Posts Tagged ‘iPhones’
mSpot Bets on Mobile Movies
Nov 17 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsIn October, mSpot launched a new VOD movie services, across all carriers and on 30 handsets. According to mSpot CEO Daren Tsui, the company worked with Sprint to launch a long-form entertainment channel, with movies and episodic TV. The S-VOD (subscription video-on-demand) service took off, cementing Tsui’s belief that–despite what many in mobile say–people are happy to watch long-form programming on the mobile phone.MobilizedTV spoke with Tsui about how the business of mobile movies is doing and what mSpot plans for the future (hint: think iPhone).
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Mobile Monday LA Panel Looks at Content
Nov 05 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsMobile Monday Los Angeles tackled the topic of mobile content, opening the evening with remarks from MobiTV’s Jack Hallinan, who was named Mobile Ambassador at the 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards. He listed some astonishing statistics about the growth of mobile TV, quoting InStat’s estimate that wordwide viewership will expand from today’s 54 million to 300 million by 2013. “We’ve seen a migration in the last year or two shifting from a focus on advertising towards a focus on content,” he said. “In the early days, content was minor league. Now you have a tremendous uptick in mobile content players, including big players like ESPN, CNN, Comedy Central. Sports, news, comedy and entertainment are the big drivers. Everything will happen on mobile.”
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Apple to Enter Television Market, Predicts Analyst
Aug 21 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsAccording to Fortune magazine, Piper Jaffray’s senior analyst Gene Munster, who focuses on Apple, predicted that Apple will enter the TV making business within the next two years. Munster predicted that Apple could enter the TV market by 2011 with an Apple-branded television set with digital video recording and home media functions (music, movies, games, interactive TV) built-in.
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Celebrity Sites Picking Up the Phone
May 06 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentModerator Alex Ben Block, editor-at-large for The Hollywood Reporter, introduced celebrity sites by noting that the earliest days of motion pictures avoided making “stars” out of the actors, until the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford changed all that in the early 1920s.
But reality TV programs have instigated the biggest transition into the basis of celebrity, and Digital Hollywood hosted a panel on how celebrity media is transforming broadband, mobile, social media and TV.
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