Speaking of “religiously”, according to NBC News, a Gulf state-owned bank rolled out a new MasterCard that not only complies with Islamic laws banning loans with interest but also includes an embedded compass pointing the way to Mecca.
In a watershed research initiative conducted with NBC for the 2012 London Olympics, a panel of Olympics enthusiasts were recruited in order to observe their media consumption habits across multiple platforms to better understand how consumers...
NBC News described the meteor blast as “an atomic bomb-sized shock wave” that hurt nearly a thousand people and blew out windows. You won’t be seeing an animated Google Doodle meant to coincide with the passing of Asteroid 2012 DA14 on Google's...
The ads keywords for Macy’s are standard words for what their store supplies such as “handbags”, “fashion star” (seemingly Macy’s is cross-promoting with the NBC "Fashion Star" reality show by way of a clothing collection), “earrings”, “beds”, and...
Google's TV ad business showed early promise with a significant inventory commitment from NBC Universal, but once it pulled out of the fledgling network in 2010 it never regained its footing. Following a four-year effort in the incredibly lucrative...
In the spirit of NBC delaying its coverage of the Olympics, we have also delayed our coverage of Google’s Doodles until today. However, today’s interactive Google Doodle is easily the best and most fun so far, letting everyone compete for their own...
There might have been a couple of uninformed NBC commentators – naming no names, Meredith Viera and Matt Lauer - who were shown up on air by assuming that nobody would have heard of Sir Tim, and advising their audience to “Google him”.
In the four television weeks starting March 19, ABC lost an average of 681,000 viewers (21 percent) in that 18-to-49 age category compared with the same period last year, Fox lost 709,000 (20 percent), CBS lost 239,000 (8 percent), and NBC lost 59...
The Official Olympics page at over 2.8 million strong, NBC Olympics page and Countdown App are regularly updated accounts worth a “like”. A recent partnership between Shazaam and Comcast’s NBCUniversal will allow users of the Shazaam app to access...
Content from Betty's Kitchen has also been featured on playlists witin the YouTube Ad Blitz channel which is in partnership with NBC, and she has enjoyed many TV appearances since - which she lists on her channel bio to reinforce her credibility...
Hardly qualifying as unbiased research, that report was commissioned by NBC Universal. In a nutshell, NBC Universal and the MPAA commissioned reports, which became the foundation for another report, which produced a loss figure the MPAA could march...
Indeed, at that time, the MPAA and other major content producers including Activision, NBC Universal, Viacom, and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) were pushing the phrase “rogue websites” as they lobbied for COICA, the...
Hulu is the only online streaming service to offer in-season content from five out of six of the major broadcast networks (ABC, The CW, FOX, NBC, and Univision). Late last week, comScore Video Metrix released its November 2011 U.S.
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Google failed to secure programming with the four major U.S.broadcasting networks – CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox. LG will debut a Google TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2012, Bloomberg reported.
It currently has contracts with Fox, NBC, ABC, Lionsgate, MGM, National Geographic, Paramount, A&E Television Networks, PBS, Warner Bros, and several other large networks. For months we’ve heard rumors that Hulu has been up for grabs, with...
YouTube was the biggest winner, according to Searchmetrics, as were a number of big brand video sites - Hulu, MTV, NBC, CBS, HBO and a number of others that contain a large amount of video content. Both Comcast and NBC were on the other side of net...
NBC Universal, and Providence Equity Partners, would decline a sale involving Google without caveats, such as blocking piracy searches, Reuters reported. Google made the highest bid for streaming video site Hulu, reportedly around $4 billion, more...
By comparison, an average of 8.5 million viewers watched the NBC Nightly News each night in 2010, more than 7.4 million watched ABC World News, and almost 5.7 million watched CBS Evening News, according to Nielsen.
If you're in the U.S.games can be seen on NBC and their subsidiary Universal Sports. The 2011 Rugby World Cup begins today in New Zealand and in recognition of this every four year event, Google has a Doodle on the homepage in New Zealand.
