Fresh of the pages of dead-tree media elite NYT comes news of a new media partnership:
“Mr. Lee, the director, is teaming up with Nokia, the cellphone maker, to direct a short film comprising YouTube-style videos created by teenagers and adults using their mobile phones.
By hiring Mr. Lee for the project, Nokia is seeking to combine [...]
Yesterday, I had a lovely meeting with a programmer from Veoh. Among other things she was telling me that they were phasing out the option for users to “sell” downloads of their videos. She told me that upper management thought that users would be upset by this but, as she suspected, nobody cared at all.
Now [...]
Although there is nothing surprising about the release of the Adobe’s video player I’m still not sure why it’s meaningful.
It is basically the same thing as Joost and that hasn’t exactly been a grand prize winner. Sure, it’s Adobe so they have great market recognition but you still have to offer something really special today [...]
Flickr, the popular photosharing site, has just added the option to upload video to the site as well. Wait, you say, isn’t that just YouTube? Yup. Only YouTube lets you upload video of any length (with the right authorization) while Fickr sets a limit of 90 seconds.
That might seem sort of crazy at first glance. [...]
The curator topic keeps coming up and for good reason - somebody has to sort through the vast flow of videos posted by the millions to the web each day and tell me which ones I need to watch.
Of course, who picks makes a big difference (or it should) and every viewer has a different [...]
There is a good overview on NewTeeVee of the recently launched Pitchfork TV (warning: autoplay!). Overall, they seem to be pleased if not impressed:
“Right now, Pitchfork.tv has a very small, intimate feel, which is best because the company would never want to be perceived as big and corporate. But as it has to start paying [...]
Okay, at some point this whole “we’re on the web so we need a hip name” thing has GOT to end. Seriously, why would you go though all the trouble of starting a professionally-sourced video website aimed at (it appears) women over the age of 25 and then call is SheZoom?! What part of your [...]
AdWeek has all the details on Microsoft’s pretty aggressive move into the world of original online episodic video. They already announced a partnership with a Hollywood producer for shows to be streamed on the XBOX and now this:
“Among the new series to come out of MSN’s Branded Entertainment group are In Need of Repair, a [...]
Mashable has word on a the latest entry into the video distribution game - WildScreen:
“Aimed at filmmakers, Wildscreen is also hoping to entice users in with the offering of full ownership of the channel, including 100% of the ad revenue going directly to that operator of the video channel. With no upload limitations or revenue [...]
SAI has some numbers on the users and viewers of the many free live-streaming options that have been popping up and sucking up VC rather rapidly.
Turns out the numbers are quite equaling the investment, yet.
“The biggest site, LiveVideo, had 1.13 million unique viewers in February, according to Nielsen’s VideoCensus. That’s enough to earn it 49th [...]
