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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City’s Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago. NBC is sometimes referred to as the “Peacock Network,” due to its stylized peacock logo, created originally for its color broadcasts.
Formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC was the first major ...

Univision/YouTube Partnership Is A Bigger Deal Than You Think

Did you see the headline earlier this week that YouTube had struck a deal with Spanish Television Network, Univision?  If you're a typical American, you might have passed right over it.  Maybe you noted it mentally, but figured it wasn't terribly important to you since ...

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 ...

July Biggest Month Ever for Online Video, Hulu Tops Time Warner Cable

July was a big month all around for online video (according to comScore) but perhaps it was the biggest month yet for Hulu who, according to various research, surpassed Time Warner in viewership during the month. Could this be the turning point for the cable ...

Lessons In Video and SEO - The JK Wedding Dance Video

A little video of a wedding entrance made a huge splash a couple weeks ago.  You probably saw it.  If not, you almost definitely heard about it.  For their entrance, the wedding party eschewed the more traditional entrance and scampered down the church aisle in ...

Blip.tv Adds More Knobs To Dashboard, Expands Distribution Channels

Blip.TV recently decided that they didn't have enough knobs, switches, levers, buttons and what nots on their dashboard. So they decided to upgrade it and throw in some new things for you to play with. Additionally, since they were doing some work anyway, they decided ...

EveryZing Zings Into NBC and Money

Everyzing whom you might know from such great products as ezSEO, their integrated multimedia SEO solution for connecting audio and video content to the major web search engines and ezSEARCH, their integrated universal site search solution, enabling multimedia content to be indexed and searched just ...

Hulu Does Not Want You To Watch Their Stuff

Hulu does not want you to watch their stuff. At least that's how it feels sometimes doesn't it? If you live outside of the US you simply cannot watch their content. Well, you could by using a proxy service which caused some lag and slow ...

Hulu Is A Mouseketeer

In case you haven't managed to read any of half a dozen places today. Disney has invested in Hulu. No big surprise really, someone was bound to do it sooner or later. Hulu, that wunderkind of premium video sharing spaces, is now a three-way love ...

Microsoft Focusing On Future of Online Video

Microsoft held their second annual digital showcase last week in New York. On display were several forward-looking concept pieces including online video. "We've made an investment in premium content centered around video," said Senior Director of eastern U.S. sales at Microsoft Advertising Rick Song, when ...

Hulu App for The IPhone? Some Say Yes

Hulu is perhaps one of the coolest and rapidly rising stars in the online video world. Let's face it, the combination of FOX and NBC is a win. Now we look at the latest piece of tech that's taken the world by storm...oh would that ...

Viral Video Marketing Disasters: How NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice Failed

Viral videos today are a great opportunity for profitable marketing. Yet so many people in traditional advertising today are missing the point of what makes a viral video successful. ReelSEO's Grant Crowell and Mark Robertson give their review of this past week's episode of "Celebrity ...

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 ...

Hulu Is Picked By AP As The Best Web Site of The Year

Hulu, the online video destination site that just launched in 2008 with a collaborative effort between NBC and Fox was picked as AP's (Associate Press) 2008 pick for best website of the year. Although there is no information regarding what the criteria was for picking ...

Distribution Deals Help Google Increase TV Ad Inventory

As of September Google has been selling time through Google TV Adwords for NBC advertising inventory. The announcement was made on September 24th on the Google offline ads blog. Again they've made another deal, this time with Bloomberg TV. Starting November 6th Google started allowing ...

Silverlight Announces H.264 Support for Online HD Video

Microsoft Silverlight has recently played a major role helping to shape some of the world's biggest events in recent months. Silverlight – Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform solution for delivering rich interactive applications and content experiences on the Web – helped viewers experience both the Olympic Games ...

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