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TiVo Getting Into the Ad Serving Business
While TiVo is well known for allowing television watchers to skip advertising, they are hoping they can entice viewers to watch branded advertising that provide entertainment value or…
Napster for the Unsigned, Unsung Heros?
Just spotted a Napster ad pushing their new free service on MySpace, while I was listening to a new demo from Cheeseburger,…
FireFox Flicks Winners Announced
It killed us that we’re so busy at Ad:Tech, we couldn’t get over to the announcements of the Firefox Flicks video contest…
Rovion Puts a Tiny Man in My Computer
There’s a tiny talking man on my computer monitor! If you’ve visited TVGuide.com or FoodNetwork.com lately, you’ve seen him, too. The network…
Finding Public Radio Podcasts
Gary Price reports on Public Radio Fan’s podcast directory with over 650 currently active podcasts from public radio stations around the world.…
Will ABC’s Online TV Shows Pave Way for ‘Next Big Idea’?
In a straw poll of media buyers, I found that the recent decision by Disney to stream some of its TV shows…
Klipmart Saddles Up Its Own ‘Digital Upfront’
Here’s a nice follow-up to our recent story about Heavy.com trying to institute a pre-emptive “digital upfront” in hopes of stealing some…
Pixsy Visual Search Uses RSS To Power Image Search Index
Stefanie Olsen of News.com reports on Pixsy’s launch of visual search at https://www.pixsy.com/. So what makes Pixsy unique? Well, it burns through…
Springsteen Reveals Video on Amazon
Amazon.com and Bruce Springsteen hope to garner interest for the release of the singer’s forthcoming DualDisc format DVD by making available video…
The Geek Vault
Ziff Davis got video game publishers to open the archives for its video site GameVideos.com. The site hosts video of all things…
Google Adds Continuous Playback to Google Video
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google Video has added continuous playback. What that means, if is you are watching a specific video you…
NBC Demonstrates Passion for IE
So NBC has just announced Passions Vendetta, a narrative unfolding over 24 clickable 2-minute online videos that will appear over 12 weeks.…
Some New Video Search & Sharing Sites
Searchforvideo is a relatively new web-wide video search site you might want to check out, while Guba and VideoEgg are two other…
Google Updated Video Player
Garett Rogers also has the scoop on Google updating the Google Video player to version 1.0.1.0. The most noticeable changes are; +…
Google Idol: Vote For The Next Google Video Music Star
Philipp Lenssen finds a new site named Google Idol that utilizes Google Video to pin singer versus singer. The site seems to…
Microsoft to Launch Video Service Under Windows Live Video
TechWeb reports that Microsoft is going to launch a video service to challenge Google Video during April of this year. The service…
Klipmart Unleashes Shaggy Dog Ad with Web-Only Footage
Entertainment companies and TV advertisers have been mulling over the idea of shooting video exclusively for the Web for years. It’s still…
Google Alpha Release for Google Video RSS Feeds
Google has released an alpha (not even beta) release of RSS feeds for Google Video, as reported at ThreadWatch. The popular video…
Could Govt Intervention Muck Up Net Neutrality?
Today’s Wall Street Journal features a commentary piece regarding the ongoing “net neutrality” debate, by Bret Swanson, senior fellow at Seattle’s Discovery…
AOL Launches In2TV Beta; Free Access to Classic TV Shows
Gary Price reports in AOL Launches Access to Vintage TV Programming that TV classics are available at AOL In2TV Beta for free.…
CBS to Stream March Madness Over Web
CBS SportsLine plans to air the first 56 games of March Madness at NCAASports.com via March Madness on Demand (MMOD). Even on…
Google Video to Enable Sale of Personal Videos Shortly?
Nathan Weinberg reports that BuyGoogle has been notified that the videos he posted to Google Video to sell online has moved from…
Gamekillers
Gamekillers, an MTV show sponsored by Axe, has a site with extremely well-done interactive video elements. It’s TV grade creative, top notch…
Google Video Adds US National Archives Historic Films to Google Video
The Google Blog announced that Google Video has digitized and are hosting a collection 103 historic films from the US National Archives.…
Google Video Adds Video Categories
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google added Google Video Categories. Visit https://video.google.com/ and look at the top of the page, you will notice…
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