MarketingVOX: Nintendo has just announced the creation of WiiWare, which consists of original downloadable games that players can access through the Wii Shop Channel online, reports Next Generation.
“Independent developers armed with small budgets and big ideas will be able to get their original g…
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
Wii Announces Marketing Channel for Indie Developers
MySpace to Launch Alleged YouTube Killer
MarketingVOX: Thursday MySpace will relaunch its video sharing service under the new name MySpaceTV, according to The New York Times.
The revamped video service puts MySpace in a position to compete with YouTube, whose traffic has doubled in the last eight months alone.
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Estee Lauder Wipes Shine Off Gloss.com
MarketingVOX: On June 30 Estee Lauder will shut down Gloss.com, a standalone e-commerce site that it has operated for six years, according to Internet Retailer.
The fruit of a partnership between Estee Lauder and manufacturers like Chanel and Clarins, the site grew to sell over 5,000 products. It …
TV Guide To Honor Best of Online Video
MarketingVOX: TV Guide has announced it would launch an online video award franchise to recognize “the best and most innovative professional video programming, created specifically for the Web,” according to a recent press release.
The Online Video Awards will honor content that appeared online or…
MySpace Founders Demand $50M Paychecks
MarketingVOX: MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have asked for a sizable salary increase when their contract expires this October, reports Mashable.
The pair have asked News Corp, which owns MySpace, for a new two-year contract that would be valued at $50 million.
That breaks down to…
NBC: P2P Piracy Hurts the Corn Farmers
MarketingVOX: NBC made a borderline absurd case against P2P piracy at a recent FCC hearing, stating that if file-sharing piracy were to end, corn farmers would have greater profits and “buy more farm equipment,” reports Zero Paid.
The idea is that in a world without online piracy, people would go …
Telus Drops Plans to Bid on BCE
MarketingVOX: Telus has suddenly pulled out of the bidding to acquire fellow Canadian phone company BCE Inc, reports The Globe & Mail.
The move comes just after the deadline passed for offers to be submitted to acquire BCE, Canada’s largest phone company. Telus is second in the country.
A sta…
ICANN Reviewing Domain Name Suffixes
MarketingVOX: The expansion of domain names is under review by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, reports Globe and Mail.
ICANN discussions revolve around expanding the pool of domain name suffixes and permitting non-English letters for the first time.
As it stands, domains a…
Podcast Ad-Insertion: A Hop, Kip’ and a Jump Away
MarketingVOX: Kiptronic has released a new product poised to make ad insertion into video podcasts a more streamlined process, reports MediaWeek.
The company has been signed by Conde Nast’s digital arm, CondeNet, to deliver dynamic ads into the publisher’s video offerings. This allows CondeNet to …
BBC to Launch Multi-Channel On-Demand TV Service, iPlayer
MarketingVOX: The BBC will launch a beta version of an online on-demand TV service next month called iPlayer, according to Telecompaper.
Available only to those in the UK who pay the license fee to watch BBC TV, the online platform will offer programs to watch on the PC.
Programs will be available…
