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Friending: Walker Jacobs, SVP Turner Digital Sports & Entertainment
Walker Jacobs is senior vice president of Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital, overseeing online advertising sales for the Turner Entertainment Group portfolio of TBS, TNT, truTV, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and GameTap, as well as the digital properties of Turner Sports which include NBA.com, NASCAR.com, PGA.com, PGATour.com, TBS Hot Corner at MLB.com, and broadband channel TNT Overtime at NBA.com. He is based in New York and reports to David Levy, president of Turner Broadcasting Sales, Inc. and Turner Sports.
Since joining Turner in August 2007, Jacobs has built a team that develops integrated sales and marketing solutions for advertisers across the sports and entertainment portfolio of television networks and businesses, and drives all ad sales on the internet, video-on-demand (VOD), and mobile platforms. Under Jacobs’ leadership, the newly-formed group has made groundbreaking strides in the digital ad sales arena. In May 2008, Jacobs played an integral role in launching the Turner Network, a consortium of nearly twenty online destinations that include entertainment, news, sports, kids and young adult digital platforms. The creation of the Turner Network broke affiliation with third-party ad networks to better develop, package and execute all digital inventory, and allows distinct advertising opportunities that leverage Turner’s portfolio of world-class brands and visitor demographics.
In July 2008, Jacobs helped Turner Sports and Entertainment Ad Sales broker a multi-year strategic alliance with Yahoo! Inc. that allowed the two companies to collaborate on advertising and sports-related content. The agreement established Turner as the exclusive representative of online advertising sales for the NBA, golf and NASCAR pages of Yahoo! Sports, the #1 online sports destination, and provided increased exposure of Turner sports content to Yahoo! audiences.
Before joining Turner, Jacobs served as senior vice president of the Reuters Americas Media Group, responsible for general management of Reuters.com, managing ad sales and business development, as well as content sales for Reuters Media Business in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Notably, while at Reuters, Jacobs negotiated a partnership with NASDAQ and subsequently managed sales of “Times Square Squared,” a venture that combined The Reuters Sign and NASDAQ Tower as the world’s largest outdoor digital display system, based in Times Square, New York. Jacobs joined Reuters by way of the company’s March 2003 acquisition of Multex Incorporated, a leading financial research and information company. Prior to the merger, as vice president, he managed the media business and advertising sales for Multex Investor and Marketguide properties. Jacobs began his executive career in media as Publisher of Institutional Investor Online, responsible for general management, operations, advertising sales, e-commerce and marketing of their websites.
Jacobs serves on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement New York. He is a graduate of John Carroll University and currently resides in Manhattan with his wife Jennie and his daughter Louise.
Big Fuel Lanches Youtube Channel with New Original Series: “Friending”
Friends, Colleagues, Partners,
To officially kick off the launch of our YouTube Channel, “Content to Commerce,” today we are launching a new series of webisodes called, “Friending…”.
“Friending” a BIG FUEL original series in partnership with DM2, brings you insights from today’s marketing, advertising and entertainment leaders on the subject of social media, consumer engagement and communications in today’s new media landscape. For the premiere episode, Big Fuel founder and CEO, Avi Savar sits down for an intimate conversation with Larry Gelfand, SVP Digital Ad Sales at the NHL.
About Larry Gelfand:
Larry Gelfand joined the NHL in October of 2007 as Senior Vice President, Media Sales. In this post, Gelfand leads the NHL’s media sales effort in the U.S., focusing on development of new revenue opportunities, aggregating all media inventory and managing the NHL media sales team. Prior to joining the NHL, Larry Gelfand was the Vice President of Digital Sales for VH1 at MTV Networks. Gelfand oversaw all aspects of VH1′s Digital media sales business and developed the sales strategy, recruitment of the sales staff in implementation of organizational goals and initiatives. Gelfand reshaped the VH1 digital sales department to achieve the objectives of establishing the VH1.com presence in the online advertising marketplace resulting in doubling the ad revenue business in two years, when he was the recipient of the first President’s Award of distinguished service. Prior to joining MTV Networks, Gelfand served in a variety of key sales roles with ESPN. After establishing ESPN.com’s ad sales relationships in New England with key league partners, Gelfand lead the digital effort for ESPN Customer Marketing’s Team OMD. Prior to joining ESPN. Gelfand served in a variety of sales leadership roles at AOL and The New York Times.
Hulu and Facebook Taking Share Away from YouTube…
Last week Mashable’s Ben Parr posted this article that made me do a double-take. The numbers speak for themselves:
YouTube’s huge lead in online video just got a little bit smaller due to surging growth from two up-and-comers in the video space: Hulu and Facebook.
Web analytics firm ComScore released their data for online video usage in October, and the numbers are astounding. While Google/YouTube (YouTube) continues to dominate with over 125 million monthly viewers (and over 1 billion views per day), both Hulu (Hulu) and Facebook (Facebook) had double-digit percentage gains, shattering their previous video records.
Online video continues to sustain its surge in growth. According to ComScore, there were 27.94 billion videos viewed in October, up a big 7% from September. Out of that, Google/YouTube is still on top with 10.52 billion videos viewed.
The big mover in October though was Hulu. In September, the News Corp/Disney/NBC joint venture delivered 583 million views. In October, that number shot up by 31.8% to a total of 855 million video views. This is by far a record for the TV video website. Most of this however can be attributed to the fall primetime season being in full swing:
In terms of unique viewers though, there wasn’t that much of a change. YouTube had 125.3 million unique viewers in October, nearly identical to its 125.5 million in September. Hulu didn’t have a lot of growth, either: 42.4 million people tuned in to the service in October, compared to 38.7 million in September.
In fact, the biggest winner seems to be Facebook. In September, it had 31.18 million unique viewers. In October, that number skyrocketed by nearly 25% to 41.15 million uniques. Once again, this is a record for the world’s largest social network, and one that speaks to how powerful Facebook is becoming in the video space.
There were some other eye-popping numbers (84.4% of U.S. Internet users watched at least one online video in October and the average person watched 10.8 hours of video), but the central theme is the same: online video continues to grow and the end is nowhere in sight.
Read MoreEveryone’s a celebrity: 10 pop culture trends that defined the decade
Celebrity is no longer reserved for the select few that walk red carpet and get stalked by paparazzi. The era of social celebrity is here and continues to draw attention. A recent CBC News post by Greig Dymond highlighted 10 terrific examples of this trend — where, thanks to social media, anyone among us can reach celebrity status.
This was the decade when everyone became a celebrity. Well, almost everyone.
The past 10 years didn’t invent the concept of celebrity; they just broadened the definition of the term to a ridiculous extent. More people than ever have achieved some minor level of notoriety. As the film The Truman Show shrewdly predicted back in 1998, voyeurism and technology are the twin engines that propelled this shift.
Just ask Richard Heene, now-famous (and infamous) father of the “balloon boy.” His story — a twisted amalgam of reality TV, fame-whoring, all-news channel coverage and breathless tweets — couldn’t have happened in quite the same way 10 years ago. The lines between entertainment, personal narrative and news have become irrevocably blurred.
Here are what he lists as the 10 pop culture trends that shaped the decade.
1. Reality TV
2. YouTube and the art of the viral video
3. Celebrity gawking, 21st-century style
4. The iPod killed the CD star
5. Newspapers in jeopardy
6. Auto-Tune
7. Twitter, Facebook and the explosion of social media
8. The rise of U.S. cable dramas
9. Guitar Hero/Rock Band
10. The rise of “fake news”
Check our the complete descriptions of each trend by reading the full article. Some video clips for each trend can be found here:
Reality TV
YouTube and the art of the viral video
The iPod killed the CD star
Auto-Tune
Guitar Hero/Rock Band
Read MoreCNBC Video: Pete Blackshaw on the Future of Advertising
Following Nielsen’s presence at ad:tech, Nielsen’s Pete Blackshaw discussed the power of social media as it relates to the future of advertising and marketing.
Pete is a co-founder of the 2004 Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA), and presently sits on its board and co-chairs its ethics committee. He presently authors a bi-weekly column on digital marketingpetepic5 strategy targeted to Chief Marketing Officers for the ClickZ marketing network. He’s frequently quoted in major publications, and he authors several work and personal blogs, including Hybridbuzz and parenting centered blog Dosbebes. On Facebook, Pete manages the Consumer Generated Media , Digital Cincinnati ,and Web 2.0 Dads groups.
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