Who are CBS looking to acquire? And who has been holding partnership talks with CNN? Discover the disruptive new entrants, biggest investments and significant acquisitions in the Online Video sector. StrategyEye's strategic dealflow report looks at all merger and acquisition, venture capital and partnership activity in Q2 2008.
Co-created by Jak Severson, Big Shot Live is a reality show-style talent competition that airs on the Web. It gives regular people an opportunity to promote showbiz talents through one-minute videos, and gives the most popular contestants a chance to try and make it in Hollywood. Severson discusses...
Gary Baker, founder and President of ClipBlast!, has 20 years of experience in television and interactive media. Founded in 2004, ClipBlast! is a web video search and navigation platform with a focus on user-friendliness and versatility. Baker's interview focuses on the originality of his business structure, including its integrated...
Magnify.net, a peer-driven online video discovery and broadcast channel for people, groups and businesses, today announced their use of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to host its rapidly growing online video curation platform.
YouTube has become so popular that sometimes it's easy to forget it's still a young and fast growing site. It quadrupled its share of internet visits in 2007 and is now the eighth most visited site in the United Kingdom (U.K.) YouTube's share of the entertainment category is just over...
Do you have an online video strategy for your company? If not, this may be the year to get one. That was one of the key insights from today's "Changing World of Business News" webinar sponsored by PRWeek. "Broadband video could very well be a game-changing...
One might say Google paid too much for YouTube, but did they? I mean, really, did they? Year-over-year, daily online video watchers has doubled, meaning 48% of internet users now make video part of their online fare. This is certainly a larger figure than was reported earlier this year, but...
The online video sector has been a high growth area during the past year, with many new entrants exploring both user generated content and pure online Television TV models as well as established players expanding their scope through diversification of content and acquisitions. The continuous seek for revenue streams has...
How Many Users Report Watching Video Online?online video growthThe problem is, media companies have not figured out how to get revenbue from online video, and the writers want $$ now, moving all the risk to the studios. There should be some middle ground, but they won't find it until the...
The WGA writer's strike is still in full swing. As a writer myself (or maybe just a poser?), I did a little digging for the actual rates of online video penetration for entertainment from the major networks. The stats help build the case for creative types: Fully 30% of 18...
In a post about Intel's new office design plans, we included a link to a hysterical Conan O'Brien spot that was posted on YouTube. Did you consider whether you should watch it at work? You wouldn't want to give your employees the impression that YouTube has a place in the office, right?...
Wi-Fi TV Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVI) now has in place the largest independent sales team selling both online video ads and Internet TV Stations; and, research firm eMarketer projects that ad revenue from online video will reach $775 million this year, an upward revision from its previous estimate of $640 million....
After Barnes & Noble and Boarders reported disappointing financial outlooks today, some industry analysts have said that a merger or leverage buyout may be in the works for the booksellers. Some analysts said that with the influx of mergers and acquisitions taking place across industries, struggling bookstores like Barnes &...
Zango ( http://www.zango.com ), an online media company, and Pixsy Corporation, a media search platform that powers private label image and video search engines, today announced a comprehensive online video partnership agreement.
OLDWICK, N.J. -- The latest edition of A.M. Best's E-Fusion Podcast takes a look at online video with Rick Gilman of Acord, which has launched an aggressive worldwide communications effort based around use of online video.
BOSTON -- Online sales of TV shows, movies and other prerecorded video will become a billion-dollar business in 2007, predicts a new report from technology research firm Strategy Analytics. This report, "The Video Store Goes Virtual: The Global Outlook for Online Video Sales," predicts that while video download sales made...
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