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Mochila and Broadcast Interactive Media partner on web content distribution to radio and TV in top U.S. markets

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mochila.jpgMochila and Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM) announced a joint partnership where BIM will provide Mochila’s high-quality rights-managed content directly to TV and radio stations in 120 markets.

Using Mochila’s open-standard RSS Atom API, BIM will fully integrate with the Mochila platform, automatically connecting BIM’s content management and Web publishing systems to access Mochila’s high-quality rights-managed content. By connecting with Mochila’s API interface, BIM will provide its stations with direct access to relevant news from the Mochila content repository. BIM will also customize real-time feeds through this open standards XML-based API using keyword, category, byline, source and many other parameters.

With over 300 trusted content providers that include the world’s largest wire services, television, newspaper and magazine publishers, Mochila is set to provide BIM and its sites rich content across a broad range of topics such as entertainment, sports, health and business news.

Originally posted on March 4, 2008 @ 12:15 pm

HBO launches official YouTube Channel

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HBO and YouTube agreed to offer selected promotional content on HBO’s new branded YouTube channel. Videos from HBO shows including “Flight of the Conchords,” “The Wire,” “Def Comedy Jam,” “Real Time with Bill Maher,” “Real Sports,” “Extras,” Stand Up Comedy, “Habla y Habla,” and “Entourage,” will be included in HBO’s channel on YouTube. Full length episodes of HBO’s original series “In Treatment” will also be available on the channel, as well as promotional content from HBO Films and HBO Documentary Films.

The HBO YouTube Channel will be populated with content from the company’s most popular shows as well as special YouTube-only features in the near future.

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Originally posted on February 25, 2008 @ 9:34 pm

IDC finds online consumers spend twice as much time on the Internet as watching TV

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A new IDC study of consumer online behavior found that the Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time (32.7 hours/week). This is equivalent to almost half of the total time spent each week using all media (70.6 hours), almost twice as much time as spent watching television (16.4 hours), and more than eight times as much time as spent reading newspapers and magazines (3.9 hours).

The data also show that consumers tend to use the media they grew up with. The older the respondents, the more they consume TV, newspapers, and magazines; the younger they are, the more the Internet displaces usage of traditional media. Using search engines (84% of respondents), mapping and navigation services (83%), personal research (77%), and using email (76%) are the most frequent online activities.

The types of devices employed to access the Internet will continue to diversify, and Internet usage will become more mobile. In addition to desktops, laptops, and mobile phones, a new category of “web gadgets” such as the Amazon Kindle, the Nokia N800, and the Apple iPod touch will use WiFi to access the Internet.

Originally posted on February 19, 2008 @ 10:21 am

Thumbplay enables TV broadcasters integration of mobile entertainment content storefronts to web properties

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Thumbplay introduced a set of self-service, extensible tools to enable television content creators to roll-their-own mobile entertainment content storefronts. In addition, Thumbplay announced the first broadcasters to take advantage of this offering: Entertainment Tonight and A&E Television Networks (AETN).

Thumbplay’s toolkit allows broadcasters to create hosted mini-stores, widgets and search-based integration through which broadcasters’ web sites can promote and sell mobile content, including ringtones, wallpaper, games and video clips. Requiring minimal resources for implementation, broadcasters can also create new sponsorship inventory on their web sites and tap into a new, lucrative revenue stream – selling their licensed content for download to mobile devices.

Originally posted on February 10, 2008 @ 7:34 pm

Canada’s hit television programs now available on iTunes

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Apple announced that hit television programming from Canada’s top networks, US broadcasters and the National Hockey League (NHL) is now available for CAN$1.99 per episode from the iTunes Store in Canada. iTunes customers can choose from Canadian-produced favorites such as the top-rated, award-winning “Corner Gas” from CTV, smash hit comedy “Little Mosque on the Prairie” from CBC, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “South Park” from Comedy Central and the NHL Games of the Year.

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Originally posted on December 12, 2007 @ 11:04 am