Home Media Magazine - September 14-20, 2008 - (Page 14) ELECTRONIC DELIVERY REPORT: BABY BOOMERS WATCH ONLINE VIDEO By Erik Gruenwedel www.homemediamagazine.com NBC Programming Returns to iTunes By Erik Gruenwedel fter a one-year hiatus, NBC’s top 10 primetime series are again available on Apple’s iTunes. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. For the next two weeks, premiere episodes of upcoming shows “Knight Rider,” “My Own Worst Enemy” and “Kath & Kim” will be available for free on iTunes (and Hulu.com) a week before their broadcast premieres later this month and October. Subsequent episodes will be available the day after the network broadcast for $1.99, and for $2.99 in high-def. Content from USA Network, Sci Fi Channel, Bravo, Sleuth and NBC News also returns to iTunes, including “Heroes,” “The Office,” “Battlestar Galactica” and BRIEFS I ‘LINCOLN HEIGHTS’ ON FANCAST BEFORE TV ABC Family will stream the third season premiere of “Lincoln Heights” on Fancast (www.fancast.com) Sept. 9-15 before the TV premiere Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. Comcast Interactive Media’s Fancast boasts more than 5,600 TV episodes from providers such as ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. – Billy Gil O nce considered the domain of teens and young adults, online video and social networking sites have become a target for baby boomer Web users (ages 44 to 61), according to a new report. In its study “Entertainment Trends in America,” The NPD Group found more than half of all Web users (57%) visited social networking sites, including LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace, in the past three months. While younger Web users (13- to 34-year-olds) are more likely to visit social networking sites, the study found that baby boomers who visited social networking sites did so an average of eight times over the previous three months. “There’s an ongoing misperception that certain Web activities are the exclusive domain of young people,” said Russ Crupnick, entertainment industry analyst for The NPD Group. “That misperception could cost the entertainment industry in terms of lost opportunities to target valuable consumers.” The report, based on data compiled from 11,000 consumer respondents, found that increased online video and social networking by boomers actually increased sales of packaged media, including movie DVDs and music CDs. On average, baby boomers who streamed video were 15% more likely than their non-streaming counterparts to buy a CD, DVD or movie ticket. “30 Rock.” NBC is also making episodes of vintage TV shows available for 99 cents, including “The A-Team,” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “Miami Vice,” “Kojak” and the original “Battlestar Galactica.” Content from NBC Universal affiliates Oxygen, Telemundo, Mun2 and NBC Sports will be available on iTunes in the near future. NBC reportedly made $15 million annually from iTunes and claimed its programming accounted for 40% of the site’s revenue. When NBC last year attempted to increase episode license fees to $1.99 — the same price Apple charged consumers — Apple CEO Steve Jobs balked and NBC removed its primetime programming. I ASCENT MEDIA BUYS INDIE DOWNLOAD SITE Global Media Exchange, a unit of Ascent Media, acquired inDplay, a San Franciscobased online movie licensing and download platform that will relaunch as www.theexchange.net in 2009. Global Media Exchange is expected to continue inDplay’s partnership with Amazon’s CustomFlix.com that provides DVD authoring and replication for independent films. – Erik Gruenwedel Google’s YouTube Still Online Video Juggernaut By Erik Gruenwedel ouTube.com and parent Google continued to dominate online video viewing in the United States, generating more than 5 billion largely usergenerated videos watched in July, compared to 4.1 billion videos in April. Research firm ComScore Video Metrix reported YouTube represented 44% of the online video market, compared to 38% in April. YouTube attracted the highest number of unique viewers (92.1 million), watching an average of 55 videos per person. The site accounted for 98% of all videos viewed on Google properties. The report also found that 75% of the U.S. Internet audience watched online videos. The average viewer watched 235 minutes of video, with Y an average length of 2.9 minutes. Overall, Americans watched 558 million hours of video, or 11.4 billion videos in July, compared to 11 billion in April. More than 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 80 online videos per viewer. Fox Interactive Media (FIM), which includes MySpace.com, ranked a distant second to YouTube in July, with 445,682 million videos and 3.9% market share. FIM attracted 54.8 million unique viewers. MySpace generated 51.4 million of FIM’s viewers. A notable newcomer to the top 10 online video properties was Hulu. com, the Internet video distribution site co-owned by NBC Universal and News Corp., parent of FIM. The site generated more than 119 million videos for 0.8% market share. Other online video properties included Microsoft sites with 282 million videos (2.5% market share); Yahoo with 269 million (2.5%); Viacom Digital with 246 million (2.2%); Disney Online (186 million, 1.6%); Turner Network (171 million, 1.5%); AOL (95 million, 0.8%); and CBS Corp. with 69 million and 0.6% market share. The Walt Disney Co.’s Web site, Disney.com, posted a record 186.7 million video streams in July, topping the previous record of 182.7 million streams set in July 2007, according to comScore. Disney Online, a unit of Disney Interactive Media Group, recorded a 39% increase in video streams from June, with time spent viewing increasing 50% month-overmonth. Disney Online saw a 30% spike in movie views July 14 with the first look of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ new feature High School Musical 3: Senior Year. I ONE-FIFTH OF ONLINE SURFERS WATCH TV ONLINE The results of a joint TNS and The Conference Board report looking at the habits of roughly 10,000 households shows one-fifth of all Internet-using American households are watching TV broadcasts online. The figure is about double the number of Internet households watching TV shows online in 2006. – Chris Tribbey I ‘SORORITY’ HITS WEB MySpace and the recently launched TheWB.com announced the original series “Sorority Forever” will debut on both Web sites beginning Sept. 8, with a new episode available for 24 hours every day at 9 a.m. PST. – Chris Tribbey TOP 5 RANK TITLE E LE C T R O NI C SELLT H R OUG H Week ended September 6, 2008 RELEASE DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE TOP 5 RANK TITLE E L E C TRO N I C S E L L THRO U GH Week ended September 7, 2008 RELEASE DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 What Happens in Vegas: Extended Version The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior What Happens in Vegas Married Life Starship Troopers 3: Marauder 8/26/08 8/19/08 8/26/08 9/2/08 8/5/08 Fox Universal Fox Sony Pictures Sony Pictures Comedy Adventure Comedy Drama Sci-Fi Source: Movielink 1 2 3 4 5 What Happens in Vegas Street Kings Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow 21 The Legend of the Shadowless Sword 8/26/08 8/19/08 9/2/08 7/22/08 8/12/08 Fox Fox Lionsgate Sony Pictures Warner Comedy Thriller Animated Drama Action Source: CinemaNow TOP 5 RANK TITLE E LE CT R O NIC D OW NLOAD S Week ended September 6, 2008 RELEASE DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE TOP 5 RANK TITLE E L E C TRO N I C DO WN L O A DS Week ended September 7, 2008 RELEASE DATE VIDEO LABEL GENRE 1 2 3 4 5 21 Stargate: Continuum Doomsday The Bank Job Nim’s Island 8/21/08 8/28/08 8/27/08 8/13/08 9/3/08 Sony Pictures Fox/MGM Universal Lionsgate Fox Drama Sci-Fi Action Thriller Family Source: Movielink 1 2 3 4 5 21 Doomsday The Bank Job Vantage Point Meet Bill 8/21/08 8/13/08 8/13/08 7/1/08 8/21/08 Sony Pictures Universal Lionsgate Sony Pictures First Look Drama Action Thriller Thriller Comedy Source: CinemaNow Home Media Magazine September 14–20, 2008 http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.fancast.com http://www.Hulu.com http://www.theexchange.net http://www.theexchange.net http://www.CustomFlix.com http://www.youTube.com http://www.MySpace.com http://www.Disney.com http://www.TheWB.com
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