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Veoh Investor Michael Eisner: When Do I Get Paid?

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2008-06-05 17:54:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Eisner and Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro. Shapiro was supposed to be interviewing Eisner at Digitas' "Newfront," a showcase of Web video for potential advertisers held in New York But since Eisner is an investor in Veoh, and well, because he's Michael Eisner, he felt he had the right to ask Shapiro some questions. Specifically: "You just raised...
 
 
 
 
 
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Michael Eisner Unlocks The Mysteries Of Web Traffic: Sex, Sports, Sarah Palin

2008-10-07 17:36:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Eisner. Luckily PaidContent's David Kaplan took excellent notes. His entire post is well worth reading , because even if Eisner has yet to prove that he's figured out the Web, he gives excellent quote Actually, strike that. The former Disney boss already knows what works on the Web: Check out this excerpt What do people want to see? Are we...
 
 
 
 
 
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Michael Eisner's Web Flop

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2008-06-11 11:28:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Eisner was paid to pick winners, and he did a very good job. But that track record doesn't mean much in the world of Web video Eisner started out on the Web with a hit: With a push from MySpace, and then Veoh and YouTube, "Prom Queen", racked up 15 million views over two seasons. But " Foreign Body ", his newest effort, has been a flop so...
 
 
 
 
 
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Michael Eisner's "Foreign Body" Still Unloved, Unwatched

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2008-07-28 12:12:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Eisner's "Foreign Body," the much-hyped Web series that supposed to promote an upcoming Robin Cook novel, doesn't look like it's going to do the book much good. The 40 episodes aired (streamed?) so far have generated just 1 million views -- less than this clip of a 3G iPhone in a blender . "Quite frankly, it's been a challenge," Vuguru...
 
 
 
 
 
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Michael Eisner Spends Big - By Web Video Standards - For 'Foreign Body'

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2008-05-28 10:30:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Eisner's Vuguru studio launched its latest series, " Foreign Body " on Tuesday, a big-budget series meant to help sell a new Robin Cook novel coming out this summer What's different about Eisner's latest foray into online video? A few things. First, it's an every-day serial of 50 episodes. Most ambitious Web videos come out once a week, and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Vogue, IMG Pay TV Money (Or Close To It) For A Web Series

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2008-07-17 13:20:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Eisner's "Foreign Body," which at $5,000 a minute had "big" budget by Web video standards Clothing retailer Express LLC paid a little more than $1 million to sponsor the series, and Vogue is guaranteeing Express 83.4 million views during three months on Bebo.com. That works out to a cost of $12 per thousand impressions, a very low ad rate for...
 
 
 
 
 
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Writers Strike Over?

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2008-02-08 18:53:53 by Ashley in CyberNet
...Eisner as saying, Its Over. A deal has been made and theyll be back to work very soon. Could it really be over? Theres been no official word from the Writers Guild of America on whether or not this is for real, but Im sure well be hearing one way or another, officially, very soon Its hard to believe that the strike started back on November...
 
 
 
 
 
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Just what we need: MySpaceTV's new 'hidden camera' reality show

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2008-02-26 16:22:00 by Caroline McCarthy in Webware.com
...Eisner's production company, got a decent amount of buzz but Eisner admitted it wasn't profitable . The scripted drama Quarterlife , a project from the team behind My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething , was enough of a success that NBC picked it up amid the Writers Guild of America strike. But Roommates , created exclusively for MySpace,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Universal Music Group's British arm to debut series on Bebo

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