If this was the sequel to the North Carolina sewer creature we chatted about recently, it would probably be called Slimey II: Deadly Northern Exposure. This summer’s monster jam moved northward to Alaska where a 15 mile-long band of black biological goo has been spotted creeping […] Read more »
Twitterers Have Longer Video Attention Spans; Twitter-referred videos are watched on average for one minute, 58 seconds, compared to 1:14 for Facebookers, and :58 for Digg users, according to TubeMogul. (MediaPost) Crowd-sourced Animated Short Getting Theatrical Release; Live Music was created by animators around the world […] Read more »
A new survey from Solutions Research Group found that 73 percent of Time Warner and Comcast subscribers polled thought the idea of their authentication plans (TV Everywhere and OnDemand Online, respectively), which will provide more premium video content online at no extra charge to paying TV […] Read more »
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Verzion’s FiOS Gets Twitter, Facebook and Web Video; the new Widget Bazaar makes TV more social, adds video from Veoh, blip.tv and Dailymotion. (Multichannel News) Watch New Office Webisodes and Follow Character Tweets; new web spin-off series The Office: Blackmail stars Creed, and you can follow […] Read more »
The global paid video market will reach $3.8 billion this year, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, outperforming the free, ad-supported video sector, which it’s forecasting will hit $3.5 billion. And this year is no fluke. Strategy Analytics predicts that paid video will outpace […] Read more »
If the notion that all you had to do was create a web series and advertisers would come ever truly existed, it’s all but dead now. Getting a sponsorship deal for your series takes almost as much work as creating the series itself. During a panel […] Read more »
When CBS jumped onto Comcast’s OnDemand Online trial this morning, we took note because it was the first traditional broadcaster to sign onto the authentication program. The press announcement wasn’t exactly jam-packed with details, so we contacted CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith, who gave us a […] Read more »
While video on demand (VOD) usage via cable operators is growing at a healthy rate, it still lags behind DVR use and web video adoption. I say, if VOD systems on other operators work similarly to what Comcast offers, they will continue to lag until they […] Read more »
CBS announced today that it will become the first broadcast network to join Comcast’s OnDemand Online trial program this summer. According to the press release, the partnership will “expand the number of top-rated TV shows available online,” but didn’t provide any specifics about programming. Typically, authentication […] Read more »
Wireless HD chip maker Amimon announced today it has raised a $10 million Series D round of funding. The round was led by Stata Venture Partners, and included “all significant investors” from earlier rounds, including Argonaut Private Equity, Cedar Fund, Evergreen Venture Partners, Walden Israel and […] Read more »
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HBO and Cinemax will join Comcast’s OnDemand Online trial this summer, giving the cable company’s authentication scheme a high-profile partner. As part of the agreement, 750 hours of content from the two networks will be made available through Comcast.net and Fancast.com. According to the press release, […] Read more »
Brightcove Manages News Corp.’s Latin America Hulu-like Site; company oversees 800+ hours of premium Spanish and Portuguese content for Mundo Fox online (why didn’t Fox have Hulu do it?). (Contentinople) Elsewhere in the world of white-label video, Delve Networks Released its Self-Service Platform; companies can now […] Read more »
While online video coverage of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing is unlikely to drive the same spikes in traffic as the recent Michael Jackson memorial, we realize there is a contingent of people who want to watch our government in action. Fans of political […] Read more »
If at first you don’t succeed…try again by buying back the remnants of your failed company. That seems to be the motto for Drew Massey, who created ManiaTV and, according to The New York Times, is trying to resurrect the recently defunct new media studio. Massey, […] Read more »
Nexage Raises $4 Million; service says it can make mobile video and ad uploads easier; pulls in $4 million of an anticipated $4.5 million of funding in the form of preferred stock. (VentureBeat) Cinetic Curates FilmBuff; new VOD channel will feature 10-15 new and classic indie […] Read more »
Starz announced yesterday that it was joining Comcast’s OnDemand Online trial, making content from its pay TV channels available for viewing online — if you’re a Starz subscriber. Starz joins Time Warner, which announced last month that its TNT and Turner networks would be part of […] Read more »
The only thing hotter than the NewTeeVee LA meetup last night was an actual wildfire that broke out near the Getty. But neither natural disaster nor the most horrific traffic this reporter has ever experienced could keep people from this party. We had so many people […] Read more »
Best Buy and TiVo Hook Up; retailer to heavily promote the DVR maker and bring TiVo tech to Best Buy’s Insignia line of devices; TiVo to develop version of its box that lets Best Buy advertise its products directly to the TV. (The New York Times) […] Read more »
Add Sony TV sets to the long list of hardware devices that will stream Netflix movies. Netflix announced this morning that starting this fall, net-connected Sony Bravia TVs and older Bravias that use the Internet link module will be able to access its “Watch Instantly” movie […] Read more »
If there is a type of TV show just screaming (sometimes literally) for socialization — it’s sports, and now thanks to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, there are more soapboxes than ever on which the sports fan to spout off. ESPN is looking to […] Read more »
I sat in on the “Adapting Existing Properties for Digital” panel at NATPE’s LA TV Fest this morning, and one of the key themes of discussion is what exactly is the evolving nature of participation in online storytelling. The general consensus among panelists was that a […] Read more »
Skyfire Gets a New CEO; Jeffrey Glueck joins the mobile browser company, was formerly chief marketing officer at Travelocity. (TechCrunch) Cinemash Kicks Off Today with 500 Days of Summer Stars; Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt take on roles in a web remake of a scene from […] Read more »
YouTube caught a break yesterday, as a federal judge dismissed some claims for damages in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against the video giant. This decision wasn’t about Viacom versus YouTube. Rather, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ruled that plaintiffs in a separate class-action lawsuit, including […] Read more »
We knew when enterprise live-casting service Veodia purchased screencasting tool ScreenToaster last month that it was already working on a product based on its acquisition’s technology. Last night, Veodia “quietly” launched Screenjelly (get it? Toast — Jelly?), a sort of snackable screencasting service. Screenjelly is a […] Read more »
Study: DTV Switch to Boost Pay TV Subscriptions; analysis from Wells Fargo Securities says cable will get 475,000 new subs, satellite will get 137,000 and telcos will get 41,000. (MediaWeek) Thomson Reuters Acquires Streamlogics; terms of the deal not disclosed; Streamlogics provides webcasting-based services to enterprise, […] Read more »
The newspaper industry has been battered over recent years, as people migrate their reading online and sites like Craigslist steal classified dollars. Now newspapers may need to defend another revenue stream — the Sunday circular — as Office Depot has decided to take some of the […] Read more »
I’ll admit that the second season of True Blood is an improvement on the first (now if they would just get rid of Sookie), which helps explain why the campy-vampy show is all the talk on Twitter (as reported by Trendrr). True Blood scored a big […] Read more »
iPod Lineup to Get Video? Whispers of a video camera and pictures of a new case with a camera-friendly hole have blogs buzzing. (TechCrunch) Speaking of i-video, check out this Guide to Video on the iPhone 3GS; exposure, focus, and the “jelly” effect are some of […] Read more »
Former Joost CEO Mike Volpi already has a new gig lined up. He’ll be a venture partner at Index Ventures, which was part of the group that pumped $45 million into the little web TV startup that could (but didn’t). Joost announced last week that it […] Read more »
If I was the Count from Sesame Street I would say something like, “Three! Three of the four major broadcast networks now have their content on Hulu!” (with accent, of course). ABC, which had long been a Hulu holdout, refusing to run its full-length content anywhere […] Read more »
Growing up, my parents referred to the television as the “idiot box” or the “boob tube” because of its power to sap my ability to do anything other than stare blankly into its cathode glow. But the TV-viewing experience is undergoing a transformation as new levels […] Read more »
I’m in the midst of moving, so I’m stuck in between mountains of cardboard boxes and molehills of bubble wrap this holiday weekend. That means I have little access to the Internet and television and, by extension, the Wimbledon semi-finals. Evidently, NBC forgot the “live” part […] Read more »
Dailymotion announced today that Cedric Tournay has been named its new CEO. Tournay replaces Ian Brotherston, who had only held the post since April. Brotherston will stay on with the company but will move over to become executive vice president of international strategy. MediaPost reports that […] Read more »
The biggest horror hit of the summer may not come from any box-office blockbuster, but rather from video footage taken from a Raleigh, N.C., sewer system. The clip uploaded earlier this week shows a moist, throbbing blob affixed to the inside of a pipe. The video […] Read more »
Sling Founder Headed to DirecTV? Satellite company reportedly has reached out to Blake Krikorian to succeed Chase Carey as CEO. (paidContent) The NewsMarket to Acquire MediaLink; NewsMarket will acquire all oustanding shares of MediaLink’s common stock for 20 cents per share in cash; move will combine […] Read more »
Dish Network subscribers will still be able to use their DVRs (for now) after a federal appeals court yesterday granted a stay of a lower court injunction against the service. After losing its patent infringement case against TiVo, Dish (formerly known as EchoStar) developed a DVR […] Read more »
YouTube Launches Call-to-Action Overlays; Promoted Videos can now feature links that take traffic off the video site. (YouTube Biz Blog) Will TV Get an App Store Moment? The pieces are in place, but there is no clear winner yet, though Microsoft, Apple and Nintendo have the […] Read more »
Joost announced today that it is shifting business strategies and it “will focus on providing white label online video platforms for media companies, including cable and satellite providers, broadcasters and video aggregators.” As part of this transition, Mike Volpi will step down as CEO and Matt […] Read more »
In what sounds like an elaborate April Fool’s prank, the Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) says it’s in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, for 60 million Swedish kronor ($7.8 million), 30 million Swedish kronor ($3.8 million) […] Read more »
Over the past year, YouTube has made a concerted effort to embrace premium content like TV shows to attract ad revenue. But according to a new report from Screen Digest analyst Arash Amel, the video-sharing giant faces an uphill battle as the Hollywood networks and studios […] Read more »
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