The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - New YouTube Edition
Without even a hint of doubt, the biggest online video news story of the week came at the end of the week, on Thursday, when YouTube blindsided users with an unexpected wide rollout of a new YouTube redesign heavy on social interaction and customization. Of course there were plenty of other big stories in online ...
Expect Usage-Based Billing On Web From Cable Providers Soon
I actually wondered if this was something cable providers were chewing on in regards to the increased popularity of Netflix and Hulu. Bloomberg reports that companies like Time Warner Cable, Inc, are considering charging customers for the amount of data they consume. The extra charges would likely make people consider whether they want to spend ...
Selling Video Online: The Pros & Cons Of Choosing Physical Media
After taking a week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, we return with part two of our four-part series on selling video. You can catch up on Part 1 here if you missed it. When you're selling video online, there are really only two main options: physical media or digital? Today we're going to look at ...
No Web Series For ABC Soaps One Life to Live and All My Children
Over Thanksgiving it was announced that long-running ABC soaps One Life to Live and All My Children would not, in fact, be reincarnated as web series as was planned. One Life to Live will end in January while All My Children ended, what turns out for good, in September. As always, the problem turned out ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Thanksgiving Edition
Plenty of news in the world of online video this past week, though many of us probably found ourselves distracted by things like family interaction, football games, and turkey. Because we were all a little more distracted than normal, it's an even better idea to catch up on the latest news, opinions, articles, and tips ...
Future Of Television: Internet TV To Explode In 2012
Mark Suster is a technology entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He's started and sold two companies, worked at Accenture, founded Launchpad LA and is a part at GRP Partners, the SoCal venture capital firm. So he has his finger on the pulse and recently spoke at the Future of Television (which I missed) about his ten ...
UC Davis Pepper Spray Video Explodes Online - YouTube Killed The Evening News
Sometime toward the end of the day on Friday, while many of us were firing off last minute emails and powering down our PCs for the weekend, something dramatic and shocking was going down at UC Davis. UC Davis students affiliated with the nationwide "Occupy" protests, engaged in a locked-arm peaceful sit-in protest on the ...
Herman Cain Versus Online Video From Newspapers – Just The Stats, Man!
Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain made news recently for his campaign cancelling an interview with newspaper this Thursday, saying it didn’t want the interview to be video recorded and arguing that video is only typical for television. But do the latest stats show otherwise?
Netflix Snags New Arrested Development Episodes
In the past decade I have seen some excellent comedy on television, but nothing quite as brilliant as Arrested Development. I think all of us who loved that show when it ran three seasons, 2003 to 2006, wished we could do anything to save it. We always had to hear how it just couldn't muster ...
Online Video Marketing Tips For Brands & Websites From iVillage
NBC-owned iVillage has steadily grown the frequency and amount of video across its site and is now generating more than 4 million video views each month, with plans to expand the video on its site in 2012. Kelly Wallace, the site's head of video and chief correspondent, said advertisers are keen on integrations into the ...
Sony Cutting The Cable For You? Aiming For A Sony Online TV Service?
Remember when I was writing about Sony the other day, well really it was about Google TV and stuff, but I mentioned that Howard Stringer, the Sony CEO, was talking about big R&D in a new TV. Well, some speculation has launched into what that will be now and it seems that they want to ...
YouTube Looking To Jump From 200,000 To 7 Million YouTube Advertisers
YouTube has 200,000 advertisers per quarter, but with the new original channels beginning in January of next year, they're looking to attract 6 or 7 million YouTube advertisers as they launch around 100 total in 2012. According to this Beet.TV interview with Lucas Watson, YouTube's VP for Global Sales, the ability to advertise around premium ...
Gaming Consoles The Main Source For Online TV Viewing
Man, gaming consoles have way more capabilities than when I was playing my Sega Genesis nonstop back in the day. Machines like the Xbox 360, Wii, and Playstation 3 have become increasingly powerful and able to do more than just play games, and online video is a big part of it. You can watch Netflix ...
Online Testing Leads To TV Ad Success For Dotcoms
Here's a weird tangential story about how online testing of ads leads to success on TV. Ace Metrix just released a report stating that top 10 and bottom 10 television ads for Dotcoms. The main deciding factor? Is it a Google ad or not. No, seriously, the main factor was online testing, but Google did ...
YouTube Signs Up Celebrity Talent For New YouTube Partner Channels
One of the worst kept secrets in all of the online video world is now public knowledge. After months of rumor and speculation that YouTube was running all over Hollywood signing up big name talent to form the basis for a push into original premium content, the company has finally announced the first batch of ...
