Independent Web TV service Babelgum has released a new version of its mobile video application in the US, UK and Italy and simultaneously launched a redesigned website with a Flash-based player, offering, it says, one of the first fully integrated video mobile and web user experiences. Babelgum mobile has already experienced success in the UK […]
Disney has struck a deal with Google’s online video network YouTube to distribute short-form content from ESPN and ABC. The agreement would extend the Internet reach for ESPN’s sports highlights and ABC News updates and provide another outlet for video snippets taken from the ABC broadcast network and ABC Family cable channel shows. Disney hopes […]
Google ‘s YouTube and Universal Music are in talks to create a premium online music video service. If they reach a deal, the service could mark a significant step forward in Google’s attempt to generate revenue from YouTube, which it acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006. They are in talks to create a stand-alone site […]
Viacom is sympathetic to Time Warner’s “TV Everywhere” says CEO Philippe Dauman who said the company was “very open” to experimenting with models that would allow cable, satellite and telco TV subscribers to view cable content online. “We think it has to be seamless to the consumer, and we’re working [with the distributors] on the […]
ZillionTV is hoping to do for the set-top box market what Hulu has done for the PC. The startup, backed with content and investments from ABC/Disney, Fox, NBC/Universal, Sony and Warner Bros., has announced plans to offer ISPs a set-top box that will stream content to subscriber’s TVs. Customers will have the option to rent […]
Walt Disney Co was considering moves like creating a subscription-based online video club to capture online consumers as well as revenue that is being lost to piracy, Chief Executive Robert Iger said. Iger told analysts at the Deutsche Bank conference “We’ve also seen a pretty dramatic shift in how people consume entertainment with computers and […]
French telco Alice has expanded its AliceBox offering to include 70 new channels for the IPTV service ‘Alice TV’. The new channels include a greater number of news, local and foreign channels, and brings the total number of channels available on the service up to 140. Alice has also started offering 32 channels in MPEG-4 […]
Time Warner is developing an initiative dubbed TV Everywhere that will allow viewers to watch networks such as CNN, Cartoon Network and TNT online – as long as they can prove they subscribe to cable, satellite or a telecom TV service. “If you want to watch your favourite TV network or shows through broadband on […]
Reuters is preparing to launch a multi-million-dollar online video platform, in an attempt to differentiate its multimedia offering to professional traders and investors by integrating it with the group's existing editorial output and financial data. The service will both showcase an expanded video offering from Reuters News and provide a platform for partners such as […]
The Nielsen Company has reported that viewing of video on television, Internet and mobile devices continues to increase and has reached new heights. In its fourth quarter "Three Screen Report", Nielsen said that the average American watches more than 151 hours of TV per month, an all-time high. Meanwhile, Americans who watch video over the […]