According to a well-orchestrated rollout in the mainstream media, retailing giant Wal-Mart is set to enter the video download business Tuesday, with films and TV shows that can be downloaded and played on Windows PCs and some Windows Mobile devices. A wide range of titles including […] Read more »
Remember Bridezilla? We wrote up this viral video last week, focusing on the fact that multiple parties were claiming responsibility for a hit clip depicting a bride hacking off her hair an hour before her wedding. Since then, we’ve been updating the post, but each day […] Read more »
One revenue model that bridges the gap between the gift economy and the, um, economy economy has been used for decades by American public television stations — the pledge drive. It’s also worked successfully online in some cases, Jason Kottke’s being the best known. Now the […] Read more »
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So what do you get when you bring a macrobrewer’s mentality to the microcontent world? How about tired sketch comedy cliches, prehistoric treatment of women and more product placement than one can reasonably stomach. In a desperate attempt to be edgy and authentic on one hand […] Read more »
Last week NewTeeVee writer Jackson embedded himself in the wilds of SoCal to study a flock of NewTeeVee personalities in their natural habitat. He turned in a five-part Lunching in Los Angeles essay series. Here’s the whole set: Monday at Tengu Buzznet at Langer’s Almost There, […] Read more »
“Copyright infringement is still a theft. A crime. A felony. Plain and simple.” – Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, Aug. 22, 2006 Given Sumner Redstone’s recent opinion on unauthorized Internet video-sharing, Friday’s call from Viacom for YouTube to take down 100,000 video clips was probably inevitable. What […] Read more »
Mary Matthews over at Video Pancakes emailed to let us know that her show 39 Second Single will be featured in an upcoming segment on NBC’s Weekend Today Show which, in her words, “is about how women are using video blogging to make changes in their […] Read more »
Before the next week hits all of us full-force, we wanted to make sure to note a trio of interesting online video reports that came out last week. Will online video help or harm traditional TV? It’s a matter of whose numbers you use. Below the […] Read more »
Yes, yes, there was lots of user-generated content and a split second of Kevin Rose, but what stuck out to me? The CBS promo for Criminal Minds: “There’s a video of this murder posted on the Internet?” It’s one thing to be all the rage in […] Read more »
There was a point Thursday evening where in my head I could almost get a clear vision of what it all meant and where it was all going in terms of motion pictures. I woke up confident that I’d get a couple of interviews in, and […] Read more »
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YouTube, silly! And if you have any doubts, then check out the latest stats from Compete.com, who sent us a list of top twenty video sites, which we hope to track for you every month. According to Compete data for the month of December 2006, YouTube […] Read more »
Brightcove, having just closed $59.5 million worth of funding, is widening its focus from commercial and professional video to chase the consumer side of the space. This week, the company launched Brightcove Personal, allowing users to set up channels to post their own video. But in […] Read more »
Mark Cuban’s post expressing his reservations about the BitTorrent protocol was bound to draw some responses from the passionate peer-to-peer community. Our guest contributor Janko thinks he might have one good point, at least. TorrentFreak wrote a measured response. And this week, BitTorrent creator and CEO […] Read more »
While the world clears space on its TiVos to record whatever part of his body Prince chooses to reveal during his Superbowl halftime show, the innerwebs is busy capitalizing on the hype in the hopes of drawing eyeballs away from the big screen. For instance, Blendtec […] Read more »
Viacom said Friday it was demanding Google pull more than 100,000 clips from YouTube. The company claimed an outside consultant found the set of videos had been streamed more than 1.2 billion times. Viacom had been in months of negotiations with YouTube, and it seems the […] Read more »
Another day, another harried schedule of lunching around town. My first stop was Papa Cristos for gyros with Sean Bury and Chris Cantwell of Invisible Engine Films. Then I took the metro across town to Hollywood for a coffee with Cory Tyler of Can We Do […] Read more »
Update (Monday, 12 p.m. PST): Here’s a pretty good summary of the genesis of the video from the Globe and Mail. Turns out the haircare company AND the group of women came up with the stunt. And they’re going to try to milk it for all […] Read more »
In an article by Mark Sullivan on Light Reading it’s been revealed that the long-awaited BitTorrent content network will be released this month. Originally planned for a launch by the end of the year, the holdup was negotiations with content partners. Despite BT detractors like Mark […] Read more »
We’ll have to do a little departure from my five-part “Lunching in LA” series today because my lunch date fell through yesterday. But I do have some interesting stories from my evening mingling the last two nights. Tuesday night it was drinks at The Standard Downtown […] Read more »
GigaOM staff writer Katie F. called from DEMO to say NewTeeVee should get in touch with one of the presenters, Magnify.net. It’s video. It has a community angle and a niche play and a widget strategy. It’s just on the verge of closing some funding. So […] Read more »
Well, it appears YouTube’s posturing toward paying its creators is coming a little too late for some of the site’s stars, who are already making the leap to television. Yesterday FOX announced YouTube star LisaNova is joining its MADtv cast (we first heard about this on […] Read more »
A number of major studios want to settle on a digital watermarking standard, according to Laurie Sullivan’s recent article in Red Herring. Digital rights management schemes are by no means ironclad, but by putting unique digital signatures in their movies, studios would in theory enable file […] Read more »
Forget the pre-roll ad. Instead, think of content-sharing partnerships, contextual ads and more experimentation as Google seeks to monetize the eyeballs garnered by its $1.65 billion online video toy YouTube. While calling video advertising something that could be “a significantly large business for us,” Google CEO […] Read more »
There is a specter haunting Europe – and it’s poised to cause some nightmares for video and social networking companies like YouTube and MySpace. Collective licensing organizations throughout the continent have been demanding compliance in recent months, seeking their share of the potential billions generated by […] Read more »
From the team that produced Cocaine Cowboys and Raw Deal, comes a new production, Clubland. This forty-episode documentary series about competing nightclubs in South Beach will be broadcast online starting in February (see it on MySpace). The relatively low production costs of documentaries and the current […] Read more »
Coming through on their promise to provide more color, the folks from Roo Group called today to let CEO Rob Petty give some more explanation to the company’s recent investment deal with News Corp., and hinted that another similar deal with another large media company is […] Read more »
Jaman, the global movie download service that Om profiled here last year, got a star turn at the DEMO conference in sunny SoCal today. Our Katie F. is at DEMO and is live blogging, doing a quick take on the rapid-fire presentations. Check out her ongoing […] Read more »
If all you knew about Amanda Congdon was that she hosted an awkward infotainment show on ABCNews.com, I guess it might surprise that the same Congdon once shined as the dynamic anchor of the videoblog Rocketboom. Before showing up at ABC, Congdon wowed the Web as […] Read more »
Hayden Black, the creator of mock news show Goodnight Burbank, has signed a deal to create a pilot for the new HBO Online, according to an anonymous source. The source tells us the new show’s working title is “Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Vlog” and Black will be […] Read more »
This morning I called up a contact I’d originally met in Austin at the South by Southwest Interactive conference last year, Marc Brown of Buzznet. While not the first company you’d think of as a leader in online video, Buzznet did add video to their publishing […] Read more »
Forget the commercials, the contests, the surrounding fluff: When it comes to the Super Bowl, give me the damn ball. And that’s just what the NFL has decided to do, announcing Tuesday that it will provide Super Bowl video highlights, as well as a 90-minute game […] Read more »
At a media luncheon on Tuesday, Vince Broady, head of games and entertainment, gave an update on Yahoo TV and Yahoo Movies, both of which were redesigned last fall. Yahoo TV is now seeing 7 million unique visitors per month, he said, while Yahoo Movies is […] Read more »
The consortium of content providers and hardware manufacturers that backed AACS encryption finally admitted that hackers successfully pilfered the encryption keys. [Reuters] The good news about Windows Vista is it’s launching with some interesting P2P features like “People Near Me.” The bad news is the core […] Read more »
While web shows like Rocketboom (and the Amanda Congdon show), ScobleShow, Ask a Ninja and lonelygirl15 pull down cable television numbers, and a million others on YouTube are busy making faces on camera for a few friends and family, there’s a whole world of great content […] Read more »
So you don’t have hundreds of thousands of viewers per episode. If you can’t get a Ninja-level deal, there are a growing number of alternatives. For starters, if you’re willing to do a little shilling, you might be able to bring in a cool $25,000. Jeff […] Read more »
Widgets, or embeddable slices of outside information that update automatically (displaying anything from a picture slideshow to current weather conditions) have their lovers and their haters. We like the way they bring a little bit of the outside world to a page, and have been experimenting […] Read more »
Part one of a five-part series where I sit down to talk about the web video scene with the people who are both making it and making it possible in Los Angeles. I made two mistakes planning my trip to LA: One, I’m staying downtown, which […] Read more »
Update: John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media, emailed to deny that any payments have been made to Ask a Ninja. Our sources maintain that a portion of the ad revenue guaranteed by Federated Media is to be ‘floated’ up front to the Ask a Ninja team […] Read more »
Remember when cable television was still new and exciting, with crazy new niche networks popping up all the time? “A whole network with nothing but cooking shows — it’s madness!” Well, Bruce Springsteen might have to change the lyrics to his song, “57 Channels (and nothing […] Read more »
Hitwise’s Bill Tancer reports YouTube is already seeing the benefit of parent Google indexing it into its Google Video search last Thursday. Week to week, YouTube’s market share of U.S. internet visits rose to .64 percent from .54 percent, an increase of 18.5 percent. How much […] Read more »
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