Remember commercials? Those things you used to have to watch, before you got a TiVo and/or you started subscribing to one of the 25,000+ free video podcasts and/or you started losing hours of your life surfing YouTube? Microsoft, NBC Universal and GE apparently think that you really miss the little buggers, so much so that […]

This is the second part of our look at The Secrets Of Viral Video Hits. The articles provide an alternative to the view, promoted by Dan Ackerman Greenberg at TechCrunch, that the secret to success with Internet videos is “clandestine marketing.” In part one, Kent Nichols from Ask A Ninja and Andrew Michael Baron of […]

TechCrunch published a controversial piece of linkbait over the Thanksgiving holiday on the “secret” strategies behind successful viral videos. The essay, by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, suggested that the days of indie video podcasts like Ask A Ninja becoming viral hits through hard work and creativity are gone. “The Wild West days of Lonely Girl and […]

SyncTV, a new on-demand Internet video service based on open standards, has launched in beta mode. SyncTV offers TV shows on an unlimited download basis in DVD quality or better. The service lets you download whole seasons of TV shows and watch them when you want. Based on open-standards, the SyncTV service works on Windows […]

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were, for a long time, considered two of the most successful gated communities on the net. They had enough cach√© that they could be closed and charge a premium for access to their content. But, by being closed, they put up barriers for readers and encouraged […]

The New York Times highlights a growing trend – people are spending more time with online media and less time with television. Why are fewer viewers watching the new fall television series? Perhaps because they are too busy watching video online. As broadband service becomes more available at home, the growing prevalence of video programming […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) wants your input on a set of Rich Media Measurement Guidelines which determine at what point a rich media ad impression is counted. Members of the industry (advertising agencies, advertisers, online publishers and technology vendors) are encouraged to read the proposed guidelines and submit comments on the IAB site. After […]

NBC Direct, a video download service that lets you view recent episodes of popular shows, is now live in beta mode. We have seen the future, though, and it is not NBC Direct. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s a picture of NBC Direct: Here are some of the limitations that […]

Major League Baseball (MLB) has struck out with at least one baseball mega-fan, author and blogger Allan Wood. He got thrown a curve ball when MLB changed their online video service, dumping their DRM provider and rendering fans’ older video purchases unplayable. Wood’s a vocal, major-league fan of baseball. He’s written a book about Babe […]

Struggling podcasting startup PodTech isn’t closing up shop, according to PodTech VP Robert Scoble. It’s changing direction. “Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####!” said Scoble. “This is total, 100% bull####. Not even deserving of a response. I’m not leaving PodTech. When, er if, I am you’ll read it here on my blog.” Daniel Lyons, writing […]