February 21st, 2012
At MIPCube Content 360, digital creatives pitch new ideas in cross-media content and next-generation audience engagement through TV, Internet, social media and mobile applications, personalisation, viral content, social games and other digital applications.
"Content 360 gives digital creators access to unparalleled exposure and prospective strategic partnerships," said Catherine Warren, president of FanTrust Entertainment Strategies and frequent C360 judge. "Every year the calibre of finalists and winners skyrockets and new digital distribution deals are forged from the mix of producers, brands and channels.
This year finalists will compete for more than €18000 in ...
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February 16th, 2012
Canada Dominates with 4 Nominations First Time Emmy® Nomination for Kenya & Japan
New York, February 16th, 2012 - The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today that nominees from 7 countries will compete for this year's International Digital Emmy® Awards. The awards ceremony will take place, during MIPTV's Opening night festivities on Sunday, April 1, in Cannes at the Martinez Hotel.
There are 12 nominees in 3 categories, Digital Program: Children & Young People; Digital Program: Fiction and Digital Program: Non-Fiction. The full list of Nominees from: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Kenya, Sweden and the ...
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February 16th, 2012
By Tracy Swedlow for Interactive TV Today
Canadian production companies, iThentic and 3 O'Clock TV, have announced the launch of their interactive Web series, "Guidestones."
The show, which was originally slated to launch last spring "delves into the mysterious Guidestones monument in Elbert County, Georgia," which may "hold the key to humanity's future," the companies explain in their press materials.
"The 50-episode (total running time: 120 minutes) 'Guidestones' was created and directed by Jay Ferguson and produced with iThentic," the companies continue. "The series takes viewers deep inside the mystery of The Georgia Guidestones, an enigmatic monument nestled ...
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January 11th, 2012
By Cynthia Littleton for
Variety
Barely 3 years old, the Los Angeles-based TV arm of indie Entertainment One has made a mark in the network and cable biz by bringing to the table that most precious commodity: financing.
eOne Television, headed by CEO John Morayniss, leverages its heft as a producer and distrib of film, TV and home entertainment fare in Canada, the U.K. and other territories to cobble together coin for TV series in the same way that many indie features are funded, through a combo of foreign pre-sales ...
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December 15th, 2011
What can the mass media 1 percent learn from the digital 99 percent?
While big media and other critics slam Occupy Wall Street for lacking a cohesive message, the movement continues to just get on with things, including its own media, innovating in the process and providing a case-study for excellence in editorial, production and broadcasting.
If TV execs aren’t taking notes, they would be wise to get out their stenographers, because now’s a great time to mimeograph a digital manifesto for the team.
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