With a team of 16 people working double shifts, it reportedly took Comedy Central many months to create the clip library for TheDailyShow.com.
Software maker Gotuit offers an easier way, providing an indexing work flow platform that lets content distributors efficiently organize clips using metadata guidelines to power video discovery and monetization.
Gotuit recently helped extreme outdoor [...]
Though ad revenue is emerging as a dominant business model for Web video, the New York Times reports that marketers are still wary of online buys, and cites major advertisers such as Procter & Gamble spending only about 1% of their ad budget on the Internet last year. Such spending patterns are expected [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Akamai announced the launched of a showcase portal with a Flash-based electronic program guide for high-definition web videos from the BBC, NBA, MTV and others.
The “HDWeb” site is sponsored by Verizon Fios and will be up for two weeks, offering video files that may be downloaded and played back in Quicktime or Microsoft Media Player. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” has launched a new Web site, DailyShow.com, that will present almost the entire nine-year video archive of the show.
The site includes over 16,000 video clips starting in early 1999 with Jon Stewart and the MTV Networks show. Earlier seasons starting in 1996 with host Craig Kilborn may [...]
Satellite TV operator EchoStar Communications acquired Sling Media, maker of the SlingBox, this week for $380 million — and announced plans to spin-off of a new company containing technology assets such as its set-top box design and manufacturing business, PocketDish, and satellite services along with some spectrum licenses.
The SlingBox device delivers content from a [...]
Nearly a year since Google acquired video-sharing service YouTube for $1.65 billion, a new generation of online video services are maturing — and attracting new rounds of VC funding.
French video-sharing website Dailymotion landed $34 million in funding from venture-capital firms Advent Venture Partners and AGF Private Equity. With 1.2bn page views and 37 [...]
Microsoft launched its Silverlight video player with partners including CBS, HSN and WWE.
CBS which will use Silverlight video on a site dedicated to its Sept. 16 Emmy Awards broadcast; and “ET” will introduce Silverlight on a micro-site offering interviews, red carpet coverage, make video mash-ups and streaming of the “ET” after-party.
Silverlight Official Introduction on YouTube
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MySpace has debuted one of the most ambitious Internet shows to date with the launch of “Afterworld, ” an online animated series about a man who wakes up to find most of the world’s population has vanished.
“Afterworld” spans 130 episodes, each lasting 2 to 3 minutes — and was created by Electric Farm Entertainment for $3-million, [...]
Google announced plans to introduce a new video ad unit, initially on partner content channels on YouTube. The new ads will appears as semi-transparent animated “overlays”, across the bottom fifth of the video window about 15 seconds after each clip begins. Viewers can close the overlay after it appears, wait for it to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )NBC’s DotComedy.com site announced an agreement with technology provider HIRO Media to distribute free, ad-supported downloads of its comedy programming. In a deal brokered by William Morris Digital, HIRO’s service will let DotComedy.com monetize free-to-download programs by including protected ads that play in-show.
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