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Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black-and-white) or colored, with or without accompanying sound. “Television” may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming, or television transmission.
The etymology of the word has a mixed Latin and Greek origin, meaning “far sight”: Greek tele (τῆλε), far, and Latin visio, sight (from video, vis- to see, or to view i...

5 Elemental Lessons Learned in Sports Video Streaming For The 2012 Summer Olympics

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Over the last several weeks, as the world tuned in to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, more than 20,000 broadcasters aimed to reach a global audience of 4 billion viewers with more than 4,000 hours of coverage. According to Sam Blackman, CEO and Co-founder ...

You Talkin' to ME? Why Some TV Personalities FAIL on YouTube [Creator's Tip #51]

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Why is it that some television personalities can capture the attention of millions of TV viewers, but when they transition online or create unique online video content for a place like YouTube, they have a harder time attracting viewers and capturing a sustainable audience? For this week's Creator's Tip ...

Data-Driven Video Ads, Face Blur Privacy, and Better YouTube Searching [Reel Web #49]

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This week on the Reel Web we discuss another new feature launched by YouTube, review some great ways to limit the amount of filtering you have to do when doing YouTube searches and talk about changes in how news is being spread and commercials are ...

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

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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 ...

AMC Will Stream "Breaking Bad" Season 5 Premiere In Wake of Getting Dumped by DISH

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Hey, you know what might be one of the best television shows ever?  Breaking Bad.  You know what DISH customers will be unable to watch this Sunday, July 15?  The Breaking Bad Season 5 premiere.  Chris Rick discussed the whole carriage war thing yesterday, and ...

Roku CEO on the Future of Television & Why It's Such a Squiggly Mess

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The future of television, as Roku Founder and CEO Anthony Wood sees it, is not as futuristic as you'd think, where we'll be able to watch every movie ever made, in any language, day or night. Wood says the future is getting close. I caught ...

A Comprehensive List of Online Video Ad Types and Formats, Pros and Cons

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The online video advertising offerings continue to expand and I thought I would go through the whole list of them and give some of my thoughts on the pros and cons of each. I won't go too deeply into specific products from ad networks, just ...

The Online Video Weekly News Roundup - The Wow I'm Tired Edition

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Wow, E3 week in LA was fantastic. Loads of awesome games, lots of hot babes and tons of great acquaintances new and old. Now it's time to get back into the work flow of a more stable and regular office hour deal. I need to ...

Online Video Advertising Adapts to the TV Advertising Game

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It's that time of the year again, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming and advertising are writing checks. Wait, what? Yes folks, it's TV upfront season, that time when the broadcasters show off what they've got in terms of content for placing ads ...

Computers Top TV in Video Consumption Globally, Mobiles Up and Coming

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Nielsen put out some numbers, in the Global Online Consumers and Multi-Screen Media: Today and Tomorrow report, last week that showed a flip between TV and computers when compared to the 2010 results. They polled Internet users in 56 countries about their video viewing tendencies ...

Break into Primetime with Adobe's New Integrated Video Platform

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So, as I previously mentioned, I chatted with Adobe about their Project Primetime and its new features which they've just unveiled. Ashley Still, director of product management for video solutions at Adobe (whew!) talked with me about what is coming to Primetime, what it's all ...

TV Still Dominant Video Consumption Platform, For Now

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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) just released a new report looking at the devices on which consumers consume video content. Not a big surprise that TV is still the number one platform. What may be surprising are the platforms that aren't really contributing all that ...

Online Video Advertisers Can Connect with Audiences Through Metrics

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Brightroll, this week, announced a new dashboard-based offering called AudienceConnect which gives in-flight audience measurement and optimization in a single place. It ties into Brightroll TAG, which is the Total Audience Guarantee, powered by comScore Campaign Essentials or Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings (OCR). Altogether, Brightroll is ...

Why You Should Be At Streaming Media East Next Week

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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 ...

Discovery Bets Big on Original Web Video Content & Revision3: Jim Louderback Offers Insight

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Online video and its providers have definitely made their presence known to the television industry, and we've seen several shows from YouTube and/or Revision3 get picked up by cable channels for TV distribution.  Now, cable channels without a clear online video presence are looking for ...

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