Video on Demand Hits Facebook for Indie Filmmakers
Flicklaunch, the newest Facebook video-on-demand service, has launched. Sure, they've only got one flick to flick to users now, but they're hoping to hit the market of indie filmmakers who own the rights to their content and can launch it however they please. This might mean brand new avenues of revenues for you and me.
Vevo Tests International Waters with UK Expansion
Vevo is on the move as the record-label-owned music video service is expanding into the UK according to a blog post this week on their site (which is not available anywhere but in the US...and the UK now). While the UK had a glimpse into what Vevo had to offer prior to this through YouTube ...
DiSH Buys Blockbuster to Compete with Netflix, Best Buy and Amazon?
The premium online video sector is going to heat up as DiSH Network was given the nod in the recent Blockbuster auction and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the deal. DISH’s offer of $320.6 million was selected as the successful bid following an auction conducted earlier this week, ...
YouTube Overhauls Search Options System, Now Called Filter & Explore
I've complained plenty of times about how tough it can be to find a video on YouTube using the "search" or "browse" function. The filters have always been too basic and too restrictive for my tastes. But now I may have to shut my mouth about it, because YouTube has just completely overhauled the filtering ...
Open Web TV Standard in the Works: A Foundation for Web-TV
This week marks the deadline for Open Connected TV standard proposals. The goal: created an open source specification for software and standards for Internet-connected, Web-ready televisions. The driving force behind the specification for OCTV is the Digital Media Project. According to their website they want to promote continuing successful development, deployment and use of Digital ...
Best Branded Viral Video Ads - Celebrity Endorsements With Twitter & Sony
Whenever I see a great piece of branded online video content, I try and pass it on to you guys. Brands are out at the leading edge of what's happening in online video, so there's an awful lot we can learn from their examples. Of course, they're still largely guessing themselves... feeling out this new ...
Canada Tops US in Average Time Spent with Online Video
comScore put out their 2010 Canada Digital Year in Review report last week and I quickly rifled through the first 30 pages to get to the good stuff, video usage! It turns out that Canadians really dig online video. I wonder if there's a video about the differences in bacon, Canadian bacon and back bacon, ...
The Online Video Weekly News Reel - Nothing Edition
Nothing odd or otherwise noteworthy to report. Or rather there is and I just don't feel like it. It's Sunday and I want to get to some gaming as I'm currently playing Batman Arkham Asylum which I picked up on a Steam sale for $7.50 which is a crazy amazing price. I need to enjoy ...
India Watched 1.7B Online Videos in January, UK Leads in Time Per Viewer
While there are only 30.2 million Indian Internet users who are watching videos, yet they are watching astounding numbers of videos. They are consuming on average 58 videos each totaling about 5 hours per month. Sure, it's not the 178M, 14.6 hours in the US but taking into account things like widespread broadband, economic factors, ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons
Is it really Friday already? Another week is in the books, and it's time to round up the best of the viral success stories from this week. We have animals (honestly, you simply can't publish a list of top viral videos without including animal clips at this point), a couple of very different dance parties, ...
Reel Cord-Cutting News: Netflix, Boxee, Hulu Gets Criterion & Miramax Goes Global
I generally do a weekend news round up. But within the last 12 hours I saw some cool stuff that all piled up together and was related so, here's a set of news Reel Quick. It has to do with Netflix and competition, Boxee and Netflix and Miramax, Lionsgate and StudioCanal ganging up...with YouTube?
HTML5 Video Codec War Explodes as MPEG-LA Openly Calls for VP8 Patent Claims
The HTML5 video codec war just exploded! MPEG-LA, who you will remember holds the H.264 patent pool, just invaded Googlonia with a call for patent claims on the VP8 video codec. You will remember that Apple is a member of the H.264 owners, along with Microsoft. You might also recall that there have been some ...
AOL Europe Picks Up GoViral, Online Video Service for $97M
AOL Europe (which sounds strange, America Online Europe), just picked up GoViral, an online branded video content provider over on this side of the pond, reported The Guardian. The company distributes branded video content guaranteeing audiences and user initiated video plays for advertisers on a pay-for-performance basis. So it would appear that AOL Europe is ...
IAB Releases Online Video Marketing and Advertising Best Practices Guide
The International Advertising Bureau's Video Council UK (IABUK) has just recently set forth a new set of best practices in regards to online video marketing and video advertising for 2011. Since we tend to talk a lot about those things I figured you might all be interested in what the IAB has to say on ...
Hulu's Domestic Disputes Leading to International Expansion?
Hulu, as far as I'm concerned, is in trouble. Their Hulu Plus service, which costs $7.99, is overpriced and still shows a ridiculous amount of ads and a limited amount of content. Their partners (and part-owners) like NBCU are making content deals outside of the family (most recently with NetFlix over next-day SNL streaming) and ...
