Posted on May 2, 2008 by Jason Heller
Google TV is now out of Betaand pulicly accessible.
Although not embraced to the degree they expected during the beta itself (my old agency’s TV buyers scratched their heads at it), this does offer the potential to create a marketplace similar to that of search, although the media dynamics are altogether different and the inventory is [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by Jason Heller
This is from my MediaPost column published today…
I WANT TO MAKE A bold prediction: TV on the Internet.
The siloing of online and TV audiences will never work the way networks expect for three simple reasons.
1) The innate difference in consumer viewing habits of short term versus long form content as it relates to the [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Jason Heller
Variety (of all sources) reports today that “ The European Commission has approved the French government’s offer of €99 million ($153 million) in state aid to the team hoping to create a European rival to Google”.
This move is aimed at giving European companies a helping hand in competing with the mainly US-based globally dominant media/tech [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2008 by Jason Heller
The Only Place Crazier Than Brooklyn After The Giants Win The Super Bowl, may have been the ad agency water cooler the day after the game…uh…20 years ago maybe. The water cooler effect is a concept of yesteryear of course, however the continued impact of Super Bowl advertising became evident to me in the [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by Jason Heller
As I slaved away on my laptop this evening, I totally spaced out and missed the State of the Union Address. Bush antics aside (I actually heard the speech was pretty good), I really wanted to see the speech. So now at 11:20pm I went online assuming that the speech would be streamed in its entirety [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Jason Heller
When I read this piece in MediaPost today, something really interesting dawned on me…
First - The “new” L-Bar unit is a piece of real estate shaped in a reverse L (across bottom and down the right hand side) around the programming content. It’s being deemed innovative (see next paragraph), and in the MediaPost piece only MTV [...]
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