Posts Tagged with ‘MTV’

Almost a year and a half ago, Colbert Low posted here on Profy that the future of the Web would be 3D applications, or virtual worlds, with Second Life leading the pack. It's amazing to me that so much could have changed in such a short amount of time.
Today it was announced EA Land, which was formerly called The Sims Online and rebranded only a short time ago, will be shuttering before the end of summer. The Sims Online was [...]

Today the makers of the recently launched (yet oddly-named) Chumby internet-connected device have acquired $12.5 million in Series B funding, primarily from JK&B Capital, a new investor for the company. Chumby's other existing venture investors, including Avalon Ventures, Masthead Venture and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, were also involved in the financing, which will be used to “accelerate growth” of the San Diego-based company, as well as to expand the Chumby Network onto other screen-based web devices.
“We are pleased to receive [...]

Late last spring we brought you word of the debut of an online venue called YouLicense, which provided place for independent music creators to license their tracks and clips to those who, well, wish to license music, whether it be for a marketing or commercial purpose, or any other purpose, really. And since June, it seems to have grown quite a bit, actually.
Well, today we bring you word of a new project from the creators of YouLicense. It’s called VIRV. [...]

The online music service known as iLike owes much of its recent success to social networking service Facebook, which developers at iLike developed an app for shortly after the launch of the Facebook Platform.
Now, iLike wants to make integration between Facebook and its service as easy and effortless as possible for the musicians who mantain profiles. The new Artist Services Platform provides music artists with one artist page to maintain across both iLike & Facebook and claims to make it [...]

Do you recall, several seasons back, MTV trying to break into the music retail online to combat (or follow, however you?d like to put it) iTunes and its steadily growing domination over the market? It made the attempt with Urge, a Windows Media Player-based outlet. As Viacom, the owner of MTV, discovered rather quickly, however, it never quite made much of a name for itself, despite a hefty publicity push. (It is now residing in merger with Real Networks' Rhapsody.)
Well, [...]

It has been very apparent lately that television networks are diligently working on plans to embrace the internet and everything that it offers.
Viacom's MTV Networks has kept itself ahead of the pack, being one of the first networks to offer full episodes of its television programming online for free, through MTV Overdrive.
Now, the company has much broader plans as it prepares to launch two dozen new websites by the first quarter of 2008, with many shows getting their own exclusive [...]

TV Networks apparently have their eyes on Twitter as a new marketing strategy. According to the Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, MTV and NBC have started to experiment with the year-old service as a way to communicate with potential viewers and consumers. This seems like a potentially lucrative idea, considering that users are able to receive messages via SMS, IM, email or the Twitter website.
MTV personalities used the service to keep Twitterers updated about the MTV Music Awards directly from the red [...]

24-7PressRelease - February 16, 2007 - On Valentine's day bigmouthmedia and Global Media finally integrated the two companies for a match made in …Well made in the UK, which I suppose is heaven to my pals on those beautiful Islands. So now Global is part of bigmouthmedia and all their UK and USA clients will now be under the bigmouthmedia banner.
Global Media is one of the premier web marketing companies that have been focused on Continental Europe and Asia. Bigmouthmedia [...]