Archive for May, 2006
For the first time in history, fans all over the world will have access on FIFAworldcup.com to video highlights of all 2006 FIFA World Cup matches free of charge and without the need for registration. From 9 June to 9 July 2006, a two-minute professionally produced video will be available within an hour of the final whistle of each game, except in Asia and the Middle East where there will be a 24-hour delay and in Germany where there will be a 48-hour delay due to legal restrictions, on the official website of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Thanks to collaboration between FIFA, Yahoo! and the holder of the worldwide broadcast rights for this event, Infront Sports & Media, FIFAworldcup.com will be the global Internet video highlights provider, bringing the best of the 2006 FIFA World Cup action to fans, no matter where they may be.
Avid has announced the grand prize winner and five runners-up from its video contest that challenged entrants to capture their passions and tell a story, via video, within 60 seconds.
Taking viewers on a cross-country road trip, Brian Sharpe, a 27 year-old independent filmmaker from Chicago, IL, won the grand prize with a timelapse video [.mov] titled “From Chicago to Vegas in 60 Seconds.” As the grand-prize winner, Brian received an all expenses paid trip to the NAB 2006 conference in Las Vegas and a free copy of the latest Avid Xpress Pro software – the award-winning professional film, video and audio editing, effects creation and DVD authoring tool. Avid received more than 200 entries for the video contest.
Via: Avid.com
HMWV is a brand new experiment in community capitalism. For the cost of a movie ticket you can sponsor a vlogger and help them produce content that is not usually seen in mainstream media. The way it works is that HMWV acts as a gateway to fundable.com, and is completely dedicated to the art of vlogging. The site lists one project in need of funding per month, the amount they require to complete the project, and project details. Anyone can submit an online proposal through the site.
Via: DV Guru
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 without any manual intervention or download downtime. Your preferred media comes to you automatically, simplifying mobile life as well as feeding your appetite for everything from the ordinary to the oddball.
The service is scheduled to begin live previews in June with a choice of over 20 ZuCasts ranging from Webshots’ best daily photos to videoblog coverage of the 2006 Vans Warped Tour, a 50-city summer music festival for which Warner Bros. Records has selected ShoZu as their mobile media partner. New subscription options will be added regularly, with a growing selection of news, music, humor and other digital nuggets designed to provide a constant stream of fresh information and entertainment.
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About.com is making a bigger commitment to original video content and is offering new video ad formats through its new video player, developed by online video firm Brightcove. As video ad inventory demand increases, the new player gives About.com the ability to produce its own video content as well as to offer advertisers video ads with interactive components.
The new player will allow About.com to “significantly increase” the number of advice and how-to videos produced by its expert guides, according to About.com president and CEO Scott Meyer. Noting the system’s robust publishing platform, Meyer added, “‘This technology needs to scale to 500 or more guides all over the world.”
The publisher aims to produce at least 500 original video clips by the end of the year, featuring its current guides as well as “experts” with more television experience. About.com currently offers 56 of its own video clips and partners with Web video distribution company GoFish to provide thousands more videos. Video on the site is offered in the Style, Home and Garden, Gadgets and Health channels.
Via: Clickz
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 a way for anyone to author and upload their own video files or maybe add some special effects. The new site supports personal favorites, tagging, and ratings of each video. The existing Yahoo! Video site does not include any user-submitted content or metadata.
Via: Niall Kennedy
Online video has arrived with highly publicized and explosive growth over the past 18 months. That growth will continue unabated for the next two years while advertisers grapple with various methods to reach the audience that has adopted the channel so rapidly. A large number of business models and providers are emerging to serve and monetize a very complex value chain.
Internet video content has fragmented into three tiers that are defined by production value. User-generated content presents both the greatest challenge and the biggest opportunity for advertising and promotion executives.
Background
In 2004 Mitsubishi produced an ad called See What Happens. It turned into a remarkable success. “They cut off the end of the commercial so that the only way you could see it was to go onto their website,” remembers Ari Bluman, the CEO of 24/7 Real Media, an ad services network that brings video content and ads together.
Mitsubishi was targeting the sophisticated video consumers who took the time to research their auto purchases before buying. “They drove the users to one of the two places where they could do that research–the dealership or the web–to see what happens,” Bluman continues. “It was a phenomenal success and the sales followed.”
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We love Blip.tv and one of the big reasons is that you can cross post to your site and other places like The Internet Archive. This means you can have Blip post your video for you, no html needed! It’s a huge time saver and a great feature for sharing your videos across the web. If you haven’t already signed up for an account you’ll want to set that up first and then check out this handy 30mb Quick-Time video tutorial to get started.
Via: FreeVlog.org
MediaScrape is the first Internet TV News Network to digitize analog TV broadcasts in a format that is 100 percent high quality video, on-demand, translated on location, interactive, free, searchable and archived.
Updated every 30 minutes, 24-hours a day, MediaScrape gives users full control on the way they receive their news. The play-all function enables viewers to watch 10-12 minutes of top world and regional story clips; play an hour and a half loop of daily news video clips; or use on-demand, where clips are drilled down by region and country.
“This is a breakthrough in news information as MediaScrape delivers all foreign clips from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific in their original format and language, providing a virtual platform for multi perspectives on single issues and unbiased top world and regional stories,” said Tyler N. Cavell, Founder and Chief Operating Officer of MediaScrape.
Hosted by Daryl Hannah, “dhlovelife” explores inspirational and cutting-edge developments in green culture and lifestyle. Daryl takes you to the largest natural and organic products expo to look for inspiration, visit the funnest (mostly raw) vegan restuarant, making imitation processed food from live real food.. hmmm. All videos in Quick-Time format only.
