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Open Video Player Initiative.
2008-12-31 05:31:00 La necessitŕ di standard condivisi č centrale per lo sviluppo della NETTV. Ecco allora che un manipolo di aziende capeggiate da Akamai ha deciso di dar vita ad un'iniziativa per lo sviluppo condiviso di un Video Player universale, estendibile a piacimento grazie ad un'architettura a plug-in. Partner tecnici dell'iniziativa ... More About: Open , Initiative
Joost: no download, no plug-in.
2008-12-31 05:31:00 Joost diventa web application, portale web, cosi come tanti ne esistono, c'č chi dice per combattere Hulu. Ben s'intenda Hulu sta performando in maniera incredibile. Per capirci: YouTube ha 4.2 bilioni di video visti al mese (perdonate il bilioni ma ormai č accettato). Di questi solo il %3 č monetizzato ... More About: Download , Joost , Plug
E? nata RAI 4.
2008-12-31 05:31:00 La bastiglia č caduta, č nata ieri 14 luglio la prima rete RAI che qualcuno definisce la prima veramente al di fuori delle logiche politiche. Una destinazione per i giovani dai 18 ai 35 anni nata per sperimentare un nuovo tipo di programmazione densa di quelle attrattive che le altre reti ... More About: Nata
Current + Twitter = Hack the dabates.
2008-12-31 05:31:00 L'idea č tanto semplice quanto assolutamente rivoluzionaria. In america i 4 dibattiti finali tra i due contendenti alla casa bianca McCain/Obama, compreso quello tra i due vicepresidenti, verranno ripresi dalla rete americana ABC. Current TV utilizzerŕ ritrasmettendolo in tempo reale il feed LIVE di ABC aggiungendo quello che da ... More About: Hack , Twitter
L?uomo che brucia.
2008-12-31 05:31:00 Siamo nel deserto per far tramontare l'uomo, bruciarlo e vederlo quindi risorgere cambiato, carico di nuove esperienze di indimenticabili sensazioni. Siamo con Current TV al Burning Man nel pieno del deserto del NEVADA dove ogni anno 10/15 mila persone creano dal nulla una cittŕ nel deserto per una settimana. ...
The Next Step in User-Generated Content
2008-12-29 09:00:00 Paul Verna, Senior Analyst More About: Content , User , Step
Lei, dal 25 Gennaio sul canale 125 SKY, il nuovo canale al femminile Digica
2008-12-24 12:27:00 Il 25 gennaio alle 20, sul canale 125 di Sky, nasce Lei il canale dedicato al mondo femminile, prodotto da Digicast (RCS MediaGroup) giĂ editore di Jimmy, Caccia e Pesca, Mototv e Y&S. La ricca programmazione del canale è dedicata allâintrattenimento con spettacoli al femminile e le migliori fiction del panorama internazionale. Tra le molte proposte inedite lâattesissima 30 Rock creata e interpretata dalla brillante Tina Fay con Alec Baldwin. Car...
NewTeeVeeâs Top Posts of 2008
2008-12-24 00:00:00 As we close out 2008 , we look to our most-read stories of the year, a list that nicely highlights all the different things happening in online video: shows, stars, tech; companies large and small. (Of course, we couldnât legitimately call ourselves a blog without a bread-winning Top 5 list and a good old-fashioned rant.) But seriously, this yearâs top 10 stories show a more mature industry than last yearâs list, by including news about popular web shows themselves, as well as tips on where to find things that are actually (well, most of the time) officially streamed online, rather than posted illegally. Hereâs our walk down memory lane: 19-Year-Old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv by Liz Gannes, published Nov. 20 The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet by Janko Roettgers, published July 9 Zero Punctuation Equals Millions of Views by Wagner James Au, published Jan. 24 Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You by Chris Albrecht, published March 18 ... More About: Posts
HOW TO: Create Online Video That Works
2008-12-23 17:10:00 David Rich is senior vice president, sales and marketing for TurnHere, a leading Internet video production and advertising company that provides broadcast-quality online video for both large consumer brands and small businesses. With the recent explosion and expansion of online video, the biggest question is how to best drive viewer action and monetize this new medium. Online video has a lot of promise. It offers what was once limited to expensive TV advertising: reach and emotional engagement with potential customers. And, itâs relatively cheap and provides immediate, measurable feedback. Even with these strong benefits, most agree that the video opportunity has yet to be fully realized. Companies struggle to best make use of this new medium, and have found that porting television-style advertising to the Web is regularly rejected by the online audience. Thirty-second pre-roll, crazy user-generated ads, and the hunt for viral ads are all a hangover from the old TV world, stil... More About: Video , Online Video , Works , Create
BBC Rolls Out AIR iPlayer, Ditches Kontiki P2P, Proposes Tiered Broadband S
2008-12-23 12:00:00 The BBC has just rolled out a new desktop version of its popular iPlayer service based on Adobeâs AIR platform. The new client is available for UK residents as part of the BBC iPlayer Labs beta test, and it will be released to the public some time next year. BBCâs iPlayer client previously only offered downloadable content for Windows PCs. The new client will also be available for Mac and Linux users. The launch of the new client is a big blow for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based content delivery service startup Kontiki, whose P2P technology powered previous iPlayer versions. Beep Online media exec Anthony Rose cited falling broadband prices as a reason to shift away from P2P. But the move could also be part of a new approach to appease local ISPs that are increasingly voicing concerns about the growing iPlayer bandwidth footprint. The original incarnation of the BBCâs iPlayer was based on a combination of Windows Media DRM and Kontikiâs P2P delivery technology. However, the br... More About: Broadband
Rai 4: parte ''Sugo'', il magazine sui consumi mediatici nell'web 2.0
2008-12-23 11:14:00 âSugoâ, il nuovo programma di Rai4. Sessanta minuti di gusto e disgusto, un magazine sui consumi mediatici, i culti e i tormenti della generazione web 2.0. ideato da Gregorio Paolini e da una redazione di giovani autori, inviati e filmmaker, in onda martedi' 23 dicembre, alle 23.10, su Rai4, canale del digitale terrestre,condotto da Carolina Di Domenico. In questa prima puntata tantissime sorprese: come si costruisce oggi una star attraverso i reality, conversando... More About: Magazine
Borders: l'approfondimento in seconda serata realizzato da Italia 1
2008-12-20 06:00:00 Sabato 20 dicembre 2008, alle ore 23.10, prende il via âBORDERSâ, il nuovo programma di approfondimento firmato dal direttore di Studio Aperto Giorgio Mulè e realizzato dalla redazione del tg di Italia 1. Quattro  sono le puntate previste per un programma di pura sperimentazione che vuole raccontare storie che sono âai marginiâ, utilizzando reportage realizzati dal canale inglese Channel4 e da servizi della redazione di Studio Aperto che raccontano le storie italia... More About: Borders
Il Gruppo Espresso investe sulla tv digitale: allo studio 12 canali tematic
2008-12-19 16:35:00 Nessun disimpegno dalla tv: il Gruppo Espresso non intende rinunciare a una piattaforma fondamentale per una media company multimediale quale dichiara di essere, e anzi vuol far fruttare al massimo lâasset tv che possiede, ovvero la frequenza per ora analogica di All Music, trasformandola in un secondo multiplex digitale capace di ospitare 5-6 canali, da affiancare agli altrettanti giĂ ora esistenti sul primo âmuxâ del Gruppo (che copre oltre il 50% del territorio italiano e che ospita provvisoriamente la stessa All Music, Repubblica Tv, France 2 e... More About: Canali , Studio , Allo
Machinima.com Taps Hollywood for 15 New Shows
2008-12-18 14:00:00 Machinima.com, the site for video content created using video games, announced today the creation of the Machinima Comedy Lab and said it is collaborating with a team of traditional episodic TV writers from shows such as The Simpsons, Futurama and Seinfeld to develop 15 new web series. In a phone interview, Machinima.com CEO Allen DeBevoise said that each writer will create a comedy in a format similar to a traditional TV pilot in length, but that can be broken up into four or five short episodes. Based on how those episodes are received, Machinima.com will then make the decision to take them to series. âThe idea weâre playing with is, take experienced episodic folks and then apply the ability to do it in front of our own audience,â DeBevoise said. DeBevoise said that the animation used for the scripts will depend on the story. It could be something Machinima.com creates in-house using a game engine with original characters, or they could partner with a game publisher to mak... More About: Hollywood , Machinima
Deloitte Study: Millennials, Mobile and More
2008-12-18 06:01:00 Deloitte announced the results of its third annual âThe State of the Media Democracyâ report today, and it is packed to the gills with all kinds of information about how people are consuming and interacting with video entertainment. The survey was conducted online among 2,056 U.S. consumers ages 14 -75. The full report is being released at CES next month, but here are some highlights: Millennials (ages 14 - 25) spend more time with media per week, but less time watching television, and mobile devices are primary entertainment channels for them. Television remains the most impactful and influential advertising medium across all age groups, and watching television was the most preferred type of media for consumers as whole. Millennials were the exception with their media preferences scattered across TV, movies and the Internet; all were important to them. Pre-roll ads were considered more influential than overlay ads. Fewer people are willing to pay for content ... More About: Mobile , Study , Deloitte
2008: The Year China Dominated P2P TV
2008-12-18 00:31:00 Joost has announced that it will discontinue support of its P2P TV application by the end of this week, essentially admitting that distributed content delivery for video streams isnât worth the effort. But if 2008 taught us anything, then itâs that P2P TV is alive and well â in China , at least. Western services like Joost may have struggled to convince users to share their bandwidth with other video viewers, but Chinese online video fans donât seem to have a problem with P2P TV at all. In fact, Chinese P2P grew so big in 2008 that itâs putting the audience numbers of Western online TV offerings to shame. An article about online video in China in 2008 would not be complete without mentioning the Olympics, so letâs get this out of the way first: The Beijing games were something of a global coming-out party for Chinese P2P TV. Thanks to NBCâs tape delay, an untold number of Western users tried to watch the games live with P2P apps like Sopcast. And Chinese P2P TV provid... More About: Year
Weekday Online Vid Watching Trumps Weekends: Nielsen
2008-12-17 17:49:00 Nielsen released new online video facts and figures today, among them the top video sites for October, corrected figures from September, and data that shows more people watch online video during the week than on the weekends. The number of unique online video viewers fell 3 percent to just shy of 121 million in October from 124 million in September. However, the total number of streams grew 1 percent to 8.894 million, streams per viewer rose 4 percent to 73.7, and the time spent per viewer surged 10 percent â to almost 172 minutes â during that same time frame. Hulu ranks third in Nielsenâs top online brands by video streams, with more than 206 million streams and 9 million unique viewers. Unlike comScore (which had Hulu at sixth), Nielsen is separating out Viacom sites by brand (i.e. Nickelodeon and MTV). As noted above, Nielsen said that it updated its original September stats to account for a change in methodology and the removal of video advertising streams from... More About: Online , Watching , Nielsen
Current Picks Rotten Tomatoes for TV Show
2008-12-15 20:56:00 Rotten Tomatoes and Current are partnering to create a new TV series based on the famous vegetable-centric movie review site, the two companies announced today. The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current (yikes, thatâs really an⌠unimaginative title) will be a half-hour show aired weekly on Current TV and distributed on Current.com and RottenTomatoes.com. From the press release: In addition to the latest movie news and information, each irreverent episode will feature crowd-sourced rants and best-of lists influenced by the viewers. âThe Rotten Tomatoes Show on Currentâ will also include the famous Tomatometer, bringing Rotten Tomatoesâ unique metric based on aggregated critic ratings to TV for the very first time. There arenât many details about the show yet, such as when it will launch or exactly how much interactivity will be a part of the show (maybe live Twittering?). But this move is in keeping with Currentâs shift to a cross-platform strategy that will roll out earl... More About: Rotten
TVs to Help Boost Online Vid Viewers
2008-12-12 21:08:00 ABI Research released its Broadband Video and Internet TV report today, in which it predicts that, thanks to more Net-connected TV devices, the number of people watching online video will grow globally to 941 million in 2013 from 563 million at the end of 2008. Online video in this particular case has a pretty wide definition in that it includes any video thatâs delivered via an Internet connection (excluding IPTV services). So Netflix streaming, Apple video, Hulu, etc. This coming online video viewer boom will be a result of the growth in all forms of content (premium and UGC) and devices that plug into your TV and as such, becoming capable of delivering all this content, a trend weâve seen pick up steam over the past year (have you seen how sweet YouTubeâs HD streams look on an HD TV?). Netflix embodies both elements of this reportâs finding, offering streaming movies on a wide range of boxes â from the standalone Roku, to the TiVo, to Blu-ray DVD players, to the Xbox ... More About: Boost
Kangaroo Is Dead - BBC iPlayer For All On Way | BBC, ITV, Channel 4 Launch
2008-12-11 17:34:00 Kangaroo may be all but dead, but the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 arenât giving up on their joint plans to launch the definitive Internet video service in the UK. Enter Project Canvas. Kangaroo Killed The Competition Commission recently put the kibosh on Kangaroo, the joint online video-on-demand initiative from the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 . While the venture may survive in some form, I expect it to evolve considerably. Possibly into the new venture currently being called Project Canvas due to its all-encompassing, inclusive nature. Anti-Competitive The main complaints from the CC, originally argued by BSkyB and Virgin Media, was that Kangaroo would be anti-competitive and basically kill off the plans of other broadcasters to launch their own VoD services. The recommended course of action was to open up the service to other broadcasters, and thatâs exactly what seems to be being suggested will happen by the BBC. Rather than Kangaroo though, this will be Project Canvas. Project Canv... More About: Dead , Launch , Kangaroo
Brightcove Tries to Rule Video World with Vendor âAllianceâ
2008-12-08 06:01:00 Brightcove on Monday formally launches a consortium of video service providers that are compatible with its platform. Some 80 partners in the new âBrightcove Allianceâ include ad networks, social networks, social media toolmakers, mobile providers, search engines, analytics services and creative designers. The Alliance is more plush than Brightcoveâs open APIs released to developers alongside its software refresh in October â and includes support and marketing for partners. Brightcove is doing its best to be a benevolent platform. In a call with NewTeeVee, CEO Jeremy Allaire promised, âWe donât get involved in an economic relationship with third-party technology.â And in the ever competitive white-label video market, he said Brightcove is offering commissions to partners who bring in new clients. The launch is clearly intended as a message to the video market that Brightcove is at the center of it. Allaire said Cambridge, Mass-based Brightcove has âa lot of capital... More About: Video , World , Rule
Kangaroo Facing Evolution Or Death | Competition Commission Gives Verdict
2008-12-06 01:11:00 Kangaroo, a British rival to the U.S. Hulu, is facing evolution or death after the Competition Commission refused to accept it in its current form. Kangaroo Lives Back in November 2007, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, four broadcasters in the UK, announced plans for a joint online video on demand venture. Kangaroo was meant to be an online version of Freeview offering over 10,000 of original programming. The BBC already has the hugely popular iPlayer, ITV has the newly rename ITV Player, and Channel 4 has 4oD. Kangaroo would see all three services combined under one umbrella, while all would still also operate independently. 90% of the programming will be free, paid for by advertising. This would see the license fee-funded BBC making money as well as the commercial companies involved. Kangaroo Falters Kangaroo was first meant to launch sometime in 2008, but July saw those plans take a battering after rival UK broadcasters BSkyB and Virgin Media complained about the plans to the OFT (O... More About: Evolution , Death , Kangaroo
YouTube Refocuses on Premium, and Once Again Misses the Point
2008-12-05 06:01:00 YouTubeâs director of content partnerships, Jordan Hoffner, has been hard at work signing on premium content providers like CBS, HBO, Showtime, C-SPAN and MGM. According to reports of a speech he made this week, the companyâs No. 1 priority in 2009 is to get that content in front of viewers. ââYouTube is a great place for premium content,â Multichannel News quoted Hoffner as saying. âBut we need to do a better job of creating areas where the user can go and know what they are going to get.â Hoffner was speaking to a nagging problem weâve mentioned many times on NewTeeVee: YouTubeâs interface is set up for video blogs and virals, not premium content. Itâs flat-out impossible, for example, to find those full episodes from CBS. Recent moves such as widescreen players and tougher policies on âsexually suggestiveâ content are starting points, but the site needs to radically redesign how it exposes and promotes premium video â things competitor Hulu brags about... More About: Youtube , Point , Premium
Ninja Tops iTunes Podcast List (Again)
2008-12-03 00:02:00 Apple released the iTunes top-seller and best-of lists for 2008 this week, and Ask A Ninja was once again took top honors on the âClassicsâ Video Podcast list. On the more traditional media side, Gossip Girl was the top-selling TV season on iTunes while The Dark Knight (which hasnât even been released yet on iTunes) came in at No. 1 on downloaded movie chart. Apple doesnât spell out whether the video podcast list is editorially created or based on hard numbers, but either way, new media shows are well represented on both the 2008 and Classics video podcast lists. Making the cut this year are: 2008 Who What Wear - 60Frames Best of Current TV - Current Beginning Guitar 101 - ivideosongs.com ill doctrine - Jay Smooth (a NewTeeVee Top 10 Breakout Video Star!) Scam School - Revision3 Howcast Food & Drink - Howcast Project Lore - Deca SuperNews - Current TV TPMtv - TPMtv (Talking Points Memo) CLASSICS Ask A Ninja - Beat... More About: Itunes , Tops , List
The Future of Online Video Looks Bright
2008-11-26 09:00:00 Smaller screens, bigger opportunities More About: Video , Future , Online Video , The Future , Online
Sky Launching Subscription Web TV Service
2008-11-10 20:08:00 Customers in the UK and Ireland will soon be able to subscribe to a package of Sky channels online without the need to subscribe to the TV-based service as well. The news was announced by Mike Darcy, Skyâs COO, at the Media Guardian Changing Broadcast conference in London today. Though no official launch date was announced, at some point in the next few months, some of Skyâs most popular channels will be available on the Sky Player web service. The exact content is still unknown, but according to WebUser, Darcey said the service would offer sports channels. According to a Sky press release, customers will be able to choose from a number of online subscription packages. Pricing wasnât available. Existing Sky TV subscribers will still be able to access the Sky Playerâs content online. Wonder when this idea will make its way across the pond. Both Showtime and HBO only offer library content through services such as iTunes. HBO was experimenting with its own broadband offering... More About: Service
Keystream Inserts Ads Into Empty Spaces
2008-11-10 14:00:00 Keystream, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup whose technology automatically inserts ad placements unobtrusively into empty spaces within video streams, came out of stealth mode, announced its software-as-a-service product and made public its funding situation today. Without sounding too much like an infomercial â has this ever happened to you? Youâre watching a video when an overlay pops up, obscuring your view and covering up the action. The Keystream SmartAd software runs video though its algorithms to automatically locate empty positions within the video, where it dynamically inserts an ad. The ad is a small, IAB-standard size bug that when clicked on, pauses the video to launch the destination web site. Youâd think that having logo pop up somewhere other than the bottom of the screen while youâre watching a drama would be distracting if not downright annoying, and that seems to be the reaction of some Brits to ITVâs implementation of Keystreamâs technolog... More About: Spaces , Empty
@Al_Gore is the Real Al Gore
2008-11-07 09:12:00 Last night we wondered if the Twitter users @theREALalgore was in fact the real Al Gore . The consensus of the commenters seems to be that there was no way in heck that it was, and that was further confirmed today by what appears to be the officially sanctioned real Al Gore Twitter account over at @al_gore. First noticed by Mashable commenter Joseph Morin, the account seems to have been launched shortly after his interview with Kevin Rose on the Digg Dialog. While itâs certainly taken him a lot longer than the next day turnaround he promised back in September, heâs on now and posting links to his blog and general goings on. Heâs definitely accrued a boatload of followers in his first day on Twitter. As Iâm writing this, heâs up to almost 5,500 followers, though the only follower heâs reciprocated for so far is the corporate Current account. Itâs fairly hard to tell at this point if Gore is going to follow suit with many his fellow political tweeters and have interns and... More About: Real
Watch Full-Length Movies On YouTube Soon | Google & Hollywood Finally W
2008-11-06 22:15:00 Google has been attempting to evolve YouTube in to a money-making domain for months, but the latest effort, which will see full-length feature films on the site, must be the biggest step so far. Googe Maximizing YouTubeâs Potential Anyone who reads WebTVWire regularly will know that the last few months have been dominated by Googleâs efforts to maximize YouTubeâs potential and turn the impressive viewing figures in to equally impressive levels of profit. Itâs not like YouTube isnât already making money, it is, but the figures donât justify the $1.65 billion Google paid for the worldâs favorite and most well known video sharing site. They also donât stack up when compared to Huluâs profits, even though that company is much younger and has much less traffic. Evolving Efforts First of all, post-roll adverts launched on YouTube, closely followed by pre-rolls. Then the YouTube homepage had huge banner ads added, which should bring in some much needed revenue. Then Googl... More About: Hollywood , Google , Movies , Youtube , Watch
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