Vevo gets into the real-time collaborative media consumption game with a new feature called Vevo Rooms that allows music fans to program playlists and chat with one another while they’re watching music videos together, Turntable.fm-style. Vevo Rooms is launched in collaboration with Chill. Read More »
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Pandora has established itself as the leading personalized radio service online. A new breed of services is now challenging Pandora by mashing up videos from around the web to personalized video streams, all without spending an arm and a leg on licensing. Read More »
Dragontape, which enables web and iPad users to create playlists of videos and songs from YouTube and SoundCloud and share them, released an iPhone app with the same functionality this week. The app makes the technology even more portable, while opening up to more users. Read More »
Don’t know what to say to express your feelings? Then how about using a song, or even better, a music video hosted on YouTube? Muzeit makes it easy to take snippets from these videos and send them as personal messages to Facebook friends and Twitter followers. Read More »
Vevo will soon be available in the U.K., and the music video platform is already looking to expand into additional international markets, with the Middle East being on top of the list. So why can Vevo pull off what Hulu and Netflix can’t? Read More »
The rising popularity of music videos online has made discovering classic viral videos tougher than it used to be. Which means that when you see something called Indian Pole Gymnastics climbing the viral video charts, you know you’re in for something special. Read More »
Music videos are extremely popular on YouTube, so it should come as no surprise that the site would seek to increase engagement of its music-loving audience by launching a new landing page for music videos, with curated playlists and the ability to create on-the-fly music mixes. Read More »
Justin Bieber’s now got the edge over Lady Gaga. Bieber’s musical collaboration with rapper Ludacris, Baby, has just passed Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance as the most-watched video of all time on YouTube. Its views are now at 246.3 million, beating out Gaga by about 600,000. Read More »
Twitter users are way more engaged with music videos than average web surfers, new stats from Brightcove show. A user that stumbles across a music video via Twitter watches two and a half minutes of the clip, on average, before… Read More »
Okay, so last week I kvetched about OK Go’s newest video, which is visually awesome but isn’t much of an actual music video, especially since there’s no real effort being made to tell a story. This week, wow: Lady Gaga, with guest collaborator Beyonce,… Read More »
The folks behind the music video jukebox Sonicswap are at it again, this time launching what could soon be every Nexus One user’s best friend. Tunevision compiles music video playlists based on your Last.fm, iTunes or Sonicswap usage data… Read More »
Vevo is working on an application that will bring its music videos into people’s living rooms through Boxee’s media center software and its soon-to-be-released Boxee Box set-top device, according to Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff. By doing so, the joint venture seeks to create even… Read More »
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