MySpace today announced the launch of an original scripted web series, Roommates, the first original web series created for MySpaceTV. It’s a fauxality show focusing on hot chicks just out of college. The first of 45 episodes goes live today on MySpaceTV, with new episodes debuting each weekday at 1:00 pm PT/ 4:00 pm ET […]

NBC Universal has quietly yanked Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake’s D*ck in a box off of YouTube. Try to view the video, and you get a message that the video is no longer available. The video removal appears to be part of a larger shift in NBC’s strategy for Internet video. According to reports, NBC […]

A new site, TheFunRide lets you search for videos across YouTube, Google Video, Metcafe, Daily Motion and 70+ other video sharing sites. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do it very well yet. We searched for a variety of popular video search terms, with terrible results: Pamela Anderson – this search returned lots of skateboarding videos, but no […]

Several of the world‚Äôs leading Internet and media companies today announced their joint support for a set of copyright guidelines for user-generated content designed to protect the intellectual property of content owners. According to the companies, the principles offer a comprehensive set of guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) services and content creators work together […]

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 […]