video game Articles

Comscore, Sony's Crackle, Announce Multi-Platform Audience Measuring

comScore and Crackle have teamed together to measure the audience across all devices in which Crackle can be played. Online metrics have been unable to come up with a number that includes devices like connected TVs and video game consoles. comScore and Crackle aim to solve that.

What "Assassin's Creed 3" Can Teach Us About Social Video Diversity

It may come as no surprise to learn that YouTube succeeds on the back of video games. For many YouTube independent networks, video game content is the most successful and lucrative. YouTube audiences crave it and creators are inspired by it. Machinima is a behemoth ...

Halo 4 Forward Unto Dawn: Review - The Best Video Game Movie Never Made?

Machinima and 343 Industries (Microsoft's new game studio in charge of the Halo 4 franchise) have created the ultimate piece of tent-pole marketing for the Halo 4 video game, the Halo 4 Forward Unto Dawn web series. For the five Fridays leading up, fans enjoyed installments of the epic web series serving as prologue to the game.

ZoomTilt TV Reset Finalists Vie for Branded Video Content Gold

ZoomTilt, which I wrote about a while back, is in the business of finding talented filmmakers who have got financially sustainable web series they want to make. In order for them to be financially sustainable, they need to appeal to brands who will sponsor them ...

How the Right Mix of Awkwardness and Hilarity Can Jump-Start a Channel

What makes videos shoot into the stratosphere?  Well, talking to certain experts, it's usually something that is amazing, embarrassing, sexy, random, surprising, illuminating, spectacular, or relevant.  I think most of your Tosh.0, Ridiculousness, Ray William Johnson videos fall under the embarrassing category.  Now how can ...

When Marching Bands Go Viral: Ohio State Turns Video Games Into Halftime Masterpiece

Having never been in a marching band, I don't really know how much work goes into being in one.  But I do know that when I see something like Ohio State's marching band turning video game characters and scenarios into seamless formations while they perform ...

A Quick Look at Machinima's Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Web Series and Tent-Pole Marketing

We heard about it for months: Machinima was going to spend a ton of money to get a Halo 4 web series/video game tie-in after a round of funding, led by Google, rewarded the channel with $35 million to spend awhile back.  Halo 4: Forward ...

Philip DeFranco Talks Shark Week and His Crazy Year: Interview with DeFranco and Revision3's Ryan Vance

In a fantastic bit of synergy, Discovery tapped Philip DeFranco to host the 25th anniversary of Shark Week, which will kick off on Sunday, August 12th at 9 PM e/p.  As many of you know, Discovery acquired internet video site Revision3 last month in a ...

A Non-Average Month of Personal Online Video Viewing - Chris Adds it Up

I took all of July and tracked how much online video viewing I was doing to see how I stacked up against the alleged average users in reports from comScore and Nielsen. It might have been an odd month as I had discovered a lot ...

A Weekly List of What to Watch in Original Web Series

With the rapidly blossoming expansion of original online series, I've been pondering a way to start curating some content via what I watch, because as this month-long online video viewing project I'm doing is going to show, I seem to watch a lot. Considering that ...

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

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 ...

Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Hard-Pressed for Time Edition

So, while you are reading this, I'm probably speeding across the country at some 700mph on my way to Los Angeles for E3 - the world's largest video game show. Still, I made some time to get this compiled so that you would have something ...

Google, YouTube Continue Betting Big On Machinima, And With Good Reason

A funding round of $35 million went to Machinima, one of YouTube's most visited sites, to the tune of 1.6 billion views last April, and a lion's share of the funding came from Google.  Already-invested Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital also joined in.  All of ...

April is Another Record-Breaking Month for Video Advertising: 9.5 Billion Online Video Ads Served

Holy mackerel! That's a whole lotta online video ads man! In fact, it's actually 20% of all videos viewed online roughly. That is if you remember that those ads are actually intersecting pieces of video content which then gets tallied as multiple videos by comScore. ...

Online Video Explodes In Germany

Comscore just released a study of online video engagement in Germany, and the results are a continuing testament to the growth of online video outside of the United States.  46.9 million German Internet users went to online video in March, a 2.3% increase from last ...