Twitter has teamed up with Turner Broadcasting and a startup to provide short video highlights from the NCAA March Madness games, showing again how the company is interesting in a variety of multimedia options. Read more at paidContent »
March Madness is once again streaming each and every game live online. However, this time around, viewing live streams will require a cable subscription – unless the game airs on CBS. Confused? Then check out our guide. Read more »
Viewers who wanted to tune in to March Madness either had to pay a one-time fee or authenticate with their pay TV logins. That pay wall ended up causing fewer viewers to show up. But the decline wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Read more »
Want to watch the NCAA Championship game, but can’t make it back home to your TV in time tonight? No worries, there are plenty of sites and apps that help you to tune in live or keep track of the action. Read more »
Earlier this week, I weighed in on the NCAA tournament with my data-influenced picks, and now the experts have crunched the numbers and are weighing in with their purely objective picks. If you haven’t filled out your bracket, you might want to read this. Read more »
With each passing March Madness tournament, we’re a more mobile society. So what apps can we best leverage to enjoy all 67 NCAA games? Here are my “final four,” with links for each supported platform so you’re ready for tip-off; most are free or relatively inexpensive. Read more »
March Madness is a go! Once again, games will be streamed online, but this time around, you will have to pay $3.99 to watch – unless you are a Comcast cable TV customer, in which case live streaming is still free. Confused? Check our explanation for details. Read more »
March Madness is officially upon us, and this year I have a plan to dominate my betting pool by using big data. I hope. I’m going to balance my gut feelings and my heart’s desires with statistics and . . . I’m going to hope everyone else doesn’t do the same. Read more »
CBSSports.com is encouraging cubicle dwellers to turn their lair into a basketball temple and post photos on Facebook for a March Madness co… Read more at paidContent »
Streaming March Madness tournament games next month won’t be as free and easy as it was last year, with broadcast partners CBS (NYSE: CBS) a… Read more at paidContent »
Last year’s free-to-view March Madness on Demand was wildly popular for CBS and Turner. This year, the tournament games will be under a paywall, in a sort of TV Everywhere model. Read more »
CBS today disputed claims by ESPN said that the World Cup face-off between the U.S. and Algeria was the biggest U.S.) online sporting event ever, saying one of its March Madness on Demand live streams had more unique viewers. ESPN3, however, is standing firm. Read more »
Guess what: The iPad launch isn’t the only thing happening this weekend. The last two games of the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament before the finals are going down this Saturday, and the Final Four have been getting lots of buzz on Twitter all week. Which […] Read more »
The next round of the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament begins tonight, with the final sixteen teams ready to battle it out for a chance to advance to the National Championship game next week. But before they do, there are a few rounds of basketball yet […] Read more »
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Three million people used the March Madness On Demand video player to catch the first round of the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Championship online yesterday, according to a press release sent out by CBS Sports today. Sports fans watched a total of 3.4 million hours of […] Read more »
Trying to watch March Madness on a Google Nexus One? Just imagine if you had the Adobe Flash 10.1 beta installed. Actually, there’s no need to dream it — just watch the video demonstration and see if you think it’s a slam-dunk. Read more »
March Madness is kicking off with its opening round game today, and CBS is getting ready to live stream all games online starting with the first round on Thursday. The network has already made $37 million and sold all of its ad revenue for March Madness […] Read more »
Here in the U.S., March Madness is upon us. The three week national college basketball tournament brings out fans from all walks of life, but how does one keep up with the action? These eight mobile methods work on phones and computers from the first tip-off. 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 »
March Madness, baby! If you didn’t already have a good reason to drive down to Costco and pick up a huge new TV, this is it. Of course, that shiny new flatscreen won’t help you much for those games airing during office hours, but there is […] Read more »
Are you just chomping at the bit for everyone’s favorite college basketball tourney to kick off? Well, you got a week or two to wait yet, buddy. In the meantime, though, Hulu is running its own bracket — one where you get to vote on the […] 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 »
CBS has released the final tallies for its web broadcast of the recently concluded March Madness tournament, and it’s a big win all around for the network. The audience rose to 7.52 million unique visitors, the number of total hours streamed was up, and ad revenues […] Read more »
Even though my March Madness bracket is busted (stupid losing Louisville), I’ll still be checking out the Final Four this weekend. You can catch all the action online at mmod.ncaa.com through the March Madness On Demand video player for free, or if you’re on the go, […] Read more »
Traffic to the March Madness On Demand player during the first four days of the tournament already surpassed the traffic of the entire tournament last year, CBS Sports announced today. Here are the stats from the press announcement: NCAA March Madness on Demand traffic figures through […] Read more »
CBS’s coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is off to a strong start as the network announced today that more than 2.8 2.7 million unique visitors used the March Madness On Demand player during the first day of play yesterday. That 2.8 2.7 million is […] Read more »
UPDATE: To find out where to watch the 2010 NCAA tournament, go here. So live video has finally, finally come to YouTube this morning. CBS has embedded its Silverlight March Madness bracket and live game coverage directly onto a YouTube channel. Go to http://www.youtube.com/marchmadness to check […] Read more »
UPDATE: To find out where to watch the 2010 NCAA tournament, go here. Let’s be honest. This is the most wonderful time of the year. March Madness, baby! The NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament is back! Once you’ve filled out your bracket and given $5 to […] Read more »
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CBSSports.com says that its ad inventory for the upcoming March Madness On Demand (MMOD) is nearly sold out and that revenues generated by the web video product are approaching $30 million. CBSSports.com Senior VP and General Manager Jason Kint told MediaWeek that ad revenue would be […] Read more »
Hard to believe that the NCAA Mens’ Basketball March Madness Tournament is just around the corner — but it is, and this year CBS Sports is adding a high-quality viewing option to its March Madness On Demand (MMOD) video player. The new player uses Microsoft’s Silverlight […] Read more »
Based on the early numbers we’re seeing, the Olympics are poised to put an exclamation point on an already strong year for sports video online. So how exactly have the strides, swings and slam-dunks performed in 2008? We’ve pulled together data from some of the biggest […] Read more »
Wimbledon starts today, and you can catch all the action online through the magic of livestreaming. Well, you can catch it if you run a Windows machine and if you want to pay $24.99 (though we have some free passes — keep reading). But will this […] Read more »
CBS took in a healthy $23 million in revenue from its online streaming of March Madness this year, the company disclosed on its quarterly earnings call this morning. That’s in line with the revised expectations CBS gave us at the end of the tournament, when it […] Read more »