It looks like Chicken Little is behind the wheel at Fortune magazine. Fortune’s Richard Siklos says that “User-generated video under siege,” and that it’s being sidelined by mainstream media’s move into Internet media. What’s obviously happening here is the beginning of a monumental battle for online video viewers’ attention. YouTube or someone else may yet […]

Liz Gannes at New Tee Vee reports on another live streaming deathcasting incident: In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged on by commenters on […]

  The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers today released their latest numbers on Internet ad revenues, and things actually look pretty good for ad-supported new media:   Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion for the third quarter of 2008, representing an 11 percent increase over the same period in 2007. “A weakening economy will continue to […]

Apple has released a new update for Apple TV, Apple TV Software Update 2.3, that brings new features for AirTunes streaming, support for third-party remotes and more.

Monty Python announces that it’s tired of getting ripped off for all these years, that it’s launching its own YouTube channel and that they’d really like you to buy some of their stuff, say no more.

i.TV has announced that it’s looking for beta-testers to try out the next version of its popular iPhone media app: We have some new features to roll out and we would love to have some help testing the next version of i.TV.  Our development team is almost finished with the next release. If you are […]

Motrin has found itself in the middle of a new media disaster as a result of a heavy handed ad internet ad campaign campaign that makes fun of people that wear their babies in slings (above). The narration takes a poke at moms (and dads) that wear baby slings – suggesting that they are akin […]

President-elect Barack Obama kicks off his weekly new media address with this video. Obama plans to publish weekly addresses to YouTube as President, a milestone in the adoption of new media. It will be a little strange to see Obama competing for views against Fred, but it’s sure to drive new audiences to Internet video. […]

Mainstream Internet video startup Hulu has posted a collection of videos that explain the site’s video sharing features. While you can’t share your personal videos on Hulu, the site at least makes it easy to embed videos in blog posts, share on social medi sites and email. Now, if they’d just make embeddable videos permanently […]

Information technology research firm Gartner reports that “protail” video – their term for the segment between professionally produced content and user-generated content – is becoming one of the fastest-growing segments of the online video marketplace, and is providing advertisers a safe, targeted inventory in which they can place ads.

While Gartner’s choice of terms may be a bit unfortunate, video created by hardcore amateurs is creating an important new audience for advertisers.