TV on demand: always there when you need it, but for what? Paul Grainge explores the promotional imagination of on-demand television, and the move from “platform mobility” to current industry rhetoric of “need-states.”
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Tags: BBC, digital distribution, iPlayer, on-demand television, Promotion, public service media, television
Posted in From Nottingham and Beyond, Perspectives | 1 Comment »
Sam Ward looks under the hood of the EU’s “digital single market” initiative and finds wrenches in the machinery—geo-blocking, national-cultural specificity and more.
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Tags: digital distribution, Digital Single Market, European Union, iPlayer, Netflix, Online Television, streaming television, television, transnational
Posted in Columns, From Nottingham and Beyond | Comments Off on Streaming Across Borders: The Digital Single Market, Web-Based Television and the “Global” Viewer
Elizabeth Evans tracks the ongoing fallout of the BBC’s plan to relocate a channel to the online-only realm.
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Tags: audiences, BBC, British television, broadcasting, digital distribution, iPlayer, public service, television, youth
Posted in Columns, From Nottingham and Beyond | Comments Off on Public-Service Streaming: BBC Three and the Politics of Online Engagement
The New York TV Festival's "Digital Day" makes one wonder just how independent the digital TV landscape is.
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Tags: digital distribution, NYTVF, web series
Posted in Industry, Internet, Perspectives, Report From..., TV | 1 Comment »
Chuck Tryon discusses Jeff Ulin's latest book on media distribution, focusing on temporal and spatial considerations in a global, digital marketplace.
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Tags: Amazon, Blockbuster, China, digital distribution, digital media, distribution, Global Media, industry, intellectual property, jeff ulin, Netflix, svod, tvod, video
Posted in Film, Industry, Technology, TV | Comments Off on Rethinking Media Distribution
Prospect Park’s soap opera strategy tests traditional conceptions of televisual value within an evolving space of digital distribution.
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Tags: ABC, All My Children, digital distribution, Hulu, Hulu Plus, iTunes, One Life to Live, Prospect Park, Soap Operas, television, Value
Posted in Industry, Technology, TV | 6 Comments »
The idea of user-supported media production extends beyond Kickstarter, as technology continues to offer more areas for direct audience support and participation.
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Tags: buskfilms, cultcap, digital distribution, film industry, independent film, industry, Kickstarter, LGBT film, music industry, production
Posted in Industry | Comments Off on The Future of Media Production?
While episodic gaming is a new frontier for how developers make games, it is perhaps an even larger divergence in terms of how we play games.
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Tags: adaptation, digital distribution, episodic gaming, gaming, seriality, television, The Walking Dead, video games
Posted in Games, Perspectives, TV | Comments Off on Episodic: What Games Learned From TV
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Blu-ray, books, canada, digital distribution, digital media, documentary, DVD, e-readers, gaming, Google, Hollywood, Microsoft, mobile technology, movie theaters, privacy, search engines, television, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Apr 29-May 12
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, Apple, Cannes, digital distribution, Facebook, film festivals, gaming, IMAX, independent film, Microsoft, music, Nintendo, piracy, SiriusXM, Spotify, tax credits, television, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? April 15-28
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, digital distribution, distribution, Dreamworks, DVDs, e-books, Google, Hollywood, independent bookstores, independent film, internet, LGBTQ, magazines, music, Netflix, newspapers, Spotify, UltraViolet, video games, video on demand, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? April 1-14
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, Blockbuster, China, cloud services, digital distribution, digital music, distribution, DVDs, Facebook, gaming, Google, Hollywood, independent, iPad, Lionsgate, movie theaters, Netflix, Pinterest, porn, social gaming, social media, Spotify, streaming, television, UltraViolet, video on demand
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Feb 12-March 3
Recent comparisons to the early experience of using an ATM seem to offer quite a bit of potential for describing how we will be buying and watching movies and television shows in the near future.
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Tags: ATMs, Blockbuster, cloud services, digital distribution, geography, interfaces, Netflix, privacy, UltraViolet, video stores
Posted in Current Events, Film, Film, Industry, Industry, Technology, Technology, TV, TV | 11 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, AOL, Blockbuster, digital distribution, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, internet, marketing, movie theaters, music, MySpace, net neutrality, Netflix, oscars, social media, television, Twitter, video games, VOD, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 2 Comments »