Internet traffic measurement company comScore today released data from their December 2008 “comScore Video Metrix” service, indicating a huge jump in Internet video-viewing among US Internet users. A record 14.3 billion online videos were viewed during the month, representing an increase of 13 percent over November’s viewing stats. YouTube led the Internet video portals, accounting […]

Venerable newspaper The New York Times is considering charging readers for access to its website, less than two years after discontinuing an earlier Times Select online-subscription service. In an online question-and-answer session, Bill Keller, the Times’ executive editor, discussed how the newspaper has been debating whether to charge for online access to the newspaper’s content: […]

This video captures a KRON news report about The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle’s forays into online news – in 1981. It’s an amazing look back at the technology that was high-tech in 1981, but it also foreshadows the current state of online newspapers when the Examiner’s David Cole explains, “We’re not in it to make […]

Marc Cuban has published a provocative post at his Blog Maverick site, The Great Internet Video Lie. In it, Cuban argues that new media producers that think that the Internet is democratizing video are suckers that have bought into a big lie: The Great Internet Video Lie is that the internet opens distribution to compete […]

Podcasting News publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Revision 3 CEO Jim Louderback about what traditional media can learn about online advertising from Diggnation and other Internet TV shows.

Technology research and consulting firm Yankee Group today unveiled U.S. survey results that suggest that Internet video will be a standout in 2009, amidst other faltering media options. According to Yankee Group, consumers are spending 11 percent more time online than watching TV, and Internet video is emerging as “the key platform for the delivery […]

BBC Switch, the broadcast corporation’s youth brand, is launching a new “interactive” teen-oriented drama, “Proper Messy,” across the range of platforms popular with the young crowd. The show debuts January 24, and viewers can watch on tv (BBC 2), online (BBC Switch site) and on social networking site Bebo. What makes this program interesting (to […]

On its “Traditional Media” blog today, search engine giant Google said it was “turning the page” on its print media advertising sales program, which will end Feb. 28. Google had been working with 800 U.S. newspapers, up from about 50 papers at the time of its late-2006 launch. Spencer Spinnell, Director of Google Print Ads […]

Google has announced YouTube For Televison – its initiative to bring Internet TV to your living room – is now available on Sony PS3 & Nintendo Wii game consoles: Currently in beta, the TV Website offers a dynamic, lean-back, 10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch and share […]

Adult use of social networking sites has more than quadrupled in the past four years – from 8% in 2005 to 35% now – according to a report by Pew Internet. Highlights of the research report: While media coverage and policy attention focus heavily on how children and young adults use social network sites, adults […]