Daisy Whitney: ReelSEO Author
By day, Daisy Whitney is a producer, on-air correspondent, podcaster and raconteur in the new media business. She produces conferences for iMedia and provides strategy consulting to businesses on their online video presence and the online video marketplace. As a reporter, Daisy covers new media for NBC’s KNTV, ABCNews.com, Beet.TV, MediaPost and others. She also hosts the top-ranked iTunes audio podcast “This Week in Media,” which you should totally subscribe to.

Recent Posts by Daisy Whitney:
Did your online ad run where it was supposed to? That's the question a lot of advertisers want to know as they spend more money online and in Web video specifically - upwards of 35% more dollars this year alone. Which means we're now seeing ...
Media company Alloy Entertainment has begun international deal-making for its digital series as it embarks on plan to launch four to six digital shows each year. Other digital studios like Take180 and Mondo Media are also cranking on foreign rights. In this episode of the ...
A recent study from the Yankee Group found that one in eight consumers plan to cut back or ditch entirely their pay TV service this year and live off the Internet only. In this week's New Media Minute, I take a quick look into why ...
Networks and media companies are inking deals left and right for location-based services like MyTown, FourSquare and GoWalla. Travel Channel has already found early success with its MyTown application to the tune of 17 million check-ins in one month, while FourSquare has struck partnerships with ...
This week the annual Cable Show conference kicks off in Los Angeles and TV Everywhere is going to be a huge topic at the show. Comcast has rolled out a beta trial of the service while Time Warner is conducting small trials. In this week's New ...
On the heels of Apple's news that it's sold 1 million iPads in the first 28 days of release, I bring you insight from "The Long Tail" author Chris Anderson on why tablets represent a new era of measurability for advertising (they can now track your activity ...
Advertising dollars are the foundation of the Web video business and those coveted bucks are highly sought after by networks, programmers and independent producers alike. So how do big brands allocate, measure and assess their spending in online video?
At this year's National Association of Broadcasters show, you couldn't miss 3D TV if you tried. The sets were on display on the convention floor and producers were abuzz about how to convert their projects to the new format. The other hot topic at the ...
Are you ready for more ads in your online TV? Because you're going to get them since everyone from Comscore to CBS to ABC to CW says you want them. But will we as consumers tolerate them? I've got some exclusive insight from the Comcast ...
Remember when video was going to be interactive and we'd all click on Jennifer Aniston's sweater to buy one for ourselves? Well, that day is gone, but hotspotting is finally taking off thanks to Web video. Hotspotting refers to clicking on an object in a ...
With Apple's iPad hitting the market in a matter of days, how big an impact will the computer giant's entrance into the tablet and eReader business make? A huge one, according to several research firms such as eMarketer, Yankee Group and Credit Suisse. Amazon's eBook ...
Want to know what new media players to keep an eye on? Daisy Whitney gives us the inside scoop on the companies that marketers and agencies are excited about starting with the marketing technology firm Bunchball, which is generating major buzz in the media and ...
When asked the biggest challenges in online video advertising this year, top executives at media agencies like Starcom and MediaVest say they're most eager to target audiences better and to access more sophisticated data around viewership. At last week's 4A's conference in San Francisco that ...
Media agencies and brands are hungry for data -- they want better data that they can use to target their potential customers. That's why this week's New Media Minute takes a detailed look at a data-driven deal and a new research tool and explains why ...
Remember when I told you the future of TV was international? Now we're seeing even more evidence of that trend because the popular Web series Break a Leg just sold the licensing rights to its show to Fox Italy, marking a big step for Web ...