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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Streaming Internet TV Edition

It was another huge week for online video news, with final bids for Hulu being turned in on Friday. I'm pretty surprised we haven't seen any leaks on those bids as of yet, but it is the weekend. Expect there to be news on the ...

Nielsen Reports Video Viewing Up On All Platforms, Cord-Cutting Not Happening

So Nielsen put out the Cross-Platform Report and it shows that video viewing is up on all three screens - TV, Mobile and Internet (PC). Time-shifted video also saw a boost in the latest report as well which they stated was due to further market ...

Blip.tv Partners With The Collective To Bring YouTube Stars More Exposure

YouTube has been good to a lot of amateur filmmakers and video creators. It's given many of them a distribution platform, social and marketing tools, monetization options, legions of fans, and even serious profit. But apparently... there's still a lot that YouTube can't do for ...

Verizon FiOS Fights for Space in the VOD Market, Netflix Calls Heroes for Help

I'm pondering perhaps a weekly Internet TV industry article as it seems there are more and more things going on in the space every week. I just fear that one week there will be nothing and you'll be over there twiddling your thumbs and mumbling ...

Adobe Pass Unlocks TV Everywhere

Adobe wants its Flash player to the be the one stop shop for the TV Everywhere industry. With that in mind they've revealed the Adobe Pass, an authentication service which can gate premium content for cable and satellite operators as well as broadcasters online. The ...

Apple Announces The iPad They Should Have Released A Year Ago

Apple just made Xoom's road to success a lot harder, by announcing the iPad 2. Apple's big product announcement event today has garnered a ton of press, and rightly so. You'll never guess what they announced... A new iPad! Called the iPad 2! And guess what?! ...

DirecTV Heads into Streaming Internet Video, Broadband, LTE

It seems that DirecTV sees the end of satellite and the continuation of more terrestrial operations. Or they are just trying to expand their offerings. Expanding into a subscription-based premium movie service would put them in direcT competition with Netflix and several other studios who ...

Nielsen adds Web-Enabled Devices to TV Tracking

Nielsen, media research company not recently deceased comic genius (RIP L.N), have changed a bit of their TV statistics tracking with changes to Internet-ready TVs. Basically, they now acknowledge their existence. Welcome to the 21st century Nielsen!

Good Campaign Planning Drove Apple's Social Video Success

Many people believe that the iPhone is what made Apple a social media mogul. But that turns out not to be the case according to Visible Measures, whose new Share of Choice Report shows how the iPad changed the social video playing field for mobile ...

Killer YouTube Remote App Lets Android Phones Control Videos On Other Devices

YouTube reallywants to make it easier for you to transition video content smoothly between your various Internet-connected devices, be they televisions, mobile phones, laptops, or desktops.  To that end, they've announced the YouTube Remote App, a new app in the Android marketplace and is intended ...

The Sunday News Reel: Video Related News In Review - Sept 26 - Oct 3, 2010

Chris is taking the weekend off to catch up on some technical things (really he's just fiddling with computer hardware, playing video games and catching up on sleep) so I'm here to cover for him. This week saw a lot of talk about Apple TV ...

Verizon FiOS Customers Get YouTube and Internet Radio

If you are a Verizon FiOS customer, you just got a nice surprise—YouTube and Internet radio now come straight to your television.  Now instead of sitting on the couch surfing YouTube videos on your laptop, you can sit on the couch and surf YouTube videos ...

Nearly A Million Americans Have Ditched Cable for Online TV

It's fun to speculate about the shift from television viewing to Internet.  When will it happen?  How long before there are more people watching online than on television?  There's typically a lot of speculation in articles like these.  Heck, I'm guilty of it myself on ...

Viral Video Marketing Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Video Successes - 10/30/2009

Welcome back to the third edition of this weekly series where we examine viral video successes (and sometimes failures).  The goal is to reverse engineer the examples to help break apart and identify what factors helped the video go viral.  Learning from those who succeeded ...

Intel and Adobe Team To Optimize Flash Technology for Web TV Processors

Adobe and Intel recently announced that they will work to extend the Adobe Flash platform for the Intel Media Processor CE 3100. This means a better Flash experience in set-top boxes, Blu-Ray players and other AV connected devices. With the Flash platform's high-definition capabilities and ...