Topic - Online Video & UK
Viral Video Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Successes
This is the second of what we hope will be a weekly series examining viral video success stories. We aim to point out what’s popular in the world of viral video, and also attempt to analyze what it is that helped create or foster that success.
Video Content Discovery Engine Jinni Opens to Public
As mentioned on Techcrunch this morning, there’s a new player in the world of video search. Well, I should say there’s a new site aiming to be a player in video search—video “discovery” to be exact.
BrightRoll Rolls Open UK Office, Goes Global
Brightroll is done serving only the US in regards to it’s advertising. It’s ready to spread global thanks to its global location- and language-based initiatives that expand its focus and services beyond the United States.
An Exabyte a Month of Video Viewing? Sooner than you Think!
I know, you’re asking what the hell an exabyte (EB) is aren’t you? Well it’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes – a quintillion, 1018, a billion gigabytes, a…well you get the picture. Yes, quintillion is a word (the US/UK version not the other one). When? Delve into the sea of zeroes with me and find out.
Online Video Ad Budgets to Increase 50% in Next 12 Months?
Online Video Ad budgets are set to explode according to new research and expand more than 50% over the next 12 months. The research, conducted by Web TV Enterprise, surveyed media buyers (presumably in the UK where the company is). Around 97% booking pre-roll ad campaigns now said they would be continuing at their present levels or increasing their spend.
The Dark Side of Online Video?
Just as there are white hat and black hat hackers, SEO companies and just about everything else in the world, there is also black hat online video…the so-called pirates. But where is the line drawn between legal and illegal video and where is the line on morality?
Five Launches Syndicated Player With Brightcove Platform
Five, the UK broadcast company, has taken the plunge into online ad-supported video for embedding on other websites. They are the first broadcaster in the country to do so and look to lead the way for catch-up viewing on the web.
Hulu coming to the UK This Year?
Rumors on the web state the Hulu is probably going to be in the UK by year end. As you’re all probably aware by now, I don’t live in America so I don’t get Hulu at all. They’re apparently going to be expanding into those ‘other markets’ of which they’ve told us for so long.
Online Video Regulation Structure Directive Outlined by UK Government
The Government has published details of how it will ensure that the UK complies with the European Union’s Audio-Visual Media Services (AVMS) Directive, which extends regulation to television-like programmes regardless of the medium used to show them.
Online Video Viewing in the UK Grows by 10% YOY
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that the total U.K. online video viewing audience has grown 10 percent during the past year to 29.6 million unique viewers age 15 and older.
