After 11 years, Slate has decided to become a parent. So, light up a cigar and say hello to Slate V.
That’s “V” as in video, not the Roman numeral for “5.” The new video magazine will deliver original features, compelling documentary segments, and buzz-worthy video clips culled from the far reaches of the Web.
On the site you’ll find familiar Slate franchises such as “Explainer,” “Dear Prudence,” “Damned Spot,” and “Ad Report Card”—now in living color!—alongside newly created segments about politics, culture, business, technology, and [oh soooo much] more.
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?
National Lampoon has decided to expand its stake in the Web video market, the company already produces feature films and short video content on AOL Video and Brightcove, which runs Nationallampoon.com and TogaTV.com.
“Everything we develop or produce today, whether it’s audio for the radio network or video or film, has an online component,” said National Lampoon Chief Executive Daniel Laikin.
Tubearoo is building a network of internet video, social networking and people-powered websites, which currently consists of Tubearoo.com, Shoutwire.com and Tubearoo.cn. Catering to Chinese speaking internet users who wish to view, upload and share video, revenue from online video in China is expected to rise 580 per cent by 2010, according to this article.
The Amazing Boobkini is getting a pretty good rise out of us already
Here’s a super-slick app. we just noticed via TechCrunch:
“Cozmo.Tv wants to create a TV 2.0 by changing the way you consume online video from a random walk to personalized content. Next week at Always On, they will officially announce the new embeddable video widget they’ve been working on for the past couple of months. The widget functions like an online TV, streaming channels of personalized video content based on the initial preferences set by the widget publisher and the preferences of the viewer.
Publishers seed their widget with the initial channels by adding explicit RSS feeds to video sites or keyword searches run on Cozmo’s video index. Basing channels off of feeds means that a widget can be set up and forgotten, adding content to its channels as new shows appear in the feed. At launch the indexed sites will include videos from YouTube and Blip.tv, but will expand to include Google Video, MySpace, Brightcove, and Break.com.
Manify.net has been doing some great work helping folks to get into the web video streaming game. We came across this post about how they even include Creative Commons tagging for their uploads.
Chances are, you’ve noticed the CC - and maybe even know what it means. But for most casual users of the Uploader, the deftault share and share alike license is just fine. But if you haven’t dug deeper - you should. Magnify.net provides a whole array of license options (courtesy of the folks at Creative Commons) that allows you to define with great specificity the rights you are willing to share, and the rights you want to retain.
