UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has announced that ten proposals for video podcast productions from ten countries have been selected to receive production grants. More than one hundred proposals were received from close to fifty countries in response to an open call for submissions last September. The proposals were studied by […]

New research by interactive agency Sharpe Partners has found that 54 percent of adult Internet users currently create their own video offline, but only 11 percent actually upload it to the Internet. That gap, according to Sharpe Partners’ Kathy Sharpe, represents a huge opportunity for software and system providers that can help consumers migrate their […]

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo is history. Show organizers are expanding its reach to encompass the increased number of content creators and exhibitors in the areas of video for the web, blogging, and user-generated content and have renamed it the Podcast and New Media Expo. The conference and tradeshow is scheduled for September 28, […]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion is wondering Why Yahoo is backing away from RSS. “Has anyone noticed that Yahoo’s love affair with RSS seems to be withering?” asks Rubel. “In the past few weeks Yahoo has rolled out three major new web sites – Yahoo! Food, Yahoo! Advertising and Yahoo! TV. They’re great sites, but […]

The recent news that YouTube is working with Verizon to bring a selection of YouTube content to cell phones is striking some as more evidence that YouTube as you know it is dead. YouTube‚Äôs phone-based version will require a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon Wireless service called VCast. VCast users will be able to view […]

The mobile adult content market is forecast to grow from its 2006 level of $1.4 billion to over $3.3 billion by 2011, according to new study by Juniper Research. Over the whole 2006 to 2011 period, Juniper estimates that mobile adult entertainment services will generate a $14.5 billion in revenues, with Europe contributing 39% and […]

The Creative Commons licenses provide a way for content creators to allow free distribution of their work, while also protecting the works commercial value. A key concept of the licenses is that, if you decide to share your music, videos or other creations with a CC license, other people and companies will respect that decision, […]

Apple has applied for several patents relating to podcasting: Acquisition, management and synchronization of podcasts relates to acquiring and playing podcasts on a portable media device. Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting relates to receiving a portable subscription file that is used to facilitate subscribing to the podcast; accessing the portable subscription file to obtain […]

One month after launching the CBS Brand Channel on YouTube, CBS‚Äôs daily feed of news, sports and entertainment clips have become some of the most widely viewed content on the site. CBS has uploaded more than 300 clips that have a total of 29.2 million views on YouTube, averaging 857,000 views per day, since the […]

Nielsen Media Research has announced that on December 11, 2006 it will launch a new service to measure mainstream Video On Demand VOD content using the same National People Meter sample it uses to provide television ratings to national programmers. Clients will receive household and demographic ratings for VOD content along with other detailed audience […]