7 Steps to Creating and Selling Niche Products, jump straight to this program for the inside skinny. In this episode we take a growth trend and do keyword reasearch to find a potential topic for an information product, and after researching the topic perform a prospective buyer survey using Google AdWords and the Ask Database. And don’t miss a live demonstration of why you should never trust the results from the free Yahoo/Overture Keyword Selection Tool.
TV bank, owned by Japan’s Softbank group, announced their so-called “BB broadcast” system is able to deliver video contents of higher resolution to 10’s of thousands of con-current end users on DSL speed connections via the companies Yahoo.jp portal. When a recent live broadcast of the popular EXILE competition was delivered — at 768kb — a total of 46,904 viewers were achieved using this transmission method with only about 1/5 of the bandwidth required compared to unicast. According to the statement, the delivery method used a technology called overlay multicast (OLM: Overlay Multicast) which is an “evolved multicast” technology that was apparently developed by Beijing’s Roxbeam Media Network.
iStockVideo has an interesting proposition if you are a pro or semi–pro shooter with some decent video content that might work well as stock footage. Built on iStockPhoto, this new site just launched in September and functions as a clearing house for those who make — and for those who need — great looking video. Credits are sold at $1 each and video clips run from 5 - 50 credits per download. A quick look through the latest upload section (nice mouse-over Ajax widget function) doesn’t seem to show that anything there has actually sold yet…
While the big dogs seem to be chasing after the same bone.. this one has a slightly different flavor. With a push to attract prosumer quality generated content and distribution beyond the web for best of breed video clips, it should be interesting to see how this plays out. Passing on the flowery PR text, they posted this Video Press Release instead.
An awesome video mash-up grand central website pulling groovy content, from all the usual suspects, and letting their clips roll in a never-ending rotation that will hook you in and make believers out of the naysaying masses. Web 2.0 — in a streaming internet video site sense of the word — has finally arrived.
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Via: OctopusDropkick
NBC unveiled their new effort to distribute video content via the Internet. The initiative, National Broadband Company, or NBBC, involves syndicating video clips — produced by NBC as well as other companies — to a variety of Web sites, including those owned by their competitors.
NBC is selling pre-roll ads to accompany the clips, and will share revenue with the sites that distribute the video clips and the companies or individuals who license them. For now, clips on the site are all shorter than seven minutes, but Falco said that the network anticipated eventually syndicating longer content.
Partners include a variety of Web site publishers and content companies, including CBS Corp’s CSTV, CNET Networks, The New York Times Co.’s About.com and Forbes.com.
“We’re going back into the broadcasting business on the Internet,” Randy Falco, NBC Universal Television Group president and chief operating officer, said at a media conference Tuesday. The video will be entirely ad-supported, with JP Morgan Chase and Procter & Gamble as the initial sponsors. JP Morgan Chase will promote a new credit card in the spots, which are set to roll out in several weeks online and on TV.
Via: Media Post
AT&T and MobiTV have announced that the two firms will be launching a new Internet TV service that will allow subscribers to watch live cable programming through a broadband connection. For a monthly fee, users will be able to stream live content from approximately 20 channels, with more content promised in the future.
According to AT&T, the new service will be the first of its kind for MobiTV to allow streaming of live TV through any broadband connection. Previously, the companies offered a similar service to customers who connected to an AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot. This new deal will expand the availability of the service to anyone with a high-speed Internet connection.
The TV content is streamed through a proprietary browser from AT&T, downloadable from any computer, which subscribers can tap into for $20 per month. In addition to simulcasts of cable television, there will also be exclusive made-for-broadband content. Some channels that are available off the bat are HGTV, The Food Network, Bloomberg, Oxygen, and The Weather Channel. The Fox News Channel can also be streamed, but is only accessible by customers who have AT&T Yahoo! DSL Internet.
The Fall 2006 VON (Voice Over Net) conference in Boston starts today. It will be their largest yet, says conference organizer Jeff Pulver. The Expo features lots of Sessions, Speakers, an IPTV Pavillion, a News Blog, presentations on Municipal Wireless and other features. This year Pulver added a Video on the Net Conference.
Via: Daily Wireless
