Online video site Metacafe announced a deal with Skype to deliver video programming to more than 220 million worldwide subscribers of its Internet phone service. Skype users can personalize their online profile with Metacafe videos, or share video in a chat session. Metacafe ranked seventh most visited online video site in June with 4.1 million [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sony announced the launch of a video-sharing site in Japan. Sony will closely monitor for copyrighted material. Japanese TV networks forced YouTube to remove 30,000 video clips last year due to copyright infringement. The site offers a clean environment for advertisers, relative to the largely unmonitored YouTube site.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Michael Eisner-backed Veoh Networks announced the commercial launch of a file-sharing Internet television service to compete with YouTube. The site opens with over 100,000 videos by amateurs and professionals after a year and a half of public testing.
Veoh promises to compensate publishers based on the audience their videos attract, like Break.com, Revver and online [...]
Peer-to-peer file-sharing operator BitTorrent signed an agreement with the MPAA to help stem piracy of films on the Web by removing links from its website that direct users to illegal copies of downloadable films.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The BBC announced that 5,000 viewers will participate in the second phase of its integrated Media Player (iMP) trial that will offer UK broadband users access to TV programs online for 7 days after their initial broadcast. The technology has the working title ‘MyBBCPlayer.’
During the initial iMP trial which ran for 3 months in [...]
A new survey of worldwide file-swapping traffic found that online movie trading is skyrocketing.
Use of Kazaa file-sharng software has slipped far behind rival BitTorrent, which now accounts for 53% of peer-to-peer network traffic.
The report found that overall traffic has not been falling, as some analysis have suggested. In June 2004, an average 8 million users [...]
The NPD Group reported that peer-to-peer usage was up 14 percent in November 2003 from September, after 6 months of declines in digital file sharing. Usage began dropping in April 2003 when the RIAA began filing the first of more than 300 lawsuits against individual file sharers.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IMPULSE Digital Media is published by James Brennan, President of digital media consulting firm Mandalan Media, which operates web video wiki Strmz.com.
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