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Aertv.ie launches movie channel
The free online TV service, Aertv.ie has launched a new, art house movie channel. Aertv Movies will be sponsored by Jameson, and coincides with the launch of this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF). The new channel will show ten Irish shorts over ten days – all have been screened at past Dublin International...
The passion of desperation – old media lashes new media
A conference on media diversity in Dublin organised by Nessa Childers MEP witnessed what can only be described as an extraordinary outburst of opinion by Alan Crosbie, the chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings. Crosbie is the chairman of an ‘old media’ company that owns such newspapers as The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Examiner...
Google set to upgrade its OnePass system
paidContent has reported that Google will make some major upgrades to its OnePass paid content system. OnePass, a payment system that lets publishers set the terms for people to access their digital content, is just a year old and hasn’t recruited as many publishers as it first hoped. The changes to the system are, no...
Sega sponsors new YouTube channel
Sega is to be the first sponsor of a new YouTube channel launched by IGN, a game publisher owned by News Corp. IGN joins a growing army of channel creators for YouTube as the video streaming site bids to become a home for professional as well as user generated content. IGN will produce five original...
EU toughens its stance on web privacy
Digital giants like Facebook and Google are facing another bid by the European Commission to prevent them from using people’s data without their ‘explicit consent’. Companies like Facebook and Google make billions of dollars a year from collecting data on people who use their services. This data is analysed and packaged in such a way...
‘We built you a new Vimeo’
Video sharing site Vimeo is undergoing a long-awaited re-design. “We started by re-imagining the video page, and designed the entire user experience around it to minimise distractions and put the focus where it belongs — on your videos,” said the company. The video player on the video pages will soon be twice as big as...
Think you’re the future? Want a job in communications?
Youth communications agency Thinkhouse is hosting a ‘Future thinkers day’ in Dublin, on Tuesday, January 31 in a bid to secure the right candidate for a job on offer at the agency. The agency says the event is open to people “from all walks of life, any creative or media discipline, at any level of...
RTÉ Television had 47 of the top 50 programmes of 2011
RTÉ Television was responsible for 47 out of the 50 most-watched programmes on Irish television in 2011*. Interestingly, all bar two of these were home-produced. Despite Ryan Tubridy’s much criticised stewardship of the Late Late Show, the The Late Late Toy Show in 2011 was the most watched programme on Irish television in 17 years...
Independent.ie claims to be leading Irish online news site
Independent.ie says it is now the largest online news publishing site in Ireland. The claim is based on the November 2011 comScore Media Metrix Newspaper category report. Independent.ie is now recognised by comScore as being bigger than its nearest competitor, Irishtimes.com. Independent.ie believes the growth is a result of a number of initiatives to drive...
End piracy, not liberty says Google
Google is demonstrating its strong opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by placing a link on its US homepage detailing its concerns about SOPA and PIPA. Unlike hundreds of other websites – including Wikipedia, WordPress and Mozilla – Google will not be shutting down its service in the US in protest against the...
So much content, so little time – the future of TV
The digital planet is awash with content. Never before in our history have we been able to access such a variety of content so instantly and across so many different connected devices. We all know this. What’s less clear is where this sea of content is leading us and how we will choose to consume...
Should Irish newspapers band together to make money online?
2012 is going to be another challenging year for Irish newspapers, both national and regional, as more readers fall by the wayside, advertising budgets move online and fewer people buy print editions for their news and commentary. While most of the country’s biggest papers have solid digital platforms, they simply don’t pay enough to cover...
