We’ve been following Blendtec and their WillItBlend? video podcast for several years now and are amazed at how well the company has reinvented the infomercial as something that people will actively seek out. The company is taking its success to another level, though, as their most recent video demonstrates. In the video, Tom Dickson notes […]

We’ve published several articles looking at how NBC & the Olympics are losing viewers with the restrictions they’ve placed on online coverage, and noted that millions may be turning to unofficial sources like BitTorrent or skipping the Olympics altogether as a result. Some think that NBC has a winning strategy, though: use online video to […]

Open source video platform Kaltura has officially released its Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress. The free plugin is designed to enable both basic and advanced video capabilities on any WordPress blog (using version 2.5 and higher) – from simple video posting and playing to video commenting and collaborative video editing. Features: Upload, and import videos […]

Wizzard Media has officially launched its Wizzard Media Player and is demoing it this week in Las Vegas at the 2008 New Media Expo (NME). The Player lets you embed video imported from an RSS feed on web sites, blogs and social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter. An example of the new media […]

The Line – a new web comedy series from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, directed by SNL veteran Seth Meyers – is a bomb. The series features two friends, Josh (Hader) and Duffy (Joe Lo Truglio – Superbad), as they score the coveted first spot in line outside of a movie theater, 11 days prior to […]

NBC says that as much as 8% of its Olympic audience is viewing the event online, but it’s becoming clear that there’s a huge number of people that that are turning to unofficial channels because of restrictions and limitations of official Olympics coverage. In fact, the number of people turning to unofficial Olympic offerings appears […]

Wizzard Media announced a new feature today that allows publishers to distribute videos through TubeMogul‘s online video distribution and analytics service, now integrated into the Wizzard Media publishing platform. TubeMogul’s service lets you upload a video once and then distribute it automatically to top video sites. TubeMogul says that users of this service have historically […]

Worldwide online video revenue is expected to top US$4.5 billion by 2012, up from $1.2 billion in 2008, predicts research firm In-Stat. Much of that revenue is expected to come from online video rentals, with ad-supported online video making up a major part, too. Research Highlights: By 2012, 39% of adults in the US are […]

If you’re like me, you probably think that sitting through pre-roll ads – online video ads that you have to sit through before you can watch what you really want to see – is up there with getting your teeth drilled. In fact, a lot of people won’t sit through pre-roll ads. Three quarters of […]

Teens are skipping the Olympics this year.

Only 46 percent of teens surveyed by Harris Interactive showed any interest in watching the Olympics.

Here’s why.