Updated with funding amount. Trivop, a Paris-based travel video startup, will announce tomorrow it has raised funding from a strong group of angel investors. It’s interesting to see funding coming to niche video sites, especially such a specific niche — Trivop focuses solely on video guides […] Read more »
ESPN Creating More Mobile Video programming to appeal to younger viewers on the go. Most interesting is the graph from Forrester Research showing how computers and phones now more valuable than televisions to the youngest. (NY Times) NBC.com Has Delivered 300 Million Streams since October 2006. […] Read more »
What do you get when you mix the Justin.tv crew, a Mustang convertible from ZipCar, and a suction camera mount? Entourage.tv, of course! Above is embedded the NewTeeVee team promo for our event Tuesday (for which there are a few tickets left!). Jackson and Craig did […] Read more »
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Paramount Now on Joost; as promised, but the first nine movies from the studio have shown up (OnTheToob, thanks to Matt for the tip) NBC Expects $1 Billion in 2007 Digital Revenue, delays launch of NewCo video site till Fall. (Reuters, more Reuters) The Innards of […] Read more »
Now this seems like a pretty obvious evolution for Web video. HeyCosmo, a product from startup Arsenal Interactive launching today, is offering group environments for webcam chat, aiming to create live poker games, fantasy drafts, and cooking shows. Up to 10 people can join a room […] Read more »
Veoh has raised $26 million in Series C funding, according to peHUB, with Goldman Sachs leading the round and Spark Capital and Shelter Capital Partners upping their stakes. peHUB thinks it’s likely Michael Eisner’s Tornante and Time Warner Investments participated as well. San Diego-based Veoh has […] Read more »
Google Video has made the switch to being a video search engine with an index of video from sites across the web, using an interface similar to the company’s image search engine. This follows up on an announcement to this effect from January, after Google admitted […] Read more »
We are thrilled to tell you about the Metacafe and NewTeeVee Pier Screenings speaker and judge lineup for next Tuesday’s event. Gregg Spiridellis, co-founder of JibJab and a founding father of viral video, will be our guest interview on the topic of parody. Spiridellis will grace […] Read more »
Bay Area Backroads Goes Online, local travel video archive finds a home on the web, and $500,000 in angel funding. Heartening! (the alarm:clock) Le Meur Relocating for Video Startup; French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur is moving from Paris to Silicon Valley to work on a new […] Read more »
Cuts, an online video editing startup that launched in February, has sold to DVD commentary site Rifftrax for an undisclosed sum. Interestingly, Cuts investor Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital admits in his blog post on the topic today that the company elected to bow out […] Read more »
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PermissionTV, a white-label provider of branded web video channels, has raised $9 million in a Series C round. It seems to be a funding week for online video, with Kyte announcing new money Monday and EveryZing taking $10 million Tuesday. Waltham, Massachusetts-based PermissionTV offers streaming Flash […] Read more »
YouTube is leaking hints of plans to localize around the world. Despite global popularity, the video site is currently only available in English. But the beginnings of a master international plan are coming out, with recent indications of designs to launch both Chinese and French versions […] Read more »
Your Truman Show Opens Up Beta; we had given you an early preview of the site last month. (site) CinemaNow Relaunching Music Video Sales; $1.99 and full of DRM, seems pretty backwards at this point. (the Associated Press) Heavy.com Geo-targeting Ads; video site to use IP […] Read more »
Multimedia search company EveryZing, known till yesterday as PodZinger, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Fairhaven Capital, Accel Partners, and General Catalyst, the company announced today. Along with “dropping the pod” from its name, which is interesting in and of itself, EveryZing is […] Read more »
YouTube is a month away from testing video fingerprinting to proactively detect uploads of copyrighted content, according to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Content owners such as Time Warner and Disney will participate in lab testing of the long-awaited product, which is being developed internally […] Read more »
Kyte.tv, product of San Francisco-based decentral.tv that has been frequently mentioned on this site, tells us it has raised additional funding from Nokia Growth Ventures. The company had less than a month ago announced funding from Swisscom, Klaus Hommels, and Holtzbrinck Ventures. In both cases the […] Read more »
Demand Media has acquired ExpertVillage for an undisclosed amount, according to Reuters. Click here for more on “Telekinesis Revealed: Learn Easy Magic Tricks Online for Free” ExpertVillage commissions how-to videos, with more than 17,000 of them currently in stock. It has a strong open distribution strategy, […] Read more »
Big companies buy hot web startups for their audiences and their cool factor. Increasingly, along with the transaction is the up-and-down pinkie-swear promise to have little-to-know impact on the acquired company. No name change, no office location change, little-to-no leadership change. Acquirers, despite their enormous and […] Read more »
This article was written by Ben Homer, a NewTeeVee contributor who runs the site Online Video Watch. Microsoft recently unveiled Surface, a digital coffee table with a 30-inch “multi-touch” display which combines existing technology to bring digital media closer than ever before. This is the first […] Read more »
Newspapers Producing Their Own Online Video, the disses from TV newscasters towards the end of the article are priceless. (Broadcasting & Cable) Vongo Not Cannibalizing Cable; Starz says 70 to 76 percent of Vongo customers don’t get any premium networks. (Light Reading) YouTube Modifies Embeds Again, […] Read more »
Me.dium, a company making a browser add-on that relates the webpages you are browsing to those being viewed by other people concurrently using the tool, today announced it had raised $15 million in a second round of funding, bringing its total amount of capital to $20 […] Read more »
Apple is “in advanced talks” to launch a movie rental service, according to the Financial Times. Apparently the studios are the ones spilling the beans, though they won’t comment on the record. The service sounds quite reasonably priced and somewhat portable; it could be the shot […] Read more »
Limelight Networks, the content delivery network focused on digital media and provider to many of the companies we write about, began trading on NASDAQ today. The Tempe, Arizona-based company sold 16 million shares of common stock for $15 to raise $240 million, and today closed up […] Read more »
MTV Adds User-Gen to Comedy Shows; Viewers invited to submit Yo Mamma jokes and Short Circuitz-style parodies, some will be featured on-air. (release) Congress All Worked Up about P2P; looking to colleges and tech firms to stamp out piracy (ZeroPaid.com, Ars Technica) First Full-Length Movie Released […] Read more »
Audio and visual fingerprinting of copyrighted video is seen as the best way to combat infringement, but in NewTeeVee’s testing this week across multiple sites, it did not work. We were surprised to be able to upload multiple times the exact same copyrighted file, even after […] Read more »
Revver, which has seen the departure of many of its prominent founders, employees, and content producers, tonight announced its final remaining founder, Steven Starr, will be stepping back from his CEO role and assuming the position of chairman of the startup’s board of directors. The company […] Read more »
YouTube’s New Embed Player Deployed; hover-over for related videos is very nicely done, see it in action in the Esmee Denters vid below. (blog post) Timberlake Signs YouTube Artist; 18-year-old Dutch singer Esmee Denters, who recently covered one of his songs while he cameoed, will be […] Read more »
Those half-minute ad spots slowing us down from getting to our video are apparently making us think a product is relevant and encouraging us to consider its brands. Aw man! Nice job guys. The Online Publishers Association today released a downloadable report finding U.S. online video […] Read more »
Babelgum this week started opening its public beta with a lottery system. But if you want to jump to the front of the line, the company is doing a special landing page for readers of NewTeeVee and GigaOM. Just go to this URL, enter your contact […] Read more »
Break.com, the male-specific video site, launched last night a new video player that incorporates a whole bunch of features we haven’t seen elsewhere. It’s perhaps too many features, but one or two of them will no doubt become industry standards. The Video Player – Watch more […] Read more »
We are ramping up quickly for the next Pier Screenings event, to be held June 19. It’s a rolling submission process, so the earlier you upload or embed your video the more time you’ll have for people to rate it. Definitely get it done before June […] Read more »
British startup VideoJug drew our attention with its recent $30 million funding round. Since then we’ve been talking with the company about its U.S. launch, which just happened this week. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind; since mid-January, the company opened a U.S, office, hired […] Read more »
William Sledd, the fourth-most subscribed YouTube member, is the latest web video star to score a job for his efforts, taking his Ask a Gay Man series to Bravo’s gay-themed web portal. He joins singer Ysabella Brave (see update below) and comedian Sherry Sirof in scoring […] Read more »
As expected, Joost is announcing former Cisco exec Mike Volpi will be its new CEO. We first wrote about this last week after hearing rumors for the last month or so, which paidContent confirmed. Volpi told us Monday he will be moving to London for the […] Read more »
Lala, an enabler of CD swapping and provider of Internet radio, is announcing tonight it will soon be offering a large catalog of music for streaming directly from its website, including the catalog of Warner Music Group. This is a big move, improving on existing Internet […] Read more »
Blip.tv, a video-hosting site popular with independent creators, has raised its first round of venture funding, to be formally announced Tuesday. The investment was led by Ambient Sound Investments, and included Lauder Partners as well as individual investors. Blip CEO Mike Hudack would not disclose the […] Read more »
Releasing movies for purchase on DVD and on-demand at the same time can increase sales of both, according to an experiment by Comcast and six studios: Warner Home Video, Paramount Pictures, Disney, NBC Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate. The study, conducted between November and April, […] Read more »
YouTube Gets Local TV Feeds, will share revenue with Hearst-Argyle. (Reuters) Disney Has a Wiki, and other digital media strategy (Fast Company) FBI Presses Charges Against 24 Uploader, faces up to three years in prison. (Variety) Cuban Argues for Online Video Ad Price Hierarchy, says full […] Read more »
Andrew Michael Baron, who has been publicly opining about new models for monetizing online video, announced today his pioneering video show Rocketboom is launching a sponsorship system, with YouTube being the first participant, starting tomorrow. The sponsorships are selling for a significant price of $3000 per […] Read more »
Yesterday I paid a visit to the CastTV headquarters, and was amused to find the company recently moved into the Jumpcut space in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco, following Jumpcut shacking up with its new parent company, Yahoo. Pretty good evidence this little […] Read more »
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