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2007 MEDIA NEWS

YOUTUBE'S DARK SIDE
July 19, 2007 (Slate) The Internet was supposed to make the video world egalitarian. No longer would an oligarchy of content providers—a few TV networks, a couple of major movie studios—control what we watch. The Web gives creative people a potential audience of millions, as well as countless venues to display their creations. But that's not how things turned out.
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USA NETWORK FOCUSED ON ATTRACTING WOMEN VIEWERS
July 16, 2007 (Hollywood Reporter) a new trend at USA, where network president Bonnie Hammer is looking to bring in strong lead female characters in upcoming new series, including "In Plain Sight" and "To Love & Die," which star Mary McCormack and Shiri Appleby, respectively. "USA in recent years has been a little too focused on guys for my tastes," said Hammer, who also is president of Sci Fi. Read Story

LOCAL STATIONS SAY NO TO CONDOM ADS
July 16, 2007 (NY Times) Controversy over a new advertising campaign by Trojan, the condom maker, has trickled down to the local level, with television stations in Pittsburgh roundly refusing to show it, and stations in Seattle giving it the green light. When Trojan introduced the condom commercial last month, it was rejected as national advertising by both CBS and Fox. Read Story

NEW CAMERA HAS IMPACT FOR ADVERTISERS
July 11, 2007 (Deutsche Well) German researchers have developed a new tool to recognize emotions as they flicker across the human face. Rapid facial analysis has huge potential for advertisers, but some are concerned about protecting privacy. Read Story

FALL SITCOMS EXPLORE CROSS-CULTURAL THEMES
July 9, 2007 (MediaWeek) With its premise revolving around a Midwestern family playing host to a Pakistani foreign exchange student, the CW’s Aliens In America may be the sitcom next season that most closely examines issues of race and tolerance in post-9/11 America. But it’s not the only such prime-time entry.
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FOOD MARKETERS MAY BE READY FOR KIDS-ADVERTISING GUIDELINES
July 5, 2007 (AdAge) A huge task force report on child obesity is being postponed -- a broad hint that the nation's top food and beverage marketers are planning to unveil major concessions this month in how they market food to kids on TV. Read Story

FOX DEAL FOR PHOTOBUCKET GETS US ANTITRUST OK
July 4, 2007 (Reuters) U.S. antitrust authorities have approved plans by MySpace-owner Fox Interactive Media, a unit of News Corp., to buy photo-sharing site Photobucket. Read Story

OUTCOME OF AD CONTEST STARTS UPROAR ON YOUTUBE
June 27, 2007 (NYTimes) Some YouTube users cried foul when they saw the winning video in a Malibu Caribbean Rum user-generated advertising contest. The contest, which began in early May, solicited videos about Malibu Banana Rum set to the tune of “Banana Boat Song,” also known as “Day-O.” But, some consumers who lost the contest were quick to start a rumbling on YouTube message boards that the contest had been rigged. Read Story

US AD SPENDING GROWTH SLOWS WAY DOWN
June 27, 2007 (AdAge) Three new ad-spending forecasts out this week -- and even a report intended to gauge how consumers view various media -- paint yet another discouraging picture for traditional media. Read Story

CONSUMERS NOT GAGA FOR MOBILE ADS
June 26, 2007 (Adweek) While advertisers are giddy at the prospect of placing ads on cellphones, many consumers are wary of the prospect. A Harris Interactive survey found consumers ambivalent to the idea of ad-supported content and services on their cellphones. Read Story

A&E's STREET THIEF IS CON JOB, BUT FASCINATING
June 21, 2007 (Courier-Journal) Is it for real or a clever fake? If you love mysteries, "Street Thief," at 10 tonight on A&E, will be right up your alley. A&E says the film stunned audiences when it was shown at New York City's Tribeca Film Festival. It's easy to see why. Read Story

FCC DENIES CHALLENGE CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE TV STATIONS
June 13, 2007 (Broadcasting & Cable) The FCC has denied a challenge to a total of 19 TV stations in Milwaukee and Chicago, saying the petitioners had not demonstrated that the stations had failed to provide adequate election coverage in 2004, and effectively telling stations and activists to try to work out their public interest differences themselves. Read Story

NO MORE AD ZAPPING
June 7, 2007 (Media Daily Post) A top Disney executive said the proposed deal to offer ABC shows on VOD with the ad-zapping capabilities disabled was not driven by a desire to circumvent DVR growth. "A robust ad model is in the interests of the consumer and the advertiser and certainly the programmer," says Tom Staggs, Disney CFO. Read Story

COURT REBUFFS FCC ON FINES FOR INDECENCY
June 4, 2007 (NYTimes) If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts. Read Story

ABC GIVES iCAUGHT A SIX-WEEK RUN
May 28, 2007 (Variety) ABC is hoping to reinvent the newsmagazine for the YouTube generation with a show produced by ABC News but based on user-generated video.Hourlong skein "i-Caught" will get a six-week run on the network starting Aug. 6 at 10pm on Mondays with an eye toward a midseason return if it performs as well as the network hopes. Read Story

BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN CONTENT AND COMMERCIALS
May 22, 2007 (NYTimes) To many people, the commercial break is when you use the restroom, change the channel or grab a snack. Fixing the commercial break is the most pressing topic of discussion this spring between networks and advertisers as they negotiate television ad sales deals for the next year. Changes include creating a single commercial that lasts for an entire break, integrating stars from programs into the ads and developing storylines that run through the ads. Read Story

FEW WOMEN WIN TOP HONORS FOR FILMMAKING
May 20, 2007 (Yahoo) Cannes, like the film world in general, is short on female directors. Of the 22 movies in the running for the top prize this year at Cannes, only three were made by women. Read Story

ADS THAT ARE TOO FAST FOR FAST-FORWARD BUTTON
May 18, 2007 (NY Times) A broadcast network will soon offer advertisers two more ways to try holding the attention of viewers throughout those commercial breaks that consumers love to hate. One idea is to run quickie commercials of only five seconds each. The other is to schedule a series with no commercial breaks at all, and instead incorporate sponsors’ products into each episode.
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SYRACUSE PROF IS POP CULTURE AMBASSADOR
May 14, 2007 (Yahoo) Last week was pretty slow in the world of pop culture news. But the media sought out Robert Thompson just the same. The Syracuse University professor was quoted on the image of motherhood on TV. On the phenomenon of animal shows on cable. The danger of Hollywood trilogies. Rosie O'Donnell's future. The hipness of being a nerd. Read Story

PRIMETIME TV LOSING ITS LUSTER
May 10, 2007 (TVWeek) Prime time used to be "appointment television" time. Problem is that these days many viewers, especially the younger generation, are skipping their appointments.
Sure, Fox continues to break records with "American Idol," logging 70 million votes for its contestants in mid-April. But, the idea of needing to be home in the evening, glued to the TV to watch your favorite shows, is going the way of the cathode-ray tube. Read Story

WHO'S ADOPTING MOBILE TV?
May 3, 2007 (MediaPost) A recently released comScore study analyzing Americans' usage of, and attitudes toward, Mobile TV, (television watched via a mobile phone device) revealed that forty-six percent of those who currently subscribe to Mobile TV are below the age of 35 and 65 percent are male.  Males were also more likely than average to be interested in Mobile TV, while females were more likely to report being not interested. Read Story

SOCIAL NETWORKING LEAVES CONFINES OF THE COMPUTER
April 29, 2007 (NYTimes) Daniel Graf, a founder of Kyte, the mobile social networking service, sees cellphones as personal TV studios. “Now you can share your life over a mobile phone,” he said, “and someone is always connected, watching.” Read Story

SPIELBERG'S SHOAH FOUNDATION WIDENS SCOPE
April 25, 2007 (USAToday) After collecting 52,000 interviews, the filmmaker's unprecedented effort to record the stories of those who survived Nazi persecution during World War II is now applying the mantra "Never forget" to more recent acts of genocide and oppression. "Now we ask ourselves: How do we make this vision a priority in communities all across the world?" Spielberg said. Read Story

BRITISH IMPORT TV GAME SHOW: WITHOUT PREJUDICE
April 22, 2007 (Variety) GSN is moving forward on "Without Prejudice?," setting a host and premiere date for the Blighty import in which contestants are awarded money based on how they come across to strangers. Judges will grill players about their views on controversial issues -- abortion, immigration, gay marriage, etc. Read Story

ADOBE LAUNCHES FREE VIDEO PLAYER TO WATCH VIDEO OFFLINE AND CARRY IT WITH YOU
April 16, 2007 (Scientific American) Adobe Systems Inc. unveiled video-player software that lets consumers play back video online or offline, a move that could help reshape an acrimonious debate over video-sharing. Read Story

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS
April 13, 2007 (LATimes) PBS' 12-hour 'America at a Crossroads' examines the genesis of modern-day Islamic militant movements and our engagement in Iraq. If the war in Iraq is being fought by an all-volunteer military, it is also being broadcast by all-volunteer media companies to an all-volunteer viewing audience. Read Story

TV NETWORKS STILL WRESTLING WITH VIDEO
April 12, 2007 (TVWeek) A reoccurring theme for TV networks during this upfront season is crossing over to the digital advertising environment, but experts at a conference this week said the content and structure of online ads needed more work. Reaching potential customers online could be huge for TV networks, with online video expected to be a $775 million ad business this year.
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FCC CHIEF AVOIDS MISSTEPS OF PREDECESSOR
April 9, 2007 (LATimes) With media ownership rules again on the table, Martin's open style defuses controversy. For nearly six hours, a well-caffeinated Kevin J. Martin listened as a parade of critics stepped up to microphones at a Harrisburg, Pa., theater to lambaste him and his fellow commissioners for considering rule changes that would allow media companies to buy more TV and radio stations. Read Story

WHO WINS ON THE SEARCH ENGINES?
April 5, 2007 (TIME) Has America gone insane? Season six for American Idol has caused us to ask some fundamental questions about the reality television phenomenon. Show judge Simon Cowell repeatedly chides contestants, "This is a singing competition." But is it really? Read Story

VIDEO GAME ADDICTION: IS IT REAL?
April 2, 2007 (PRNewswire) Reports from around the world
suggest that gaming addiction is real and on the rise. Nationally, 8.5 percent of youth gamers (ages 8 to 18) can be classified as pathological (1) or clinically "addicted" to playing video games. Most youth play video games and many feel that they may be playing too much. Nearly one-quarter (23%) of youth say that they have felt "addicted to video games", with about one-third of males (31%) and a little more than one in ten females (13%) feeling "addicted." Read Story

A HIGHER EDUCATION FOR TV
April 2, 2007 (Hollywood Reporter) TV viewing among adults 18-24 has increased across the board since Nielsen Media Research began including college students living away from home in its TV ratings measurement in late January, according to the results of a study published by Magna Global. Primetime TV viewing has increased by 12%, late-night by 9% and daytime by 5%, according to the study, which compared demo ratings in the adults 18-24 demo in a roughly four-month period before Nielsen began measuring those viewers. Read Story

NEW BARCODES CAN TALK WITH YOUR CELL PHONE
April 1, 2007 (NYTimes) It sounds like something straight out of a futuristic film: House hunters, driving past a for-sale sign, stop and point their cellphone at the sign. With a click, their cellphone screen displays the asking price, the number of bedrooms and baths and lots of other details about the house. Media experts say that cellphones, the Swiss Army knives of technology, are quickly heading in this direction. Read Story

STUDY FAULTS FOOD ADS ON TV AIMED AT CHILDREN
March 28, 2007 (Chicago Tribune) Children eight to 12 years old are exposed to an average of 21 television food advertisements each day, commercials that predominantly push candy, snacks and other unhealthy foods contributing to childhood obesity. Fully half the ads on children's programs involve the sale of food items.
And they're not pushing healthy foods. Read Story

MEDIA CONGLOMERATE SIGNS ADVERTISING SPONSORS FOR CELL PHONES
March 28, 2007 (CNET) Wireless and media companies are betting that mobile entertainment will gain momentum among subscribers in 2007, offering advertisers a new way to reach consumers and cell phone companies an additional revenue stream. Viacom sends 1 million video streams to mobile phones every month. Read Story

SPONSORS WANT TO FAST TRACK THE US PUBLIC SERVICE ACADEMY
March 22, 2007 (US Public Service Academy) Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) joined dozens of Academy supporters to announce the introduction of the U.S. Public Service Academy Act. Just a year after we began sending out our proposal for the Academy, we now have legislation pending before the U.S. Congress. Read Story

CRITICS TO GOOGLE: PRIVACY PLEASE
March 15, 2007 (LATimes) Google Inc.'s memory is getting a little shorter. Just not short enough for some.The company adjusted its policies Wednesday to answer complaints that it never forgets what users have looked for. Google said it would continue to collect and maintain a vast internal database of search-engine queries, but it will "anonymize" the data by stripping addresses from the records after 18 to 24 months. That's enough time, according to Google, to keep law enforcement officials happy and satisfy its quality control needs. Read Story

DEWARS LINKS WITH VIDEO BLOGGER
March 14, 2007 (ADWEEK) The future of niche Web video advertising might look a lot like the TV advertising's past, when brands acted as presenting sponsors. Dewar's is the latest brand to sign on as a presenting sponsor of a popular video blog. It will sponsor the last week of episodes of Ze Frank's "The Show," which features offbeat observations and commentary by Frank, a Brooklyn-based performer. Read Story

VIDEO GAMES GROW UP WITH ADULT OWNERSHIP
March 13, 2007 (Reuters) Video games aren't just for the kids anymore. More than one in three U.S. adults who go online, or 37 percent, own a video game console and 16 percent own a portable gaming device, Nielsen//NetRatings said on Tuesday. The majority of those console owners, 71 percent, are married, and 66 percent have at least one child in the household. Read Story

VIACOM SUES YOUTUBE FOR 1 BILLION
March 13, 2007 (CNN Money) Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said Tuesday that it was suing Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion over unauthorized use of its programming online.The lawsuit, the biggest challenge to date to Google's (Charts) ambitions to make YouTube into a major vehicle for advertising and entertainment, accuses the Web search leader and its unit of "massive intentional copyright infringement."
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WANT MORE ONLINE ADS? GET BETTER METRICS
March 8, 2007 (ADWEEK) Digital ad spending, already at an all-time high and still growing, would accelerate even faster if more online media were audited by independent third-party firms, according to a new joint survey by the Audit Bureau of Circulations and NSON Opinion Research. The survey asked online planners and buyers in North America about key issues in digital marketing. More reliable metrics came out as the top concern. Read Story

TV NETWORKS EMBRACE THE YOUTUBE MODEL
March 5, 2007 (Washington Post) Ever conscious of a good trend, TV networks and advertisers are increasingly adopting the YouTube model of viewer-created content. VH1, currently airing the third season of "Web Junk 20," will next month premiere the Jack Black-produced "Acceptable TV," which attempts to fuse TV with the Web. In February, Nickelodeon debuted a two-hour programming block called "ME:TV," featuring contributions from 10-year-olds. TLC last week began a six-part documentary series, "My Life as a Child," where children were given cameras to videotape their lives. Read Story

BILL FOR FCC TO REGULATE VIOLENCE ON TV
March 5, 2007 (Broadcasting & Cable) Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) Monday reiterated his pledge to give the FCC the authority to regulate violent content on television and expand its authority over the content on cable and satellite. Saying TV violence had reached "dangerous" proportions and that McDowell's approach was shortsighted, Rockefeller said self-regulation by the industry hadn't worked. “The broadcasters have already tried and failed in their attempts at self-regulation. The bottom line is, if they can’t or won’t do it, then the federal government must step up to the plate.” Read Story

SKYPE GUYS DEVELOP JOOST —NET TO TV
March 1, 2007 (TIME) For years, Microsoft and others have tried, and failed, to bring the Net to TV screens with duds like WebTV. But the Venice Project, renamed Joost (as in juiced), is doing the opposite: moving TV to the Internet. And unlike Apple TV, Slingbox and other hardware offerings, Joost requires nothing more than software. For now, it's by invitation only, but by this summer it will be open to the public. You'll download the free Joost software, then use it to watch channels ranging from Lime, a lifestyle station, to National Geographic. And potentially thousands more, from anywhere, in real time--and without the stuttervision that dogs streaming video today. Read Story

BURNETT AND SPIELBERG DEBUT REALITY SHOW "ON THE LOT" STARTING IN MAY
February 23 , 2007 (Boston.com) A new TV series from Steven Spielberg and reality mogul Mark Burnett that offers aspiring filmmakers a $1 million studio contract will air this spring. The first films produced by 16 finalists will air in a two-hour episode on May 28, with four contestants eliminated the following night, the network said. Read Story

MAGAZINE SHOW RATINGS SOAR WITH ANNA NICOLE
SMITH COVERAGE
February 21, 2007 (Broadcasting & Cable) Coverage of the death of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in the week ending Feb. 11 sent ratings for syndicated magazine shows through the roof. Entertainment Tonight recorded its best numbers in over three years and the biggest week-to-week increase of any of the mags, up 12% from the week before to a 6.4 rating, according to Nielsen. It was ET's highest ratings since the week after Janet Jackson's Super Bowl half-time, half-dressed appearance. Read Story

CELLPHONE'S SCREEN IS TODAY'S HIP BILLBOARD
February 20, 2007 (Boston Globe) In an ad-saturated world, the cellphone screen is a nearly pristine canvas. But a number of area companies are helping to transform the device that 220 million people are loath to leave at home into a personal, pocket-sized billboard, hawking everything from the latest ringtone to Fabio-favored. Read Story

WEB VIDEO—WHAT GIVES WITH ADVERTISING?
February 19, 2007 (AdAge) It's one of the most-hyped developments in marketing, yet online video still accounts for only a tiny fraction of the $280 billion ad market, and less than
While online video is a hot topic, online video ad revenue is something else. To explain the slow growth of video ad spending, industry analysts point to fragmented audiences, limited inventory and the need for a solid ad-buying model for online programming.
What gives? Read Story

MOVIES SHOOT FOR CHANGE
February 14, 2007 (LATimes) Call them "filmanthropists." They have deep pockets and issue-driven agendas. Rather than make high-class dramas that might carry some mild social message, these producers are turning out full-blown advocacy movies.
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JOHNSON AND JOHNSON LAUNCHES DOCUMENTARY
February 14, 2007 (Brandweek) While the rest of the pharmaceutical business worries about what Michael Moore's new film Sicko will say about them, Johnson & Johnson has decided to make its own movie. J&J unit Centocor will next week launch an unadvertised documentary in movie theaters about patients with Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. Read Story

INTERNET USERS TRANSFORMED INTO NEWS REPORTERS
February 11, 2007 (Breitbart.com) As picture-taking mobile telephones and digital movie cameras grow ubiquitous, Internet users worldwide are being recruited as citizen news reporters. In December Yahoo launched YouWitnessNews, a website that posts offerings from users after the submissions pass muster with professional editors. Read Story

THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION: WHAT'S NEXT?
February 8, 2007 (The Economist) The union of television and the internet is spawning a wide variety of offspring. The new service, called Joost and now in advanced testing, is based on P2P software that runs on people's computers, just like Skype and KaZaA. And it does indeed promise to transform the experience of watching television by combining what people like about old-fashioned TV with the exciting possibilities of the internet. Read Story

RISING NUMBER OF KIDS EXPOSED TO ONLINE PORN
February 4, 2007 (NJ.com) More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say. Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out, University of New Hampshire researchers found. Their conclusions appear in February's Pediatrics, due out Monday. Read Story

PHARMA ADVERTISERS DECRY 'MISLEADING' STUDY
January 30, 2007 (BrandWeek) Advertisers’ lobbying groups reacted with anger today at a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine that criticized direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising. The study was out of date and misconceived, the marketer advocates said. Read Story

STUDY BLASTS TV DRUG ADS
January 27, 2007 (Forbes) In strong criticism of the pharmaceutical industry's marketing practices, new research claims that televised ads for prescription drugs are riddled with emotional appeals and lack helpful information on the disease itself. "The ads really use emotion instead of information to promote drugs," said the study's lead author, Dominick Frosch, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. "The question we have to ask ourselves is: (Should buying) prescription drugs be the same as buying soap?" Read Story

I'M A CELBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE
January 23, 2007 (The Guardian) Images of Kate Middleton being doorstepped by the paparazzi have brought back memories of the press hounding Princess Diana. Following requests by Prince William (and her lawyers) for the paparazzi to stop harassing his girlfriend, News International has banned its newspapers, including the Sun and the News of the World, from using paparazzi pictures of her. This doesn't stop them using their own pictures. Read Story

WASHINGTON MAY TAKE UP VIOLENCE
January 20, 2007 (LA Times) Despite efforts to quell complaints that they air too much death, blood and mayhem, broadcasters are facing a renewed battle over regulating televised violence. With a fresh Congress sworn in and a major federal report expected soon on TV gore, pressure is likely to mount to more aggressively stem graphic and gratuitous scenes in shows. Read Story

MADISON AVENUE CALLING
January 20, 2007 (NY Times) People often say they do not like advertisements, but that may change if the ads start lowering their cellphone bills. The Mobio mobile movie times is an example of cellphone content supported by advertising. Cellular phone carriers like Verizon, Sprint and Cingular, now the new AT&T, are beginning to test and roll out advertising on mobile phone screens, and by next year, cellphone advertising is likely to be more common.
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STUDY: US MEDIA OVERLOOKED MAJOR HUMANITARIAN STORIES IN 2006
January 19, 2007 (Common Dreams) Last year millions of people in many countries lost their lives as a result of wars, violence, disease, and hunger, yet the major television networks in the United States did not tell their stories to the U.S. public, a new study on media coverage notes. The staggering human toll taken by tuberculosis (TB) and malnutrition as well as the devastation caused by wars in the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka, and the Democratic Republic of Congo were almost completely ignored by the leading television networks, according to a well-respected medical aid group that monitors media coverage on humanitarian issues at the end of each year. Read Story

APPLES'S iPHONE MAY DRIVE MOBILE VIDEO, ADS ADOPTION
January 15, 2007 (BrandWeek) Besides making technophiles weak in the knees, industry experts say that Apple’s new iPhone device may be the catalyst that propels mobile media usage—particularly Web video—to new levels, with advertising opportunities soon to follow. Read Story

TV'S LAST MAN STANDING - WHY THE SUPERBOWL IS STILL THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN FOR ADVERTISERS
January 15, 2007 (BusinessWeek) On Feb. 4, Super Bowl XLI will draw an enormous audience of fans nailed to their couches, transfixed by television's most enduring spectacle. There will also be a football game. As we all know, part of the genius in the marketing of the Super Bowl is that the ads, generally created especially for the telecast, are as much a part of the event the game itself. Read Story

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TV ARTS AND MYSPACE PARTNER ON BROADBAND EMMY AWARDS
January 10, 2007 (WorldScreen.com) MySpace will collaborate with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to honor premium broadband content on the Internet. MySpace will serve as the exclusive online partner to the 2007 Broadband Emmy Awards submissions, encouraging video producers and filmmakers to submit self-generated content through an official MySpace Emmy profile. Beginning February 1, MySpace users will be able to upload videos to their personal profiles and submit their video URL to the Emmy profile page. Read Story

PEW RELEASES STUDY ON TEEN INTERNET USE
January 7, 2007 (SFGate-Tech Chronicles) In the ever-growing field of MySpace-Facebook-teenager data analysis, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a survey Sunday that finds 55 percent of all teenagers online use social networking sites. Of the 935 teenagers surveyed, girls in the 15-17 age group used their sites more often than boys their age. Teenage boys of the same age group were more likely to claim they were looking for new friends. Read Story

MAJOR MEDIA STAGE COMEBACK
January 3, 2007 (AdWeek/Hollywood Reporter) Talk about a turnaround story. About this time a year ago, executives at most large entertainment companies were coming to terms with stock performances that couldn't keep pace with the major averages. Many large entertainment companies including Disney, News Corp. and Time Warner, made impressive turnarounds last year. Read Story

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