Revision3’s slate of video podcasts, including Tekzilla, The Totally Rad Show, Web Drifter, XLR8R TV, and The Digg Reel, is taking to the skies with Virgin America, according to a TechCrunch report: The Revision3 shows will be viewable on Virgin America‚Äôs seat-back entertainment system throughout the cabin on flights to New York, San Francisco, Los […]

The Nielsen Company today announced the launch of Nielsen On Demand Reporting & Analytics, a new service that reports on video-on-demand (VOD) usage. The service offers viewing stats based on real time transactions collected at the set-top box level. At launch, Comcast will be providing VOD data for the service. Comcast will also begin using […]

Vudu is slashing the price of its video-on-demand box. Effective immediately, the Vudu is now $295, down from its original $399 asking price. Customers who’ve purchased the unit in the past 30 days can get a $100 movie credit by calling the company’s customer service line (888-554-VUDU). This move is expected, given the growing strength […]

I’ve been catching up on Lost recently with the HD episodes available from Hulu and ABC. The quality is very good, considering it’s streaming HD Internet video, and having all three seasons of Lost available on demand is great, too. Their advertising implementation is terrible, though. Here’s why: Before you watch the show, you have […]

Apple today announced iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all the major movie studios including: 20th Century Fox The Walt Disney Studios Warner Bros. Paramount Universal Studios Home Entertainment Sony Pictures Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Lionsgate New Line Cinema Users can rent movies for as low as $2.99 and watch them on their Macs or PCs, […]

The New York Times has an article today that suggests that “blogging is a low-cost, high return marketing tool”: To its true believers at small businesses, it is a low-cost, high-return tool that can handle marketing and public relations, raise the company profile and build the brand. That tool is blogging, though small businesses with […]

Quarterlife, the heavily-hyped serialized drama from the creators of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, is a bomb. Views for the show have plummeted, going from nearly 800,000 YouTube views for the first episode to just a few thousand for some recent episodes. That’s fewer than sleeping kitties, graffiti videos and even a video of Sims […]

Jeremy Allaire and Adam Berrey from the Internet television startup brightcove have posted an interesting take on the state of Internet video. They take a look back at what happened in 2007, but also offer their vision for what will happen in 2008. Here are the highlights: Branded Destinations – Media companies with established brands […]

Drew Olanoff, Adam Plante and Paul Fleming, the hosts of The Best Damn Tech Show Period (BDTSP) audio and video podcasts, have announced a POLARiTV, a new podcast network. POLARiTV plans to run their network like a TV studio, a la NBC and ABC, with a program schedule for their shows. But unlike other studios, […]

CBS plans to introduce a live online broadcast of the Evening News with Katie Couric when the program debuts September 5th, the network has announced.In addition to the live simulcast, the program will also be available in two other ways. The complete broadcast will be able to be viewed as an on-demand program any time […]