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Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and third largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, telephone service and home security [in some areas] to both residential and commercial customers in 40 states and the District of Columbia.
The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Comcast also has significant holding in several cable networks (...

Professional Web Video Content Up Almost 20% In 2009

AccuStream Research says that there was nearly a 20% jump in "professionally produced, hosted or syndicated online media and entertainment video views". So either we're all going pro or the pros have come to see the value in it.

Cablevision To Offer New PC To TV "Sharing" Service

Cablevision, one of the nation's larger cable television providers and the provider for New York City, is announcing a new service that I kind of like the sound of:  Internet on your TV without the need for an extra box or gadget.

The Long Tail of Video Viewing Shows The Underdogs On Top

Everyone talks about YouTube, heck, even we talk about them in various forms and for various reasons. They're the 800lb gorilla, only we all talk about it all the time. Well this time round I'm not (yes, I know I just did). I'm going to ...

Comcast Adds Even More Streaming Content Online for Subscribers

Comcast continues to enhance and improve its online offerings, and now they've announced something called Fancast Xfinity--get it? It's like "infinity", but with an "X."  It must be extreme or something.

Comcast Says Hulu Ads Confuse Women, Aims To Target Demographic

Is this the online TV version of mud slinging? By saying someting, for example, that Hulu ads (during the Super Bowl) were intimidating and confusing to women, make it true? Certainly not and I believe that Comcast has done better to alienate the demographic than ...

The Xspot - Local TV and Online Video Ad Convergence

Even though some consumers may be turning to the Internet more and more to watch television, TV is not going away anytime soon. For me, I need it to fall asleep ;-)  Likewise, local television ad spending is not going away anytime soon either.  Advertisers are ...

NCC Extends Advertiser Options Through Mixpo Technology

Mixpo is working to extend the reach of cable TV ad campaigns by taking them online and turning them into interactive ads. It seems that advertising is converging faster than television and the Internet are, or is it? Mixpo just signed a deal with NCC ...

Paid Video To Overtake Free Video On The Web In 2009?

According to a recent Strategy Analytics webinar, paid video will overtake free video online this year. Digital media analyst Martin Olausson believes that it will top it by about $800 million before the year ends.

Where Do People Discover Videos Online? Online Video Discovery Research

There are many ways in which people discover video online; videos embedded on blogs, video search engines, major search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, MSN), email, and social networking, to name a few.  In February, our friends over at Tubemogul released some new research which helps to ...

Mixpo Rocks $4M Investment and Rolls To AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC

Today, Anupam Gupta, the CEO for Mixpo, an online video advertising platform that we've covered in-depth, will be accepting the OnMedia 100 award at the AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC Conference.  In addition, the company announced today that it had received a $4 million follow-on investment, led ...

Keepin Score With Video Metrics: Interview With ComScore's Tania Yuki

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews comScore's Video Metrix Product Manager, Tania Yuki. Tania shares some of the notable trends in the video measurement industry, why she believes that "2009 really is the time that the synergy of online video and commerce is going to happen," and what ...

Time for An SMB Video Portal?

One of the big stories from latest comScore Video Metrix press release is the emergence of the TV-show video portal, Hulu. According to Andrew Lipsman, comScore's Director of Industry Analysis, Hulu's rise in the charts speakes to a broader trend of marketing growth with professional-level ...

Intel and Adobe Team To Optimize Flash Technology for Web TV Processors

Adobe and Intel recently announced that they will work to extend the Adobe Flash platform for the Intel Media Processor CE 3100. This means a better Flash experience in set-top boxes, Blu-Ray players and other AV connected devices. With the Flash platform's high-definition capabilities and ...

Auction-Style Marketplace for Video Production - Interview With MediaMobz

http://www.reelseo.com/interview-mediamobz/ I interviewed an interesting new startup called MediaMobz that is focused around creation of an auction-style online marketplace to connect filmmakers with businesses looking for video production resources

What Is Real High-Definition Video? - Online HD Video Overview

High-Definition is the "new" way to watch video, but how do you know if what you're downloading is truly high-definition or not? Well, first we need to look at what HD actually is.