More accessible technology and maturing business models are opening the floodgates for web video from both professionals and non-professionals, according to experts. According to Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of web video provider Brightcove, the internet is rapidly moving from a “text web” to a “video web”, spurred by the dropping costs of producing and hosting […]

mywaves has introduced a new service, Auto Channels, that lets you create a personalized mobile video channel. The service works as a content aggregator. You give it a search phrases, and Auto Channels searches the Web and automatically delivers relevant videos your mobile phones. Videos are delivered as a streaming channel. The service checks for […]

It looks like Internet video has reached a tipping point: two-thirds of the people surveyed in a recent study view streaming video content at least once a week. More and more, viewers are watching on-demand video, and watching less TV. While television content is popular, some of the most popular Internet videos are turning out […]

JupiterResearch reports that 53 percent of online teens watch video on the Internet occasionally and 22 percent of them view video weekly or more frequently. “Younger consumers tend to be extremely savvy about online media so it’s not surprising that teens are making significant use of Internet video,” said Joe Laszlo, Senior Analyst and Research […]

The guys at Ask A Ninja have posted an interesting take on the way MySpace is limiting what users can do at the site: Over the last few months there has been a lot of debate over Net Neutrality, which basically boils down to one company blocking access to to another companies servers in order […]

YouTube has begun removing more than 100,000 unauthorized clips belonging to Viacom. The clips include everything from snippets of Jon Stewarts “The Daily Show” to Nickelodeons “SpongeBob SquarePants.” The purge comes after Viacom demanded that YouTube take down the material, accusing the site of violating its copyrights. Viacom says its the largest order to delete […]

The Internet will revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday. “I’m stunned how people aren’t seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we’ve had,” Gates told business […]

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said his company ‚Äúis going to move in the direction‚Äù of rewarding video creators for their content. Hurley says that he intends to share revenue with video producers, and that YouTube did not do that at first because he wanted to build a community […]

Apple Recon reports that orders for the recently announced Apple TV have already exceeded the original 100,000 unit order that Apple had placed with its manufacturer, and Apple is preparing to place a second order for twice that number. According to the site, Apple now expects to sell over a million Apple TV devices leading […]

The personal computer is moving from being a workstation to being a life- and video-entertainment hub, according to new research. More than half of those surveyed had viewed a DVD on a computer, and a quarter of those surveyed had watched a streaming TV show on their computer. The study also found that most do […]