Openfilm today announced the public launch of its video sharing website www.openfilm.com. The site showcases a selection of short films and animations displayed in high resolution. If you’re creating short films, you’ll want to check the site out. In addition to offering high-quality video, the site has a revenue-sharing program. I’ve embedded an example, the […]

Metacafe and Microcinema, a leading international rights manager, are teaming up on a juried online and offline film festival, MetaFest 2008. MetaFest hopes to combine the best of interactive online video-viewing with the best of the live-audience offline film festival experience. Selected films will have a theatrical premiere in San Francisco in November 2008, will […]

WebTrends, one of the leading corporate Web analytics providers, has introduced a new video tracking service that is designed to uncover viewing patterns and trends across all major media formats. Features of WebTrends video tracking: Track visitor use across all major video formats, including Flash, FLEX and Microsoft Silverlight. Track visitor use of Windows Media, […]

12seconds.tv is a new site, now in private “alpha” testing, that is sort of like YouTube for cell phone videos.  The site “allows friends and family to record and share short video updates about what they are doing or where they are.” The site doesn’t currently have a lot of features yet, but you can post short videos […]

Would YouTube be better if you got rid of most of the videos, eliminated most of the features and gave the site a vivid, primary color interface? Maybe so – if your audience is young children. That’s the premise of TotLOL, a children’s video site based on YouTube’s APIs. Here’s how TotLOL works: When scouting […]

Apple today announced that it had sold over five billion songs from the iTunes Store. The company also announced that iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing over 50,000 movies every day, making iTunes the world’s most popular online movie store. Apple said in a statement that its iTunes Store is now the world’s most […]

Internet video service TubeMogul reports that viewing for Internet videos tends to peak early and drop quickly – suggesting that the long tail of Internet video has a short shelf life. They found that most videos get a quarter of their views within 4 days and half their views within just two weeks: In other […]

Internet video startup Revision3, the home of Diggnation, XLR8R TV, Epic Fu and other popular video podcasts, has been making headlines since its founding in 2005.

The most recent headlines, though, have surrounded Revision3’s extended outage over Memorial Day weekend, and the way CEO Jim Louderback’s very publicly pointed the finger at anti-piracy firm MediaDefender as the cause for the outage.

Podcasting News’ Publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin caught up with Louderback, who answered questions about Revision3, how they plan to respond to the MediaDefender attack and his vision for the future of Internet media.

Amazon.com is planning to take on Apple’s iTunes Store with a new video-on-demand service, the company has revealed. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, speaking at the All Things D Conference, described the service as a “new version of video on demand” that will begin showing videos instantly on personal computers. Videos will be sold on an […]

Remember Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google over copyright infringement?

Viacom sued Google, arguing that “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization….based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content.”

Google is fighting back, claiming that the Viacom lawsuit threatens the future of the Internet as we know it!