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Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock music from various regions of the world, and sometimes in jazz and contemporary classical music. Recently, programming has been incorporated into various styles of post-hardcore and metalcore music.

A Quick Look at Machinima's Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Web Series and Tent-Pole Marketing

We heard about it for months: Machinima was going to spend a ton of money to get a Halo 4 web series/video game tie-in after a round of funding, led by Google, rewarded the channel with $35 million to spend awhile back. Halo 4: Forward ...

O'Romneybama Political Song Parody is Great Example of Tent-Pole Programming in Action

I was able to talk to comedian/actor Jim Meskimen awhile back. He uses YouTube very well and still comes out with great content, all promoting his show, "JIMPRESSIONS" that he does around the country. After my interview with him, he kindly sent me a DVD ...

Teacher's Extra Credit - 10 Steps to Create Your Educational Channel on YouTube : The EDU Playbook

YouTube recently released a new playbook, the YouTube EDU Playbook Guide. They are beginning to narrow down their playbooks into more specific areas. The last one was for brands, and it was a sort of mini-Creator Playbook. All playbooks are going to take pages from ...

YouTube Updates: EDU Playbook, Merchant Annotations, InVideo Promotions, Content ID & More [Reel Web #60]

On this week's Reel Web episode, we take a deeper look into several web video marketing related updates from the past week including updates to YouTube's Content ID program and copyright violation appeals process, new branding and promotional in-player functionalities via YouTube's new InVideo Programming, ...

YouTube InVideo Programming: How to Apply In-Player Branding Across All Your Videos, Instantly

YouTube keeps adding cool stuff out of nowhere and not announcing the changes. I get this odd feeling that the YouTube staff gets very excited about releasing a new feature and taking bets on how long it takes before someone notices. Within the last 24 ...

Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Punk Rock Edition

So Sunday I saw The Vibrators, some seriously old school punk rock. They're touring the US and have been around for 36 years. Go see them if you dig punk. If not, read this weekly news round up on the world of online video. See ...

Weekly Online Video News Roundup - Post Birthday Blues Edition

We weep for the numbers tacked onto our ages this past week. Well, I don't actually. But I know many do. At least it's National left-handed day this week so we can stick it to the righties! On the online video front, the week started ...

Building An Audience Outside of YouTube & Revision3's New Fall Slate: Interview with CEO Jim Louderback

Revision3 just announced some new acquisitions for their fall lineup, which reminded me of something that has been a recurring theme for this year: finding success outside of YouTube. No one argues that YouTube isn't amazing when it comes to reach, and they are (seemingly) ...

A Weekly List of What to Watch in Original Web Series

With the rapidly blossoming expansion of original online series, I've been pondering a way to start curating some content via what I watch, because as this month-long online video viewing project I'm doing is going to show, I seem to watch a lot. Considering that ...

Samsung Offering $300,000 and Distribution Deal for Multi-Screen TV Series

Samsung is holding their third annual Free the TV Challenge and the theme this year is Second Screen Storytellers which means they're looking for a full package production that will couple TV viewing with additional content meant to be viewed on another screen but tie ...

Content Recognition Offers TV-like Video Ad Targeting but Still Missing Big Opportunity?

In the past I've written much about the pretty amazing technology that allows you to basically scan through video and pull out people, places, things and even skin flicks. Leaders in the space include Digitalsmiths, Affine and ClearStream (who have just announced a whole new buying ...

YouTube Not Immune to Carriage Wars Either: A Little Channel Called VEVO

Is everybody in the entertainment business fighting right now? We've got Viacom and DirecTV, AMC and DISH, and the one that's been brewing for some time and has been getting some discussion is the disagreement between YouTube and multi-label-owned VEVO, which is one of the ...

Could Online Video Viewers Benefit From TV's Carriage Fee Wars?

Did you know there's a carriage fee war going on? DirecTV dropped all of Viacom's channels and had a banner running on July 11th stating that Viacom wanted consumers to pay $1B more in fees to keep the channels. Viacom for their part said that ...

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 ...

Advertising is Major Concern for Online Video Consumers Internationally [Study]

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Accenture recently did a study on Video Over Internet Consumers and there were some pretty interesting findings in the report. Today I'm going to look at perceived problems with online video from the consumer standpoint which had some pretty surprising stuff.