Hello Upstream! In response to the rapid changes occurring in online media distribution, Arts Engine decided it was both timely and vital to provide our take on the field with an eye toward social impact. Upstream will not only show keep abreast (how about two?) of what’s new in online video, it will discuss how online media is shaping dialogue and triggering action.
Aero-News announced [with waaay too much gusto] they will be providing a preview of ANN 10.0, and Aero-TV, via online video, online audio, and online news webcasting LIVE from the grounds of Oshkosh 2007. From those hallowed grounds, ANN will be providing DAILY news and DAILY feature reports that can be read, listened to, and viewed — directly or via multiple category downloads — using the very latest technologies and outlets.
Mile-High Club video section announcement forthcoming?
Nielsen Wireless announced will begin measuring mobile phone users to see how many people use content services such as mobile Internet and mobile video and what impact this has on established media behavior. The company estimates that in the first quarter of 2007, more than 33 million persons 12 and older used mobile web in the past 30 days, and more than 8 million persons 12 and older viewed video on their mobile phone
Their first product – Mobile Vector – will launch in the U.S. in July 2007 using information culled from Nielsen’s existing National People Meter TV sample to report on media behavior and audience demographics segmented by wireless carrier.
The 11th Annual Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring Web sites, online film and video, interactive advertising, and mobile content. The judging panel for The Webby Film and Video Awards was comprised of more than 80 entertainment industry leaders, including The Sundance Channel’s Larry Aidem, Showtime chief Matt Blank, 20th Century Fox Chairman Jim Gianopoulos, and Harvey Weinstein.
We’re SO in the mood to paaaaaartay 
In an industry just beginning to understand how to slam video down broadband pipes to achieve new, improved television experiences, there’s still advertising and revenue requirements to meet, still a few speed bumps before reaching the new media ecosystem. Huge growth is anticipated. IPTV households are expected to grow worldwide from around seven million to 48 million between now and 2019 - a 60 per cent annual growth rate over five years, according to market researcher Infonetics.
So when will the revolution be televised?
What are the programming and business forces needed for escape velocity?
Check-out this new book to get the full skinny!
via: Silicon Networks
The new RealPlayer, due at the end of June, will seek to regain popularity as the best and most useful media player on the Internet. It’s great news for Real, and great news for consumers. Real have said they believe their software is operating within the law, but video providers may not agree.
[No kidding.. ya think? — eds]
RealNetworks are billing it as “the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites”, allowing you to save most types of video that haven’t been marked as copyright or non-downloadable to your computer, and then burn them to CD as a with the free Real Player and by sharing the video links with friends as is more commonly done.
It’s too early to know if action will be taken, but chances are that the legal implications are under discussion by multiple parties in multiple companies as we speak, and if it’s planned, we’ll all know soon enough.
via: IT Wire
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 Pettis of Make Magazine, selected videos from the Internet to illustrate themes for one-hour theater screenings starting at 12PM until 6PM each day.
“The current media landscape is changing so fast that these up-and-coming creators have a chance to help define its new foundations,” said Ryanne Hodson, co-founder of Pixelodeon, as she announced speakers, curators, and a line-up of over 300 videos for Pixelodeon’s first annual Web video screening festival to be held at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California on June 9-10.
L.A. We Love It.. 
