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NSI partners with NBCUniversal on training initiative
Separately, the organization has also boosted its cash prize offerings for Canadian filmmakers to up to $4500 through the NSI Online Short Film Festival.
Picnicface not renewed, launches campaign
The Halifax-based sketch comedy troupe is asking fans to sign a petition to save the show, following the news that Bell Media has not put in a second season re-order.
Jeanne Beker provides details on what’s next for her career
The style maven tells Playback about her plans for a multi-platform program anchored more closely to viewers’ own lives.
Bell reports stronger net earnings in soft TV ad market
Parent company BCE credited its year-over-year period growth in part to the creation of Bell Media, formed when the company purchased CTV.
Audience numbers key in showing digital ROI success, developers say
The so-called freemium model, which provide free trials of content with online properties, is showing great promise as a marketing and sales tool.
Geminis and Genies folded into single industry event
The consolidated industry event, slated for March 2013, will now include English-language TV and digital awards with the English and French-language film competition.
Google to receive innovation tribute at Banff festival
The U.S. search engine company’s chief business officer Nikesh Arora (pictured) will be in Banff to receive the second annual award of excellence for innovation.
How to monetize digital content by pushing pleasure buttons
Innovation guru Alexander Manu told the Playback Summit that content producers need to encourage play in behavior spaces, much as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter already have.
B.C. producers urge province to follow Ontario to stay competitive
A consortium, including the Canadian Media Production Association, urged Victoria to develop a creative clusters strategy overseen by an umbrella agency like the Ontario Media Development Corp. to sustain growth in a converged digital world.
Unleashing the dragons
Ted Boyd, Rebecca Shropshire and Stephen Jurisic put project pitches (one pictured here) through their paces at the first annual Playback Summit.
PB Summit: Approach branded entertainment with a consumer focus
Capital C’s Tony Chapman, Starcom Mediavest Group’s Bruce Neve and Bell Media Digital’s Jon Taylor discussed navigating the branded landscape.
TV network toppers wrestle with industry quandaries
“It’s a strange world to have come off our most popular season,” Kirstine Stewart, executive VP of English Services at the CBC, told Playback Summit delegates of the recent government cuts at the pubcaster.
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