Internet TV site Hulu is fighting back at users that use ad-blocking software, warning them that they need to disable the software. “This program is brought to you by Hulu’s advertising partners,” notes the site. “If you see this message repeatedly, you may need to disable your ad blocking software.” The video then resumes playing […]

Internet video service TubeMogul reports that viewing for Internet videos tends to peak early and drop quickly – suggesting that the long tail of Internet video has a short shelf life. They found that most videos get a quarter of their views within 4 days and half their views within just two weeks: In other […]

comScore today released April 2008 data from its comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube accounting for more than 4 billion of that total. Other highlights: 71 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. The average online video viewer watched […]

Mark Cuban has a must-read post over at Blog Maverick looking at Internet television service Hulu and Google‘s struggle to make its investment in YouTube pay off. Cuban argues that Google made a billion-dollar mistake buying YouTube, and that Hulu is “kicking YouTube’s ass”. It’s an interesting comparison, and one that may provide some insight […]

Alison and Lloyd of technology makeover show My Home 2.0 perform some innovative surgery on an old teddy bear. The result: a teddy bear that reads your Twitter feed. The Twittering Teddy also has a UStream channel, so you can tweet about something and then go watch a creepy animatronic teddy bear speak it on […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the release of its Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metrics Definitions. The objective for the new document is to standardize the definitions of the most commonly used streaming advertising formats. The document focuses on: Linear Video Ad With or Without Companion Ad Linear Video Interactive Ad Non-linear Overlay Ad […]

Internet video startup Revision3, the home of Diggnation, XLR8R TV, Epic Fu and other popular video podcasts, has been making headlines since its founding in 2005.

The most recent headlines, though, have surrounded Revision3’s extended outage over Memorial Day weekend, and the way CEO Jim Louderback’s very publicly pointed the finger at anti-piracy firm MediaDefender as the cause for the outage.

Podcasting News’ Publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin caught up with Louderback, who answered questions about Revision3, how they plan to respond to the MediaDefender attack and his vision for the future of Internet media.

Live webcasting startup Flixwagon announced today that it was testing live “high-quality” video streaming from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. Here’s Flixwagon’s announcement: While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK […]

Internet research firm HitWise reports that, while Hulu is getting big shows, it’s not getting big audiences.  Hulu.com., the joint venture between Fox and NBC that provides streaming video content online, came out of beta on March 15 and has seen a steady share of US Internet traffic since: Alexa’s reach chart mirrors this: The […]

Variety reports that HBO is buying into comedian Will Ferrel’s FunnyOfDie.com. The site, introduced a little over a year ago, is a sort YouTube clone focusing on comedy. Much of the site’s appeal, though, is the offbeat comedy videos HBO has bought a small equity stake in the comedy site and has commissioned 10 half-hours […]