The panel agreed that TV is still a strong medium, and reaching audiences and advertisers on emerging digital platforms requires new revenue and ad integration models.
Dale Fallon, Score VP digital products, tells Playback that the baseball-related updates, aimed at fans and fantasy-league managers, also create new revenue streams.
The production house will begin producing content from its French-language publications this June, and launch into English content within the next year.
The app streams CBC-broadcast games and is offered at a subscription rate starting at $5 per month for unlimited viewing.
The Montreal-based companies will develop mobile, web and TV-based content with Teletoon Canada.
The company is also set to launch an app in the fall for its English-language premium pay-TV channel subscribers.
John Taylor, senior director of content for Bell Media Digital, tells Playback that branded entertainment, such as the new Intersections series featuring the Ford Focus, is an integral part of the company’s future.
The transmedia episode Endgame Interactive, a digital extension of the former Showcase drama, earned the award in the fiction category.
Senior media and digital agency execs will lend their expertise in the marketing pitch contest during the inaugural Playback Summit on April 25.
Jennifer Dettman, Jason Chaney and Tony Walsh have joined the speaker lineup for the inaugural event, happening April 25.
The industry panel discussed everything from why Napster worked to creating content for ever-fragmenting audiences at yesterday’s event.
SMPIA and Partners in Motion president Ron Goetz talks to Playback about the effects on the industry after the news that the province’s latest budget will cut the program.