Three out of five now watch online video, and more than half said they engage in some sort of response activity, such as visiting a Web site, going to a physical location or making a purchase, according to a new report by The Kelsey Group. “YouTube has largely popularized the concept of watching short videos […]

CBS Interactive has announced that it is partnering with community-building websites and social application providers to let users put CBS clips into their profiles, websites, blogs, widgets, wikis, and community pages. “Today, we are taking the CBS Audience Network directly to the user,” said Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive. “We now want to empower our […]

Media conglomerate Vivendi has formed a new unit called Vivendi Mobile Entertainment that the company hopes will compete with YouTube and MySpace. The site will distribute multimedia for PCs, televisions and mobile phones. The site is expected to first launch in France, eventually expanding to neighboring countries in Europe. The venture will be Vivendi’s second […]

The head of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority yesterday announced a new policy limiting the number of employees allowed to make copies of videos captured by highway surveillance cameras. The new policy was prompted by the release last week of a video showing a fiery, fatal car crash at the Great Egg Harbor Toll Plaza […]

The movie industry is considering changes to HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc licensing agreements that would formally give consumers the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they’ve purchased. The agreement would let buyers make a backup copy in case their original disc is damaged and another copy for […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today released the Internet Advertising Revenue Report which shows record results for the full year and final quarter of 2006. Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. continued upward totaling $16.9 billion in 2006, 35% over 2005 revenues. Q4 2006 internet advertising revenues totaled $4.8 billion, representing […]

George Lucas has had his chance to remix Star Wars, and now he’s wants you to give it a try. This week, Lucasfilm will make clips of Star Wars available on the Internet for fans to use in remixes. Over 200 clips, taken from all six Star Wars movies, will be available on StarWars.com beginning […]

Companies hoping to create the “AdSense for video” just got some major competition. Google has announced that it is launching a pilot with a small group of publishers to test streaming video ads in their online video content. With this pilot, publishers control when the ads play in their videos and choose which videos get […]

Ann Summers, a UK sex toy site, is getting a massive load of free publicity courtesy of the lawyers at Apple. According to reports,¬† Apple lawyers claim that Ann Summers’ advertising for its iGasm iPod sex toy, right, is a blatant rip-off of Apple’s iPod advertising. Apple has sent a cease and desist letter, warning […]

TechCrunch is reporting that Google is buying RSS feed management company Feedburner for about $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years. “The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in […]