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 […]
I sympathize with the family of Victoria Lindsay, the girl who was brutally beaten by eight classmates on video. Nevertheless, I must call bullshit on the mass media’s inordinate focus on the fact that the video was posted on YouTube. I have yet to see any of these mass media outlets acknowledge that YouTube actually […]
See, this is why small agile players thrive inside online video. Unless they happen to be the clueful likes of Google or CBS, big corporations tend to trip over themselves in this space. Michael Arrington recounts the long, sad, dramatic tale behind the imminent shutdown of high-quality video site Stage6.
Long story short: big egos […]
Part of the reason Flash is the most popular streaming video format today is its lack of stupid DRM restrictions. From player innovation to cheap distribution to user mashability, the absence of DRM allows Flash video to thrive in ways DRM-laden formats never could.
That’s why Flash DRM is a bad idea.
Now Adobe, which controls Flash […]
Yahoo, what the Hell are you doing? Your video search service faces competition from Google Video Sitemaps. Your Flickr-based YouTube competitor is still months away. Your live video service had a disastrous launch. Your ad network still can’t monetize the world’s text content, much less its video content.
So what do you do to compete inside […]
A look at the fast rising online video industry
Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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