NBC Universal has removed all its video clips from YouTube and closed a promotional channel on the site in advance of the launch next week of its own rival service, Hulu. NBC said it was intended to provide a boost to Hulu, which is a joint venture with News Corp's Fox division, and did not […]
Viacom has stated that it will not drop its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube parent Google. Philippe Dauman, Viacom’s chief executive, said that Google had not done enough to prevent content from being illegally uploaded to YouTube. Viacom, owners of MTV and Nickelodeon, claims that Google allowed more than 160,000 clips of its programming to […]
MySpaceTV unveiled its first original Web series to give its users a television-like experience with the interactive benefits of the Internet. “Roommates” will track the lives of four women in their 20s who have recently graduated from college and are living together in Los Angeles. The Web show runs through December for a total of […]
Axiom.TV is set to Beta launch the first comprehensive technology to make Internet TV user- friendly, legal and safe for families. To celebrate its international Beta launch, Axiom.TV will give away the movie 'Benji' to the first 33'000 subscribers. Axiom.TV is currently in final negotiations with several of the major studios for additional movie content, […]
YouTube has launched a local version of the video-sharing site in Taiwan, in its latest push to expand in foreign markets. The interface of the site is in Chinese and the site features locally produced content, including that from YouTube’s four Taiwan media partners: China Television, Sanlih E-Television, Lion Travel Service and Taiwan Broadcasting System.
Narrowstep, the TV on the Internet company, has upgraded its telvOS platform and its CDN network which the Company believes will enable it to offer enterprise customers the most sophisticated tools and functionality on the market. The Company is currently shifting the focus of its sales and marketing efforts on larger enterprise customers requiring sophisticated […]
The number of people watching internet TV has increased steadily year on year according to Continental Research's Autumn 2007 Internet & Convergence Report. In particular the number watching shows they have previously downloaded from the Internet has doubled from 1.3 million in 2006 to 2.4 million in 2007. There is also substantial interest in Internet […]
Video sharing Web site Vimeo is set to begin distributing videos in high-definition. While movie trailers and certain other professionally produced videos can be viewed online in high-definition, Vimeo is the first Web site to make HD available for user-generated videos.
ITV has teamed up with Microsoft to offer web coverage of the next series of 'I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!', in November, through the MSN portal – the first time MSN has gone live with content from a UK broadcaster.
ComScore, which measures consumer Internet habits, has reported that 75 per cent of Internet users in the US watch an average of three hours of online video a month. The average online video duration was 2.7 minutes. ComScore reports that Google video sites are the most seen; a hefty 2.5 billion videos were viewed on […]