Last week, YouTube said it would use a new system for identifying copyrighted video clips. This announcement was part of a revenue-sharing deal struck with Warner Music. The companies agreed last...

Well, this did not take long. Slingbox appears to have some heavy-duty completion in store from Sony. Sony Electronics has unveiled three new TV "place-shifting" devices: two LocationFree...

Do you want to try to produce your own little video? Want some tools to help make it slick? And maybe a chance to win $1000? Then NBC's new user- generated content project, entitled...

For now, New Hampshire is safe Comcast territory. Verizon shut off all video franchise negotiations with New Hampshire municipalities, according to a Sept. 1 article in the Exeter News-Letter,...

At the OMMA conference in New York, Ross Levinsohn, President of Fox Interactive Media, said that Fox is likely to start distributing more and more premium content online. In a keynote address,...

Mark Walsh wrote today that "a panel of online advertising and media executives agreed that shorter is better. Given the short attention span of the Internet audience, pre-roll video ads...

I have been commenting in many of my articles about how people can become producers themselves for very little money. Here is another story from the NY Times about two people who are doing just that...

Martin Lindstrom wrote an interesting book called Brandchild which he claims is "the world's largest study on kids and their relationship with brands." I found the following observation...

I've been meaning to comment on the LonelyGirl15 saga that has received much press; gaining unprecedented media coverage for YouTube in the process. Instead of pointing you to another article...

Years ago while working with cable television folks BEFORE their video-on-demand (VOD) services became common place, I had proposed to a Comcast'er the idea that any new offering would have to...

For those of you who might like to forage through the digital forest of online video but seek comfort in numbers, here are the Nielsen/NetRatings in for the week ending August 27. It covers access...

Ah, pity the poor Madison Avenue advertising executive who has been on an allusive hunt for the missing young adult male demographic for many years. So as an act of pure kindness, Comcast buys and...

Yahoo plans to launch a new online-video network with Al Gore's Current TV today that will add four channels of ad-supported video programming. The service will combine professional and...

Oh, this news just in ... the Walt Disney Co. has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million, Disney Chief...

Regular readers of this blog may recall that I've recently posted a couple of stories about how Michael De Kort used YouTube get his message out to people when the mainstream media failed to...

Disney.com will re-launch early next year and try to be all things to all demographic groups. A new web feature will customize the interface to fit the user by age, according to Disney President-CEO...

Last week I wrote about how television networks are trying out every possible idea when using the Internet as a distribution vehicle for their content. It basically amounts to Throwing Spaghetti...

Good news for all you Comcast VOD users out there -- CBS prime time content will now be free and more widely available! CBS and Comcast have been laboring under a 10-month old agreement whereby the...