--Wall Street Journal Launches YouTube Channel
--Chase Carey Ambivalent about YouTube's Channels Strategy, Blasts "TV Everywhere" User Experience
--Warner Bros. in Multiplatform Distribution Deal with Sky Deutschland
Due to the large volume of news generated by the recent 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and other factors, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. We anticipate that it will take us several more days to process all the news from the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us.
--Discovery Appoints Gabe Vehovsky to Lead New Digital Strategy & Emerging Businesses Team
--Discovery Launches "Social Platform" for its Investigation Discovery Channel
--Electus Appoints Veteran TV Executive, Bruce Seidel, to Lead its New Food-Focused YouTube Channel
--Gaming-, Automotive- and Showbiz-Themed Original Channels Launch on YouTube
Due to the large volume of news generated by the recent 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and other factors, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. We anticipate that it will take us several more days to process all the news from the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us.
--TiVo Updates Premiere User Interface, Adds Box-to-Box Multi-Room Streaming
--Union Uses YouTube Annotations to Create Interactive Video Lampooning GOP Presidential Candidates
Due to the large volume of news generated by the recent 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. We anticipate that it will take us several more days to process all the news from the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us.
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--eyeSight Launches Gesture-Recognition and Hand-Tracking Technology for the Set-Top Box Market
--Report: Facebook in Talks to Take Vevo from YouTube
--Motorola Equipment to Enable Malaysia's ABN to Offer ITV, VOD and Other Advanced Services
Due to the large volume of news generated by the recent 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. We anticipate that it will take us several more days to process all the news from the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us.
--Oscar.com to Provide Extensive Online-Video and Second-Screen Coverage of Academy Awards
--Reuters Launches Reuters TV on YouTube
--Vimeo Launches Mobile Apps for Android, Windows Phone
--Visiware Raises 5 Million Euros to Fund Expansion of its Second-Screen/Social-TV Offerings
Due to the large volume of news generated by last week's 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. We anticipate that it will take us several more days to process all the news from the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us.
-- NBC Nightly News rolls Android App
-- SnagFilms Releases 400 Films through Mobile Apps
-- Sales of Connected TVs and Devices Double in 2011
-- YouTube Launches Tools for Educators
-- Tremor Video Promotes McLaughlin to CMO
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NBC boasts that it's the first TV network to launch an app dedicated to its evening newscast. Its app for NBC Nightly news with Brian Williams, which launched Monday on Google's Android Market, lets viewers watch various segments from each night's show, in addition to the entire broadcast. It also lets users browse story headlines and read a daily blog written by Williams.
-- Moderators to Cite Data from Live IntoNow Social Polls in Questions for Candidates
Three months after Yahoo signed a broad partnership agreement with ABC News, the Internet giant's IntoNow social TV subsidiary will be spotlighted during a debate featuring Republican presidential candidates on Saturday.
IntoNow said viewers that tag the debate on ABC will be able to participate in polls. The moderators plan to cite data from the polls in questions for the candidates.
IntoNow isn't the first social network to gain exposure through a presidential debate. YouTube and Twitter have been involved in previous debates, with moderators using questions submitted via YouTube videos or Twitter messages for the candidates.
--YouTube Emphasizes Channels in Major Redesign
-- Miso Raises $4 Million from Khosla Ventures, Google, Hearst
-- Sony Delivers Scrolling Twitter Feed on Bravia TVs
-- UFC Hits Microsoft's Xbox Live
-- Bell Fibe TV Launches Interactive Weather App
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In an effort to increase the amount of time Web surfers spend watching videos on its site, YouTube flipped the switch on a major redesign Thursday afternoon that emphasizes channels of content. The move comes one month after YouTube announced deals with dozens of independent producers to supply it with 100 channels of original programming. "We're trying very hard to marry the best of TV and the best of online," YouTube VP of product development Shishir Mehrotra said at an event at the company's San Bruno, Calif., headquarters. The San Francisco Chronicle has more.
-- Clevver Media Launches YouTube Channel for Latinos
-- Cablevision Launches Interactive AmberWatch Channel
-- RCN Deploys SeaChange AssetFlow
-- Al Jazeera Uses never.no Social TV Tools
-- Trailer Park Names Hauck Executive Producer of Interactive TV, Menus and Content
-- Disney to Supply Family Friendly Programming to YouTube
-- Google TV Scores First Adult Film Channel
-- Barnes & Noble Bundles Netflix and Hulu with Nook Tablet
-- tweetTV Launches Social TV Discovery Guide
-- Netflix Signs Exclusive Licensing Deal with MGM
-- Madonna, Shaquille O'Neil, Stan Lee among Content Suppliers
.jpg "Madonna's DanceOn channel features a segment about the dance sequence from the movie \"Black Swan.\"") YouTube said Friday that it will launch 100 original channels next month that will feature programming supplied by celebrities and producers of news, entertainment and sports programming. Madonna, Shaquille O'Neil, Jay-Z, Reuters and comic book legend Stan Lee are among the content suppliers.
-- Google to Upgrade Software Running on TVs and Set-tops from Sony, Logitech
 A Google TV software upgrade that the search giant plans to begin rolling out next week includes a new "TV & Movies" app that allows users to browse titles of more than 80,000 movies and TV episodes from both TV networks and online video providers, including HBO Go, Netflix and YouTube.
-- YouTube Integrates WeVideo Editing Platform
-- Cisco to Acquire BNI Video
-- Total Immersion Upgrades Augmented Reality Software
-- Ooyala Names Former Vudu and Palm Exec Caitlin Spaan VP of Marketing
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YouTube users can now edit videos after uploading them to the site, after the company struck a deal with WeVideo to integrate its cloud-based video editing platform. The free, YouTube version of WeVideo's editing tool is available at YouTube.com/create. The YouTube WeVideo tool features a drag-and-drop design interface for music, transitions and titles. YouTube's move to integrate WeVideo's editing platform could make it easier for users that upload video with mobile phones or tablets to edit their videos.
--Social Video Analytics and Advertising Company, Visible Measures, Raises $13 Million
--YouTube Adds 2D-3D Conversion, Video-Creation Tools; Lets Verified Users Upload Long-Form Video
--YouView Appoints CTO
Because the [itvt] editorial team has been working on TVOT NYC Intensive 2011, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format.
In order to catch up with the huge volume of interactive TV-related news generated over the past two weeks at IBC, IFA, CEDIA, IDF and beyond, we have prepared a series of headline round-ups with hyperlinks to press releases and other news sources.
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The 2nd Annual TVOT NYC Intensive
The second annual TVOT NYC Intensive took place on Monday, December 5th at 730 Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. We would like to thank everybody who participated and attended for making the event a success!
Read more about the highlights - video and photos to be posted soon.
To find out about future event sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, contact us at swedlow@itvt.com or 415-824-5806
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