Daniel Frankel
Feb 8, 2012 5:24 PM
In Hollywood, $100 million will buy you about half of a Jerry Bruckheimer action movie. But YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is spreading that sum out to launch more than 100 new video content channels this year, with the hope that one of these inexpensive video plays will become the kind of…
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Daniel Frankel
Feb 1, 2012 2:26 PM
The rush of content announcements from video companies in recent days, from players like YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Hulu, has caused a number of people to suggest that internet video has reached a new tipping point with consumer and advertiser adoption. But if it has, it doesn’t appear to coming…
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Will Richmond
VideoNuze
Jan 31, 2012 12:49 PM
There are many exciting things happening in the online video industry, but to my mind, none is more noteworthy than the radical transformation of YouTube.
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Daniel Frankel
Jan 30, 2012 9:08 PM
NASCAR is taking back the management of its online and mobile operations from broadcast partner Turner Sports following a steep slide in TV ratings. The league wants to use its digital platforms to help rekindle interest in the sport, which has suffered from flagging attendance.
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Jeff Roberts
Jan 26, 2012 5:15 PM
Ron Paul’s campaign suffered a setback this week in its effort to identify who uploaded videos that appear to show the presidential candidate bashing a former rival’s ties to China.
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Jeff Roberts
Jan 24, 2012 6:40 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will use email and a message on its home page to notify users about a new privacy policy that will go into effect this March. While Google is framing the changes as a simple housekeeping measure, the company is also using them to achieve larger strategic goals.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM
Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 23, 2012 8:06 PM
Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, including the newer services like IPTV, against competition from incumbent TV providers and the growing allure of over-the-top services, from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to YouTube.
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Daniel Frankel
Jan 20, 2012 3:53 PM
Facebook is lagging in the video-streaming race, with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Hulu all making major investments to acquire and develop original video content. But if Facebook can reach an exclusive deal with Vevo, the web’s largest aggregator of music videos…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 20, 2012 8:53 AM
This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them looking to capitalize more on their already-hefty user bases by creating services that keep them on their sites for longer.
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Tom Krazit
Jan 19, 2012 4:11 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) missed analyst expectations for earnings per share during the fourth quarter, sending its stock plunging in after-hours trading Thursday. The company had been expected to produce earnings per share of $10.49, but it chalked up just $9.50 in earnings per share excluding special items and also missed…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 19, 2012 5:15 AM
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 18, 2012 12:39 AM
Two contrary advertising watchdog rulings against the same movie company highlight how video advertising to children is handled differently on TV and the web.
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Daniel Frankel
Jan 17, 2012 4:39 PM
As it seeks to launch nearly 100 new channels featuring professionally produced video, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has a key advantage over original video competitiors like Hulu and Yahoo: millions more viewers can see its promos.
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Daniel Frankel
Jan 17, 2012 4:59 AM
YouTube’s ambitious—and expensive—original programming push got a little more steam this week with the Monday launch of new Hollywood-centric entertainment channels from Young Hollywood and a Penske Media-Ion TV partnership.
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Tom Krazit
Jan 12, 2012 3:19 PM
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) didn’t do a whole lot with a precious hour of airtime at CES 2012 on Thursday, reminding us all that video delivered over the web is poised to get even bigger than it already is yet offering very little about why YouTube is the place where Web…
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Will Richmond
VideoNuze
Jan 11, 2012 3:13 PM
Tom Hanks. Louis C.K. Lisa Kudrow. Kevin Spacey. David Fincher. Bill Maher. Jennifer Lopez. Judy Greer. Steven Van Zandt. Morgan Spurlock. Ed Begley, Jr. Heidi Klum. What do these Hollywood A-Listers (or near A-Listers) and other stars all have in common? They’re all involved in original online video projects which…
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Will Richmond
VideoNuze
Jan 4, 2012 1:52 PM
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers appear to be spending far more time viewing the service’s streaming content than do users of any other online video destination. According to new data Netflix released today, its 20 million subscribers consumed 2 billion hours of streaming TV shows and movies in Q4 2011.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 4, 2012 11:35 AM
News reports (Mail Online, Telegraph.co.uk) that *Apple* and *Google* may bid for 2013-16 Premier League live broadcast rights are almost certainly wide of the post.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 29, 2011 10:01 AM
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more ways than ever before to watch TV content whenever and however we want. But despite the growth of services like Hulu, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it…
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