Online Movie Trailers For Friday, February 3: Telekinesis, Saving Whales, & Life After Harry Potter
This past January was a good one for Hollywood, although it goes to show that year-over-year comparisons for specific months is a pretty short-sighted way of looking at this particular business, which entirely relies on product. Subjective product. And whenever Hollywood has a comparatively bad month compared to the previous year, it is always the ...
20th Century Fox Gets YouTube Stars To Promote "Chronicle"
20th Century Fox has teamed with Big Frame, a YouTube talent company, to produce videos promoting their new movie Chronicle opening on February 3. And Chronicle is the perfect type of movie to get some YouTube promotion, as it is one of the latest films to use this-is-really-happening video, "found footage," very much like Cloverfield ...
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 ...
Online Movie Trailers For Friday, January 20 Include Vampires, Werewolves, The MMA, & George Lucas
So Contraband was the ultimate view-getter in the online world, which translated to a nearly $30 million opening weekend, coasting past The Beauty and the Beast 3D re-issue ($23 million), while Joyful Noise did a not-too-shabby $11 million. This weekend is loaded. First, we have a new Underworld movie, which will probably destroy the competition. ...
UltraViolet Expands Service to UK
UltraViolet is now rapidly picking up steam. Nearly every time a movie hits disc, it's in a triple pack with DVD, Blu-Ray and UV digital version. Now, it's ready to invade the shores of the UK and start offering our friends on the island nation the same digital service.
Online Video Ad Views Skyrocket In Q3 2011
Online video advertising is finally catching up to consumer viewing habits. The growth rate of video ad views in the third quarter outpaced the growth rate for video views for the first time, according to new data from video technology company Freewheel. Freewheel also found that completion rates for ads were highest in long-form videos ...
Netflix To Take A Loss In 2012, Which Should Be Good For Consumers
Wow, when it rains, it pours. After showing some seriously strong growth for years, Netflix, faltered with some bad business choices. They chased off hundreds of thousands of loyal customers, offered a flat, self-serving apology and lost a major chunk of their content. The culmination of all of this? They expect to post a loss ...
Netflix Snags New Arrested Development Episodes
In the past decade I have seen some excellent comedy on television, but nothing quite as brilliant as Arrested Development. I think all of us who loved that show when it ran three seasons, 2003 to 2006, wished we could do anything to save it. We always had to hear how it just couldn't muster ...
UFC To Hit Mobile Screens With New UFC Android App
The Ultimate Fighting Championship recently came to the Fox network, and people who had never watched the UFC before got to see a fight that lasted a little over a minute. While that was disappointing, I'm sure, to previously-undefeated Cain Velasquez, the UFC, and anyone who watched their first ever match that night, there's no ...
Sony Cutting The Cable For You? Aiming For A Sony Online TV Service?
Remember when I was writing about Sony the other day, well really it was about Google TV and stuff, but I mentioned that Howard Stringer, the Sony CEO, was talking about big R&D in a new TV. Well, some speculation has launched into what that will be now and it seems that they want to ...
Ultraviolet & Cinema Now Fulfill Promise Of Full 1080p HD Hollywood Streaming
When Mark and I were at CES we got the inside scoop on Intel Insider, the new hardware DRM solution. They say it's not DRM, but really, there's no other way to describe it and they haven't really offered one up. Basically, if you have a Second Generation Intel Core processor, it's got something built ...
Netflix To Partner On New Arrested Development Episodes Ahead Of Feature Film?
You know, for all the damage Netflix has done over the last few months to their reputation--not to mention their stock prices and bottom line--they're still making some positive moves in the area of content. AMC's Breaking Bad (seasons 1-3), which is one of my personal favorite shows, hit the streaming service just last month. ...
Amazon Prime Adds FOX To Premium Streaming Online Video Service
A lot of moves have been made suddenly in regards to online video streaming for TV and film. Netflix signed a deal hoping to quell the subscriber rebellion they're experiencing and Amazon just got FOX. I wonder if they will then be some sort of launch partner for the Amazon-branded tablet that is set to ...
Cable TV Companies Losing Customers To Hulu? The Reel Web #2
This week's episode of The Reel Web is posted! I covered some of last week's news and highlights from the online video world, as well as a tip for those of you who create online videos to know how to best use the first 15 seconds of your video.
Apple Drops 99 Cent TV Episode Rentals for Lack of Interest
Apple has squashed the test they were doing of 99 cent TV episode rentals. The test, using content from ABC and FOX was ended on Friday. Why? Sources cite "lack of demand." I think that might be code for "you can get most of them for free from cable companies and Hulu."
