- Nurse, Former Navy Corpsmen Live Streams Public Service Messages With COVID-19 Insight, Information
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
An ER and public health nurse who works on the front lines fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is sharing knowledge and insights with the community through a Facebook Live stream. ...
- LinkedIn Shutters Sales Navigator Gmail Extension
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 19, 2020
LinkedIn is shutting down its Sales Navigator Gmail extension. This is a seen as a blow to social media marketers. Here’s an analysis of why. ...
- Google Brings YouTube To Amazon Devices, Resolves Dispute
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, April 18, 2019
The companies say that in the coming months, Google will bring official YouTube and YouTube TV apps to Amazon Fire TV devices, while Amazon will bring Prime Video to Goog ...
- Samba TV Integrates With Google To Measure TV Tune-In
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, March 6, 2019
The partnership will allow TV networks, content owners and programmers to measure lift in TV tune-in based on ads purchased and viewed on YouTube, Display & Video 360, and oth ...
- Verizon Sets 5G Home Internet Launch, With Free YouTube TV, Apple TV 4K
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Wednesday, August 15, 2018
As phone makers start to look at launching 5G phones, Verizon just announced that it will launch residential 5G in four markets (Houston, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Indianapolis) this yea ...
- Tops in 2017: Pepper The Robot, Microchips In Employees, Internet-Connected TVs
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Friday, December 29, 2017
As the year winds down, I took a look back to see which aspects of the Internet of Things interested you most during the year. Based on readership of t ...
- Big Digital Media Players Operate as 'Frenemies'
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 7, 2017
Google and Amazon are now at war over the "reciprocity" of services and devices sold on each other's platform. ...
- Monkey See, Monkey Don't
Garfield at Large, Bob Garfield - Monday, March 27, 2017
The overall problem is that metadata for videos remains thin, and relies mainly on the tagging by posters, who don't typically label their work "hate speech" or "kill the Jews ...
- YouTube Uber Alles
Programmatic Insider, John Motavalli - Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Now that YouTube has announced a new $35 a month, 40-channel TV service, will some assert they have some unfair advantages? ...
- For Every Stupid Ad Cliche In the Super Bowl This Brand Will Donate Thousands to Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern California
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Monday, January 23, 2017
Rather than contribute to this annual rite of stupidity, Secret Weapon Marketing will support its client's efforts to turn Super Bowl Sunday's stupidity into a sort of drinking game th ...
- Google Starts New TV Service Unplugged, CBS Signs On
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Google is starting up a new cost-conscious TV service -- a "skinny" bundle of TV networks, called "Unplugged." CBS is one of the first TV content providers to sign ...
- Facebook Adds Content To Apple TV, Google Chromecast
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, October 14, 2016
Consumers can stream Facebook video content through Apple TV and Google Chromecast devices. “Support for the Apple TV is now available, along with other AirPlay-enabled devices,” Venture Beat reports. “ ...
- 40% Own A Smart TV, 35% Still Have A VCR
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, October 13, 2016
One of the more significant connected devices in the home may be the smart TV. While more consumers add Internet-connected devices over the long term, people in the short te ...
- Google Wants In On The Linear And Addressable TV Market
Around the Net in Real-Time, Tobi Elkin - Thursday, April 21, 2016
AdExchanger reports on Google's TV ambitions. Specifically, the company wants a piece of the $70 billion linear TV ad pie -- of which $300 million-plus is addressable. At the Nation ...
- Connected TV Takes Center Stage in Internet of Things at Home
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, October 22, 2015
While the market for new and novel connected devices evolves, the connected television may beat them all as the major Internet of Things component at home. For most pay-tv subscriber ...
- Google Renames Webmaster Tools
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, May 21, 2015
What has until now been named Google Webmaster Tools will now be known as Google Search Console. Why the change? “Google says because the tool is not just for webmaster ...
- Google's "Right To Be Forgotten" Policy Averaging 70% Refusal Rate
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Checking in on Google’s “right to be forgotten” policy, International Business Times reports that the search giant is currently accepting consumer requests to remove content roughly 30% of the tim ...
- Connected TVs Edge Out Blu-ray As Streaming Gateway
Marketing Daily, Aaron Baar - Monday, March 2, 2015
Internet-connected televisions are catching on faster than projected, and are squeezing out Blu-Ray disc players as a way to access streaming and Internet-based content in the process. ...
- Google Retiring TV Updates Focusing On Android TV
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Google said it will retire developer tools and updates, officially shifting its attention to Android TV. Existing Google TV devices and all of the features of these devices will continue ...
- Streaming Media Player Market Growing, Roku Dominates U.S.
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 10, 2014
More than 25% of U.S. TV homes will have a streaming media player by next year -- and the number will continue to grow. Roku is now the most-used play ...
- New Set-Top Boxes Just Don't Care What's On TV
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, July 3, 2014
That cable set-top box is being challenged by a new Big 4 in media delivery. The Diffusion Group's analyst Joel Espelien makes the point--obvious as it is usually unstated--that the ...
- Android TV Just Gave My TV A Panic Attack
MoBlog, Steve Smith - Thursday, June 26, 2014
Google adds to the mess that is the living room war over the TV screen. Bringing little more to the party than some search tricks and games, it just ad ...
- Molly?
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, June 25, 2014
At Google's I/O developers conference, Re/Code hears Google is going to announce a set-top box code-named Molly. ...
- Google Said To Be Close To Announcing New Android TV
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, June 2, 2014
Google is going to launch its new TV platform Android TV at Google I/O in June. ...
- Fired Up: Google To Launch 'Android TV' Set-Top Box
MoBlog, Steve Smith - Monday, April 7, 2014
Days after Amazon's Fire TV launch, leaked documents show what Google's "Android TV" will include. Search, cross-screen seamless experience and recommendations will be key differentiators. But how does Google distingui ...
- Google Strengthens Ad Targeting Through Back Door Into Living Rooms, Android TV
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 7, 2014
Google already has several back doors into the consumer's living room through television, but the next one will give it a clean line of sight through a Web of Internet-connect ...
- Amazon Takes On Apple And Google For Battle Of The TV
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, April 3, 2014
Hot on the heels of Google Chromecast, Amazon has also thrown down a TV gauntlet to Apple with the launch of the $99 Amazon Fire TV set-top box. It clai ...
- Google Bridges The Gap Between Apps And The TV As Well As Wearables
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Google Chromecast launches today in the UK, coinciding with the announcement of Android Wear, a platform to operate wearables such as Google Glass, smartwatches and accessories. The Chromecast costs ju ...
- After 'Second Screening': You Know These Two Devices Really Want To Talk With Each Other
MoBlog, Steve Smith - Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Roku follows part of the Chromecast model with its new Streaming Stick. But these are all just transitional until personal devices talk more directly to the TV. But wait! ...
- Chromecast Development Opens To All: Let The Tossing (And Advertising) Begin
MoBlog, Steve Smith - Tuesday, February 4, 2014
After a long wait, developers finally get their hands on the SDK that connects their apps to the Google Chromecast device. We are bound to see some interesting new conte ...