Mobile phone content is forecast to reach $43 billion worldwide by 2010, up from $5.2 billion in 2004. Led by ringtones and ringtunes, ‘mobile music’ represents the largest and fastest-growing wireless content segment — with last year’s transition from polyphonic ringtones to ringtunes pushing global music content revenues for the year to $3.8 billion. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cingular announced an on-demand mobile TV service called Cingular Video that allows viewers to watch short 3-5 minute clips from the Cartoon Network, NBC, ESPN, and 15 other channels.
Cingular will offer exclusive short news clip content from Fox News clips of of “The Sopranos,” “Sex and the City,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Entourage” from HBO. [...]
Fox Mobile Entertainment launched a new website dedicated to mobile content, games, music and mobisodes. ‘Mobizzo’ is initially available for Cingular and T-Mobile phones, offering content aggregated from across News Corp divisions, other media companies and aspiring talent. Programming will include content from Family Guy, American Dad, Napoleon Dynamite and the upcoming release “Ice Age: [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CBS introduced CBS News to Go, which for $0.99 per month will deliver video notifications of the latest news and entertainment headlines to subscribers’ mobile phones. E.T. to Go will deliver Entertainment Tonight video alerts for $3.99 per month. CBS will initially send 5 video alerts per day, though in the future the services will [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CBS announced it will debut an experimental set of original micro-series for cell phones. The 40-60 second episodes of “The Courier” will run for 7 nights. The show will be broadcast during or following hit shows such as Cold Case, Criminal Minds, and CSI: Miami. After their network broadcast, the show will [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )U.K. wireless carrier BT found that consumers would rather use a cell phone to listen to radio than watch TV programs. The 1,000 London cell phone users in the trial listened to mobile radio for an average 1.5 hours per week and watched mobile TV for 1 hour per week.
BT also found that 2 [...]
Verizon has signed a deal with The WB Network to make on-demand scenes and trailers from WB shows, “Everwood,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Smallville,” and “Supernatural,” available on Verizon’s V CAST mobile TV service the day before the show airs. Warner Bros. is also offering Looney Tunes and Hanna Barbera cartoons on the service including “Bugs [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cingular Wireless announced an exclusive 3-year deal withe Time Warner to bring clips of the Sopranos and other popular HBO shows to its mobile phones.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Channel 4 New Media and launched a series of broadband and mobile extensions to the popular teen-oriented soap opera, “Hollyoaks”. The website has begun offering new services including “Hollyoaks Xtra,” a video fanzine designed to provide viewers with more information on the series’ actors, with cast interviews and behind-the-scenes exclusives.
The “Hollyoaks Bitesize” daily catch-up [...]
A new youth-oriented show “Brick-it” is scheduled to launch in January exclusively on cell phones. The series will offer a new 5-minute episode available each weekday for on-demand viewing on 3G and 2.5G phones.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IMPULSE Digital Media is published by James Brennan, President of digital media consulting firm Mandalan Media, which operates web video wiki Strmz.com.
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