Greed & The Crumbling Dream Of A Video Promised Land
Danny Sullivan is a pretty smart dude. If you're not familiar with him, it probably means you haven't dabbled much in SEO. And when he wrote yesterday about paying Rupert Murdoch three times for the same piece of content, it really got me fired up. Because he's right--seriously, you should go read his rant at ...
Cord Cutting Is Real? 20% Of Consumers Have Cut Cable Or Are Considering
Cord cutting is dead some say. Others think it a passing fad and that there's no staying power. Yet in the annual State of the Media Democracy report, Deloitte reports that some 20% of consumers have or are thinking about it. With the upswell of connected TVs I expect to see at CES, I bet ...
The Online Video Explosion In Brazil Has Advertisers Paying Attention
Last week, Advertising Age published a piece about the growth of YouTube in Brazil. It's a stunning and rapid growth, and one that's getting the attention of advertisers from around the world. Combined with the recent moves in that market from Poptent and Netflix, it's just one more piece of evidence that there's a video ...
Charter Creating Online Video Directory Of Content From Hulu, Netflix, & Amazon
Here's an interesting tidbit I came across today. Charter Communications is encouraging its users to watch online video by creating a new searchable directory of online video content. Hopefully, this doesn't mean that they will later then charge for video separately, you know the old give 'em a taste, get 'em hooked, charge an arm ...
Comcast Set For Its Own IPTV Service To Fight AllVid?
Comcast has been named in the recent Xbox TV lineup and some other interesting Internet TV deals. But now, they seem to just be going it alone on their own IPTV service, according to what they stated to the FCC, along with a device that will wireless stream the content in subscriber homes to be ...
Which States See The Most Video Ad Impressions & Why?
YuMe put out their Q2 report on video ad metrics and some of the numbers might be a bit surprising. For example, California alone is over 10% of all video ad impressions while Texas and New York are each just over 6%, so almost a quarter of all ad impressions are going to those three ...
8 Tips For Creating A Successful Social Video Campaign
Through the awesome power of the internet and social media, videos allow us to share ideas, spread information and promote fads and styles. Using just a camera and a computer, ordinary people can make videos that create an extraordinary amount of interest and conversation. The aim of social media videos – as with any promotional ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Streaming Internet TV Edition
It was another huge week for online video news, with final bids for Hulu being turned in on Friday. I'm pretty surprised we haven't seen any leaks on those bids as of yet, but it is the weekend. Expect there to be news on the sale of Hulu early next week. Until then... catch up ...
Time Warner Cable Head Says Company Future Is Broadband, Not TV
Well surprise, surprise. The chief executive of Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., says that broadband is the anchor service of the company's future, not television. And while that may be a no-brainer for most of us observers in the industry, it's still a pretty big deal for a cable company ...
Will Netflix Be Crowned The King Of The Living Room?
Whether through apps, game consoles or connected TVs, Netflix is well on its way to living room dominance. The market for connected TVs with built-in apps for Netflix, YouTube and others is poised for massive growth in the next few years, while 60% of homes that have these apps are using them once a week ...
Consumption Of Nomadic Online Video To Outpace Home & Mobile Users
The NPD Group, who I like for their monthly video game sales charts, have thrown their hat into the online video research arena. They've just released a new report called Broadband Video: On Demand, On the Go, and On the Rise in conjunction with Connected Intelligence, which states that nomadic online video consumption will rise ...
Nielsen Reports Video Viewing Up On All Platforms, Cord-Cutting Not Happening
So Nielsen put out the Cross-Platform Report and it shows that video viewing is up on all three screens - TV, Mobile and Internet (PC). Time-shifted video also saw a boost in the latest report as well which they stated was due to further market penetration. Considering that some cable operators are readying four-tuner DVR ...
The Rise Of Online Video Will Break The Internet
Sometimes we get so used to talking about how popular video is, and how fast it's growing online, that we actually lose perspective a bit on exactly how rapidly it's moving. You might even say we've been taking the Internet for granted a bit. Because, if Cisco's predictions are anywhere close to correct, our obsessive ...
The Growth Of Netflix Will Be Used To Throttle Your Internet Access
So everyone’s talking about this new Spring 2011 Global Internet Phenomena Report from Sandvine—a self-described “leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators.” The big, gaudy stat everyone’s running in their headline is that Netflix makes up 30% of U.S. Internet traffic during peak hours. It’s easy to see why everyone’s ...
Time Warner Cable Seeks Judgment on TWCableTV iPad App Legality
Time Warner, who I wrote about earlier in the week when they hit a snag with their TWCableTV iPad App, has sought a legal judgment on the matter. The Southern District of New York was petitioned by the cable operator about the legality of the streaming of content to iPads in the homes of Time ...
