Google is in discussions to buy Twitch – formerly known as Justin.tv, the pioneering life streaming platform. As Twitch, it is primarily a platform for gamers to interact via a live video platform. The early talks have been reported by The Wall Street Journal. Variety puts a potential sale number at $1 billion. Last year, […]
Justin.tv, the big San Francisco-based live Web video site continues to grow with an average of 32 hours of live video streamed and ingested into the system every minute to viewed instantly and for later viewing on demand, says Evan Solomon, head of marketing said in this interview.
Justin.tv, the big consumer site for live streaming, has just launched an Android app for creating live streaming. According to Evan Solomon, VP of marketing, it is superior to current offerings from competitors Qik and Ustream.
In judging success of online video sites, the number of streams count, but time spent is also an extremely important metric.
Justin.tv, the big live webcasting service, has launched an iPhone application, allowing viewers to watch, share and interact with all the thousands of live streaming channels on the site.
Justin.tv has changed its user interface which it hopes will be easier for users to users. The company made the announced earlier today.
Earlier this year, Justin.tv, the San Francisco-based live video site, dialed back its relationship with Akamai to serve its enormous live video traffic in-house, Evan Solomon tells Beet.TV in this interview.
Justin.tv, the big live Web video site that says it has 35 million monthly views, will launch a pay-per-view platform next month for a few content creators and then roll it out across the entire network in Q2.
The third annual CNET Webware awards are out and YouTube and Justin.tv are among video-related companies among the 100 winners. Other video-related winners are Amazon Video on Demand, Hulu, Ustream and Vimeo.
The ubiquitous Flash Video Player, the most widely used Web plug-in to watch online video, has finally landed on mobile phones in the United States, albeit with limited availability. Some 450 million mobile devices around the globe have the Flash Player, but only a handful in the United States, which is woefully behind most of […]
Click To Play We have been facinated by Justin.TV and Justin Kan. His wearing a live webcam on his baseball cap is much more than a publicity stunt, it’s a demonstration of the viability of live video origination and broad distribution via embed code. Beet.TV has learned from a source at Amazon, that the streaming […]
Click To Play Here’s Justin Kan of Justin.TV, the dude wearing the live TV camera on his head. I hung out with him LA last week where he was live casting his experience at the AlwaysOn conference. Justin is streaming live Flash video through a wireless device. This is no publicity stunt, it’s about business. […]
Twitch, the live video platform that allows gamers to interact over the Internet, will be acquired by Amazon for over $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. the site was formerly known as Justin.tv, a pioneering platform for personal live streaming. Last year, we spoke with chief revenue officer Jonathan Simpson-Bint about the company’s fast […]
When Microsoft announced last month that Xbox One players will be able to broadcast their live gaming sessions via the Twitch.TV platform, many people could have been forgiven for asking: “Twitch who?” But the announcement was a crowning for the former Justin.TV, the livestreaming service that was so often home to illegally-streamed content. Now the […]
Last week's Digitas Content NewFront conference was streamed live simultaneously to several streaming services and sites including Ustream, Justin.tv, Revision3, Ad Age, and Mediapost.
SAN FRANCISCO — Revision3 is experimenting with offering more shows live as well as on-demand, the company's CEO Jim Louderback told us at the recent Beet.TV online video roundtable in San Francisco.
Boxee, the free software download that allows consumers to use their PC to watch television programming, is creating a pay-per-view system for content creators.
Ustream, one of the big live streaming video sites, announced on Friday that it is beginning a pay-per-view scheme on some of the sites channels.
Live Web video around events is the fastest growing sector for Livestream, says founder and CEO Max Haot.
Qik, the mobile video platform, is being integrated into Brightcove, the big video services company. Initially, mobile users will be able upload files, but soon after they will be able to stream live to Brightcove-powered sites.