PaidContent is reporting that TidalTV has pocketed a nice chunk of venture capital. Who are they are what do they want to do. Well:
“TidalTV wants to position itself as a provider of streaming video that’s professionally produced.”
Ya know, the more I think about the more it seems to me that professionally produced streaming video is, [...]
NewTeeVee has the inside scoop on the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research study on TV advertising:
“Of all the new formats the industry is eyeing, 65 percent of advertisers surveyed were looking to try ads in online shows, compared with ads embedded in VOD (55 percent), interactive television ads (43 percent) and ads [...]
There is a very interesting post over on TorrentFreak about the incredibly high number of TV shows illegally (though I have yet to hear of any prosecution for this in the vein of what RIAA has been doing in the music industry) being downloaded and viewed via BitTorrent.
“It is safe to say that BitTorrent is [...]
There is a self-congratulatory post over on MSNBC regarding their rather impressive increase in visitors to their video streaming site.
Obviously, news is one thing there is plenty of on the net and therefore the competition for viewers is intense. MSNBC has long been an also-ran in the news world but has definitely been surging in [...]
Joseph Weisenthal has some more detail on the CurrentTV IPO over at the essential PaidConnent
So, I just read that Al Gore’s CurrentTV is going public. I have wanted to like Current since its inception a few years ago, in much the same way I wanted to embrace Al Gore in 2000. Unfortunately, like the man who brought it to life, Current has never been able to get [...]
