rollmio is launching a new video and blog promotion system designed to help marketers take advantage of consumer-generated advertising and consumer-generated media. Anyone can participate by registering at the site, and then either submitting videos or embedding videos published by others in blogs and Web pages. When a marketer wants to launch a rollmio campaign, […]

BlackArrow, a provider of multiplatform ad-management systems, has unveiled a new platform for dynamic advertising across broadband, video-on-demand (VOD) and digital video recorder (DVR) environments. The BlackArrow system is designed to manage, deliver and measure targeted advertising for video, enabling content providers, advertising agencies and distributors to reach on-demand video viewers. Reaching on-demand viewers over […]

Portable video players, like Apple’s latest iPod nanos, are going mainstream, according to a report from Parks Associates. Worldwide shipments of portable video players will grow at an annualized rate of 30% over the next five years, reaching 132 million units shipped per year in 2011: The massive adoption of portable video players, with over […]

Virgin America today announced that it has entered into an exclusive partnership with Boing Boing TV to deliver inflight daily video reports. The show available on-demand on Virgin America through the airline’s Red in flight Entertainment system on all flights beginning in November.   “By offering Boing Boing TV’s unique brand of content to Virgin […]

Podcasting network PodShow today announced PodShowTV, a new service designed to let you access the network’s content on PCs, mobile devices and, in the near future, through advanced digital set-top boxes, Net-connected DVRs and IPTV. The service will feature PodShow content, but also provide a platform for users to interact and publish content. In effect, […]

Today at DigitalLife, Microsoft made two announcements that raise the stakes in the competition to bring Internet television to the world. In doing so, Microsoft threatens to further marginalize Apple TV and even sideline indie video podcasters. Microsoft’s first announcement was to unveil Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center. These horribly named devices, which are […]

Rocketboom and Blip.tv have announced a partnership to incorporate interactive advertising into the weekday video podcast. The result is more intrusive than some other Internet video ad types, but is an interesting new ad option. Here’s how Blip.tv’s Mike Hudack describes the system: That new technology is an entirely interactive QuickTime overlay advertisement that looks […]

Gawker is reporting that pioneering video blogger Amanda Congdon and ABC will be parting ways: We hear that ABC News vlogger Amanda Congdon’s contract won’t be renewed. Congdon, who came to fame at RocketBoom, started contributing to their website late last year. She has been quite productive recently taking tours of homes in Santa Barbara […]

Podcasting startup PodShow is expected to formally announce a partnership with TiVo next week that will bring PodShow’s video podcasts to TiVo users. The agreement promises to make Podshow’s content available to millions of new viewers, directly on their televisions. An official announcement is expected at next week’s Podcasting and Portable Media Expo. Paul Colligan […]

This year, it’s looking more and more like the major broadcast networks are going to be taking baby steps into Internet media, experimenting with a variety of different methods of delivery while trying to protect their traditional business model: Fox plans to offer the season premiere episodes of seven programs for free through Apple’s iTunes […]