YouTube Shifts Its Strategy To Channels - The Reel Web Episode #25
This week our coverage of news from the online video world includes a look at The Huffington Post's recent investment of $30 million dollars into a daily 12-hour live video stream that covers all the news going up on their site along with several other AOL web properties, like TechCrunch and Engaget. Also, YouTube set ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - YouTube Channels Edition
This week, you probably missed even more online video news stories than normal. But you'll be forgiven, since you were no doubt scrambling around getting all the details together for your killer Super Bowl party. And in just a few hours, that party will begin. But until then, you've still got time to catch up ...
BSkyB Online Streaming Service To Launch For Film, TV & Sports In UK
BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, in whom News Corp has an almost 40% stake, have announced that they will start providing online streaming service this year. The service will work through a set-top box, won't require a subscription and will eventually offer film and sports to go along with TV content. They also own ...
Boxee Totally Removes PC Software From Site, Here Are Some Alternatives
Boxee had already announced that they were going to to stop supporting the computer application, available for PC, Mac and Linux, they had made. But they never mentioned they were going to completely remove it from their site, yet, that is exactly what they've now done. Boxee is now focusing solely on the Boxee Box ...
The State Of HTML5 Video - Growing, But Also Kind Of A Mess
Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State ...
Hang Out With President Obama On Google Plus Hangouts
President Obama seems like a pretty regular guy... someone you could hang out with, even. Most of us never get to meet a sitting U.S. President, let along hang out with one. But today, in just a handful of hours, you can do just that on the White House YouTube Channel, as President Obama hosts ...
Android Video Viewing Gaining On iOS Devices
Encoding.com just released new numbers pulled from Vid.ly which show that Android is gaining on iOS in terms of video viewing. It's no surprise as the operating system has been steadily stealing market share quarter after quarter and is available on far more different devices than iOS. Since Vid.ly is a universal URL for videos ...
Netflix Gains Most Of Its Subscribers Back, Still Hurting In Some Areas
While Netflix isn't all the way back to highs pre-The Worst Price Hike of All Time, they pretty much got all those people back by the end of the year. Maybe not the same people, but replacements anyway. Thus Netflix ended 2011 with 24.4 million subscribers, just a touch off the 24.59 million they had ...
Streaming Super Bowl Ad CPM Higher Than TV Ads
According to Mediapost, streaming video ads for the Super Bowl XLVI videocast will be more than the average TV-based Super Bowl ad, around 1.5 times as much. What does that say about the importance and maturity of online video advertising? I think it might be saying "we have arrived." Then again it could be saying, ...
Future Proof Your Online Video Library With Vid.ly Integration with Encoding.com
Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly - one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they're announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to ...
Greed & The Crumbling Dream Of A Video Promised Land
Danny Sullivan is a pretty smart dude. If you're not familiar with him, it probably means you haven't dabbled much in SEO. And when he wrote yesterday about paying Rupert Murdoch three times for the same piece of content, it really got me fired up. Because he's right--seriously, you should go read his rant at ...
60 Hours Of Video Is Now Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute
Alexei Oreskovic of Reuters reports that “roughly 60 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube every minute.” The company also told him that YouTube is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months. There was one other news nugget in Oreskovic’s “exclusive” story: Three billion YouTube ...
Flash Video Isn't Dead, It Just Pivoted
HTML5 is the future of video. Probably. Or if not HTML5, its successors. It seems that the whole web has rallied behind the desire to get rid of third-party plugins - especially closed plugins like Flash. And so every major new web browser now supports native video playback via a <video> tag. Given this climate, ...
The Original Content Wars Have Begun, But They're Bigger Than Hulu Vs. Netflix
For several years consumers have enjoyed streaming premium content services like Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and others. But as more and more television and film content moves online, the owners of the copyrights (typically studios or production companies) have started to see the potential in launching their own competing services--like Ultraviolet--and it threatens to end ...
Verizon Working On Video Content Delivery System
And you all thought that Verizon was just aiming to cover its own customers and network with content? Well, apparently we were all wrong. It seems that they've dropped a pretty large penny, $370M worth of them in fact, in working out a streaming video content delivery system and video ad platform that will reach ...
