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Google obviously wants Google Plus to do very well. You can tell by how much they've leveraged their other properties to promote it, like YouTube videos, Google home page messages, rolling in Google Plus results into the standard SERPs, etc. But now they've taken the boldest step yet: tying Google Plus sign-up to new Gmail ...
The future of online video sometimes feels like it's only a day away, as major advancements and changes take place every week. This week's online video news round up has all kinds of stories about the future: imminent moves from YouTube on subscriptions and a new player, the future of interactive video ads, and speculation ...
I've written about Star Wars Uncut several times over the last couple of years. It's a crowdsourced fan-film recreation of the original Star Wars, with every 15-second segment of the film shot by a different creator in a different style... with different sets and actors. The project has been on my radar because of how ...
Reuters, one of the oldest and most respected news organizations in the world, has joined YouTube and will have a channel dedicated to all the world's news, including finance, politics, and technology. Reuters, much like many of the original channels announced, already has a channel on YouTube and their own website with video. But now, ...
The original channels are coming in fast now. Four new ones, all dedicated to the world of skating, surfing, skiing, biking, and all of the other ice, wind, gravity, and water sports you can think of have been announced by YouTube and they have an impressive list of celebrity extreme sports figures, led by Tony ...
Here's another exciting YouTube initiative: film and video makers around the world can enter "Your Film Festival" beginning February 2 and have the chance to win $500,000 to work with Ridley Scott and top-notch producers on their next project. Oh yeah, and just a trip to the Venice Film Festival. That's all. The video must ...
For several years consumers have enjoyed streaming premium content services like Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and others. But as more and more television and film content moves online, the owners of the copyrights (typically studios or production companies) have started to see the potential in launching their own competing services--like Ultraviolet--and it threatens to end ...
Last year, Dentyne Gum sponsored a scripted online dating web series called The Single Life. Starring Taryn Southern (The Temp Life), Jeremy Searle, and "host" Leslie Miles (Final Destination 5, J Edgar), the show is a fictionalized how-to in online dating, complete with Blind Date-esque pop-ups. The show had 4 episodes last summer, and now ...
I interviewed the founder of the Blip.TV, Charles Hope, who shares his thoughts about why The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is extremely bad for online video platforms and their users, and explains what's really needed is not new laws, but better business innovation.
In Part 2 of my interview (PART 1 HERE) with Jason Falls co-author of “No BullShit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing, we passionately discuss what’s good about social media today, what’s BS, and what needs to change for doing truly “social” business.
If you're looking for entertainment news on YouTube this year, you'll have a lot of choices. The latest two original channels, The Young Hollywood Network and ENTV, will be a constant flow of celebrities, news, and Hollywood gossip. The two new entertainment channels will now compete with the already-established ClevverTV and its many celebrity/entertainment/gossip shows. ...
Boxee will give you the ability to share what you're watching straight to Facebook with a new expansion of the integration of the service into its software. Those of you with the Live TV dongle attached to your Boxee Boxes will be able to share without leaving the TV program. I managed to catch a ...
In a move that appears to be a response to Netflix and their foray into original programming, Hulu has announced three original series for this year. One of them you already know. Morgan Spurlock's A Day in the Life will return for a second season and 10 episodes in March. Filmmaker Richard Linklater has a ...
This week's online video news was dominated by web series talk. For instance, we have a retrospective on the BMW web series, The Hire, which was way ahead of its time. We also have some articles about a new Tom Hanks web series, the future of branded video content from Coke, and a story about ...
Right after Yahoo! announced Tom Hanks' web series, Electric City, another announcement came in that they would be teaming with CollegeHumor to produce a sports prank web series called Blindsided. It premieres next week. It will not have a host, so it will probably have teammates/friends pulling pranks on each other, and we know as ...
