I Want My MTV…Voki Playground?
MTV has partnered with Oddcast to provide avatar-centric Voki Playgrounds for some of their most popular shows. Visitors to these so-called playgrounds (really just a fancy word for sub-sites) can...
View ArticleMTV backing new digital-only show about Memphis music scene
In digital content news, MTV New Media has teamed up with “Hustle & Flow” director Craig Brewer for real-life music drama about the Memphis music scene. Called $5 Cover, the 15 webisode show will...
View ArticleFinally, a reality show about ‘Rock Band 2’
This is kind of along the lines of the Onion’s World of World of Warcraft spoof, except that it appears to be real. According to a Craigslist post in the LA area, MTV is apparently looking for people...
View ArticleMTV Wants To Sell Ads On Like-Minded Sites
It is not enough to be a destination site anymore. Everyone now wants to become an ad network. MTV Networks on Monday announced that it has expanded its vertical ad network strategy by building ad...
View ArticleHow To: Unlock all tracks in Rock Band 2
Flickr’d Remember the unlock code from the first one? Yeah, it’s the same thing – Red, Yellow, Blue, Red, Red, Blue, Blue, Red, Yellow, Blue.
View ArticleHow to: Host the most kickass Rock Band 2 party
It’s been five days since the release of RB2 and the weekend is almost here. Any plans? No? How about you, yes you, host the most kickass rock-n-roll RB2 party this weekend? We will, with the help of...
View ArticleAC/DC gets their own version of Rock Band, sold exclusively at Wal*Mart [Update]
This is getting out of hand. MTV is set to announce AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack today, says the NYT. The game’s launch in November will help boost awareness for the band’s new album “Black Ice.”...
View ArticleMTV posts music videos: Dogs and cats, living together
http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtvmusic.com:107879 Bob Dylan |MTV Music In what must be one of the signs of the apocalypse, MTV has posted hundreds – dare I say thousands – of music...
View ArticleMTV bleeps out file-sharing sites? Probably
http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtvmusic.com:108884 Weird Al Yankovic |MTV Music I can’t figure this out. This video, from MTV’s video site, has been bleeped by MTV in an effort to hide...
View Article‘The Hills’ breaks down the Large Hadron Collider
Sigh… Above, please reference what girls between the ages of 10 and 30 think is cool. Also, as it happens, the same reason MTV will be blocked from every TV in the Aamoth household if I ever have a...
View ArticleMTV Pulls The Plug On Embeddable Videos [Update]
When NBC Universal and News Corporation-backed Hulu launched in Fall 2007, it was a signal that old television media might actually grasp the distributive power of the internet. Not only were great...
View ArticleNetflix inks deal with Viacom to stream South Park, other shows
Today, Viacom and Netflix announced a new agreement that will bring hit shows from various Viacom networks, like, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon to your Xbox, laptop, etc. Yes, that means you can...
View ArticleMTV Turns To Twitter And Facebook To Power New Flagship Show
In a bid to retain its role as a pop culture staple, MTV has announced plans to a launch a show that taps into the power of social media, tightly integrating with Facebook and Twitter to maximize fan...
View ArticleKyte Streams 50 Million Videos A Month. Rolls Out iPhone Apps For MTV, NBA,...
In an age when anyone with a video-capable cell phone can have their own TV channel on the Web, it is still the celebrities and rock stars who are getting all the views (just as on Twitter they get...
View ArticleAttack Of The Tweets: MTV's Movie Awards Twitter Visualization Graph
I was hit with a reminder this Sunday morning that I am indeed no longer a 15-year-old teenager. But if you are a Bieber-Swift-Pattinson-Stewart-OMGVampires-loving tween/teen, then boy does MTV have a...
View ArticleThe MTV VMA Twitter Tracker Shows 1.5 Million Tweets And Counting
If you are watching the MTV Video Music Awards right now, chances are that either you or someone you know is also Tweeting about it. Some trending topics on Twitter right now are “lip synching” (Oh,...
View ArticleYou'll Be Able To Watch President Obama's Town Hall Without Leaving Twitter.com
As you may be aware, President Obama is holding a Town Hall event today with the help of TV networks MTV, BET, and CMT. One key to the event, which takes place at 1 PM PST, are tweets. The President...
View ArticleApprupt, the affiliate network for mobile apps, bags MTV as a partner
Apprupt, the affiliate network for mobile apps, has today announced that its bagged MTV Networks as a publisher partner. Four of MTV’s German mobile websites – MTV Music, VIVA, the children’s and...
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MTV Europe Mobile Moves Into Social TV With Digital Agency AKQA
Viacom’s MTV is making one more move into trying to capture the youth market on the platform where it’s increasingly spending most of its time: the broadcaster, in partnership with digital agency AKQA,...
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Artists.MTV, Where Musicians Claim Their MTV Profiles, Enters Public Beta
MTV is opening its new Artists.MTV website in public beta today. The site was first announced at South by Southwest as a “pro-artist initiative” that allows musicians to “take control of their MTV...
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