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The RIAA and MPAA have been complaining about piracy of music and movies for years. They've sued individual users for exorbitant amounts of money and were a huge part of the driving force of SOPA & PIPA (some would say they were the only driving force). Their profits have been cut into and that's stealing, ...
Vimeo announced their judging lineup today for the upcoming 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards. The awards will be handed out across 13 different categories, with each category having a panel of three judges. And there are some pretty big names among the judges, including actor James Franco, actor Aziz Ansari, 2012 Oscar Nominee Lucy Walker, ...
This year, NBC made history by allowing the Super Bowl, one of the biggest events on TV in most years, available online. There has always been a fear that allowing the game online would water down the TV audience, something we've seen time and again disproved by big sporting events of this type. We saw ...
PandoDaily--the tech news website started by former TechCrunch employee, Sarah Lacy, and staffed with several former TechCrunch writers--got a pretty big scoop yesterday, assuming it turns out to be accurate. According to "two sources familiar with the situation," IAC is considering an attempt to sell off their video property, Vimeo. The plan is to try ...
While the Giants were busy beating the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI (which I wasn't at all interested in except for the great half-time show), Hulu users were busy rating all the ads. In fact, it seems like many of them were more interested in the ads than in the game itself. Honestly, it wasn't ...
This week, you probably missed even more online video news stories than normal. But you'll be forgiven, since you were no doubt scrambling around getting all the details together for your killer Super Bowl party. And in just a few hours, that party will begin. But until then, you've still got time to catch up ...
The Wall Street Journal announced it will launch a YouTube channel today that features “soft news” instead of “hard news.” The channel will showcase “Off Duty,” a daily lifestyle show based on the eponymous section of WSJ Weekend, the Journal's Saturday paper. Hosted by Wall Street Journal reporter Wendy Bounds, “Off Duty” will offer on-demand ...
Because YouTube has Google money to spend, the online video destination has an attractive place for people who are already in show business or hope to launch an entertainment career. Recently, the defection of Food Network's Bruce Seidel to Electus' unnamed new YouTube food channel, set to debut in July, hit the news wire and ...
President Obama seems like a pretty regular guy... someone you could hang out with, even. Most of us never get to meet a sitting U.S. President, let along hang out with one. But today, in just a handful of hours, you can do just that on the White House YouTube Channel, as President Obama hosts ...
As usual, there was plenty of news in the online video world this past week. And as usual, you were probably a bit too busy to keep up with all of it. We saw more major updates to YouTube's design and services, some important Google Plus news, and a whole lot more. So if you ...
Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback took to the Rev3 blog this morning and announced a 359% increase in total views and a 53% increase in revenue for the year of 2011. Revision3 made smart acquisitions last year, including the extraordinarily successful Epic Meal Time, and by the end of the year, picked up one of YouTube's ...
Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up. Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up. Along with the wave of new teenagers, Google Plus is also getting new privacy and security features--a fairly important thing if the ...
Do you like to browse YouTube videos? I use the Browse page at YouTube an awful lot--it's one of the ways I'm able to stay on top of what's happening in online video. And I've had some personal issues with the layout and design for some time. Today, YouTube updates the browse page design, and ...
While Netflix isn't all the way back to highs pre-The Worst Price Hike of All Time, they pretty much got all those people back by the end of the year. Maybe not the same people, but replacements anyway. Thus Netflix ended 2011 with 24.4 million subscribers, just a touch off the 24.59 million they had ...
Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly - one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they're announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to ...
