Time Inc.’s PEOPLE Announces Video Flash Briefing for Amazon Echo Show
June 28 2017 - 12:30PM
Business Wire
PEOPLE is One of the First Entertainment
News Brands to Produce a Video Flash Briefing Link:
PeopleAlexaVideoFlashBriefing
Time Inc.’s (NYSE:TIME) PEOPLE, America’s leading multimedia
brand mixing entertainment news, lifestyle coverage and human
interest reporting, announced today that it is launching a Video
Flash Briefing for the newly released Echo Show. Available to
consumers today, the Amazon Echo Show brings a video component to
Alexa. Now users can watch video flash briefings and see music
lyrics and security cameras all hands-free.
Every weekday at 7am ET, PEOPLE will post a video flash briefing
with the latest breaking news in entertainment custom for the
Amazon Echo Show. Host Jeremy Parsons will share a first look at
the entertainment news to start the day including inside stories
from the editors of PEOPLE ranging from pop culture and crime to
human interest, lifestyle and more. PEOPLE is one of the first
entertainment news brands delivering a video flash briefing for the
Echo Show at launch.
“We are thrilled to bring PEOPLE’s content to a new platform
with the Amazon Echo Show,” says Jess Cagle, Editor in Chief of
PEOPLE and Editorial Director of Time Inc. Style and Entertainment
Group. “We are always looking for innovative ways to extend our
audience of (68 million without social, 98 million with social),
and the Echo Show is a natural fit for the brand as we expand our
video offerings.”
Jen Wong, Chief Operating Officer and President, Digital of Time
Inc., said, “At Time Inc., we are dedicated to reaching our
consumers whenever and wherever they want to connect with our
brands. As we continue to aggressively expand into video, we’re
constantly looking for opportunities to develop custom content for
platforms like the Echo. PEOPLE’s daily video flash briefing offers
our consumers one more way to access the content they love.”
To access PEOPLE’s flash briefing for the latest in
entertainment news, enable the PEOPLE flash briefing in the skills
store (Link: PeopleAlexaVideoFlashBriefing) and then ask
Alexa on your Echo Show, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?”
ABOUT PEOPLE
Time Inc.'s PEOPLE revolutionized personality journalism when it
launched as a weekly in 1974 with a mission to celebrate
extraordinary people doing ordinary things and ordinary people
doing extraordinary things. Ubiquitous and still at the center of
pop culture more than 40 years later, the PEOPLE brand is
accessible across all media and platforms (print, digital, video,
OTT, mobile, social) bringing millions of consumers a unique mix of
breaking entertainment news, exclusive photos, video, unparalleled
access to the red carpet, celebrities, and in-depth reporting on
the most compelling newsmakers of our time. An essential component
of PEOPLE's editorial vision remains human interest stories, which
touch and often mirror the lives of our passionate audience. Now
PEN, the PEOPLE/EntertainmentWeekly Network app, offers a free,
advertiser-supported OTT streaming video service. PEOPLE is an
award-winning 24/7 news organization headquartered in NYC with
reporters worldwide. For more information, visit PEOPLE.com and
Timeinc.com, and follow @people on Twitter and Instagram,
@peoplemag on Facebook, and the PEOPLE channel on YouTube and on
Snapchat's Discover.
ABOUT TIME INC.
Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is a leading multi-platform media company
that engages over 170 million consumers globally every month.
The company's influential brands include PEOPLE, TIME, FORTUNE,
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, INSTYLE, REAL SIMPLE, SOUTHERN LIVING and
TRAVEL + LEISURE, as well as more than 60 diverse international
brands. Time Inc. offers marketers a differentiated proposition in
the marketplace by combining its powerful brands, trusted content,
audience scale, direct relationships with consumers and unique
first-party data. The company is home to growing media and
platforms, including digital video, OTT, television, licensing,
paid products and services and celebrated live events, such as the
TIME 100, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women, PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive,
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’s Sportsperson of the Year, the ESSENCE Festival
and the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen.
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