IBC starts in just a matter of days. Now covering thirteen halls at the RAI in Amsterdam and featuring over 1,300 of the world’s key international suppliers operating in the electronic entertainment industry, it is THE destination for anyone who’s serious about the business of broadcast in all its forms. And with so many added value things to discover this year it’s an unmissable event.

And then the first bullet said…

visit the Connected World in Hall 9 focusing on the latest developments and innovations in IPTV, Digital Signage and Mobile TV. Take part in live debates, business analysis and discuss case studies

And where will Signiant be? You guessed it, in Hall 9. Looking forward to seeing you there next week!

BSkyB is to receive a special award at IBC2010 for its initiative in launching the world’s first commercial stereoscopic 3D channel, Sky 3D. To do this it has tackled a huge number of challenges in a very short space of time. What content will work best in the stereoscopic 3D home, and how can that content be created within the budgets and timescales of television? How can the existing transmission infrastructure and installed base of set-top boxes carry the signal? What is the business model that will pay for it? The audience at the IBC Awards Ceremony, on Sunday 12 September in the Auditorium at 18:30, will therefore be treated to a selection of some of the finest, 3D originated content yet shown.

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Description: Today’s consumers are actively blocking out interruptive marketing like TV commercials and unsolicited emails. Consequently we are in the mist of a paradigm shift in Marketing—from push, interruptive marketing, to pull, Inbound Marketing, with an emphasis on getting found through blogs, social media, and SEO.

We’ll outline how you can get hired today to be on the vanguard on this Marketing revolution. We’ll also look at the possible trends in Marketing over the next decade and how your career can stay ahead of these changes.

We’ll start with a presentation outlining the marketing skills leading edge companies are looking for in hiring vanguard marketers. In the presentation we’ll introduce the DARC framework—Digital, Analytical, web Reach, and Content creators.  And then move to a panel discussion of DARC practitioners, where we’ll learn what marketing thought leaders are actually doing.

The event is on October 27th. Learn more and sign up.

“The benefits that Signiant offered made the choice pretty easy. Firstly, the solution will vastly reduce the amount of content delivered via tape, thus saving us significant time and money by reducing manual processing, and streamlining the entire process. It will also provide a homogenous platform for all inbound and outbound electronic content transactions.”

Tony Scanlan, Chief Technology Officer, PMG

The Defenders - I’ve liked Jerry O’Connell since Stand By Me
Hawaii Five-0 - Now I’ll finally know what my mother was talking about when she said “book ‘em Dano”
Undercovers
My Generation
Lone Star
Running Wilde

And the author states two bonus shows that come along midseason that are worth watching: Mr. Sunshine (welcome back Mr. Perry!) and Ride-Along.

To learn more about these shows and why you might enjoy them, read the full article.

As I sit here typing away on this corporate blog of ours, I could be saying absolutely anything I want and in just a few moments it will be posted on the internet, it is so simple. Is this news?

Have a listen or a read…

“Through the battlefield smoke of the Wikileaks reports and the fresh news out of federal court in Arizona, a story from last week keeps ringing through the news business. The misrepresentation of Shirley Sherrod as a racist – and her sudden firing, then rehabilitation – has put the media, the news media itself, on trial. What has happened to the quality of this country’s national information flow? Is it poisoned? Is it now, really, propaganda? And whose?”

“Nation Geographic Channels Alien Earths, created by director/producer Dana Berry of Skyworks Digital, has been nominated for an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Animated Program. Point 360 West and animation director Jason Hearne, as well as animation director Dave Jerrard of Radical 3D, worked with Berry creating stunning animated effects of Super Novas and exploding planets adrift in the universe.”

If you have no idea who Hubspot is or what they do, take a look at the list and peruse their site. We’re honored to be at the top of the list.

FIFA World Cup: ESPN3.com (7.4 million unique viewers, 15.7 million hours viewed), UnivisionFutbol.com (10 million hours viewed)

2010 NCAA March Madness: CBSSports.com (8.3 million unique visits to MMOD video player, 11.7 million hours of video and audio)

2009-2010 Sunday Night Football: NBCSports.com (2.2 million unique visits, 1M hours viewed, 29 minutes of average tune-in time)

2008 Beijing Summer Olympics: NBCOlympics.com (70 million video streams, 10 million hours viewed, 27 minutes of average tune-in time)

You can read the entire article with Will’s commentary on his site.

Nearly 2.3 million people tuned in to TMZ.com’s live stream of Lindsay Lohan’s day in court on Tuesday, July 6, in which Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel sentenced the troubled starlet to 90 days in jail and 90 days at an in-patient rehab program.

That’s by far the largest number of live streams ever delivered by TMZ.com. Prior to this, the site’s best days were during a previous Lohan hearing on May 24, in which 845,000 people streamed video on the site, and on June 25, 2009, when Michael Jackson died.

“The interesting thing is that people are typically on the site from five to seven minutes at a time, but yesterday they were on the site for 16.3 minutes,” said TMZ Executive Producer Harvey Levin. “People could literally not take their eyes off this. It was one of the most compelling court hearings I’ve ever seen.”

Personally, I wouldn’t have described it as compelling but anyhow, you can find the rest of the article here.

You can find the paidContent.org article and all of the statistics on their site.

If you’re celebrating your independence this weekend, have a good one.

Now every Friday morning as I listen to StoryCorps on NPR and they say…”you can find an archive of today’s story on the Library of Congress’ web site,” I know my company is playing a role in getting it there.

paidContent ran a great article today that lays out some very interesting statistics. And it seems as if we’re not the only one being asked these questions….

“It’s an appropriate time to compare what we’re doing against the World Cup,”  Alex Balfour, the new media head of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games said, presenting these stats to the Social Media Influence conference in London on Tuesday…

• Competing nations: World Cup: 32 | Olympics: 205

• Athletes: World Cup: 736 | Olympics: 15,000

• Media: 20,000

• Tickets: 9 million

• Venues: World Cup: 12 | Olympics: 170+ venues

“The size of what we’re doing is absolutely enormous,” Balfour said. “Day by day, I get terrified by numbers about the range of things we’re doing. The scale is just absolutely huge.” The last, winter Olympics give an indication…

Vancouver2010.com stats from Balfour…

• 291 million visits (Beijing 2008: 105 million)

• 83 million uniques (Beijing 2008: 70 million – compared with Yahoo’s 32 million, NBC.com’s 20 million)

• Over 50 percent of all Canadians visited the site

• 8.7 million visits to mobile site, 1.25 app downloads

• 1.2 million Facebook fans (Beijing 2008: 320,000)

• “Every post they put on Facebook attracted about 100,000 comments.”

Read the full article on paidContent.org.

LaserNet uses Signiant to speed file transfer

“The is by far the largest event we’ve ever done…” said Kevin Stolworthy, vice president, technology, ESPN.

Read the entire article published in Broadcast Engineering.

12%? For a year?

You read that correctly, if you don’t believe me, you can read the entire story, As Soccer Grows, Passions Rise For World Cup, on NPR’s web site.

Hear how they are using new technology to raise the bar and hide the complexities of online video, and create an entirely new viewing experience for a video-hungry audience.

You can view it by clicking here.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
With an estimated worldwide viewership of 1.5 billion, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 11-July 12 will arguably be the world’s largest sports broadcast in history.

The greatest challenge broadcasters face is providing all 64 matches from this quadrennial men’s soccer event without any technical glitches. Broadcasters face complex logistics because some of the 10 venues are almost a day’s drive from Johannesburg.

Read the full story.

Today Signiant announced how we’re working with EPIX – yet another extremely cool company in the Media & Entertainment industry to be partnered with.

The service is available to over 30 million homes nationwide through carriage agreements with Verizon, DISH, Cox, Mediacom, Charter and NCTC.

Maybe you have access to a ton of great movies and you don’t even realize it yet.