Web Video News Coming in Waves
Mike Arrington at Tech Crunch always has some great digs on the web 2.0 space and with streaming video (finally) blazing into the mainstream he has posted a few good pointers there over the last few days.
+ PalTalk is set to go live with a new social networking service designed to be a proof of concept for the inclusion of video chat in social networks.
+ Wurld Media announced that it has signed deals with three major TV and movie studios to offer episodes of popular television programs for download through its peer-to-peer client.
+ ShopWiki will announce today another step to expand their service’s offerings. The company will pay users $50 per video for the first 500 submitted product review videos selected for inclusion on the site.
+ Guba.com through its deal with Warner, Guba will initially sell almost 200 movie and television titles ranging from new releases to classic television content like The Jetsons.
Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion also had a cool vlog tip for a new site called Sixty Second View that will feature brief interviews on media, PR, marketing and more with the content all shot using a mobile phone.
Meanwhile, the folks over at Cnet must have been smoking something warming up in their offices for 4th of July festivities a bit early to run this Is YouTube a flash in the pan? story based on views from IDC research analyst Josh Martin. Considering the recent article in The Economist about Rocket Boom** and noting the massive difference in traffic when we compare their 300,000 daily unique visitors to You Tubes 6 Million unique it would seem quite obvious there is potential for some ad revenue there.
**Has Amanda really become UnBoomed..?!?
- Also of interest - so says the machine:
Onion News Network Web Video
We've been loyal fans for years, and wondered when they'd make the leap.. finally seems the Onion News Network of internet video will be coming online soon.. Ya! Via: Steve GarfieldYahoo!Tube Coming Soon..
Yahoo! presented its business strategy to analysts yesterday and gave the world a sneak peek [webcast] at what’s to come. The new video site includes videos from around the web and a few from Yahoo! users as well. The top navigation bar references “My Studio” which could be aZuCasts Coming Soon To Your Mobile Phone
First there were podcasts and videocasts. Now come ZuCasts — a free digital media delivery service for mobile phones from ShoZu. For the first time, photos, video clips and a variety of other professional and user-generated content can be delivered directly to the cellphone on a regular basis withoutAOL Video Experience Coming Aug. 4
AOL will unveil a revamped video portal next week, the latest move by a major Internet company to strengthen its position in this very competitive market. The centerpiece of the upgraded portal will be a lineup of more than 45 video-on-demand channels with a mix of free and fee-based clips,Pixelodeon 1st Annual Web Video Festival
The Pixelodeon event will feature keynote addresses from speakers bridging the divide between traditional media and new media, and those dealing with issues such as copyright and file sharing. Two dozen curators, including notable new media content creators Amanda Congdon of ABC News, Veronica Belmont of C|Net, and Bre PettisJumpTV on Joost — Coming Soon
According to AP, a deal to be announced Friday with global video carrier JumpTV will bring international television channels to Joost, the still-in-development Internet TV platform from the influential creators of Skype and Kazaa. Joost has been signing several contracts to carry video for media publishers, most notably a pact reachedSo Many Video Sites, So Few Uploaders?
We need to take Ms. Bogatin’s recent Zdnet article to task. Note: it’s difficult to tell where she’s getting the numbers as the one link within that article points to another story she had posted June 17th, with quotes from NYT, which indicate YouTube’s upload traffic is 35,000 per day..?!? "ThereGet Your Aviation News Video on Aero-TV
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