Beet.tv‘s Andy Plesser reports that the co-producers of lonelygirl15, Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, have raised $5 million in venture funding for their new company, EQAL. They’re building a digital media studio and working on product placement and licensing deals. “We’re going to teach Hollywood how to do it right,” said Beckett.

Speculation is running wild on the Web about Microsoft possibly building a content censor into the Zune software. It comes as a result of a New York Times article that looked at why NBC pulled its TV content from Apple’s iTunes store and is now distributing it for the Zune. NYT’s Saul Hansell writes: Late […]

HP today announced that it is making the video content of YouTube available through its MediaSmart “smart television” products, including the upcoming MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver and the high-definition MediaSmart TV. HP joins Apple and others in a growing field of companies trying to make viewing Internet media on your television as easy as […]

We’ve reported previously that newspapers are losing advertisers to Internet media, that young people are abandoning newspapers for Internet media and that newspaper revenue is tanking. The result of these trends is that the value of traditional newspapers is in a freefall: Avista, the PE-fund that bought the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million in late […]

Family media firm Entertainment Rights has announced deals that will bring a variety of classic cartoons to the Web via YouTube, Joost and Babelgum. The launches will see Entertainment Rights provide all three platforms with a selection of retro programming, including: He-Man She-Ra Trapdoor Felix the Cat Rocky & Bullwinkle The Archies Fat Albert Casper […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced the release of its Digital Video In-Stream Ad Format Guidelines. The guidelines focus on the most widely used current in-stream ad products, including linear video ads, non-linear video ads and companion ads. They were created in order to meet the following needs: Simplifying digital video ad buying across […]

Universal McCann has published a new report that suggests that new media is rapidly becoming mainstream media around the world. The comparative study looks at social media trends through three “waves”: Wave 1 – September 2006 Wave 2 – June 2007 Wave 3 – March 2008 Research highlights: Social media is a global phenomenon happening […]

Storybids today announced the launch of a product placement marketplace, where online video content creators can get paid to feature physical products in their user-generated videos, serial mini-dramas, videoblogs and webisodes. Yep – now you can do a product placement sell-out like the big guys. Advertisers can use Storybids’ searching capabilities to find video creators […]

Quommunication has released a premium WordPress theme, Video, designed for video sites. According to the company, “Once Video is added to your WordPress you only have to find or upload any video you like, go to it’s page and search the embed function and copy the code in WordPress to the body of your new […]

Former Rocketboomer and ABC onliner Amanda Congdon‘ has a new gig – SometimesDaily: The teaser proves Congdon’s still got a pair of fans – but will more tune in after her long  absence from podcasting? And is Jason Calacanis still ready to fight for her like a rabid dog? We’ll see when SometimesDaily kicks off […]