YouTube has responded to a federal court order requiring the company, as part of Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit, to give Viacom copies of YouTube’s server log files. These log files are needed by Viacom to help it determine the extent to which YouTube has been used to distribute copyrighted content without permission. However, Viacom doesn’t […]

Google is following up on its promise to make generating revenue from YouTube its top priority. They’ve announced additional partners that let AdSense publishers embed their videos and share in the ad revenue. They’ve also introduced new video ad units, for additional flexibility. Their program works by letting you generate revenue for clicks or impressions […]

Hey!Spread has updated its video distribution service with updated stats, a “YouClone” feature and support for publishing your videos to nearly 20 networks, including YouTube, Facebook, Blip, Dailymotion, Revver, Google, Vimeo, Metacafe, Viddler, Veoh, Yahoo and others. You can also automatically overlay a watermark image on your video to give it a consistent identify across […]

People are leaving traditional radio behind for on Internet radio and podcasting, but a new UK study suggests that radio stations that embrace podcasting can actually grow their audiences. Research firm Ipsos Mori has found that 10% of those surveyed said they listened to less live radio after starting to download podcasts. However, 15% said […]

This is one of a series of videos by Frances Pinter and David Percy that look at building businesses based on Creative Commons licenses. It takes a look at Magnatune, a digital music store built on CC licenses, and the company’s founder, John Buckman. Creative Commons licenses are a set of free tools designed to […]

55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home, according to a May 2008 survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project: The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007 and 42% in early 2005. Among individuals who use the internet at […]

Educators and home-schoolers interested in getting educational multimedia for K-12 students can now find it in Apple’s iTunes U. While iTunes U originally was created to support the distribution of educational podcasts for colleges & universities, it’s been expanded to support elementary and secondary education as part of an initiative  by several state education agencies […]

This video, via BloggerHelp, looks at how to create a podcast with Blogger.

Podcast network Wizzard Media announced today that they have archived over 118 million words using their proprietary “admatch” technology process. Of those, they have identified more than 10,000 words as keywords with potential significance to prospective advertisers. The database of keywords was populated by processing over 800,000 hours of audio and video programming available on […]

Video community site Seesmic has announced that it has partnered with Six Apart, the maker of Movable Type to provide Movable Type users and their readers with the ability to integrate video comments alongside traditional text-based comments. Seesmic already offers a plug-in for integrating its video system into WordPress sites. The MT plug in is […]