social TV Articles

Ooyala Custom Video Analytics: Real-Time Facebook Behavioral Data

I interviewed Ooyala co-Founder and President of Products' Bismarck Lepe, on today's release of their new Facebook video analytics solution, allowing publishers to track Facebook users engaging with their online video across audience segmentations in real time. Could we be getting a glimpse of the ...

New Media Trends & The Future Of TV Investments From A Venture Capitalist

What's hot in interactive TV, social TV and new media? I asked venture capitalist Habib Kairouz of Rho Ventures for the top three trends he is tracking in these areas and he shared his tips with the New Media Minute. For the inside scoop on ...

The Social TV Movement: When TV Went Social And Screens Converged

I've been reading a lot of interesting things in the social TV space these past few days and so I thought I would compile them and share with everyone on how screens are converging and TV is becoming more of a social activity. New services ...

VidBlogger Nation Launches As First Of Its Kind Social TV Network On Comcast

Marc Scarpa, veteran director and executive producer of live interactive media events, has launched the first of it's kind social TV network with Comcast Xfinity On Demand, called VidBlogger Nation, that brings popular local YouTube talent into the living room of millions. VidBlogger Nation is ...

Major Microsoft Xbox TV Deals Imminent, But Still Will Need Something Unique

Bloomberg wrote up some thoughts on where it looks like the new Microsoft Xbox TV initiative is headed and I have to admit, I like what it looks like. Basically, it could position the Xbox 360 as the single piece of tech you need for ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Video Editing Edition

This week went by incredibly fast, and if you're like me... you just couldn't get to everything you really wanted to do. These days, there's so much online video news, it can be hard to keep up with it all. Which is exactly why we ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Hulu &Netflix Edition

If you're anything like me, you had a pretty busy week. Maybe your dealing with back-to-school madness or just started a new job? Whatever the specific details of your life, we all get sidetracked and distracted throughout the week, which means we miss important news ...

Should Closed-Captioning of Web Video Be Mandated By Government?

Grant Crowell interviews Josh Miller of 3PlayMedia, to talk about Congress' recent passing of two bills that will mandate closed-captioning of television programming over to the Internet. We discuss the questions: Will other “professional” online video programs be next? And, is legislation necessary, or will organizations determine that transcription and captioning of video content has a worthwhile ROI regardless of any mandate?