Topic - Online Video & movies

Viral Video Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Successes

It’s time for another Viral Round Up—our weekly look at the latest viral success stories as we attempt to reverse engineer them to see what made them work.

Since I missed last week’s Round Up, we’ll actually look at more videos than normal this week.  Call it my tangible apology, like the flowers I sometimes buy my wife.

Hollywood & The Web – Making The Case For Online Movie Releases

film 300x216 Hollywood & The Web   Making The Case For Online Movie ReleasesI’d like to talk about something tangentially related to online video but still near and dear to my heart:  movies.  I love movies.  I love them so much I went to work t a five-screen cinema at 19 and spent an entire decade managing movie theaters.  I then transitioned to a life of online marketing—it was smoother than you might think.

Imagine my excitement when earlier today I read the headline, “Assassin’s Creed Films To Be Released On YouTube.”

Google Launches TV Ads Online Beta – Youtube Shows

google tv ads 200x84 Google Launches TV Ads Online Beta   Youtube ShowsGoogle TV Ads now lets anyone reach television viewers, provided they are watching that television online. The new program allows you to place video ads during the commercial breaks of the show.

Zinc Living Room Internet Video Browser Updated

You might not be familiar with Zinc, ZeeVee renamed it from Zviewer a while back. It’s a single, living-room friendly user interface that is designed to be operated with a remote control and viewed on the “big screen.”

Hollywood Studios Come Together to Launch Online Movie Platform

Studio 3 Networks, the premium entertainment joint venture formed by Viacom Inc., its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Lionsgate, announced today that it will brand its next-generation entertainment service, epix. The service will provide consumers with access to great films and original entertainment programming on television, along with on-demand access via broadband delivery.

Netflix to Bring Online Movies into Living Rooms

Looks like my predictions for online video in 2008 are already coming true…