A new Hollywood video destination site, My Damn Channel, is the latest attempt by mainstream media companies to break into the exploding Internet video market. While the site is getting hyped by the Associated Press & Variety, it appears to be a variation on all the other mainstream media video destination sites that have failed […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Respected interviewer and journalist Charlier Rose, best known for his Charlie Rose Show on PBS, has introduced a new video portal that’s a great example of a corporate video destination. The site, now in beta, has great content, is well organized, has news feeds, tagged content, comments, well-implemented search and integrated ecommerce. You can explore […]

The Participatory Culture Foundation has announced a new version of their free and open source Internet media application, Miro, which was formerly known as Democracy. Here are the details: We have a new name (Miro) and a new logo designed by Jon Hicks (who did the Firefox logo). Our new website has been updated throughout […]

The¬†iPhone¬†may drive a new wave of growth¬†growth in mobile video usage, according to research conducted by new media research firm Interpret. Research Highlights: Despite owning their new iPhones for a short period of time, 63% of iPhone owners have already used the widescreen-enabled device to watch video (compared to only 28% of regular cell phone […]