U.S. ad spending in the first quarter reached $34.9 billion, a 5.2% increase over the first quarter of 2005, according to estimates released today by TNS Media Intelligence. The big winner,...

Jessica Holzer at Forbes writes that media conglomerates that want to get even more enormous may soon get their wish via a new friend on the Federal Communications Commission. "On Friday, the...

The expansion of broadband is fueling the popularity of video sharing sites. MSN Video, in particular, garnered 9.3 million unique visitors in Feb. 2006 according to Nielsen//NetRatings. YouTube, the...

PROPELLED BY A BURGEONING MARKET in downloadable music and videos, U.S. consumer spending on content surged to $2 billion in 2005. This marks a 15 percent increase from 2004, according to new...

Who is the #1 video search site on the Internet? Is it Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft? No. According to data released Wednesday by Hitwise, YouTube.com has captured 43 percent of all visits to video...

Many people do not realize that it is possible to provide digital video recorder (DVR) services without the DVR. This is done by recording shows on the servers at the cable company and not on a...

If you ever wonder if there is a potentially lucrative market for online video? It might be instructive to look to last week's purchase of Lightningcast by AOL. Lightningcast is an...

Broadband video consumption surged 18 percent in the six months between October 2005 and March 2006, according to comScore's new Video Metrix service. In March, U.S. Internet users streamed 3.7...

AdSense is Google's non-search advertising program in which Web publishers allow Google to serve text or image ads on their sites. Later this week, Google will begin distributing online video ads...

Did you know that one in four people age 12 to 34 can't name the broadcast networks? Or that TV viewing is the fourth most popular activity after Web-surfing, hanging out with friends, and seeing...

I was reading Michael Rogers yesterday. He had a good point to make, which I will summarize as: television executives are throwing a half-dozen business models at the wall to see which ones stick....

NBC will launch a Web site where new episodes will appear before they launch on the network airwaves. NBC said Monday it will launch NBCFirstLook.com, which will offer premieres of up to four...

... or you could rent it on DVD for much less and see it on your television. Nevertheless, ... Gavin O'Malley writes in Online Media Daily that MySpace is further aligning its interests with...

I know, I know. I am supposed to like internet banner ads -- especially writing for this blog! But the truth is I've always hated them and always will. In a good news, bad news story (at...

The subject I write about is new media video and a major theme I always come back to is how future business models may lead to new investments and entrepreneurial opportunities. Zachary Rodgers wrote...

Amanda Congdon, 24, is the host of Rocketboom, a satirical news show and the most popular vlog on the Net. A vlog is a video blog, run by anyone who wants to do it. Despite having no budget,...

In my opinion, Broadband TV stations must start out assuming that the bare minimum value that they provide must improve upon BitTorrent or else they will soon be history. Why? Because BitTorrent...

ITVT News blog is reporting that TV Guide is now "recognizing that multiplatform TV has hit the mainstream" by launching "a new weekly column called Downloads." The column will...