Machinima Articles

The Best (and Worst) of the Top 10 YouTube Channels of 2012

We’ve all read about the “channel-ization” of YouTube. If you’re a YouTube Partner who is interested in building a successful channel, you’ve got to think beyond just getting one big hit. You need to think about how you can build a cohesive channel experience for ...

Should You Join a YouTube Network? The Pros and Cons of YouTube Partner Networks [Reel Web #67]

On this week's Reel Web, we cover several online video related news items from the past week including the new YouTube studio space just opened in Los Angeles, updates to VYou's video Q&A platform, and more.  We also spend some time addressing a common question ...

Halo 4 Forward Unto Dawn: Review - The Best Video Game Movie Never Made?

Machinima and 343 Industries (Microsoft's new game studio in charge of the Halo 4 franchise) have created the ultimate piece of tent-pole marketing for the Halo 4 video game, the Halo 4 Forward Unto Dawn web series. For the five Fridays leading up, fans enjoyed installments of the epic web series serving as prologue to the game.

A Quick Look at Machinima's Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Web Series and Tent-Pole Marketing

We heard about it for months: Machinima was going to spend a ton of money to get a Halo 4 web series/video game tie-in after a round of funding, led by Google, rewarded the channel with $35 million to spend awhile back.  Halo 4: Forward ...

Online Video Viewing Dips Slightly, Average Length Up Again in May

It's time once again for comScore's monthly estimates of the online video viewing numbers. I say estimates because, as we all know, they have a particularly quirky way of counting up videos and views in general. I guess the major milestone this past month was ...

Google, YouTube Continue Betting Big On Machinima, And With Good Reason

A funding round of $35 million went to Machinima, one of YouTube's most visited sites, to the tune of 1.6 billion views last April, and a lion's share of the funding came from Google.  Already-invested Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital also joined in.  All of ...

I've Seen the Future with the Knowledge Graph and it Almost Works for Business Video

Last week, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph.  According to Amit Singhal, Google’s SVP of Engineering, “The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about – landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of ...

April is Another Record-Breaking Month for Video Advertising: 9.5 Billion Online Video Ads Served

Holy mackerel! That's a whole lotta online video ads man! In fact, it's actually 20% of all videos viewed online roughly. That is if you remember that those ads are actually intersecting pieces of video content which then gets tallied as multiple videos by comScore. ...

Online Video Explodes In Germany

Comscore just released a study of online video engagement in Germany, and the results are a continuing testament to the growth of online video outside of the United States.  46.9 million German Internet users went to online video in March, a 2.3% increase from last ...

Amazon Looks for Web Series, Revision3 Gets Discovered & More GooTube Goodness [Reel Web #38]

This week on the Reel Web we discuss several video news items from the past week... Google Hangouts On Air launch to all users, the purchase of Revision 3 by Discovery Communications, Amazon looking for original video shows, and more changes to YouTube's platform and more. Google ...

A Look at the Rise of Online Video Studios & Who's Leading: Machinima, Maker Studios, FullScreen and BigFrame

Several years ago an independent YouTube creator wasn’t just an actor or actress – they actually wrote their own show, owned their own production studio, managed a mini-cable network and oversaw their content’s promotion and distribution. As the online-video leader, YouTube provided a platform to ...

YouTube Brandcast to Help Marketers Get the Most Out of YouTube

Google will hold their first ever upfront today, highlighting a bevy of star-packed channels and releasing exciting findings from a comprehensive study of YouTube trends.  The online video behemoth, which shows 3 billion hours of video to over 800 million users, will be able to ...

Handicapping and Reviewing YouTube’s New Content Channels

Six months ago, Robert Kyncl, YouTube's Global Head of Content Partnerships, announced that "even more talented creators and original entertainment will soon join YouTube's existing channel lineup." And two weeks from now, a panel of TV critics, YouTube producers and other experts will "take a ...

Video Ad Impressions Reach Record Numbers in March 2012

Toot the tooters and clink the clinkers, honk the honkers and hoot the hooters, it's comScore video metrix time again. OK, maybe skip the hooters. Did you know that 181 million Americans watched video online in March? Did you know that online video advertising impressions ...

Online Video Viewing Numbers Dip in February According to ComScore

Another month has passed and it's plainly obvious up here in Milwaukee as spring has sprung, then rewound itself, then sprung again. This time we think it's going to stick. Since it's round the 15th of the month it means comScore has put out numbers ...