Month: August 2009

Online video is both hugely different from television and brings more value to TV, CNNMoney.com Anchor Poppy Harlow told Beet.TV earlier this month.

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses, Daisy Whitney reports in this week's New Media Minute.

Wikipedia has only about 3000 scattered videos on its site, but that may change as the site will allow easier uploading and collaborative editing, Technology Reports.

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses.

NEW YORK, NY — TIME.com relaunched its video pages today, with a larger/HD player, integration with social media, and video sorting under "most popular," "this week," and other categories.

Market7, a San Francisco-based start-up that offers video project management as a software solution, is providing its services to Google, the company announced today.

REDMOND, WA — Microsoft Silverlight, the new Web multimedia platform, is "one of the fastest Web plug-in's," with one third of the world's PC's having the program installed, said Chris Swenson, Senior Strategy Officer in this interview with Beet.TV at Microsoft headquarters.

NPR has expanded its mobile offering with a new iPhone application including audio and text transcriptions, paidContent reported last night.

It was forty years ago this weekend that Jimi Hendrix closed the Woodstock festival with one of his greatest performances.  

Staci Kramer at paidContent reports that Journalism Online, a new company which manages subscription and paid transactions for online publishers, has "letters of intent" from over 500 newspapers.

Nielsen's report on video traffic showed more astounding growth for YouTube, with 7 billion videos streamed to 100 million unique visitors. For us, the big news is the arrival of Blinkx to number 10 site with 85 milllion video streams. (See table below)

Big jump in traffic in July for ABCNews.com.  According to Nielsen, the site has passed the NYTimes.com and FoxNews.com in traffic with over 16 million unique visitors.

SEATTLE, WA — There has been much talk about the emergence of "TV Anywhere," an initiative from Comcast and Time Warner which allows cable TV subscribers to log into their cable menu on their PC's, regardless of where a subscriber may be.

SAN JOSE, Calif — Cisco and Warner Music Group have expanded the use of Eos, Cisco's content management system, to power a number of Warner artist web sites and their branded media and social networks.

Boxee, the maker of a software program that turns a computer into multimedia "box" for online video and other digital content, has raised a new round of funding, the company announced today.

REDMOND, WA — MSNBC.com,  the first major video news organization to provide sharable videos, has found booming usage of its videos off its site, notably on the Huffington Post.

Verizon customers have been upping their consumption of Blip.tv shows on Verizon's cable video-on-demand service and that's one of the reasons the telco is now offering shows from the video-sharing site to its DVR customers, Verizon's Garrett Rieman told Beet.TV at a Blip.tv event in New York recently.

Today, Livestream, a live Web video services provider, announced an integration with Brightcove.  It also announced the availability of its API.

The age old question in Web video is what type of ads work best. To reach a true consensus on the best ad formats, online video should learn from the cable business.

Roku, maker of the the $99 box that brings high quality broadband video to the television set, is now providing all Major League Baseball games as one part of the MLB.com premium subscription of  $34.95.