Open Book Video Shuts Down; Prohaska Joins [X+1]
An update since we covered the company when it launched last summer: Open Book Video, the online video ad network started by former Smartcli… Read more »
Microsoft Fires Back At Google Over Web-Video Formats
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) threw down the gauntlet in the web video wars last month when it declared its Chrome browser won’t support H.264, the do… Read more »
75 Exabytes Of Mobile Data Will Be Used By 2015, But We Can Be Fickle Users
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Some interesting numbers out from Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) that, if true, have big implications for the mobile world and how services might develo… Read more »
Facebook Could Turn Netflix Into $400 Stock, Says Jim Cramer
What does Facebook have to do with Netflix? (NSDQ: NFLX) Everything, according to CNBC’s Mad Money anchor Jim Cramer (see video below), who… Read more »
Piracy Nearly A Quarter Of Global Internet Traffic, Says Study
Internet piracy is as big as…everyone already probably assumed it was. But just in the case the Motion Picture Association of America hasn… Read more »
‘Modern Family’ Overexposed Online? ABC Exec Disagrees
When Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent suggested earlier this month that the syndication-market value of the ABC (NYSE: DIS) comedy Modern F… Read more »
KIT Digital Buys Trio Of Firms, Including KickApps And Kewego
Online video services provider KIT Digital is continuing to roll-up other firms in its market. The Prague, Czech Republic-based company is p… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-31-11
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» eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is enlisting display specialist Triad Retail Media to help manage its online advertising. Tampa-based Triad w… Read more »
MLBAM Building Mobile Ad System For Live, In-Game Ads
Major League Baseball Advanced Media plans to pick a vendor next week to build a mobile ad platform and have it in place within a month afte… Read more »
Amazon Appears Ready To Challenge Netflix
If these screen grabs unearthed by Engadget on Saturday are as legitimate as they appear to be, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) could have a new rival… Read more »
ABC To Revive Sync iPad App With ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
Look for ABC (NYSE: DIS) to announce next week that the Sync iPad app will be back in Apple’s app store with one of its biggest hit series,… Read more »
Why Jason Kilar Will Leave Hulu
The portrait of Hulu that emerged from today’s Wall Street Journal is that of a hopelessly dysfunctional venture at odds with itself over it… Read more »
Netflix Offers Mixed Message To Time Warner In Q4 PR Blitz
What a difference a day makes for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). Less than 24 hours after an executive fired a shot across Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s… Read more »
@ NATPE: Epix To Launch TV App
Cross-platform pay-TV venture Epix announced Tuesday at the NATPE conference that it is developing an app that will allow its subscribers to… Read more »
@ NATPE: David Eun Says AOL Video Reboot Driving Growth
The relaunch of AOL (NYSE: AOL) Video strategy is already getting results, according to David Eun, president of AOL Media and Studios, who c… Read more »
@ NATPE: How Netflix Will Hurt HBO: Bidding Away Warner Bros. Films
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) will attempt to outbid HBO for streaming rights to the movies the pay-TV giant gets from its current output deal with W… Read more »
Orange Bets Big On Video, Buys 49Pct Of ‘French YouTube’ Dailymotion
Orange, the French telecoms operator, has entered into exclusive negotiations to take a 49 percent stake in the online video company Dailymo… Read more »
Auditude Raises $11 Million More For Its Online Video Ad Platform
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Auditude, which sells a platform used by a number of top sites to manage their online video ads, has raised $11 million in a second round of… Read more »
New Service Vid.ly Hopes To Simplify Maze Of Web Video Formats
Google’s announcement this month that Chrome wouldn’t support the popular H.264 video format was a setback to the idea of a simple unified s… Read more »
@ NATPE: Jeff Zucker Defends Hulu, Netflix Deals
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The Jeff Zucker Farewell Tour made another stop Monday morning in his hometown of Miami, host city to the National Association of Television… Read more »
@ DLD: Video: Sulzberger: ‘Print Will Be Around A Lot Longer’
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A year after announcing plans to turn on the meters, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. is still trying to convince people the New York Times isn’t goin… Read more »
How Radio Vets Rebooted As Podcast Pioneers
Ustream is betting on Adam Carolla to be the live-video streaming service’s first pay-per-view partnership. Lucky for them there’s another a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-20-11
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» Although European streaming music service Spotify is still not ready to enter the U.S. market — it continues to make its state… Read more »
More Ads On Roku Could Lure More Channels, But What About Viewers?
Roku is maturing fast this week: First came news of its first cable-channel partner, WealthTV, and now a deal with mDialog that will allow f… Read more »
Deloitte Boldly Projects 2011 TV Landscape Will Look Like…2001
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If the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show left the impression that TV as we know it is on the cusp of radical reinvention, the fol… Read more »
Video Is 40% Of All Mobile Traffic, But Most Of Us Don’t Watch It
Mobile data traffic is on the rise, and — with sites like YouTube increasing their mobile traffic three-fold in the last year — the popula… Read more »
Roku Lands Its First Cable Channel
Roku is expected to announce Tuesday an unlikely addition to its programming lineup: WealthTV. This will mark the first time a cable channel… Read more »
Netflix Enrages Subscribers By Limiting DVD Queue
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Converting to a streaming-only business isn’t easy, as Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) discovered Monday when the company’s blog was bombarded by compl… Read more »
Google: Decision Over Video Format Is All About The Patents
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Google’s decision earlier this week to ditch support for the dominant web video codec, H.264, in its Chrome browser unleashed a fair bit of… Read more »
Updated: Bitbop Developer Fox Mobile Becomes Jesta Digital, Gets A New CEO
The latest chapter in the transformation of Fox Mobile from its old position as neglected stepchild in the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) family: the… Read more »
Why Mobile Operators Are Freaked About Data: YouTube Traffic Up 3X In 2010
If operators like T-Mobile are fretting about too much video clogging up their mobile data networks, some figures today from YouTube (NSDQ:… Read more »
T-Mobile UK Does A U-Turn On Its New Data Caps: Now For New Subs Only
Some major back-pedalling over at T-Mobile in the UK this afternoon, and a major win for its customers. The company has said that its new po… Read more »
A&E TV Vet Melinda McLaughlin Jumps To Tremor Media As CMO
Now that Tremor Media has spent the past year trying to position itself to capture more of the ad dollars that are expected to flow into onl… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.11.11
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» Sources say Rupert Murdoch will be joined by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs for News Corp.’s unveiling of its “iPad newspape… Read more »
What UltraViolet Must Get Right To Succeed
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem got off on the right foot with UltraViolet by rallying its base with a kickoff gathering of exec… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.10.11
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» Personal finance mag SmartMoney has unveiled its first major redesign, nearly a year after Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) acquired the r… Read more »
@ CES: Tivo’s Tom Rogers Sizes Up Cable And Competition
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As CES has confirmed, the world has woken up to the potential of over-the-top TV. To which Tivo CEO Tom Rogers might say, what took everyone… Read more »
CES: Bitbop Inks Deal To Preload Its TV App On Verizon’s LTE Devices
Is there life after News Corp.? (NSDQ: NWS) Bitbop, part of the Fox Mobile division that was recently sold to the Jesta Group, believes ther… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.07.11
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» Having lost the music battle against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and iTunes, despite undercutting its rival with deep download discounts… Read more »
EchoStar Buys Over-The-Top-Startup Move Networks
More actual news tied to CES… Satellite service EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) has acquired streaming video company Move Networks, as it looks to j… Read more »
