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 »
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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 »
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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 »
UPDATE: According to the latest version of the PR Week story, Hitachi, and not their PR firm, is responsible for the Mr. T video below. Which may or may not be why the two have split. From our point of view, who cares as long as […] Read more »
Personally, I think podcasts are still mostly an inconvenience, but we got pinged about a couple today that sound interesting. Gregory Gallant of Venture Voice does a podcast with Fred Seibert of both Next New Networks and the quality cartoon podcast Channel Frederator. Fred talks about […] Read more »
Speaking to fellow “world leaders” at Davos on Saturday, Bill Gates gave television five years to live. Granted, Microsoft has their own IPTV effort already working in Switzerland, so this could just be a really hard sell to the Swiss audience. “I’m stunned how people aren’t […] Read more »
Look, we realize we’re part of the problem, giving free publicity to advertisers by calling their Super Bowl chip-selling activities “news.” But something about a story in Monday’s Wall Street Journal — which says that online sites have already sold pre-roll advertising for online versions of […] Read more »
If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is ready to buy up as much as 10 percent of online video technology provider Roo Group, in a deal that may amount to as much as $12 million, according to the story […] Read more »
Webshots, like a cat with nine lives, is going in for another reincarnation. This time it wants to play big mama to fledgling video stars, offering them money along with professional tips. It is an effort on part of CNET, the parent company of the Webshots […] Read more »
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said today his company (now owned by Google) “is going to move in [the] direction” of rewarding video creators for their content, as part of a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Attendee Jeff Jarvis taped the statements […] Read more »
MTV is pretty much the granddaddy of short, informal video content, but until this week the channel had never tried posting a web show itself. Yesterday we had the chance to meet (via phone) Matt Sunbulli, an MTV News staffer who’s started the channel’s first vlog. […] Read more »
Editor’s note: The following post is for entertainment purposes only. Please refer to this press release for all the facts about the exciting news that more educational programming is coming to a 10-gigabit network. “Dude!” “dude.” “Goin’ out tonight?” “No man, I’m going to get LambdaRailed.” […] Read more »
A lingering question since Google’s acquisition of YouTube has been what the parent company will do with its own video product, which it effectively announced was not good enough back in October. Three months later, we are seeing the first integration. Google writes today on its […] Read more »
Google Watch reports that Fox is now asking YouTube for details on users who uploaded episodes of 24 and The Simpsons. The Hollywood Reporter followed up with details about the user in question, and that Fox is also going after the lesser-known LiveDigital. Mashable points out […] Read more »
Ever wondered where all these bogus search results in P2P networks come from? It seems like you can’t use Limewire anymore without getting videos that suspiciously seem to echo your search request, but on playback just open a bunch of pop-ups for adult Youtube clones and […] Read more »
The ever-opinionated Mark Cuban presents four potential problems for the mainstream adoption of BitTorrent-type P2P networks for content distribution. [Blog Maverick] Waxy.org takes a fascinating look at how many movies nominated for Academy Awards are already online, and how it affects the practice of distributing screeners […] Read more »
Each winter, the Mavericks big-wave surf contest is held in Half Moon Bay, California, with surfers and fans alike getting only a day’s notice when the swells are right. For years I’ve hoped I’d take the day off and drive a few miles down the coast […] Read more »
Roo Group, an entrant in the online hosted video space, said Tuesday it would purchase an online video startup called MyVideoDaily in a deal mostly meant to obtain MVD’s personnel and software technology. If nothing else, the terms of the deal — $350,000 and a half-million […] Read more »
Last weekend we caught up on the adventures of Lonelygirl15, where the plot has thickened, to say the least. Crazy cult stuff, a murder, hooking up with Daniel, and lots of interactive mystery clues. The team is doing its best to keep the gag going, and […] Read more »
In a staggeringly transparent piece of linkbait, Forbes has foisted the moniker ‘Internet Famous’ on 25 unsuspecting internerds. I fully intend to rib Om “Blogfather” Malik mercilessly about his inclusion at number 24, especially since he forwarded me the link. But in an indication of what […] Read more »
The popular comic book and pop culture podcasters at iFanboy.com have gone from audio to video. The new show (with the familiar name) is available on the Revision3 network, known for other popular shows like Ctrl-Alt-Chicken and Diggnation. In the first episode, hosts Josh Flanagan, Conor […] Read more »
The U.S. President’s State of the Union address is always a television event, with multiple networks broadcasting live and much of the world watching. C-Span’s live feed is where I’ve been catching George W. Bush’s act evolve over the last few years. But they’re slow to […] Read more »
Walking a very, very fine line here, I just thought I’d point out a video from ‘Donnie Davies’ called “The Bible Says” that’s catching buzz. Why? Because the vast majority of people are going to find it either highly offensive or highly hilarious. But they’ll all […] Read more »
It had been popping up in my feeds every day for a week. I didn’t even watch it — I assumed it was that old instructional video they showed in health class, comparing the webs of spiders administered psychoactives. And by day three or four, it […] Read more »
If the Associated Press were to start its first videoblog, what do you think the subject matter would be? Real-life newsroom tales? Leftovers from interviews with famous people that didn’t make it into the wire story? Nope. The AP’s first videoblog, airing this Thursday, is a […] Read more »
Startup vSocial, which sells white-label video-sharing solutions, also has a destination site where it plays with new features. Today, the company launched something kind of cool — a way for users to clip and “quote” pieces of video, adding tags and inline comments. Far more robust […] Read more »
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