Online sales of TV shows, movies and other prerecorded video will become a billion-dollar business in 2007, according to a new report from technology research firm Strategy Analytics. The report predicts that, by the end of 2007, the market will grow to $1.5 billion. By 2010, global revenue from online video sales, rentals and subscriptions […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has a few choice words about ABC’s new video blog featuring former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon. He’s also got some interesting points to make about mainstream media’s attempts to clone the success of indie vlogs: “I’m going to set aside all of the technical problems everyone has already mentioned with the […]

StumbleVideo is a new site that lets visitors browse through video content from MySpace, Google Video and YouTube using a simple interface, and vote videos up or down, like a video Hot or Not. The site is based on the technology of StumbleUpon, a company that provides a toolbar for “stumbling” onto new Web sites. […]

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon has made the move to ABC, where she “dishes” the news with the same irreverence that made her a video podcasting star. ABC calls her work a videoblog. There’s no RSS feeds currently, and you have to sit through ads and you have to watch it through a pop-up interface. […]

An editorial at MercuryNews.com (registration) argues that, as the popularity of Internet video booms, the popularity of amateur content will give way to big media. “Whenever a new technology makes personal expression easier, from desktop publishing in the 1980s to video sharing in 2006, denizens of Silicon Valley leap to the same conclusion: Finally, amateurs […]

Google and YouTube are proming hundreds of millions to the Time Warner, News Corp, NBC and other major content companies to buy time to work out the legal issues raised by its purchase of YouTube. Google calls these monies licensing fees. In effect, though, Google appears to be saying “Don’t sue us over copyrights. Take […]

YouTube as you know it may be dead, but it looks like a thousand baby YouTubes may spring up in its place. As material is getting banned from YouTube, it’s popping up again at sites like DailyMotion. Its getting tougher and tougher to break copyright law on YouTube these days. The site now performs frequent […]

The BBC reports that the online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time. 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result. One in five people who watched online or mobile video at […]

One month after launching the CBS Brand Channel on YouTube, CBS‚Äôs daily feed of news, sports and entertainment clips have become some of the most widely viewed content on the site. CBS has uploaded more than 300 clips that have a total of 29.2 million views on YouTube, averaging 857,000 views per day, since the […]

Webshots, a leading photo-sharing community today launched video sharing capabilities, letting users combine still and video images with text in publicly shared albums. According to Webshots, their video boasts a 50-percent larger viewing area and nearly 3-times the bitrate of other video sites and gives users free hosting of 100 five-minute video clips, plus an […]