Google said Friday that its long-promised content filtering system to combat piracy was coming soon. Google made the announcement at a hearing Friday in the billion dollar copyright-infringement lawsuit that Viacom filed against Google. Google attorney Philip S. Beck told the judge the company was working “very intensely” on a video recognition technology. According to […]

Pioneering podcaster and PodTech CEO John Furrier has posted a defense of the company, which has struggled to become profitable, failed to find new investors and has had to let go some of its content creators. The company has also been subjected to scathing coverage recently, especially from “tech gossip rag” Valleywag, which described PodTech […]

The BBC has launched a closed on-demand Internet video system, iPlayer,¬†that will let users download and view shows broadcast in the last week. The BBC is giving the new offering an unusual amount of hype. BBC director general Mark Thompson calls¬†the launch of iPlayer “as big a milestone as the arrival of colour TV.” iPlayer […]

HBO’s attempt at creating a YouTube-killer, This Just In, is being shut down just six months after launching. HBO’s venture is one of many “destination” video sites that hope to compete with YouTube by offering professionally produced content, like this iPod ad spoof: This Just In focused on comedy videos. Unfortunately for HBO, a handful […]

Dial-up Internet access is disappearing as barrier to the adoption of podcasting, video podcasting and other Internet media. Seventy-two percent of U.S. adults now have access to a broadband connection and more than half of American households now subscribe to broadband, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). ‚ÄúWith 20 percent of non-broadband subscribers expecting […]

Burst Media has released the results of a survey on media consumption of 18-24 year old college students, reporting that students spend more time with the Internet than with other media. Burst also reports that Internet audio and video were two of the students’ top reasons for using the Internet. According to Burst, many students […]

According to the latest research by Pew Internet, online video is hotter than ever. 57% of internet users have watched videos online and most of them share what they find with others. Highlights of the research: The growing adoption of broadband combined with¬†competition among¬†content providers has helped pave the way for mainstream audiences to embrace […]

Google is looking for mad video-making skills, nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills…. Actually, just the mad video-making skills. Here’s the scoop from Google: A few of us on the Gmail team came up with an idea to stitch together a bunch of video clips that all share one element: someone hands the Gmail […]

Verizon Wireless announced today a feature that we expect to become more and more common with digital cameras, video cameras and mobile phones – direct uploading to the Internet. Verizon customers can record video with their wireless phones and upload the videos directly to YouTube using an easy to remember number ‚Äì YTUBE (98823). To […]

Tonight, CNN will be hosting the first of the CNN-YouTube debates of presidential contenders. Democratic candidates will be answering videotaped questions that were submitted by people via YouTube. Questions were submitted between June 14 and July 22 and then selected by CNN’s political team. Some are heralding the event as a sort of democratic revolution, […]