Connected TVs and set-top devices enabling consumers to view video from across the Internet on TVs could ultimately drive online video ads and marketing content budgets. The online video ad segment should grow at a 39% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) during the next five years, becoming a more than $5 billion market by 2014, estimates analyst firm Piper Jaffray, which released a series of reports Monday related to IPTV. The slow shift of consumers spending more time with online video has already begun. The report explains some private video advertising ...

Cannes, France – Celebrating outstanding cross-platform media, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded the winners of its Digital Emmy Awards at a ceremony held at MIPTV. Virtual Revolution, an open source documentary inviting users to collaborate in the making of a series about how the Internet has transformed society, won for Non-Fiction. New Zealand made history by winning its first International Emmy. It took the Digital Program: Children & Young People category with Reservoir Hill, an interactive ...

The world’s most prestigious digital event hosts a red carpet line-up at MIPTV PARIS/NEW YORK, March 22,  2010  - Jason Priestley, best known for his role as Brandon Walsh on the hit series Beverly Hills 90210, will host The International Digital Emmy Awards on Monday,  April 12, at MIPTV in Cannes it was announced by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ...

San Francisco, California – March 11, 2010 – OverInteractive Media Inc. (OMI) announced the official open-beta release of dimeRocker, the company's premiere self-publishing platform that enables Unity developers to deploy and monetize their games across the social web from a single, centralized account. The launch will allow Unity game developers – representing a growing base and 100,000 downloads of Unity’s engine to date - to create an account at http://www.dimerocker.com and access an ever-growing feature-set that includes the following turn-key API: Deployment to Social Networks (Facebook and MySpace ) Real-time global and ...

The FanTrust office is just a short walk along the water to the Olympic Torch. I’ve been making a regular pilgrimage to the flames, generally checking out the scene and hearing what the fans have to say about the Games, the Torch and the city of Vancouver. With almost as much bad press as Gitmo, our Olympic-Torch-behind-bars, has become a lightening rod for activists, tourists and even the Mayor, who all want to free the flame. In one of the world’s freest countries, our torch sits behind ...