Archives for the 'TV & Movies' Category
I’m on CNN!
CNN’s Brooke Anderson interviewed me for a story about how TiVo can transform relaxing entertainment into a burdensome homework assignment, and it hit the Headline News network and CNN.com today. You can see it here: Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> The interview itself was great fun and it’s wonderfully surreal both to see [...]
Forget mediasnacking: make a meal of online video
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blog.] Earlier this week Sony’s Crackle.com announced a new season of original-to-online video content, includng a new series called “The Hustler” starring Mark Feuerstein– one of those “oh yeat THAT guy” actors who you have seen in a million things but can never quite place. Over at TV Week, Daisy [...]
Open note to Sony CEO Howard Stringer: Yang’s gone, buy Yahoo!
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] It’s odd when the late-night media cycle infects and affects my dreams, but I slept poorly after the net burst out with the news that Jerry Yang is at last saying toodle-oo to the CEO slot at Yahoo! (see the New York Times piece if you missed this.) Waking [...]
Short Post: Gossip Girl’s missed marketing opportunity
Yes, I watch friggin’ Gossip Girl. Get over it and keep reading. Despite a few innovators — mostly, I think, on the feature side of the entertainment industry — the gap between content creators and marketers persists. I caught up on Monday’s Gossip Girl episode a little while ago and was struck by one exchange [...]
Interview with Paramount’s Amy Powell at iMedia
I had a chance to chat with Paramount SVP of Interactive Marketing Amy Powell for iMedia Connection about the interesting new work she’s doing. You can check it out here.
