Pioneering video podcast Rocketboom is considering charging for it content, because it doesn’t have the size of audiences that large advertisers are looking for. “It’s frustrating that we haven’t worked it out by now,” said Rocketboom creator, Andrew Baron. “Even though we have a relatively large audience, advertisers are just not happy to do ‘small […]

Microsoft is locking down its video-sharing site, Soapbox, limiting membership so it can create better safeguards against pirated content. After Viacom announced its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, Microsoft appears to have decided its video sharing site offered too juicy a target. Here’s Microsoft’s statement on the changes: Dear Soapbox users, Thanks for helping us […]

According to new research from comScore, primetime for Internet video is 5-8 pm weekdays. In January, nearly 123 million people in the U.S. (70 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience) viewed 7.2 billion videos online. The average video streamer viewed 59 streams during the course of the month — nearly two videos per day […]

March 19: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. OK – it’s not really March 19th – it’s the 21st and we’re a couple days behind on the free music project. It’s not […]

The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has been test-driving an Apple TV for the last couple of weeks and calls it “a very well-designed product that easily brings the computer and the TV together.” “We’ve been testing Apple TV for the past 10 days or so, and our verdict is that it’s a beautifully designed, […]

Apple today started shipping Apple TV, a new class of computer peripheral that turns your HDTV into a big screen iPod. Apple TV connects physically to your television and wirelessly to a Mac or PC running iTunes. The device then lets you play iTunes content on your TV, including movies, TV shows, music, photos, podcasts […]

YouTube today confirmed that it was announcing the first-ever YouTube Video Awards, a significant award established to recognize popular YouTube videos. The 2007 YouTube Video Awards commemorate the site’s most popular user-created videos of 2006. The company is only offering winners a trophy, despite the fact that the popular user-generated content the award highlights has […]

Companies are spending more and more online, a trend that is backed by figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Internet advertising revenues for 2006 are estimated at $16.8 billion, a 34 percent increase over the previous year, when revenue was a record $12.5 billion. “The increase underscores marketers’ understanding that Interactive advertising can engage consumers, […]

In an opinion piece in the New York Times lawyer and free culture advocate Lawrence Lessig offers his take on Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube: The complex balance of interests within any copyright statute are best struck by Congress. But 20 months ago, the Supreme Court reversed this wise policy of deference. Drawing upon […]

Ze Frank has wrapped up The Show, his weekday video blog conversation with viewers. He posted the final episode (below) on Saturday. Frank’s Show has been amazing for many reasons, but what’s impressed us the most is Frank’s honed sense of how to use video podcasting and the Internet to build a community. Fans of […]