After only five months since going live, Hulu has reached 105 million streams in July, according to numbers released by Nielsen's VideoCensus. The NBC Universal/News Corp (NYSE: NWS). joint venture's streaming numbers were fairly strong early on. In April, Nielsen reported that it had 63 million. Still, Nielsen is a [...]
Attitudes towards FiOS, Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) next-gen internet and video platform, are constantly changing, as investors alternate between dismay and optimism over the prospects of the $23 billion gambit. Saul Hansell surveys the current landscape and finds… that the outlook is still pretty cloudy. The company currently has about 1.4 [...]
For a long time I've been calling for standards in social media advertising. Today if an advertiser wants to make a social media buy across multiple social sites, they will need to build different creative for each of the different social media advertising products on each of the major companies, [...]
Here's one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. That's the joking question-Was global warming Sandberg's fault too?-that was asked [...]
The National Basketball Association hopes to start live streaming in-market games this season—a no-brainer for some and a major headache for others. The NBA, which takes pride in trying to blaze new paths even when they wind up going nowhere, has authorized its teams to launch three digital services by [...]
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August 18th, 2008 |
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Indiatimes.com has undergone a makeover after undertaking market research. The newspaper website will now prioritise entertainment content to appeal to its younger readers.In an interview with afaqs!, Mohit Hira, director, Indiatimes.com, said, "From our own research and the traffic details on our site, we figured out that users look more [...]
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BBC News is experimenting with external links within the main body of its text to provide users with more external information. The trial will last for four weeks and is only available on the UK website.The 'in-page links' direct users to background information about the topic of the article from [...]
When I was in Manhattan recently, I had a lovely visit to the world HQ of Andy Plesser's Beet.TV, where we discussed where online video is going. As some know, this is a big topic for BoomTown this year, because the Web is clearly becoming a video-heavy medium. And the [...]
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August 18th, 2008 |
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Updated: AT&T has stopped selling AT&T Callvantage to new customers, reports DSL Reports. AT&T, long before it merged with SBC had made a half-hearted attempt at getting into consumer VoIP by selling a service called, CallVantage. It was surprisingly good, especially its call quality. Unfortunately, the company never quite made [...]
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August 17th, 2008 |
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How would you rate NBC's coverage of Olympics A... Excellent Work B... Okay, But Not Great C... Crap Olympics? Is it a new Web 2.0 company? Warning: This story is meant for our US readers only. As many of you already know, I am giving Olympics the miss and perhaps [...]
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August 16th, 2008 |
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"The magazine industry is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy," screams the lede of an AP story yesterday. If you read this blog, you can guess from earlier this month that the story is about Mygazines.com, a site that is reportedly on servers in Anquilla that enables users [...]
Michael Phelps who? In what is probably the greatest moment in this Olympics, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold 100m dash in 9.69 seconds, a new world record...and he didn't even have to try after the first half of the race. But you wouldn't know it if you were here [...]
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August 16th, 2008 |
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I wish we'd see more political ads like this one:Youtube LinkBig hat tip!Technorati Tags: Bushco, Hurricane, JohnMcCain, JunkEconomics, Politics, Poverty, privatization, Stupidity, Torture, USLosingLead, War[...]
Filed under: Software, Samsung, SprintLooks like that promised big-ass update for the Instinct has started to materialize -- but wait, there's a catch: it's going down piecemeal. Rather than receiving updates for a bunch of the Instinct's core components at once, app updates are being delivered in nice little bite-sized [...]
-- Katie Couric anchoring CBS web specials: Katie Couric will anchor live web exclusives from the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, scheduled to air right after the primetime coverage she will anchor on CBS (NYSE: CBS). The 15-to-30 minute webcasts for CBSNews.com and CNET.com will feature a behind-the-scenes look [...]
Ben Ling, a key driver of Facebook's platform strategy who recently announced he was leaving the company, is going to YouTube. The news was first reported by Kara Swisher, who says his job will be to help turn the famously under-profitable video site into a money maker. This is actually [...]
While NBC faces criticism over its digital offering, over in the UK, the BBC is roaring on with an all-out, open strategy for its biggest ever interactive sports event, comprising multiple live streams, rolling text updates, Flickr photos - and no holding live back for prime time. BBC Sport Interactive [...]
LiveRail, a developer of technology for video advertising, has raised $500k from Pond Ventures. The raise brings the company's total funding to about $1 million, according to NTV. The company previously sought to build an online video marketplace, but has since abandoned that strategy in favor of licensing its technology. [...]
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August 12th, 2008 |
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Facebook has launched a sponsored video ad offering as displayed in the image below. The videos display on the right hand side of the homepage in the area that Facebook announced would have sponsors when the site was redesigned. The only thing that the company failed to mention was that [...]
We've definitely noticed increased interest in the Russian internet market, marked notably by Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) acquisition of a contextual ad firm from Rambler, and the planned IPO of Yandex, the Baidu.com of Russia. It's not hard to figure see what all the fuss is about. A recent report said [...]
Digital royalties to UK composers, songwriters and music publishers have grown quickly since last year, while those from physical sales are still dropping off. Half-year results from the MCPS-PRS royalty collector showed payouts from online services up 40 percent in the first half of the year, from the same period [...]
