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The Week In Video: Hyperlapse Videos And Shippy Shopping

Another week, another brilliant viral video - this time from Kmart. Yes, that Kmart. We dare you not to laugh at least once, especially at the old guy on the bed. Our look back at the week's news in online video also has us drooling at the Phantom Flex4K camera and hoping the current price tag is a mistake.

Weekly Online Video News Round Up - August 4th 2012

Another week in the books and that means a whole new news round up for what's hot and who's what in online video. So without further ado, on with the show, er... article.

Why You Should Be At Streaming Media East Next Week

Streaming Media East is ready to hit New York City next week and we've got the top reasons why you should be attending. As an added bonus, we've also got a discount code for you to shave off a bit of the price to make ...

What Does The Latest Nielsen Data Say About Cord Cutting?

More consumers are relying on broadband-only connections in their homes, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're cutting the cord. Nielsen's latest three-screen report reveals that there are now 5.1 million broadcast only/broadband homes in the United States, up 23% from last year. Those are homes ...

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. ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Web Series Edition

This week's online video news was dominated by web series talk. For instance, we have a retrospective on the BMW web series, The Hire, which was way ahead of its time. We also have some articles about a new Tom Hanks web series, the future ...

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 ...

YouTube Killed TV, Except That It Didn't... Yet

There's a very cool infographic making the rounds called YouTube Killed TV. It's filled with excellent graphical representations of some really impressive--and in some cases, mind boggling--statistics about the video sharing site. The only problem I have with it, of course, is the exaggerated claim ...

Cable Companies Lose Customers To Online Video, But Cord Cutting Still A Long Way Off

Some reports say cord-cutting is a myth. Having recently moved into a place and assessed my options, I would agree, because the pay TV companies are keeping consumers hostage thanks to licenses with major sports leagues and premium channels like HBO. For example, the only ...

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, ...

Women, African Americans, & Older Americans Watch The Most Video

Nielsen has published the results of a study into the demographic breakdowns of video viewers. The study covers traditional television, time-shifted TV, DVR playback, online video, and mobile video. So basically... it covers all kinds of video. The aim? To break down the viewing habits ...

Netflix Gets Greedy, Boosts Price Of Unlimited DVD + Streaming By 60%

Netflix is raising their prices by 60%. Yeah, 60%. What was formerly $9.99 for unlimited streaming and DVDs is now $7.99 for unlimited streaming and $7.99 for unlimited DVDs...no price break for the combo platter. So basically they have drawn a line in the silicon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cord Cutting is Reel: Online Video Advertising to the Rescue

Nielsen recently reported that the number of TV's owned in the U.S. has dropped due in part to younger consumers going without paid TV (cord-cutting). Online viewing may fill in the gap though, because the CW has found that viewers stay tuned for all the ...