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August 29, 2006
Accenture has made a report on the future of convergence and identifies fierce competition from Asia. I have accentuated this before.. Asia has the perfect base for convergence; a highly skilled IT workforce, large film and television industry (bollywood is as big as hollywood, in production size and turnovers) and they can make the leap [...]
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August 24, 2006
Snakes on a Plane: 5 lessons for marketers“Snakes on a Plane” was the number-one movie this weekend, taking in $15.3 million. Some traditional media outlets that were so quick to trumpet months of unprecedented Internet buzz called the take “disappointing” and a “letdown.“Don’t believe the hype. “Snakes on a Plane” was a first in many [...]
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August 17, 2006
Yesterday I read a very amusing report about the growing trend of people to turn socks into favorite friends. De Telegraaf reports this to be a worldwide trend.. With this character, designed by yourself you express yourself and have an ever caring friend with you all the time.I started wondering which of my socks would [...]
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August 15, 2006
ABC is developing mobile phonegames as extensions to its succesprogrammes Desperate Housewives and Lost. Unfortunately in Europe not yet available because I am very curious how they have adapted the content to a light (mobile) game.
US cable network HBO has released one of its original documentaries for free for the first time as a video [...]
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August 15, 2006
Twentieth Century Fox is passing by its’ coldwater fear of offering films online. Warner Bros already started film offerings online a while ago. It seems the big 5 are not waiting for a catastrophhic market make over as the music industry has experienced through Peer to Peer. Already most of the P2P traffic (which is [...]
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August 11, 2006
Slowly but certainly the race for ’share of voice’ in digital media space is heating up.
CanWest launches Blackberry TV: Global TV parent CanWest MediaWorks is launching bbTV, the first advertising-fuelled Canadian market effort designed to deliver video content to users of BlackBerry handheld devices
Sony preps new AXN channels for Europe: Sony is poised to roll [...]
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August 10, 2006
The explosive growth of YouTube (300 % in a year), myspace and video google (no figures yet, but I am convinced it is growing extensively) is making the notion of users wanting to generate content more solid.Now in the Netherlands@ home is adding a UGC service with Zizo to the offerings. Users can send in [...]