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 »
Much of the data regarding how we used our handsets to keep up with the 2010 World Cup has been released. Here’s what we can take away regarding how we use our handsets and how prepared network operators are to deliver the goods. Read more »
Bigger screens lead to longer mobile video engagement times: That’s the result of some data crunching over at MobiTV, which analyzed the World Cup viewing patterns of various mobile users. Another result of that research: Users of Android devices watch far more soccer than iPhone users. Read more »
The just-concluded 2010 World Cup was “the largest period of sustained activity for an event in Twitter’s history,” according to the company. But one thing the Spain-Netherlands finals didn’t create is yet another tweets-per-second record. Read more »
Mobile users browsed the web and checked on scores with their handsets while World Cup soccer games were broadcast, and flocked to YouTube the day after important matches to find video footage of goals, fouls and penalty kicks, according to a new report from Allot Communications. Read more »
Today on the Net: Netflix edged out Hulu in terms of overall web traffic according to comScore, admins of BitTorrent site Inerfim.ru are charged in a $1.25 billion copyright infringement suit and 3-D TV is going to be huge by 2015. Read more »
Millions tuned in online to watch the World Cup, with both ESPN3 and Univision serving huge audiences. Mobile TV services have also seen significant traffic, and Twitter went down due to the surge of complaints about those vuvuzelas. Read all the details in our stats round-up. Read more »
One of the big winners of the 2010 World Cup is Univision. The broadcaster has been showing all the games of the tournament online, for free and without any restrictions — a recipe that has also been attracting a growing number of predominantly English-speaking soccer fans. Read more »
Today on the Net: Apple is moving its iTunes music and movie service into the cloud, about a third of US residents watched the World Cup, according to Nielsen, and TiVo will supply software and services to power a next-generation TV initiative at ONO in Spain. Read more »
Today on the Net: YouTube plans to roll out skippable ads later this year, World Cup interest has led to more than 1 million downloads of the MobiTV iPhone app and Dyyno is helping its customers to drive streaming video viewing through Facebook. Read more »
With the U.S. team, Mexico and many others heading home, will online traffic for World Cup streams and Twitter live updates plummet? First stats seem to signal that interest in the tournament is ebbing off, but the U.S. team’s last game still saw some significant traffic. Read more »
Looking for a live stream of the World Cup? Then don’t fall for one of countless scam sites that promise goals, but deliver malware. Kaspersky Lab told us of sites distribute password-stealing trojans, and live-streaming companies try to rid themselves of these types of scammers. 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 »
The folks at Skype are feeling all World Cup-y and have started a promotion designed to keep football fans in touch for free. Skype users in the U.S. can call any mobile or landline for free for the entire month; check the details for other countries. Read more »
Esquire has done what it calls a “semi-scientific” analysis of tweets about the World Cup and said it found nothing of importance beyond score updates and the kind of outburst you might hear in a bar. But is that really any surprise? It’s a conversational medium. Read more »
The World Cup has been a big traffic machine for ESPN3. The broadband network tracked close to 800,000 soccer fans tuning in for the match between the U.S. and Slovenia. Competitor Univisionfutbol.com on the other hand had its best day when Mexico faced off against France. Read more »
ESPN3 attracted more than 1.7 million viewers to its live streams of the World Cup during the first four full days of the tournament. The broadcaster says that Internet and mobile offerings now account for eight percent of all minutes viewed across all of its platforms. Read more »
Stuck at work without a TV to watch the World Cup? ESPN3 is one of the sites that streams most of the games live for free – but you may not be able to access any of them if you’re signed up with the wrong ISP. Read more »
The vuvuzela, the droning horn employed by soccer fans at the 2010 World Cup, has become the defining sound of the games, but thanks to increased compute power and better software, the sound can now be (mostly) erased from broadcasts before they hit your screen. Read more »
Many web workers already have the flexibility to set their own schedules; I thought I would run a quick poll to see how many of our readers are taking advantage of that flexibility to stay productive while also catching as much of the tournament as possible: Read more »
Updated: Watching the World Cup at work is easier than ever, thanks to free live streams from ESPN3 and Univision. However, is the online soccer experience also enjoyable? We tested both sites, and struggled with pixelated pictures and a live feed that was anything but real time. Read more »
Today on the Net: ABC and Univision rake in millions of World Cup viewers, but online and mobile viewing was also strong; Hulu loses its founding CTO, Eric Feng, to Kleiner Perkins; and AOL teams with the Jonas Brothers for a new video network. Read more »
Since launching a month ago, YouTube’s unlisted videos feature has experienced exponential growth since launching in May. But just because a video is unlisted doesn’t mean it can’t rack up views — Nike’s World Cup viral ad being the prime example. Read more »
In the latest installment of our weekly Q&A feature, Kyte co-founder Daniel Graf calls out the problems with release windows, refuses to pick sides when it comes to Flash and HTML5 and is apparently pretty damn excited about the 2010 World Cup. Read more »
Mobile video has the chance to take a big step forward over the next few weeks as users around the world keep up with the World Cup action on their phones, so operators looking to ramp up data revenues in the coming months had better be ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Mobile video could receive a big boost over the next few weeks as users tune in to watch the action on their phones. But carriers must be able to shoulder the data load if they’re to turn those fans into long-term viewers. Read more »
This weekend poll is for all the soccer fans out there: How are you following the World Cup? Are you tuning into online streams like the ones offered by ESPN3 or Univisionfutbol.com, or are you sticking to watching the games on TV? NewTeeVee wants to know. Read more »
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa started today, and Twitter is already seeing huge traffic from fans all over the world chiming in, with up to 150,000 tweets per hour. And Twitter has acknowledged that it’s already struggling with availability issues. Read more »
The always exciting World Cup kicks off today and I’m using a free mobile application from Goal.com to keep track of it all. While I’d rather watch streaming video of the matches, this software gives me a quick fix and runs on most major mobile platforms. Read more »
Today on the Net: Rogers Communications gets 100,000 subscribers to sign up for TV Everywhere, Netflix’s new UI causes some trouble for Roku users and Spotify lands on TV sets for the first time in Sweden and Finland, but still has a long way to go. Read more »
Akamai has spent the last year building up its network capacity in anticipation of global Internet traffic hitting a record high during this year’s World Cup. The global audience and the higher quality video streams available — either HD or 3-D are to blame. Read more »
The 2010 FIFA World Cup is starting in a few days, and soccer will b able to watch the entire tournament online and on their mobile phones, thanks to live streams from ESPN and Univision. However, not every live video stream will be available to everyone. Read more »
Soccer fans will be able to see the world’s most popular sport like never before during this year’s World Cup in South Africa — if they have a 3-D TV and the right cable or satellite package, that is. Read more »
Employers in the UK and in Latin America can expect their workers to miss significant amounts of man hours over the month-long 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament, unless those employees can find ways to watch the games at work. Read more »
