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90% of TV Shows Were Freely Available Online Last Season

According to recent research by Clicker, that's the fact of the matter. 90% of 2009-2010 broadcast TV was on Internet. It makes me wonder what the other 10% was and if they include places like PBS and C-SPAN.

mDialog Launches Video Platform for HTML5 Mobile Video

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell covers the video ad platform mDialog at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, and talks with founder Gret Philpott about monetization opportunities for businesses using HTML5 video and dynamic ad insertion.

Tiger Woods Masters Online Video for The Day

I covered the NCAA's March Madness tournament and its online viewing options several times in the past month.  They've made steady gains in both the viewership and the advertising dollars—not to mention the quality of the online viewing experience. There is one other sporting event ...

Five Launches Syndicated Player With Brightcove Platform

Five, the UK broadcast company, has taken the plunge into online ad-supported video for embedding on other websites. They are the first broadcaster in the country to do so and look to lead the way for catch-up viewing on the web.

Nintendo Announces Wii Video Service In Japan

Since someone recently said in a comment here at ReelSEO that gaming consoles will never be a platform for watching videos, I had to post this. Basically Nintendo and Wii-no-ma Inc partnered with Dentsu and have announced two new channels for the Wii and DSi ...

Online Video Viewing In The UK Grows By 10% YOY

comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that the total U.K. online video viewing audience has grown 10 percent during the past year to 29.6 million unique viewers age 15 and older. Google ...

List of Video Sharing Web Sites and Destination Sites Like YouTube - Share Your Videos

One of the top viewed pages on ReelSEO is that of a post that I put out with a resource list of video sharing sites. I took the time to update the list, and add a bunch more – more than 300 video sharing websites ...

Keystream Launches SmartAd(TM) SaaS Video Ad Overlays

Keystream(TM) Corporation, the global leader in intuitive Web video ad insertion, today announced its SmartAd(TM) platform which enables broadcasters, Web video publishers and advertisers to monetize their video assets on an easy to use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. Keystream is the first and only intuitive Web ...

Silverlight Announces H.264 Support for Online HD Video

Microsoft Silverlight has recently played a major role helping to shape some of the world's biggest events in recent months. Silverlight – Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform solution for delivering rich interactive applications and content experiences on the Web – helped viewers experience both the Olympic Games ...

CCTV Reaches 100M Uniques With Olympic Video Coverage

The 2008 Olympics was full of big news: The most gold medals ever won by a single person, and, for China, an astounding number of gold medals. However, the news doesn't stop there! According to WebTrends Analytics, more than 6 million visitors a day were ...

Online Video Usage In Europe Doubles - Now Most Popular Online Activity

28 percent of Europeans now regularly watch online video, more than double the rate in 2006, according to a new report from JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business. The report, 'Online Video in Europe: Managing ...

Online Video Continues To Soar - Research

New data released Wednesday show online views of videos soared 66 percent in the U.S. in February from a year earlier, with TV networks grabbing just a pittance of those eyeballs. The numbers from comScore Inc. underscored a problem being discussed by network executives this ...

Seero Launches Live, On-Location Video Platform

Seero is clearly going for something unique. With a growing number of live video sites hitting the market recently, Seero differentiates itself by fusing video broadcasting with GPS mapping. The 'live and on-location' video platform officially opened its doors to all users on Wednesday at ...

New Geo-Broadcasting Video Platform Launches

A few weeks back, we wrote a post (Live Mobile Video Streaming Meets Local GPS Mapping) about a great new startup called Seero. Seero.com is a "geo-broadcasting" platform that combines live streaming video with real-time GPS tracking and local content via data feeds. Seero's goal ...

Live Mobile Video Streaming Meets Local GPS Mapping

In our online video predictions for 2008, we touch briefly on the fast growing convergence between online video and local search. In the past year or so, several announcements were made with respect to local - meets - online multimedia: Several internet yellow page sites ...