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The Mill, MPC Add Seven 2018 Clio Awards to Their Roster of Trophies (MESA)

Technicolor creative studios The Mill and MPC are once again honored with multiple Clio Awards for their achievements across creative categories, ranging from Animation and Visual ... More

Will Traditional TV Gamify Premium Shows to Increase Revenue? (Media Post)

Netflix's interactive efforts to let viewers decide different story lines of an episode for its “Black Mirror” series is an experiment about where TV networks and producers wil... More

Hulu Aims to Sharply Cut Reliance on Traditional Ad Breaks (AdAge)

Hulu is aiming to generate 50 percent of its advertising revenue from non-intrusive ad formats by 2021, up from less than 10 percent now, according to Peter Naylor, who leads ad sa... More

Featured Jobs: Qumulo; Hulu; SiriusXM

Senior Software Engineer — Vancouver — Qumulo Creative Director, Advertising Solutions — Santa Monica, CA — Hulu Senior Engineer, Production Quality — Irving, TX — Si... More

SAP Boosts Blockchain Integration, Customer Flexibility (MESA)

SAP today announced new services that help customers integrate blockchain and launched two new consortia that accelerate industry-specific blockchain co-innovation with customers a... More

Casting in the 21st Century: Networks, Distributors Look for Social Media Impact (The Wrap)

It no longer takes a social media flub to cost an actor or filmmaker a job in Hollywood; simply an actor’s relative lack of presence across social media can have an impact on whe... More

Avid to Receive Engineering Emmy Award for Pioneering Technology, Contributions to the TV Industry (MESA)

Avid today announced it has been named the recipient of the prestigious Philo T. Farnsworth Award by the Television Academy. The award will be presented to Avid at the 70th Emmy® ... More

Cord-Cutting Means Cord-Shifting, TV Prices Will Still Rise (Media Post)

Cord-cutting is really about “cord-shifting.” What is the end result? A shift to higher consumer pricing. Selling new virtual pay TV services have -- up until now -- sounded li... More

European Parliament Approves 30% European Content in VOD (BTV)

The European Parliament has agreed on updated rules on audiovisual media services, protecting children better, with stricter rules on advertising, and 30% European content in video... More

CE Retail Confidence Rebounds Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season (Dealerscope)

A month after hitting a near-all-time-low, the Dealerscope CE Retail Confidence Index saw its largest ever month-over-month increase. Consumer electronics retailers checked in with... More

How Cable Has Fueled OTT (Light Reading)

Cable operators and other broadband service providers may grouse loudly about the growing loss of their edge services business to OTT (over-the-top) entrants. But, ironically enoug... More

NBCU’s Reality TV Streaming Service hayu Goes Live in Canada (Variety)

Canadians eager to keep up with the Kardashians in Canada can binge on that series and other reality shows after streaming service hayu, which is owned by NBCUniversal, had its off... More

Featured Jobs: Paramount Pictures; Netflix; Wasabi

Executive Director, International Digital Marketing — Hollywood, CA — Paramount Pictures Director of Product Management — LA — Netflix Quality Assurance Engineer — Bos... More

IBM Debuts Personalization-Focused AI Tools Ahead of Holidays (Marketing Dive)

IBM's new Watson-powered offerings focused on personalization, campaign targeting and optimization arrive ahead of the critical holiday season, where sales are increasingly focused... More

Amazon Web Services’ Carlson Appointed to White House Historical Association Board of Directors (MESA)

The White House Historical Association has appointed Teresa Carlson to its Board of Directors. Carlson brings to the Association decades of experience as a global leader in the tec... More

Google Announced New Game Streaming Service Called Project Stream (Mashable)

Google announced Project Stream today, which allows Google Chrome users to stream video games. Project Stream is a new video game streaming service that Google is testing, and you ... More

Netflix to Let Viewers Pick How TV Episodes, Movies Will End (CNBC)

Streaming giant Netflix will now allow users to choose how a TV episode or movie will end as it pushes further into Interactive TV, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The Los Gatos, Cal... More

Report: Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide (Variety)

Netflix remains the 800-pound gorilla of the streaming world: Video from the service consumes a significant 15% of all internet bandwidth globally, the most of any single applicati... More

BBC News Launches Video-Only Platform (TVBEurope)

BBC News has launched a new video features platform that will feature its own bespoke content. BBC Reel has already commissioned dozens of original videos from more than 50 filmmak... More

Amazon’s IMDb Will Announce This Week a New Free Video Service to Compete for TV Ad Dollars (CNBC)

Amazon subsidiary IMDb is expected to announce this week a free, ad-supported video service for Amazon Fire TV users, according to several people with knowledge about the matter. T... More

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