Webshots, a leading photo-sharing community today launched video sharing capabilities, letting users combine still and video images with text in publicly shared albums. According to Webshots, their video boasts a 50-percent larger viewing area and nearly 3-times the bitrate of other video sites and gives users free hosting of 100 five-minute video clips, plus an […]

CBS has found that offering video downloads increases the audiences for their TV shows. A poll taken by CBS found that over half of the users who streamed CBS shows on the Web had never seen the shows before on TV. According to CBS, the new users then became fans of those shows. “We’re looking […]

Nielsen Media Research has begun gathering information on usage of Apple‚Äôs iPod, and has found that most iPod owners spend far more time on it listening to music or audio podcasts than they do using it to watch TV or movies. Nielsen monitored a panel of 400 iPod users in the U.S. from Oct. 1-27 […]

Denver International Airport (DIA) has announced a new service, Sights and Sounds, that offers “podcasts” and videos that highlight interesting aspects of Denver International Airport and also provide useful information for travelers. While the DIA describes the service as a podcast, it doesn’t appear to be offering a podcast feed at this time. One of […]

MySpace has joined YouTube, introducing tools for copyright holders to make it easy for them to remove material that they allege is unauthorized. The tool is being tested with FOX and MLB Advanced Media and will be expanded to include other verified copyright holders. The new tool will allow copyright holders to digitally flag any […]

The MPAA has filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York, Paramount Pictures v. Load ‘N Go Video, suing a small business for loading DVDs onto personal media players (e.g., iPod Video) on behalf of customers. Load ‘N Go sells both DVDs and iPods and will load purchased DVDs onto iPods for customers who […]

UK Podcasters will be assembling this weekend for for November 18th’s PodcastCon, a UK podcasting expo, held this year in Shoreditch, London. According to organizers, the conference promises something for all types of podcasters, with an extensive program and live music sets from well-known podsafe artists. Panelists include: US podcaster C.C. Chapman, Nicole Simon from […]

NBC News announced Monday that it will offer NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press as free podcasts. While NBC has been streaming its video on MSNBC.com and offering audio of both shows as audio podcasts, this will be the first time that both shows will be available for video download. “It makes sense to […]

Sling Media and the 3 Group, a leader in 3G mobile broadband, have announced that they are partnering to give customers access to their home TV channels on mobile handsets. Using the latest mobile broadband handsets and a Slingbox, mobile customers will be able to watch anything they are able to watch on their own […]

Yahoo! on Monday launched its online video competition, Yahoo! Talent Show, and named Maria Sansone, Tom Green and Ask a Ninja as judges. Talent Show will award $50,000 and a development deal to produce a show on Yahoo! to the winner of the contest, which is looking for original Internet video talent. Sansone also hosts […]