Hayden Black, creator of the wry video podcast “Goodnight Burbank,” has launched a new video podcast that is completely different and even more irreverent. “Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary is about a 13 year old girl’s videoblog and her unique take on life,”¬† explains Hayden, “school, friends, parents and living with Bloomberger’s Disease. That’s a genetic […]

rollmio is launching a new video and blog promotion system designed to help marketers take advantage of consumer-generated advertising and consumer-generated media. Anyone can participate by registering at the site, and then either submitting videos or embedding videos published by others in blogs and Web pages. When a marketer wants to launch a rollmio campaign, […]

BlackArrow, a provider of multiplatform ad-management systems, has unveiled a new platform for dynamic advertising across broadband, video-on-demand (VOD) and digital video recorder (DVR) environments. The BlackArrow system is designed to manage, deliver and measure targeted advertising for video, enabling content providers, advertising agencies and distributors to reach on-demand video viewers. Reaching on-demand viewers over […]

PoliceOne.com today announced that it has launched BLUtube, the first online video community for police officers and departments nationwide. The site is like YouTube for police. BLUtube offers members of the law enforcement community a secure environment in which to view and upload videos. BLUtube includes law enforcement-only sections with video tips, roll call training […]

Al Gore’s two year-old cable channel, Current, relaunched its website on Monday to better incorporate user generated content and better target an 18-34 demographic. The updated site supports all the major “Web 2.0” bells and whistles, including photo and video sharing, comments and discussion forums on upcoming stories. The site also now appears to be […]

Google today announced that it has put in place a beta version of its YouTube Video Identification tool – a service intended to help copyright owners identify and limit how their videos are shared on the site. The tool continues Google’s policy of putting responsibility on copyright-holders to police the site. Google has been criticized […]

Video search engine Truveo announced today that it is working with European video company Kewego to extend the reach of Truveo‚Äôs video search engine to hundreds of European major-brand video producers. ‚ÄúIn the past 12 months there has been an explosion of professional video on the Web,‚Äù said Timothy Tuttle, CEO and Co-Founder of Truveo […]

Portable video players, like Apple’s latest iPod nanos, are going mainstream, according to a report from Parks Associates. Worldwide shipments of portable video players will grow at an annualized rate of 30% over the next five years, reaching 132 million units shipped per year in 2011: The massive adoption of portable video players, with over […]

Video search engine company blinkx today launched a new service that promises to pay you for embedding videos into sites and blogs. Based on the blinkx AdHoc video contextual advertising platform, the new widget places relevant text advertisements against embedded video from popular sharing sites such as YouTube, GoogleVideo and DailyMotion. blinkx will share 50 […]

Internet video advertising may soon be one of the fastest growing areas of net advertising, according to a report from research firm Off The Record. According to the report, advertisers are finally taking Internet video seriously. Highlights: Video ads are growing faster than ad execs expected. Video ads account for only a tiny percentage of […]