Archive for August, 2006
Research and Markets have issued a new whitepaper from IP media experts, Herv Utheza and Colin Dixon, who examine the factors impacting the deployment of IPTV throughout in Asia, Europe, and North America. The detailed report analyzes how the IPTV deployment landscape has shifted in just the 12 months, and offers a glimpse of whats in store through 2010 and beyond. As well, the study examines the service operators that have joined the IPTV fray over the last year and offers a unique long tail segmentation of the market.
Given the recent explosion of web-based video content, this report also includes a special section on Internet TV. It looks at the why, where and how of web-based video delivery and assesses the likely impact on Telco IPTV. Lastly, the study closely examines the business of Internet delivery and explains why the Internet will prove to be a disruptive force in this nascent market.
Hope you’re sitting sit down for the sticker shock.. 2,664.00 (euro)
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Windows Live.com is working on some interesting new features in their beta search service, most notably video search. It’s not on the front page yet, but on the section of the site ironically missing the word beta on its logo: beta.search.live.com. Video search is hot right now: Google gave its video search a promotion to the front page two weeks ago, AOL’s new video site is big on search and startup Pixsy making the most recent splash by targeting this search vertical explicitly. Windows Live is aiming to be a full service start page experience for users and wouldn’t have been complete without this.
See the full review on TechCrunch [or you could just ask the fish — Eds]
YouTube has created a new advertising concept called participatory video ads. Each day at YouTube’s home page, one video ad will be featured. It will rise and fall based on its own entertainment merits, judged by users. The participatory video ad, which visitors must click on to view, is one way the company is demonstrating how it plans to do Internet advertising differently.
To understand the power of the new medium, Kingdon points to this sample Sony commercial for its new TV, which has had more than 3 million viewers.
“How much money do you think advertisers would pay to get 3 million people to see and comment on your advertising?” said Kingdon, who declined to say how much. “Where else can advertisers get that immediate feedback? This starts to leverage the full potential of what is very new on the Web, which is a video community site.”
Paris Hilton has also launched a participatory video commercial advertising her debut album. People who click on it will be lead to her own channel which she will update with new videos and added features such as interviews and scenes behind making videos.. hmmm. They can subscribe to her channel and find out videos that she likes.. Hmmm! 
Via: Mercury News
The Stanford Technology Ventures Program Educators Corner has a free online video archive of entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning. The mission of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists and engineers, as well as those in management and other disciplines. The site has been developed by a dynamic team of educators, entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP).
The project has been financially supported by the Kauffman Foundation and Stanford University. Other collaborators in its creation include the Stanford Center for Professional Development and Stanford Video.
BusinessPlanPosting.com recently unveiled their new digital video elevator pitch service which offers entrepreneurs a new approach to introducing their business ideas to investors over the internet. As part of the American Venture Network, the service allows SME’s seeking venture capital to upload and store, free for the first 30 days, a two minute digital video file to accompany their business plan.
Via: DV Guru
Light Reading published an exhaustive review of the current online video space:
… the sheer volume of video sharing sites that have come online in the past 18 months suggests that the online video trend won’t be confined to something people do to entertain themselves on a coffee break. To wit, hundreds of thousands of consumers are beginning to share video online, and that’s having a profound impact on how much bandwidth is consumed and how broadband providers make money.
With all that going on, it’s definitely worth looking at who stands out in this ridiculously crowded space. Since popular opinion does matter online – where the consumer experience is hugely important – we thought it’d be useful to rank some of the Internet’s most popular video sharing sites by how they performed from the point of view of someone wanting to post videos rather than just look at someone else’s.
Check-out their Top 10 list with detailed score-sheet breakdown, or maybe this super-hot Topless Carwash clip via Google would be more fun..?!?
A pretty slick Ajax interface with clean Flash video.. Looking good..
TechCrunch got a sneak peek at a video sharing site called Viddler:
The company has focused on making the video publishing experience compelling and enabling discussion, tagging and sharing tied to particular moments in time. It’s a good looking system with smart features and a viable business model.
Company lead Robert Sandie lives today in Bethlehem, PA but has a background managing Adobe flash servers for enterprise clients. The distributed team is made up of designers Andrew Smith and Chris Tingom in Arizona and developers Lukasz Hankus and Kasper Cecek in Poland. The vision for the product is deeply inspired by Flickr and it shows. The business model, for one thing, will be driven not by pageviews and advertising but by subscription for premium features. The premium features will be announced later, but they look good.
Considering the crew they’ve assembled.. this one could be interesting!
