Citizen Media

Internet Video Reaches Tipping Point

Feb 6th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, Making Money with Podcasts, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

It looks like Internet video has reached a tipping point: two-thirds of the people surveyed in a recent study view streaming video content at least once a week. More and more, viewers are watching on-demand video, and watching less TV. While television content is popular, some of the most popular Internet videos are turning out […]



Super Bowl Ads More Interesting Than The Game

Feb 6th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Podcasting Research, Video

TiVo has announced this year’s top Super Bowl broadcast moments, based on aggregated, anonymous, second-by-second audience measurement data about how TiVo subscribers watched the game. The company’s analysis shows that viewers were as interested in the ads as the game, with several user-created ads among the top moments of the broadcast. “Commercials were the big […]



MySpace Is On The Ninja’s Bad Side & He Doesn’t Have A Good Side

Feb 5th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, Making Money with Podcasts, Streaming Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

The guys at Ask A Ninja have posted an interesting take on the way MySpace is limiting what users can do at the site: Over the last few months there has been a lot of debate over Net Neutrality, which basically boils down to one company blocking access to to another companies servers in order […]



YouTube Purging 100,000 Videos

Feb 5th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

YouTube has begun removing more than 100,000 unauthorized clips belonging to Viacom. The clips include everything from snippets of Jon Stewarts “The Daily Show” to Nickelodeons “SpongeBob SquarePants.” The purge comes after Viacom demanded that YouTube take down the material, accusing the site of violating its copyrights. Viacom says its the largest order to delete […]



Pigsteria Shows Power Of Citizen Media

Feb 4th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Strange

The recent “pigsteria” over breastfeeding blogger Jennifer Laycock’s controversial pro-breastfeeding “the other white milk” t-shirts appears to have come to a happy resolution. Earlier in the week, we reported on how Laycock was being threated by The National Pork Board over the shirt, because they felt it infringed on their trademark and campaign “The other […]



Pork Board Threatens Blogger; Blogger Milks It For All Its Worth

Feb 2nd, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media

Breastfeeding blogger Jennifer Laycock is getting hassled by the The National Pork Board, but she appears to be making the most of the situation. Laycock promotes breastfeeding with her blog, The Lactivist. She has created a variety of funny t-shirts that promote breastfeeding, with phrases like “That’s my baby’s lunch you’re staring at.” The shirts […]



Yodio: “The Blogger Of Podcasting” It Is

Jan 30th, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Citizen Media, Making Money with Podcasts, Mobile Podcasting

Yodio unveiled its new audio publishing service and online marketplace, described as the Blogger of podcasting, at the DEMO 07 conference today. Yodio hopes to define a new category of site, a Web community for anyone to create, publish, and buy/sell personal audio recordings. Yodio lets users record by phone using Yodio’s toll-free service or […]



Gates: Internet TV Will Revolutionize Television In 5 Years

Jan 29th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, General, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

The Internet will revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday. “I’m stunned how people aren’t seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we’ve had,” Gates told business […]



UNICEF Announces One-Minute Video Contest

Jan 26th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, General, Video

UNICEF is calling for submissions to its Media Magic Make a Difference! one-minute video contest People under age 25 are invited to submit a one-minute video on the contest‚Äôs theme, telling the world what young people think about the world they live in and how they‚Äôre making a difference. The contest‚Äôs theme, ‚ÄúA World Fit […]



Fox Going After YouTube Users For Copyright Infringement

Jan 25th, 2007 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Video

Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed YouTube to reveal the identity of users who uploaded four episodes of the TV series “24” and twelve episodes of “The Simpsons,”. From the subpoena: On or about January 8, 2007, Fox became aware that a subscriber (“the Subscriber”) of YouTube Inc.s’ Internet-based service uploaded pirated copies of the works […]