Posts Tagged ‘MobilizedTV’
Mobile’s Pente Group: monetizing personalities and brands
Aug 24 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentThe Montreal-based Pente Group, founded in 2006, develops mobile apps by partnering with entertainment personalities (Akon, and Barry White) and consumer brands (Polaroid). Mobile executive Michel Besner–familiar to the Hollywood production and post community as the co-founder and president of Kaydara, a real-time 3D animation software–was named President.
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Discovery launches FLO TV channel
Aug 10 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsDiscovery Communications just announced the launch of a dedicated mobile channel on the FLO TV network. The channel debuted Aug. 1 with 24/7 coverage of Discovery’s popular Shark Week. MobilizedTV sat down with Rebecca Glashow, Senior Vice President of Digital Media Distribution at Discovery Communications to talk about the launch.
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Cracked.com on iPad: A deep dive with Oren Katzeff
Jul 28 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentOnline comedy site Cracked.com, which currently delivers video content to nearly 3.5 million unique users a month, just announced the launch of Cracked.com for iPad. To get a deeper appreciation for Cracked.com’s move to iPad, MobilizedTV’s Debra Kaufman spoke with Katzeff about the launch.
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World Film Collective teaches mobile filmmaking at World Cup
Jul 08 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsIf you’ve been keeping track of mobile metrics, you know that the World Cup has been a breakthrough event for many media entities. The World Film Collective, a non-profit organization based in the U.K., teaches filmmaking using mobile phones to young people in favelas, townships, and refugee camps around the world.
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Q&A with the Mobile Marketing Association
Jul 07 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsMobilizedTV sat down with Michael Becker, managing director for North America for Mobile Marketing Association, to talk about this 700 member company trade organization, which can be found in 40 countries around the world. With global headquarters in New York, the MMA also has regional branches in North America, Asia/Pacific, EMEA and Latin America. The association has its roots in the former Wireless Advertising Association, which stumbled during the dotcom bust, and re-emerged to become the MMA.
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Rhythm NewMedia CEO Kohli talks about mobile ads
Jul 02 by admin | No CommentsYesterday the mobile ad network Rhythm NewMedia announced the expanded capabilities of its mobile ad SDK to include picture-in-picture video browsing, interactive pre-roll video ads, and support for Apple’s new mobile operating system (iOS 4). MobilizedTV spoke with Rhythm NewMedia CEO Ujjal Kohli about the state of the art of mobile advertising.
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LATV Fest offers MobilizedTV panel and more…
Jun 24 by admin | No CommentsLATV Fest, produced by NATPE (the National Association of Television Programming Executives), brings together creative TV and digital content producers with development execs, agents, advertising executives, technology solution providers and others from July 12 to 15. MobilizedTV readers get a special rate.
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Find out how to make money with mobile
Jun 23 by admin | No CommentsThat is the question on everyone’s mind, and the topic that will be the focus on MobileBeat 2010. “The year of the superphone and who will profit” is the theme of VentureBeat’s third annual conference on the future of mobile, which will take place July 12 to 13 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. And MobilizedTV readers get a 15% discount on registration.
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Australia’s first mobile film fest open for submissions
Jun 22 by admin | No CommentsMobile Screenfest – Australia’s first mobile phone film festival –is giving away over $10,000 in prizes. “For the tech-savvy, budding photographer or emerging filmmaker, the competition is as simple as shoot, upload and win,” said a festival spokesperson, who says that the festival is open to submissions from the Australian public. “The Festival aims to recognize the growing global phenomenon of ‘shot-on-mobile’ content.”
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Mobile Video Award at the New Media Film Festival
Jun 16 by Debra Kaufman | 5 CommentsThe New Media Film Festival held its debut event this last weekend. Among the categories was one honoring the best in mobile content. The award went to Amanda Poore, a student of University of Texas professor Bart Weiss, a contributor to MobilizedTV and a teacher of mobile-moviemaking.
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Q&A with Patrick Lopez, Vantrix for mobile video
Jun 14 by admin | No CommentsVantrix’s Patrick Lopez: Mobile Video is absolutely playing a role in re-defining how, when and why we watch TV. Consumers are also providing the content as well. No longer is content a one-way street, consumers can post videos and comments on what they see.
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TV series House’s mobile summer vacation
Jun 03 by admin | No CommentsThe wildly popular series House, starring Hugh Laurie, is on hiatus for the summer. But die-hard fans can stick with the show via a mobile series produced by Retrofit Films. MobilizedTV sat down with Retrofit’s Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling to talk about the making of the mobile series.
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Urban Wolf Debuts on Crackle
May 12 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsLaurent Touil Tartour started out as a filmmaker. But he got himself into one of those “you’ll never make a film in this town again” scenarios in France, and decided that nothing could stop him from telling creative stories. Did he show them. Urban Wolf–which debuts on Sony’s Crackle, a multi-platform video entertainment network and studio on May 13–is a much -ballyhooed online dramatic series, made up of 15 four-minute episodes.
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MasterImage Brings Glasses-Free 3D to Mobile
May 11 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsMobilizedTV has written about 3D for mobile phones before, but MasterImage 3D stood out at NAB with its auto-stereoscopic (glasses-free) display for mobile phones. Its auto-stereoscopic 3D display was commercialized in 2009 in conjunction with the Hitachi Wooo. The Entertainment Technology Center @ USC,
brought MasterImage 3D, into the fold as a Consumer 3D Experience Lab project sponsor.
Free EZTakes Mobile Movie for MobilizedTV Readers!
May 10 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsNow there’s another good way to watch movies on mobile: and MobilizedTV readers get a chance to watch one for free. EZTakes offers 5,000 movies and TV shows that can be viewed on iPad, iPhone, Android and most other smartphones.
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Talking to the Mobile Marketing Association
Apr 28 by Debra Kaufman | 4 CommentsMobilized TV spoke with Michael Becker, the North America Managing Director for the Mobile Marketing Association, about the organization’s history and mission, what it offers members and if it’s outreaching to Hollywood studios/networks involved in mobile content creation.
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Winners of 2010 Babelgum 3rd Online Film Festival
Apr 27 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsBabelgum just announced the winners of its third Online/Mobile Film Festivals. The work of first place winners in the categories will be screened along with the inaugural Stoli Emerging Filmmaker Award during the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28.
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Party Down with Starz Digital Media and AvatarLabs
Apr 26 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsParty Down–the original half-hour series about a group of Los Angeles cater-waiters who all harbor dreams of stardom–returned to Starz for its second season on Friday, April 23 (at 10:00 PM ET/PT). New is an iPhone app–the Waiter Wobble–from Starz Digital Media and Avatar Labs that includes a part drinking/part balance game.
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Mobile Entertainment and More at NAB 2010
Apr 23 by Bart Weiss | No CommentsAt NAB 2010, MobilizedTV produced two panels on mobile: one on mobile entertainment and another on mobile as a marketing tool for Hollywood. Bart Weiss–founder of Videofest and a professor at University of Texas at Arlington who teaches mobile movie-making–was on the entertainment panel and talked about his experiences on the show floor and on the panel.
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Top Ten (Innovative) Mobile Companies
Apr 19 by Debra Kaufman | 3 CommentsMobilizedTV published Entrepreneur magazine’s Top Ten Mobile Companies in June 2009, and it’s been a hugely popular link. In the spirit of those who like their top ten lists, here’s Fast Company’s Top Ten Innovative Mobile companies for 2010. Of course the list leans towards handsets and networks. What is your Top Ten list for mobile entertainment companies?
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