Blinkx searhes for lifestyle content
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Video search engine Blinkx looks for lifestyle contents, as it says that do-it-yourself, cookery, and travel are genres that can have the biggest growth potential online. Blinkx chief executive Suranga Chandratillake believes that this kind of content has the potential to attract targetted investors and is in demand among advertisers and users. Blinkx has formed partnership deals with broadcasting companies like the CNN, BBC, and ITN and is working with its US partners to develop sophisticated profiling tools.
Publication Name: Broadcast
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0040-2788
Year: 2007
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Industry heavyweights debate TV for C4 series
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Top industry players such as Ashley Highfield and Richard Woolfe will share their beliefs and attitudes in the five-part series entitled "TV is Dead?" on Channel 4. The series produced by Liberty Bell will tackle issues concerning the increasing preference for the Internet over the television and the merging of the two media. Other related programs on Channel 4's "Media Unmasked" season are also discussed.
Publication Name: Broadcast
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0040-2788
Year: 2007
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Joining the variety pack
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Independent production company Diverse was founded in 1982, and is now owned by Sweden-based super-indie Zodiak Television. Zodiak has given Diverse's Roy Ackerman and Paul Sowerbutts the task of looking for and investing in startup indies from various genres. Ackerman's and Sowerbutt's views on the state of indies in the United Kingdom are given.
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Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0040-2788
Year: 2007
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