Sonic Solutions is growing the amount of on-demand TV content it will have available through its Roxio CinemaNow service, striking a deal with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution that will allow it to sell TV shows the day after they air on TV. Episodes will be sold […] Read more »
CEO: Comcast Won’t Discriminate Against Competitor’s Web Programming; Comcast Chairman Brian Roberts says his company will not discriminate against Web programming by competitors, but makes no promises about putting all, or any, new programming on the Web. (Broadcasting & Cable) ESPN Begins Cross Media Research Program […] Read more »
People are watching more TV than ever and using the Internet more than ever before. So how do they find the time? Mainly by doing both at the same time, according to new research from Nielsen. In its latest Three Screen Report, Nielsen found that 59 […] Read more »
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UPDATED Well that was fast. If you’ve tried using the Kylo web video browser, which was just launched this morning, you might have noticed something funny while trying to connect to videos from Hulu — that is, that they’re unavailable. Users can connect to the Hulu […] Read more »
Hillcrest Labs has unveiled a new browser application called Kylo that is designed to make it easier for users to navigate web video content on their TV. Like Boxee, Kylo hopes to capitalize on the trend of consumers who are hooking their PCs to their TVs […] Read more »
Let’s say it’s 2005 and online video is in its infancy. If you’re a Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, how much would it cost to start up and run a video sharing site with the hopes of flipping it for more than $1.6 billion? […] Read more »
The BBC will make viewing of its on-demand videos more social by adding Facebook, Twitter and Bebo integration into its widely popular iPlayer online video application, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. The addition of more social sharing features has the potential to greatly […] Read more »
The Numbers Behind the World’s Fastest-growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed; Viacom releases YouTube’s finances from before the Google acquisition. (MediaMemo) Hulu’s Ad Sales Team Is Undercutting Its Parent Companies; Hulu’s sales team is “actively subverting” the ad sales of its parent companies, which are also […] Read more »
Apple Races to Strike Content Deals Ahead of iPad Release; the company is still negotiating with media companies for a price cut on TV shows that people can download onto the device. (Wall Street Journal) Disney to Offer Mobile VOD in the U.K.; a new deal […] Read more »
The release of court filings in the three-year old copyright infringement suit between Viacom and YouTube has opened a whole new can of worms. To grow, Viacom says that YouTube’s founders and later executives at Google turned a blind eye to copyrighted material. Read more »
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Court filings in the three-year old copyright infringement suit between Viacom and YouTube have finally been made public, which should make some interesting reading and take over the rest of my afternoon. But in the meantime, YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine has written a pretty damning […] Read more »
Gotuit announced a partnership with Brightcove today that will enable joint customers to easily create multiple metadata-rich video clips from their existing long-from video assets, without having to edit them. The system will also help improve video search results and the ability to create engagement-building custom […] Read more »
YouTube yesterday touted the fact that it now processes about 24 hours worth of video content each minute — a milestone for the site. But while that number is impressive, there are a few others that say they can beat it. Without having the advantage of […] Read more »
Ad serving technology firm Videoplaza announced today that it has raised a €3.5 million ($5 million) financing round led by Nordic venture capital firms Creandum and Northzone. The company, which focuses on helping major media companies in Europe to monetize content on their web sites with […] Read more »
Canoe Moving To Bigger Digs, Plans To Double Staff In 2010; the firm specialized on interactive advertising for cable TV has a hiring plan for 2010 that would roughly double headcount. It had 68 employees at the start of the year and its plan calls for […] Read more »
Hollywood studios together with cable operators launched an ad campaign today aimed at educating consumers about on-demand video rentals available directly through their local cable providers — and making up for the shortfall generated by declining DVD sales. 20th Century Fox, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Rogue, Sony […] Read more »
Microsoft has taken a big step toward standards-based web video by announcing support for HTML5 and the H.264 encoding format in Internet Explorer 9, the next version of its web browser. At its MIX10 developers conference, Microsoft became the latest company to throw its weight behind […] Read more »
Rovi is looking to expand its ability to help clients create more personalized recommendation systems, and to do so it quietly acquired media recommendation firm MediaUnbound for an undisclosed amount. The purchase, which closed Friday, March 12, could bolster Rovi’s data business by providing recommendation information […] Read more »
Netflix confirmed today that it has picked Akamai as its primary content delivery network in what looks like a move to lower its streaming costs. The decision could also help the subscription video company to expand into markets outside the U.S., something it plans to do […] Read more »
C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web; C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet, including 23 years and more than 160,000 hours of TV footage. (NY Times) Crackle Sees Video Streams Rise; according to Nielsen Online, Crackle’s audience averages between […] Read more »
The 2010 Masters Tournament, which kicks off with broadcasts from CBS and ESPN beginning on April 7, will be made available in 3-D, a first for the tournament and for the 3-D TV industry in general. The event will be aired live in 3-D by Comcast […] Read more »
TubeMogul announced today that it has built an ad network on top of its distribution and analytics platform, extending its capabilities to help advertisers better target their video ads to users while also increasing visibility into how those ads perform. But the big revelation might be […] Read more »
Netflix streaming could be coming to mobile devices by the end of the year, but the iPhone might not be the first platform to support it, as has been widely anticipated. Instead, that honor might belong to devices that are built on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 […] Read more »
CBS Scores $37M Beyond TV With Help of March Madness; CBS Sports is turning live, ad-supported sports on the web into a real business, selling out its inventory for March Madness on Demand and bringing in about $37 million in online ad sales. (AdAge) TubeMogul Expands […] Read more »
KIT Digital has been aggressively buying competitors over the past two years, picking up the assets and customers of companies like The Feedroom, Nunet AG and Narrowstep. Its buying spree continues today with the acquisition of rival Multicast Media for roughly $18 million in cash, stock […] Read more »
This weekend, the stars will all be out to celebrate the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will be broadcast on ABC beginning at Sunday, March 7 at 8pm EST/5pm Pacific. And while this year’s Oscars ceremony won’t be streamed live online, there will be plenty […] Read more »
Due to strong growth and better monetization, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney estimates that YouTube will make about $945 million this year, and will top $1.1 billion in gross revenue in 2011. YouTube continues to grow pretty substantially, Mahaney points out, despite its already large size. With […] Read more »
Viacom vs. Google Court Battle Heats Up; the copyright fight being waged by Viacom against Google will move into a crucial stage on Friday, when both companies are expected to file motions for summary judgment. (CNET) Clicker Redesigns Its Online Video Guide; with a web site […] Read more »
The first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament kicks off in about two weeks — and as usual, CBS Sports will have broadcast and online coverage of all the games. For those that were disappointed by the lack of live video available from the 2010 […] Read more »
YouTube wants to make it easier for viewers who are hearing impaired or speak different languages around the world, and to do that the company has begun automatically adding captions to all of its videos, it announced today. The video site has a pretty aggressive rollout […] Read more »
Oscars Get the Live-Streamed Red Carpet Treatment; the Academy Awards show is getting with the social media program, live-streaming its red carpet to the web from 3-5 p.m. PT on Sunday. (GigaOM) Comcast in Talks With TiVo About ‘Premiere;’ Comcast is discussing the possibility of porting […] Read more »
UPDATED TiVo shares are rocking this morning, up more than 40 percent after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that found Dish and EchoStar in contempt of a permanent injunction against it for infringing on TiVo patents. “Because we find that the district […] Read more »
Joost, just a few months after having its assets purchased by Adconion Media Group, has found new life as a video ad network. The just-launched Joost Video Network will serve up in-banner and in-stream ads to targeted audiences. Read more »
FreeWheel has made a name for itself by helping publishers to run ads against their videos no matter where they are seen, whether they appear on a publisher’s own web site or — more likely — a distribution partner’s. But it’s tough to do that alone, […] Read more »
The competition is heating up among white-label video platforms that serve broadcast and cable networks as they make more of their video content available online and on-demand. The latest offer comes by way of Ooyala, which says it can now enable major media customers to launch […] Read more »
RealNetworks has finally settled a lawsuit it filed 18 months ago against Viacom and six Hollywood studios, by agreeing to pay them $4.5 million in legal fees and to shut down any remaining services tied to its ill-fated RealDVD software. The settlement puts to rest one […] Read more »
Livestream has issued an open letter touting its “zero tolerance” piracy policy while also comparing its policies against those of Justin.tv and Ustream, its closest competitors. The letter, which is addressed to “content and event owners” (i.e. potential customers), seeks to differentiate it how it treats […] Read more »
Apple Wants to Store Your Video in the Cloud; the company’s representatives have spoken with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the company’s servers. (CNET) Three TiVo Premiere Mysteries; a few images in the company’s press kit […] Read more »
With March Madness right around the corner, the NCAA is opening up its college basketball video archives and putting them online, allowing fans to check out pivotal plays and moments from the last 10 years of the Men’s College Basketball Tournament. The NCAA Vault, which launches […] Read more »
White-label video publishing company thePlatform has rolled out new features that will allow video publishers to utilize social sharing functionality in their video players, enabling viewers to embed clips on social networks and personal web sites. The new features will also allow publishers to monetize those […] Read more »
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