salem Baking, SpongeBob
As the sun went down, it was schmooze-o-rama at Digital Media Insider. I felt like Snazzy Sheridan, ETA Spazzy’s sister, tweeting live the mixer. Got Twit Pics of Avner and Illeana, Dominik and Wilson, Rob and Warren. The panels were great too as the jam packed concise wisdom of Tim Chang came out faster than [...]
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Tags: Boxee, CJP, Digital Media Wire, Easy to Assemble, Game Stop, John Legend, Monster, My Damn Channel, Onfronts, OWN, Social Game Universe, Streamys
Around 8 this morning I was sitting in a practically empty room waiting for the Electus keynote when actor Jason Bateman sat down right next to me. “No way, are you the surprise partner announcement this morning” I asked. Wow, is Electus developing its own Arrested Development.” “Filming it right here, right now” he said. And [...]
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Tags: Ben Silverman, CJP, Demand Media, Facebook, Illeana Douglas, Jason Bateman, Jordan Hoffner, Lucasfilm, MiFi, Monster, My Damn Channel, Playdom, Richard Dreyfuss, Sezmi, Yahoo, YouTube, Zynga
Head of CEA Gary Shapiro opened CES with the call – Innovation is our destiny, are you going to take a ringside seat or are you going to make it happen – will your grandkids blame you or thank you, dream it, vision the future for here it is now. And then CES opened with [...]
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Tags: ATT, CBS, Ford, Nielsen, Pandora, SAG, Sony