Speaking at a conference earlier this week, Endemol’s CEO Ynon Kreiz said social television is “going to be huge”. There is clearly a significant opportunity, but social TV still has its limitations, for now at least.
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By 2016, video on demand services will reach 70.1 million households (57%), up from the 51.1 million VoD households (44%) at the end of Q3 2010, according to MAGNAGLOBAL’s revised ‘On-Demand Quarterly’ forecast.
The Outdoor Advertising Association has relaunched under the new name Outdoor Media Centre.
In response to Claire Myerscough’s recent article, Brian Jacobs, director at BJ&A, says the way forward is to sell audiences online, but there needs to be a degree of commonality in the way in which those audiences are defined.
Facebook has launched a new user generated ad option, which allows marketers to use messages from their ‘likes’ community to push visible promotions.
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