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Disney Launches Story App Aimed at Moms NewFront event focuses on mobile series and games

While most of the NewFront lineups this week have centered on Web video series, Disney Interactive is taking its moment in front of the ad community to pitch a slew…

May 2, 2013, 8:00 AM EDT

A Very Brief History of Web Video From lonelygirl15 to billions of viewers

December 1995-January 1999 After seeing Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s short Spirit of Christmas, TV exec Brian Graden commissions a second video he distributes to friends on VHS. The video—and…

April 29, 2013, 10:06 PM EDT

Disney Film Publicist's Joke Photo With Bloggers Sparks Backlash Personal Facebook post was of 'some of my best friends,' Marshall Weinbaum says

For marketers, blogger outreach can often feel like working in a field of landmines, where one misstep can detonate across the Web. The newest publicist to find himself at the…

April 27, 2013, 10:27 AM EDT

mOcean Has a New Consumer Brands Unit Maintains strong focus on children

Specs Who (l. to r.) Mike Braue, director of client services, consumer brands; Michael McIntyre, president; Christianne Brooks, group creative director; and Kevin Aratari, evp, entertainment What Entertainment advertising, marketing, branding and…

April 18, 2013, 11:15 PM EDT

How Lego Became the Most Valuable Toy Company in the World A bucketload of license deals

“Guys, please don’t take pictures of that,” said the publicist ushering journalists around Lego’s booth at this past February’s Toy Fair in New York. Indeed, several little configurations of plastic…

April 15, 2013, 10:09 PM EDT

Will Hulu's Interim CEO Be Able to Keep Everyone Happy? Andy Forssell knows his content partners, and it looks like they're going to be his main job

Andy Forssell's appointment as interim CEO at Hulu isn't necessarily a surprise, but it does suggest that Hulu is worried about one thing and one thing only at the moment:…

March 15, 2013, 1:09 PM EDT

Ad Blasts Nickelodeon for Airing Junk Food Spots Group says Nick should adopt nutrition policies like Disney and Ion

For nutritionists, when it comes to advertising junk food to kids, Nickelodeon is public enemy No. 1. Or, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest put it in…

March 14, 2013, 11:44 AM EDT

Looks Like Disney Will Be Keeping Star Wars In House Company cancels highly regarded Clone Wars, "postpones" Detours

Has Disney overexpanded? The purchase of Lucasfilm was the company's second multibillion-dollar acquisition in four years (Disney announced it would acquire Marvel Entertainment in 2009) and now it is cancelling…

March 11, 2013, 8:57 PM EDT

Angry Birds Video Series Launching This Week on TVs, in Apps Rovio has nabbed ads from Activision, Paramount, Sony, BlackBerry

For those considering Rovio to be simply that Finnish company behind the Angry Birds mobile games, stop that right now. Rovio has been positioning itself as an entertainment company on…

March 11, 2013, 10:00 AM EDT

OMD! Disney Creates Blog for BuzzFeed-Like Lists Starring Disney Characters The puffiest of sharable fluff

OMG, it's OMD! Oh My Disney is Disney's new blog, and it aims to capitalize on all the Disney legacy it can. You know how every few months some Disney-related…

March 8, 2013, 10:43 AM EST

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