Early Look At Two ABC Fall Dramas: Charlie's Angels & Once Upon A Time
ABC is going back to the well of reliable old stories for a pair of new dramas this fall. With Charlie's Angels, the network is updating a property that has already been both a hit show and a hit movie series with a newer, younger cast. The other new drama, Once Upon A Time, will ...
New Live TV Streaming Service Bamboom To Avoid Legal Issues?
So we've talked about FilmOn and Ivi in the past. They both have been in bitter legal battles with the TV and cable broadcasters. Now, Bamboom is taking a more Zediva approach to it all. For those that don't know what I'm talking about Zediva offers streams of DVDs which is played in DVD players ...
Tornado Outbreak Shows The Speed & Power Of Social Video
I spent the better part of my Wednesday evening following media coverage of the tornado outbreak in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, & Georgia. So far, 127 tornadoes have been confirmed, the death toll is at 54-and-climbing, and the devastation is immense and widespread. Online video was my primary method of following the storms---live news streams, YouTube ...
Online Video Springs Back in March, 174M Viewers Watch 889 Minutes on Average
After the February fizzle in online video, March has seen the industry spring back to life with 174 million Americans raining down upon online video sites and viewing sessions blossoming to 5.7B while average viewing time saw a growth spurt to 889.1 minutes. Ahhh...spring is in the air, Play Ball!
Philip DeFranco Drops Bombshell On Reddit - Some YouTubers Make Six Figures A Month!
The Internet has seen its fair share of articles speculating on the profits of the top YouTube users. We wrote about ABC's estimates on how much money was being made. TubeMogul had come out just a few months earlier with their own guesses at what top video creators were making--and several YouTube video creators came ...
Is Online Video Dying? Comscore's Video Metrix Says Fizzle in Feb
This doesn't make much sense to me, but it seems like less people in the US (170M vs. 171M) started more video sessions (5B vs. 4.8B) in February than in January, and then watched for less time (816 vs 870 minutes) each. So it seems like viewership is in decline from the all-time high of ...
Oscar Fever Hits the Web with Social Media Campaign
Oscar fever is here again. Just to make sure you are included, they've created online presences this year where you can check out trailers of all the nominees and check out the celebrations backstage online in real-time as the awards are accepted. That seems like some unprecedented access and a really good way to get ...
The Weekly Online Video News Reel: The Lethargic Edition
I have to admit that I'm tired. Sure, we all get tired, even superheroes. So let's make this short and sweet, yet still super, right?! Sometimes there just aren't enough of us to go round here at ReelSEO and things slip through the cracks. Today I'll try to catch everything that almost slipped by.
VEVO Jumps Yahoo! Takes Second Place Behind Google in Video Viewers
comScore put out their January Video Metrix late on the 15th, after I had already compared the Nielsen January numbers to their December ones. Go figure. Anyway, looking at the report there's not a major difference so instead of going and editing that or re-comparing them, let's just look at them. Plus, it's Friday and ...
Trouble in Huludise as Partners Decide How Online Video Service Will Survive
Hulu, according to the Wall Street Journal, is rife with internal strife. It seems that there have been some meetings this week between the partners (NBC Universal, News Corp., and Disney) and the management of Hulu over the future of the company. At stake is nothing less than the company as a whole and that ...
2010 Internet Television In A Nutshell and 2011 Predictions
Some might say that 2010 was the year of Internet TV's emergence. Sure, there were a lot of things that went right for it during the year and a couple things that didn't. So let's take a look at the highlights including the new Apple TV, Google TV, Hulu's rapid growth and more.
Google TV Stumbles, But Will it Fall?
I know that CES is still a week away, but there have been some big news surrounding Google TV of late that I thought we might compile to demonstrate the hazards of reaching into the unknown and attempting to carve out a niche for a new type of product. As we all know, there have ...
One-Third of Advertisers Buy Video Ad Space Directly Vs. Video Ad Networks
Break Media teamed up with Advertiser Perceptions Inc. for the first annual Digital Video Advertising Study. There are loads of interesting things in it that I will talk about over the next week or so and this is the first of those. I was reading the executive summary and was shocked to learn that one-third ...
Netflix Builds Better Mousetrap, Learns ABCs
So yeah, remember those studios who said Netflix is growing too fast and they are trying to band together and stop the "evil streaming empire" from continuing its wildfire-like spread? Well apparently, none of them had large black mouse ears because today, Netflix built a better mousetrap and nabbed Disney TV content along with some ...
The Sunday News Reel – Week of 18-24 October, 2010
Brrr! It's cold over here (well at night anyway). I do believe there's snow at the top of the local mountain already. That would be Ještěd for those that are interested, on a clear winter day I can see it from my office window, we don't have many of those though. Anyway, what better reason ...
