Sony is expanding its line of video projection systems a couple of new LCD models for larger-venues that, while not exactly impulse buys, are priced within the range of many organization. The new VPL-FW300L (7,000 lumens) and the VPL-FH300L (6,000 lumens) projector models are ideal for smaller auditoriums, large classrooms and meeting rooms, museum exhibits, […]

It looks like natural selection is starting to weed through the dozens of video sites that have sprouted up in the last few years.Yesterday, we reported that video startup Brightcove was shuttering its user-generated video offerings to focus on video publishing services for corporate clients. Now Compete has released its stats on the Top 10 […]

In this episode of the New Media Update, Podcasting News’ Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Mark Rotblat, one of the founders of TubeMogul.com, a web video distribution and analytics startup. TubeMogul has developed an interesting tool for video producers. It lets you upload your video once, and TubeMogul distributes the video to whichever popular video […]

Read/WriteWeb reports that Internet video startup Brightcove has informed members of its Brightcove.TV site that it will no longer be accepting direct consumer uploads as of December 17, 2007. Instead, the company will be focusing on offering video publishing services for corporate clients. The move is a sign of the maturation of Internet video. A […]

UK’s BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV plan to launch a new video-on-demand service, Kangaroo, offering more than 10,000 hours of TV programming. The project aims to be a “rich entertainment site”, where consumers can catch up with recently aired shows and older archive programming. In a joint statement, the partners said Kangaroo “will work […]

Remember commercials? Those things you used to have to watch, before you got a TiVo and/or you started subscribing to one of the 25,000+ free video podcasts and/or you started losing hours of your life surfing YouTube? Microsoft, NBC Universal and GE apparently think that you really miss the little buggers, so much so that […]

This is the second part of our look at The Secrets Of Viral Video Hits. The articles provide an alternative to the view, promoted by Dan Ackerman Greenberg at TechCrunch, that the secret to success with Internet videos is “clandestine marketing.” In part one, Kent Nichols from Ask A Ninja and Andrew Michael Baron of […]

TechCrunch published a controversial piece of linkbait over the Thanksgiving holiday on the “secret” strategies behind successful viral videos. The essay, by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, suggested that the days of indie video podcasts like Ask A Ninja becoming viral hits through hard work and creativity are gone. “The Wild West days of Lonely Girl and […]

The Taipei Times reports that YouTube is censoring its site in Taiwan by removing music videos that are degrading to women: YouTube decided on Thursday to remove a series of music videos degrading Taiwanese women after angry reports from the Taiwanese public and media. Over the past months, a YouTube user who dubbed himself “Handsome […]

Family Fun magazine has a series of very short video podcasts on projects grown-ups can do with children. Past episodes have covered everything from ladybug cupcakes (Junior Mint spots!) to thumbprint daisies painted on shirts, to toilet-paper-tube puppets (I know, I know, goofy – I like it anyway). All these videos show and tell, in […]