At a recent conference in Korea, John C. Dvorak found out just how much Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone hates fans of his shows:
[According to Redstone] When you post a clip of The Daily Show on YouTube, for example, that may indeed have a positive effect on the show and its ratings, but it’s not your […]
Oh, this is funny. After NBC killed its own YouTube channel last year, NBC-Fox “YouTube killer” Hulu now posts videos on YouTube — with an annoying uncloseable ad ticker to boot.
What’s the matter, Hulu? Did you leave your Dick in a Box? Did you finally realize that nobody wants to play with you in your […]
Once again, CBS CEO Les Moonves reaps the benefits of his courage inside online video. Streaming all the NCAA March Madness games earned CBS $23 million in revenue. They guessed (correctly) that this particular content was very well-suited to the availability of the medium: 92 percent of online basketball watching was done at work, “demonstrating […]
Fantastic thought from the ever-insightful Steve Bryant:
What does it even mean any more to say a talent goes from Web-to-TV, when that talent’s already an established name?
In one TV interview about online video, my words were brutally edited to make “pure” online video stars seem somehow less professional than mediocre Web-to-TV sellouts. Chalk it up […]
For all the people blaming YouTube and MySpace and other online video sites for the beating of Victoria Lindsay, let me remind you where the real exploitative douchebags are: offline video, aka TV. One of Dr. Phil’s producers just bailed out one of Ms. Lindsay’s attackers, Mercades Nichols, for an exclusive interview.
Tags: Dr. Phil, Mercades […]
VH1’s The Pickup Artist, a reality show where dating coach Erik Von Markovik aka “Mystery” trains a bunch of frustrated chumps to be successful with women, faced criticism in its first season for taking on Hollywood-type contestants who weren’t such chumps to begin with. Some of them were out-of-work actors and comedians; the runner-up was […]
I have nothing against offline journalists in general, but too many of them hold a burning bias against online media. I don’t blame them; they naturally want to protect their own business model. It’s just self-preservation. Kevin Nalts takes that bias to its logical extreme in this parody.
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CBS long ago proved that superdistributing their shows online helped their offline views. Turns out it helps their own online views, too.
ABC.com served the most videos in December, followed by CBS, NBC, and FOX. But CBS kept viewers around the longest:
ABC: 47.3 million videos, 28 million minutes
CBS: 33.8 million videos, 104 million minutes
NBC: 25.3 million […]
Sure, more people still watch TV than use the Internet, but we all know Internet users are more engaged than TV viewers. That makes online video viewers more valuable than TV viewers. Now IDC pegs hours to that increased engagement — twice as many hours, in fact.
If you have an Internet connection, chances are you […]
One of the greatest hurdles to TV networks embracing online video is the fear of offending their local affiliates. That’s what doomed Hulu.
Ever clueful in their approach to online video, CBS overcomes that hurdle with NCAA March Madness, making all 63 games available online. Last year, they put only 56 games live online in order […]
A look at the fast rising online video industry
Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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