Yahoo is passing on the opportunity to buy a stake in the video site Dailymotion after regulators stepped in to alter the deal. So which company should the internet giant buy instead? Read more »
Remember that Hugo Awards live stream that got yanked off Ustream earlier this week just as author Neil Gaiman was delivering his acceptance speech? Ustream blamed Vobile’s content filters for the incident. Now Vobile is shooting back and saying it was all Ustream’s fault. Read more »
Ustream.tv has been cashing in on its premium broadcasting services, which allow customers to stream live video without ads: The live streaming site announced Wednesday that revenue from this line of products grew 290 percent year-over-year. And increasingly, those streams are viewed on mobile devices. Read more »
Ustream has been unavailable this morning, and Bambuser is seeing huge amounts of unusual traffic due to a distributed denial-of-service attack against both sides. Ustream says the attack was directed against Russian opposition live streamers. Other live streaming services remain unaffected. Read more »
Western media lost an important ally in their attempts to report from Syria today, as citizen journalist Rami Ahmad Alsayeed was killed by armed forcers only hours after streaming live from the city of Homs. Alsayeed’s footage had been used by the BBC and Al Jazeera. Read more »
Video discovery startup Taboola has been growing fast, adding top publishing partners like The Washington Post, as well as expanding into the live streaming video vertical. Those new partners have helped drive growth for Taboola, which now reaches more than 100 million uniques a month. Read more »
Updated. Now we know why Ustream has been raising new funding, and possibly why former CEO John Ham recently stepped down. The startup collected less than half of the $75 million funding round from Japanese mobile and Internet behemoth Softbank that it announced in early 2010. Read more »
The YouTube videos of a police officer using pepper spray on peaceful UC Davis protesters have gone around the world. The incident was captured by dozens of cameras, as the Occupy protests have become the birth place of a new citizen video journalism. Read more »
Live video streaming pioneer Ustream is going through some pretty major changes, the company said Friday. First, it has landed $6 million in new funding from two existing investors — and second, its co-founder, John Ham, is leaving his job as the company’s CEO. Read more »
DaCast is looking to make live streaming easier with a new offering it calls “streaming as a service.” With a flexible pricing model and easy set up, it hopes to find a sweet spot between enterprise platforms like Brightcove and free live streaming services like Ustream. Read more »
We got a chance to talk with Ustream president and co-founder Brad Hunstable in the company’s San Francisco office last week to discuss the company’s evolution and opportunities for future growth, as well as how it sees growing competition from some big-name players. Read more »
The second quarter of 2011 was a fast-paced one for the connected consumer segment, with every sector of the digital media landscape — music, e-books, online video and gaming — experiencing significant events and changes. Media consumption, purchase and management continued its shift towards the cloud, ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Ustream is a popular choice for live streaming shows, lectures and events. Now iOS users have the option to view that content on a larger screen via AirPlay, which should make it easier to participate in virtual conferences and take the show on the road. Read more »
Live streaming provider Ustream is adding another possible revenue stream with the introduction of new Premium Memberships. For $3.99 a month, Ustream viewers will now get unlimited access to any live stream on the site without having to watch pre-roll ads before the video loads. Read more »
Want to do a live stream and share it right on your Facebook wall? Then check out DaCast, which just added such a feature to its live streaming platform. DaCast caters to casual end users, but the service could also be used to stream live events. Read more »
After months of testing, YouTube is rolling out a new live streaming platform for its partners. With the launch of the new service, YouTube will finally be going up against Ustream, Justin.tv and Livestream, seeking to become the king of live events on the web. Read more »
Charlie Sheen is making “six figures” with his sponsored tweets, and his appearances on Ustream attract hundreds of thousands of views, despite the lack of any regular schedule. However, the future of his Ustream show is unclear: Sheen said yesterday that the show is for sale. Read more »
The thriller anthology series BlackBoxTV has been steadily pushing the web series world’s boundaries since launching last August. Today, for example, it’s stepping away from scripted programming this week for a little field trip to Iowa, live-streaming for 24 hours straight from a haunted house. Read more »
The live-streamed charity drive known as Desert Bus, during which members of the sketch comedy troupe Loading Ready Run torture themselves by playing the most boring video game ever, has earned over $233,677 over the last three years. But what’s new for Year 4? Read more »
The live-stream video market is entering an upturn in the typical hockey stick growth chart. Tens of millions of desktop viewers use browser-based players to find live-streaming content on an ever-increasing number of web sites and mobile devices. Raw viewership will grow fastest in the consumer segment, where sites like Justin.tv and Qik are focused. Those like Kyte, Livestream, Ustream and BitGravity, meanwhile, primarily offer platforms to commercial content providers seeking a mass audience. And as the market grows, both in terms of viewers and of the number and type of content providers, it will support both those with a diverse, one-stop-shop approach and those who specialize in particular content and audiences. Additional companies mentioned in this report include YouTube/Google, Sony, HTC, Vivu, Facebook and Apple. To see a full list of companies and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Today on the Net: The FCC could have made a difference in the Fox-Cablevision spat but decided it didn’t want the authority, Netflix could be racking up a $2 billion tab for streaming content and Ustream cut 4.5 percent of its staff today. Read more »
Livestream is ramping up its efforts to court music labels and Hollywood studios with the opening of a new office in Los Angeles. And the startup’s first hire for the office is new Jeff Varnell, who was poached from Livestream competitor Ustream. Read more »
Twitter today announced a new version of Twitter.com at the company’s first-ever major press conference at its San Francisco headquarters. The new app will embed media in the right pane through deals with 16 photo and video hosts including TwitPic, YouTube, Vimeo and Ustream. Read more »
While on-demand services like YouTube and Hulu get all the press, live-streaming services have posted dramatic increases in viewer engagement over the last year. Time spent watching live online video increased nearly 650 percent in that time, to 1.4 billion minutes a month. Read more »
Are you surprised to learn that this year’s Emmy Awards aren’t going to be live-streamed online anywhere? Of course not. But the social media surrounding the ceremony is growing denser: Twitter and live-streaming initiatives are in the process of gearing up for Sunday’s ceremony. Read more »
Today on the Net: Disney CEO Bob Iger is liking the iPad, Apple is going back to its roots with a new name for its Apple TV device, Ustream is going to Hollywood, DIRECTV is partnering with Google for TV ads, and more. Read more »
Live streaming pirates beware: The UFC’s muscle men are coming after you, and Ustream just helped them out by passing along IP addresses of infringing users. The live streaming site told us today that it “complied in a timely manner” to a UFC subpoena. Read more »
The UFC is looking to crack down on illegal live streams of its pay-per-view events, subpoenaing live streaming sites Justin.tv and Ustream to get the IP addresses needed to identify and shut down users that have made videos of those events available for free online. Read more »
Today on the net: Google won’t say how much money it makes with YouTube, Ustream turns to Vobile for content filtering, TiVo users can add more space to their recorder by purchasing a NAS, and more. Read more »
Today on the Net: CBS is testing out HTML5 video on the iPad with old episodes of Star Trek Enterprise, Ustream is making it easier for its professional users to build custom iPhone apps and Rovi is introducing ads into its interactive programming guide. Read more »
Ever wondered how live streaming companies can possibly make any money? Well, how about this for a clue: Ustream announced its new Global Production Services division today, offering offers professional streaming services for concerts, conferences and other events. Live streaming a gig costs $20,000 a night. Read more »
Today on the ‘Net: YouTube’s Hunter walk believes online video is dead, Viacom’s Philippe Dauman discusses alternative subscription models and Hulu is going to make users wait a little bit longer before rolling out its much-anticipated subscription service. Read more »
Live video firm Ustream has made good on its plans to expand in Asia-Pacific, using new recent funding from Softbank to launch a Japanese version of its website at http://www.ustream.jp. Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son announced the launch of the new localized Ustream site in Tokyo today. […] Read more »
I went to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival twice when I was in college. Each time, I came dangerously close to dying from heat stroke. (My people are not a desert people.) So my advice to those who yearn to see some of music’s […] Read more »
As we’ve seen our coverage of live streamed events and shows expand, a question that’s been coming up for me more and more is that of what the optimal time might be to start a broadcast. After all, if you’re not beholden to start times and […] Read more »
Canoe to Deliver Interactivity to Multiple Cable Operators This Year; Canoe Ventures has created a technology for cable subscribers to interact with programs and commercials in a more Web-like experience. (Beet.TV) Cable Programmers Latch On To iPad Hype; Viacom’s MTV Networks, Discovery Communications, Disney/ABC Television and […] Read more »
Justin.tv has finally come out with an iPhone app that will allow its viewers to watch video streams from the mobile device. But while the just-released app is a big step forward for the live streaming startup, Justin.tv still has a long way to go to […] Read more »
When you watch Stupid for Movies, an independently-produced movie chat show live-streaming weekly on Ustream at 8 PM PST, you see Los Angeles-based film critics Mark Keizer and Wade Major sitting side by side on a red-curtained set that invokes the golden days of Siskel and […] Read more »
YouTube yesterday touted the fact that it now processes about 24 hours worth of video content each minute — a milestone for the site. But while that number is impressive, there are a few others that say they can beat it. Without having the advantage of […] Read more »
To quote The Princess Bride: “Let me ‘splain… No, there is too much. Let me sum up.” I’ve been having a great time and learning a lot at SXSW this year, but while I process some of the bigger ideas, here’s just a taste of what’s […] Read more »
