BlackArrow, an on-demand video ad targeting and delivery service, announced it has raised an additional $20 million. Existing investors Cisco Systems, Inc., Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners participated in the round. Read More »
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Radiohead, you’ll remember, injected some style into the world of user-generated music video contests last spring when it partnered with Aniboom to search for an animation worthy of representing one of the tracks from its album, In Rainbows. The contest process, which … Read More »
Update: If you’re looking for more information on the Canadians who pranked Sarah Palin by pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy, our post is here. NBC.com celebrated 25 million unique visits in September, serving almost 29 million short-form video streams. Among the … Read More »
Even non-fans of netbooks have to agree: these little notebooks are becoming more hackalicious by the day. Take the above homebrew UMPC for example. The creator cobbled this together with … Read More »
We reported earlier on the possibility of a 66% raise in royalty fees for digital music distributors. Have no fear readers, the iTunes store will continue offering the generous service of providing somewhere for you to dump all that spare cash. According … Read More »
There is something incredibly compelling about this segment from Martha Stewart’s talk show, in which Martha and Ludacris learn to make origami boxes. Martha refuses to believe that Ludacris is ADD! Martha admits she likes listening to rap music because it’s “very … Read More »
This political cycle has seen an incredibly innovative use of online video, but they can’t all be winners. The latest Get Out the Vote initiative is a viral video produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way and literally jam-packed with famous faces. … Read More »
Sling Media is prepping the launch of its online video portal, which will feature premium content from 60 different partners. Read More »
YouTube is hosting a “YouTube Live” event in San Francisco on November 22 featuring a cavalcade of web stars and will be live-streamed on the web. This begs the question — is YouTube finally going to unveil a live-streaming product? Read More »
YouTube, which has never had trouble growing an audience but hasn’t yet figured out the trick for monetizing them thar eyeballs, is adding a trick from the old playbook: post-roll advertisements. As we understand it (and this has been confirmed with the company), if you don’t … Read More »
Among the many places you can live-stream tomorrow’s much-anticipated vice-presidential debate, you might think of broadcast and cable news sites, or maybe online video portals and social networks. But one more we left out from our extensive list this morning is The New York Times, … Read More »
StatShot is a weekly roundup of numbers you should know. We’ll be adding new data to this regular feature in the coming weeks. If you have a stat you want to share with readers on an ongoing basis, hit the contact button up top and send … Read More »
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