Portfolio |
October 13th, 2008 |
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--Tech stocks are right back where they were ten years ago.[Yahoo] --YouTube finalized a deal with CBS to host full length television shows, including Star Trek, MacGyver, and Beverly Hills 90210.[Yahoo]--Just around the corner for Apple, two real competitors to the iPhone: Google Android and Research In Motion's BlackBerry.[Yahoo]--MySpace lets [...]
NewTeeVee |
October 12th, 2008 |
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New media studio DECA announced today that it has become the exclusive business and production partner for YouTube darlings SMOSH. SMOSH is Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, whose manic comedy videos have made the duo the third most subscribed YouTube channel, with more than 555,000 subscribers and more than 9 [...]
eMarketer |
October 12th, 2008 |
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Who watches the most online video?[...]
LA Times |
October 11th, 2008 |
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The video site hopes the move will pump up its advertising revenue. YouTube surfers weary of webcam rants and lo-fi homemade dance routines will now be able to watch real celebrities in professionally produced shows on the popular Google Inc.-owned video site.[...]
MediaPost |
October 10th, 2008 |
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General Motors chairman Rick Wagoner took to the Web last week to reassure the public about the company's position in the first of a series of videos called "The Case for GM," which the company is running on YouTube under the aegis of its FastLane social media campaign.[...]
NewTeeVee |
October 10th, 2008 |
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The first six shorts in Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy animated series were watched more than 14 million times during the show's first three weeks, according to Media Rights Capital, one of the partners behind the series. Fourteen million is an impressive number, but that's not the full story. [...]
LightReading |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Watching YouTube on your TV is finally easy - and it took a telco to make it happen![...]
NewTeeVee |
October 10th, 2008 |
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A story popped up on the web Thursday reporting that in these trying economic times General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner was taking "a message of hope" straight to the people through YouTube. Too bad the video message was posted on Sept. 22 - before the big BIG meltdown. [...]
Jossip |
October 9th, 2008 |
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That whole Being John Malkovich field of comedy, where you get celebrities to play some grandiose, pompous version of themselves, was good for a laugh as far as Ricky Gervais' Extras, or maaaybe even Entourage (depends on who's making the cameos). But in itself, the celebrity-as-self joke doesn't play unless [...]
NewTeeVee |
October 9th, 2008 |
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Though Netflix is feeling the downturn just like everyone else, the DVD giant could be among those "best positioned to take advantage of online video," writes Saul Hansell on the New York Times Bits blog today. Why? Its existing business already satisfies customers. Streaming video, even if it's not perfect [...]
GoogleAds in gamesGoogle, aiming to expand beyond Internet-search advertisements, introduced technology to insert commercial spots into online video games.[...]
Wired |
October 8th, 2008 |
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A new button in YouTube's comment interface plays back the user's comment as an audio file -- an idea originally proposed in the xkcd web comic. The hope is that users will scrutinize their own words before posting, but whether that will curb the famously abusive and inane comments on [...]
Portfolio |
October 8th, 2008 |
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You thought Iceland was in dire straits? Maybe Pakistan will beat it to the first-to-default finish line! Pakistan's economic crisis deepened on Monday after the rupee sank to an all-time low and Standard & Poor's, the global rating agency, downgraded the rating on the country's sovereign debt to CCC-plus - [...]
Portfolio |
October 8th, 2008 |
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--Google launches two new ad products today, a click-link-to-buy on YouTube and adsense on Flash games. [TechCrunch]--Monster.com acquires the remaining 55 percent of the Chinese recruitment site ChinaHR.com for $178 million.[PaidContent]--Gmail now comes with "Mail Goggles," a built in security, or "breathalyzer," that asks you a series of math questions [...]
Adrants |
October 8th, 2008 |
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There's something appealing about "Time for a Change," Diapers.com's first stab at online video marketing.[...]
AdWeek |
October 8th, 2008 |
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NEW YORK YouTube has begun testing new ads that direct users to purchase items featured within individual videos played on the popular Google-owned site. These text link ad units -- called "Click-to-Buy Ads" -- appear just below YouTube's video player.[...]
Portfolio |
October 7th, 2008 |
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Kevin Maney writes: Nice to wake up to news of global market crashes, eBay laying off 1,000, and AMD spinning off its plants to an Abu Dhabi investment company to stay alive. (Cue Sarah Palin: Time to blame Obama for "American dependence on foreign chips!")Over in Web land, one majorly [...]
Portfolio |
October 7th, 2008 |
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We never really know how many of anything Apple has sold until we are told, usually by Steve Jobs as the warm up to a keynote speech. But that doesn't stop people guessing. And some guesses have had a little more research than others. The folks at Mac Observer teamed [...]
Portfolio |
October 7th, 2008 |
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Kevin Maney writes: A little more than a year ago, I was at Joost's New York headquarters listening to CEO Mike Volpi talk about a big project at Joost to get live broadcasts of mass-market events like college basketball games to work. Sending high-quality stored and forwarded video around the [...]
Romenesko |
October 7th, 2008 |
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Poynter's TampaBay.com | YouTube.com That's what Eric Deggans asks after watching Jim Cramer's "non-apology apology" for delivering a hysterical, get-out-of-the-market message on Monday's "Today" show. Deggans adds: "That the 'Today' show has turned Cramer into some percolating sage of financial wisdom during the country's increasingly frightening economic meltdown is grounds [...]
Wired |
October 7th, 2008 |
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If it wasn't immediately obvious why Comcast forked over a reported $150 million for Plaxo, a social networking site, it may become clearer later this month, when Plaxo officially launches Fan Pages for FanCast, Comcast's online video site. The social features available in beta now let users join fan groups [...]
