comScore: GooTube Continues to Dominate Online Video
Friday, November 30th, 2007CBS Signs Truveo to Add Video to Radio Websites
Thursday, November 29th, 2007What goes well with music? Apparently video. I can’t entirely argue with this, for the most part. And CBS thinks that video will be a great accompaniment to its radio stations. CBS has teamed up with AOL’s video search service Truveo to extend its tools to ...
Democrats Launch Large Republican Video Archive
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007One of the worst problems I’ve found with the current state of American Presidential campaigning this season is the glut of pre-packaged propaganda. It’s either B. Hussein Obama’s pre-screened tech-centric interviews, John “Pretty Boy” Edwards’ 300 social media presences (with no actual personal updates from the candidate himself), or a ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Video Sharing
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Online video has been one of the major stories of 2007, with dozens of companies receiving massive amounts of funding from investors. YouTube has maintained its #1 position since being acquired by Google late last year, but up-and-comers like Metacafe, Daily Motion, and Blip.tv are hot on their heels. ...
UK TV Houses Join To Create Online Video On Demand Service
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007BBC, ITV and Channel 4 will launch a joint online on-demand video service in 2008, providing hundreds of hours of TV program, all in one place. The content offered by the currently unnamed service (code name being Kangaroo) will include over 10.000 hours of program, including current shows and archive ...
Wired Starts Video Effort
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Wired has a new thing going on over at video.wired.com. For this purpose, they’ve hired Annaliza Savage of CrankyGeeks fame, which has previously worked for Ziff Davis. This hasn’t got a lot to do with Wired, but it seems that things aren’t looking good at Ziff Davis Media; several months ...
NewsFlash: Online Video Ads Work
Monday, November 26th, 2007As it turns out, the outlook might not be bleak for online video after all. VC Dennis Miller said that it was a few weeks back, but network websites like ABC, NBC and CBS that stream online their network TV shows are having a hard time selling advertisements to keep ...
Dabble Selling Video Search Data, for Marketing?
Monday, November 26th, 2007Video search engine tool Dabble has indicated its plans for the expanded use of all the metadata it collects. As far as market research goes, that looks to be the precise direction in which Dabble is moving, with the use of its people-powered search tools being applied to ...
John Howard’s YouTube Plea for Votes…Without a Video.
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Those Australian readers out there will probably be more familiar with this story than the rest of the world, but the election concerning the country’s Prime Minister John Howard has caused quite a frenzy in recent weeks. Actually, it appears that John Howard is the one that’s worked himself ...
Best of Mashable: Video
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Video has become a huge part of the online experience, and big video services like YouTube and Joost have been in the focus of everyone’s attention for the better part of this year. With Internet speeds constantly increasing, it can only get bigger and bigger. Digging through our archives ...
Google Ditches Video Link, Replaces It With Products
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Ok, it’s not a big deal, but it’s a holiday, and thus Google replacing a link on their homepage qualifies as news. So, here goes: Google has replaced the “video” link on the classic homepage with the “products” link, formerly known as Froogle. The video link got dumped in the ...
Sony BMG And Yahoo Sign Music and Video Deal
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007If there’s one thing that YouTube taught us, it’s the fact that you can get sued no matter how big you are. Yahoo has learned its history lesson and now they’ve signed a licensing deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment which lets their users upload Sony’s video and music content ...
Google AdSense Video Units Going to the UK
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007AdSense Video Units will be available to English-language publishers in the UK, Ireland and Canada. Having been launched in the US over the summer, the video ads are now taking the leap to Europe, and will surely be rolled out on a larger scale across the globe. You ...
See Video Uploads on a Map: DailyMotion
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Dailymotion has decided to go the same route as many other websites out there, by adding a map that shows the real time activity of its site. You can now see where videos are being uploaded from across the world, as they’re being added to the site. ...
CNET TV Brings Online Video Content to the UK
Monday, November 19th, 2007CNET is one of the rare major online media powerhouses which commits to creating original, exclusive online video content, mostly related to technology. With CNET TV they’re expanding the horizon, as it’s going to have videos about music, film and TV, gaming and technology. CNET TV was launched by the ...
AOL Prepares New Video Annoyance: Video Ticker Ads
Monday, November 19th, 2007Boy, those big companies are really trying hard to mess up the online video viewing experience for us. We’ve got pre-roll ads, post-roll ads, overlay ads and dozens of ads all around the video. Now, AOL (with the help of PointRoll and its TickerBoy technology) has prepared a new way ...
Paris Hilton: Independent Video Content Producer
Monday, November 19th, 2007Just as soon as I had hit the submit button on a number of editorials of the evening essentially advocating the independent New Media content producer, I receive word that Paris Hilton has already taken me up on my advice. Alright, so that’s a stretch, but it is in accord ...
Online Video: Strike While the Iron is Hot
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Now is the time to crank up the creative juices, if you’re at all interested in creating online video content for profit. In fact, if you’re in the online video business in any capacity, you need to listen up. Your opportunity is now. It all has to do with ...
