Hulu today announced a $2 price cut on its for-pay subscription service, Hulu Plus, reducing the price to $7.99, hoping it will goose revenues further in 2011. In this video chat from NTV Live, CEO Jason Kilar talks about company’s strategy, IPO and Hulu Plus. Read more »
Of course we were excited about all the amazing news that was announced at our NewTeeVee Live conference yesterday, but we weren’t the only ones that took notice — news organizations like the Associated Press, USA Today, TechCrunch, Reuters and others reported breaking news from our show. Read more »
The amount of live video watched online grew more than 600 percent over the past year. At GigaOM’s NewTeeVee Live conference, executives from livestream providers UStream, LiveStream and Justin.tv, plus the head of YouTube’s new livestream product, gave their take on what’s driving that growth. Read more »
The celebrity tweet: good or bad? For the wildly popular television show Glee! it’s been a great success, though Fox VP of Innovation Hardie Tankersley admits that companies need to tread carefully in the Twitterverse. Read more »
What’s next for BitTorrent, a company that initially tried to establish a peer-to-peer-based download store for mainstream Hollywood, then aimed to help publishers distribute bits more effectively? Co-founder and chief scientist Bram Cohen explained at NewTeeVee Live that the company is focusing its efforts on livestreaming. Read more »
More than 35 hours are uploaded to YouTube every minute, Google’s Hunter Walk announced at NewTeeVee Live today. But the conversation focused on YouTube’s increasing multi-platform approach to content distribution, with a focus moving, in Walk’s words, “from a device-centric world to a user-centered world.” Read more »
At NewTeeVee Live, Schematic’s chief creative officer Dale Herigstad explains that the future of the screen is layered, a single space, branded and looks like an iPhone app. Read more »
Most people just want to watch TV. They want it to be simple, and it should “just work.” Speaking today at GigaOM’s NewTeeVee Live conference, Peter Merholz, the president of user experience design firm Adaptive Path, explained, “People want the same media experience they’ve always had.” Read more »
Televisions have been in homes for decades but only in the last three years has Samsung rolled out broadband connected TV, so Olivier Manuel, director of content at Samsung Electronics America says his company has to straddle the line between early adopters and a wider audience. Read more »
The fight for the TV audience doesn’t have to be a face off between the walled gardens of cable and satellite companies and new connected devices, said Buddy Snow, senior director of solutions marketing for Motorola Mobility’s broadband home solutions at NewTeeVee Live conference. He said the two can co-exist and create a winning proposition for consumers. Read more »
It’s a good thing that the Logitech Revue set-top box isn’t an ideal cord cutting device, since Google TV product lead Rishi Chandra said he doesn’t believe cord cutting is actually happening. Chandra also said that Google TV isn’t meant to replace cable anyway. Read more »
Making online video content is one thing. Making money from it is quite another, and Blip.tv can be credited with coming about as close as anyone to helping content producers monetize their videos. CEO Mike Hudack told NewTeeVee Live attendees today how his company helps producers. Read more »
The creators of Lost and Heroes told the NewTeeVee Live conference that now is one of the most exciting times to be a storyteller, because the web — along with social networks and mobile devices — allow writers to take their stories in new directions. Read more »
Social media and new online services have changed the way folks can distribute their own films, and Oren Jacob explained today at the NewTeeVee Live event how he spends much of his evenings trying to distribute his film about competitive grocery bagging. Read more »
No, you don’t have to turn off Flash to save battery life of your MacBook Air, said Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch at NewTeeVee Live today. Lynch pointed out that Adobe has been doing a lot to optimize battery life and video playback on all platforms. Read more »
How will Merton, the improv piano guy who got famous via Chatroulette, evolve? He tells the crowd at NewTeeVee Live he plans to keep performing live events, interacting with his audience and signing deals with companies that can fund him. Read more »
Hulu is going to make more than $240 million in revenue in 2010, the company’s CEO Jason Kilar revealed at NewTeeVee Live today. Hulu had 30 million users in October 2010, who watched some 260 million content streams as well as 800 million ad streams. Read more »
After branching out to mobile and online, the NBA is coming full circle to the TV set, focusing on TV app distribution. Bryan Perez of NBA Digital said the league plans to be on the top five TV manufacturers by the end of the season. Read more »
With the rise of cord-cutting, streaming TV, and the app-ification of TV, the online video industry is changing dramatically. That’s why the theme of our fourth annual NewTeeVee Live event is Television Reinvented. Watch the livestream and follow the live blog here, starting at 8:15 am PT. Read more »
