Brightcove has announced a new free service, the Brightcove Network, that lets content owners of all sizes launch their own commercial Internet video channels at no cost and generate revenue through advertising and video download sales.

Coinciding with the launch of the Brightcove Network, the company announced the availability of several new services designed to generate revenue and increase distribution for Internet TV channels. To make earning money from commercial content easier, Brightcove launched a new video advertising network and the ability to offer high-quality video downloads for purchase or rental. To help online video programmers reach new audiences, the company introduced the beta of a new consumer destination for discovering and interacting with Internet TV channels. In addition, Brightcove has partnered with AOL to give content owners the option to easily sell their pay-media downloads through the AOL Video portal using Brightcove. Also see comments via Znet.

The major aim of Video Active is to create access to television archives across Europe. The unlocking of these (largely) closed archives will make their content available for educational and academic purposes. Eleven archives are represented in the consortium; Broadcast archives (BBC-UK, DR-Denmark, DW-Germany, ORF-Austria, RTBF-Belgium, TVC-Spain) as well as National Archives (SLBA-Sweden, SV-Netherlands, NAVA-Hungary, NTUA-Greece, IL-Italy). Added up, their collections comprise of over four and a half million hours of audio and video material from 1890 to now and represent a major part of Europe’s audiovisual heritage. The project will achieve this by selecting 10,000 items television archive content, which reflects the cultural and historical similarities and differences of television from across the European Union.

It’s not easy to figure out whether you’re getting a good deal for bandwidth commit and storage. Here are some tips (and real-world numbers) to help make sure you’re not paying too much. If you are new to delivering content online and you have no traffic data, it’s a bit of a guessing game. Service providers typically won’t cut you any discount upfront, since they have no idea if you’ll be a $500 a month customer or a $5,000 a month customer who should get discounted pricing. To a new customer, I suggest not committing to anything. Sign a three-month deal, test the waters, see what type of traffic you do, and then decide if you should sign a long-term deal that gives you a break on pricing. This also offers an opportunity to test the service provider and rate their customer service and products such as reporting. Read the full article Here.

The new controversial TVUPlayer has appeared on the internet and could be the TV studio’s biggest enemy since Napster. This new player allows you to potentially watch any television channel in the world on your PC. Channels featured on TVUPlayer currently include CBS, ESPN, NBA TV, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Comedy Central, Disney and more, including sports channels. This already impressive lineup of channels is available from any internet enabled PC in the world and could potentially expand to include many more channels.

The full article – with download player link – via: webtvhub.com

The landmark announcement on October 9 that Google would aquire Youtube for $1.6bn in stock has rocked the internet video world. Predictably there has been alot of discussion about the deal – ALOT – but how does one decide if they paid too much..?!? When the rumors started swirling around, thanks to a post on TechCrunch, we came across this cool little app., according to it’s calculation indeed Google seems to have paid about 6x more than it should have. Then again everyone thought Microsoft paid way too much for Hotmail back in the day.. but now the companies book value shows it to be worth several times more.

Time will tell but this much is clear now; internet video has finally hit main-stream and we are def. in the early stages of bubble 2.0 so best cash-out while you still can. Wonder how long it will take to incorporate other product into the GooTube platform..

Sorry for the post lag – we needed some offline rehab time to ‘breathe’

Nokia is running a nifty little “wannabe viral” video campaign to promote their E61-series smartphone. You can craft a custom message – from a wacky range of choices – for them to hack together and send along to your friends as a memo from the Big Cheese. A little birdie (ok it was James) at teamrubber.com passed this our way, have a go if you like. It would be a fair guess that we’ll be seeing alot more of these interactive video e-cards in the future.. like Valentines Day for example!

The first edition of Technorati’s Daily Vlog rolled-out today with highlights of the hot sites, videos, photos, and games showing you what the world LIVE web is abuzz about at any given moment in time.

Amazing idea.. somebody should tell RocketBoom to think about doing something like this..?!?