Read/WriteWeb reports that Internet video startup Brightcove has informed members of its Brightcove.TV site that it will no longer be accepting direct consumer uploads as of December 17, 2007. Instead, the company will be focusing on offering video publishing services for corporate clients. The move is a sign of the maturation of Internet video. A […]

UK’s BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV plan to launch a new video-on-demand service, Kangaroo, offering more than 10,000 hours of TV programming. The project aims to be a “rich entertainment site”, where consumers can catch up with recently aired shows and older archive programming. In a joint statement, the partners said Kangaroo “will work […]

Remember commercials? Those things you used to have to watch, before you got a TiVo and/or you started subscribing to one of the 25,000+ free video podcasts and/or you started losing hours of your life surfing YouTube? Microsoft, NBC Universal and GE apparently think that you really miss the little buggers, so much so that […]

This is the second part of our look at The Secrets Of Viral Video Hits. The articles provide an alternative to the view, promoted by Dan Ackerman Greenberg at TechCrunch, that the secret to success with Internet videos is “clandestine marketing.” In part one, Kent Nichols from Ask A Ninja and Andrew Michael Baron of […]

TechCrunch published a controversial piece of linkbait over the Thanksgiving holiday on the “secret” strategies behind successful viral videos. The essay, by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, suggested that the days of indie video podcasts like Ask A Ninja becoming viral hits through hard work and creativity are gone. “The Wild West days of Lonely Girl and […]

The Taipei Times reports that YouTube is censoring its site in Taiwan by removing music videos that are degrading to women: YouTube decided on Thursday to remove a series of music videos degrading Taiwanese women after angry reports from the Taiwanese public and media. Over the past months, a YouTube user who dubbed himself “Handsome […]

BrightSpot.tv, a Internet television startup that promised to pay viewers when they watched advertisements, has shut its doors. A notice on the site explains the situation: Dear BrightSpot.tv Member BrightSpot Media would like to thank all of our valued members for participating on BrightSpot.tv and taking advantage of the partnerships that we had established. We […]

SyncTV, a new on-demand Internet video service based on open standards, has launched in beta mode. SyncTV offers TV shows on an unlimited download basis in DVD quality or better. The service lets you download whole seasons of TV shows and watch them when you want. Based on open-standards, the SyncTV service works on Windows […]

NBC on Friday said that Quarterlife, a serial Internet video that began its life on MySpace, will be aired on its television network next year, making the show the first to originate online and then move to a mainstream U.S. broadcaster. The move is a sign that the Internet may be becoming a “field team” […]

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were, for a long time, considered two of the most successful gated communities on the net. They had enough cach√© that they could be closed and charge a premium for access to their content. But, by being closed, they put up barriers for readers and encouraged […]