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-- Flavor Flav in your pocket : Yeah boyeee! America's favorite clock collector, Flavor Flav, and other VH1 stars are coming to mobile. VH1 is launching a mobile instant messaging application, built by Redmond, Wash.-based Mobui, on AT&T ( NYSE: T ) aimed at connecting viewers to popular on-air...
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As Paramount unravels its tumultuous arrangement with DreamWorks SKG founders following the $1.2 billion investment they got from Reliance to form a new film studio powerhouse, the Viacom ( NYSE: VIA ) unit has announced its mobile plans for Eagle Eye , a film that will likely be one of the last from...
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MTV Networks ( NYSE: VIA ) is launching its first ad-supported, mobile video-on-demand service with carriers. With the U.S. Air Force signed on as its first advertiser, pre-roll ads from the military branch will run prior to sponsored episodes of The How To Show , MTV's made-for-mobile series where...
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A group of executives from MediaFLO USA, MobiTV, MTV, Disney ( NYSE: DIS ) and Fox sat in on an afternoon panel that addressed the various business models and use types that comprise the mobile TV space today and where they hope to see things going as more models and technologies converge. Predicting...
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Paramount Pictures, the Viacom-owned movie studio, has made its first gaming related acquisition: it has bought Seattle-based game developer ScreenLife , the creator of the popular DVD game "Scene It?". Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but last week SeattlePI first broke the...
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The Cell —no, not the J. Lo flick—but a made-for mobile show, produced by Endemol, has been purchased by Fox International Channels as its first online-only property, Brand Republic reports. The program, which covered a span of 20 episodes in two-minute chunks, got play in the U.K. on O2 and on Sony's...
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Thumbplay , a mobile content distributor, said it has signed a deal with MTV Mobile to offer exclusive content on its site. The deal includes at least 75,000 pieces of content, and adds up to 2,000 more every week. Are Traasdahl, Thumbplay's CEO and founder, told us a majority of their MTV-related...
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The MobileBeat 2008 conference ended on a high note yesterday – specifically addressing how companies can make money on mobile. As expected, much of the discussion revolved around mobile advertising – that holy grail of cash just waiting to bubble over and into everyone's coffers. Omar Hamoui, founder...
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French operator SFR will launch an MTV-branded phone next week, the MTV3.3, along with limited-time and fixed-cost plans designed to appeal to the young people most likely to want the phone. The 3G slider phone includes MTV content such as videos, logos, wallpapers, original ringtones created by DJ Cut...
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The Latino market continues to be an attractive one for the mobile industry, with figures like "3.1 percent of the general population used their mobile devices to watch videos, 6.7 percent of Latinos did and 26.8 percent of Hispanics sent a photo or video with their phones vs. 15.3 percent of the...
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Apart of embarking on the first phase of its major push into online gaming this week, Nickelodeon/MTVN ( NYSE: VIA ) Kids and Family Group's other big focus this year is on mobile, the company told us. The Viacom kid-focused unit is rolling out three new mobile websites related to its branded content...
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At NATPE yesterday, I spoke to Greg Clayman , EVP, Digital Distribution & Business Development, MTV, who overlooks all of MTVN's mobile businesses. He moderated a panel on what's working in mobile content, and I grabbed him after for this short 5 minute video interview (RSS readers will have...