Food Network Executive Jumps To YouTube: A Sign Of Things To Come?
Because YouTube has Google money to spend, the online video destination has an attractive place for people who are already in show business or hope to launch an entertainment career. Recently, the defection of Food Network's Bruce Seidel to Electus' unnamed new YouTube food channel, set to debut in July, hit the news wire and ...
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 ...
60 Hours Of Video Is Now Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute
Alexei Oreskovic of Reuters reports that “roughly 60 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube every minute.” The company also told him that YouTube is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months. There was one other news nugget in Oreskovic’s “exclusive” story: Three billion YouTube ...
CES 2012 New Media Outlook: Connected TVs Everywhere
The annual Consumer Electronics show has kicked off this week in Las Vegas, with gadgets and TV galore. CE makers from Samsung to LG are rolling out new partnerships for connected TVs, as these smart sets accounted for 52 million sets sold last year. Now, in 2012, manufacturers are promoting Internet-capable TVs even more to ...
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 ...
Warner Bros Extends New Release Window, Makes Consumers Buy Or Wait Two Months
What the hell?! Warner Bros. just revamped deals with Redbox, Blockbuster and Netflix effectively doubling the wait time for them to get new releases. What it really means is, they're making you wait longer and trying to force you to buy discs earlier, it sounds underhanded to me at a time when they just seemed ...
Walking Dead Web Series Tank Zombie Canceled
AMC has been providing great shows for a few years now, with Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead being their calling cards. But when Walking Dead show-runner Frank Darabont got fired in July, it created some bad blood between people working on the show and AMC. One actor, Being Human's Sam Witwer, spoke ...
Showtime Content On Roku, Starting With Shameless & House Of Lies
Not wanting their competitor HBO to steal every last bit of thunder in the streaming business, Showtime is getting into the mix by signing a deal with Roku that will allow access to their content. The first offerings will be for a few full episodes and promotional content for their shows Shameless and House of ...
Rumors Say Apple TV Will Challenge Cable With Subscription Service
It's now a forgone conclusion that Apple will get into the TV manufacturing biz next year and now the rumor mills are kicking into over drive with all sorts of supposed this and thats which will be included or are holding back the release of it all.
Buyers Choose Connected TV Over 3D This Holiday Season As Set-Top Box Demand Drops
If I personally was given the choice of 3D or Connected for a new TV purchase, I would choose connected. Apparently, I'm not the only one according to some new data from Parks Associates in regards to flat-panel TV purchasing intentions and the features .
Time Warner and Cablevision Now Provide HBO GO
I find this incredibly interesting. Time Warner owns HBO. And yet, only now has Time Warner Cable decided to provide HBO GO. Ah, details--Time Warner Cable doesn't have anything to do with the huge Time Warner media corporation anymore and that's why when Time Warner Cable negotiates with Time Warner it might as well be ...
Call A Web Series What You Want, It's Still Online, And That's Not Shameful
I started writing for ReelSEO back in June, and the first thing that I wrote about extensively was web series. Not long after I started writing about them, a debate was raging on whether to call them a "web series" or a "multi-platform series" or an "original series on [Hulu or something similar]." There is ...
Watch It Button Will Revolutionize How You Watch Movies
Plexus Entertainment has looked at the Internet and has said, "If there was only a way people could read a review or watch a trailer for a movie and then click a simple button to be notified when and where that movie becomes available on all the formats I want." Welcome to the Beta, my ...
12 New Multimedia Apps For The Updated Xbox 360 Dashboard
I just got the big list of all new apps this week on the Xbox 360 dashboard. While YouTube might be one of the more interesting for many, I found the list to be both diverse in content (some aren't about video) and location. For example, some of the apps are Rogers on Demand (Rogers ...
Wireless Home Digital Interface Product Roundup
Unlike, well, pretty much everyone, I have had a WHDI device in my house for much of the year. What is it? WHDI is wireless HD video streaming and it is brilliant. Now I've been in contact with the Wireless Home Digital Interface people for quite some time, since CES maybe in January. Admittedly, the ...
