Archive for the 'Vlogging' Category
Enhancing the experience of the live blogTV platform is now available with a set of new features and improvements. BlogTV’s new personal profile pages enable users to style their own backgrounds, add photos, customize their own show banner and embed widgets. This means that our growing community of musicians, for example, can package up their live performances, recorded shows, personal style and display and sell their own music via mp3 widgets, all in one place.
Among the new web-celebrity personas you will be able to see the famous iJUSTINE. Justine “iJustine” Ezarik made global headlines last summer when she received a 100-page phone bill as a result of using her iPhone to send more than 30,000 text messages. Ezarik’s video of the event was seen by millions online and on television, leading to a change in the way iPhone customers are billed. An additional talent in the new season is Christine Gambito (aka HappySlip). HappySlip is one of the Web’s biggest and brightest stars. She currently ranks as Youtube’s #5 Most Subscribed to Artist of All-Time. In peak months, Christine’s website HappySlip.com has attracted 306,600 unique visits with 758,908 page views.
Huh.. we didn’t know there was such a thing as web video ’seasons’..?!?
The maniaTV Network has announced an extensive partnership with Guerilla Hollywood, a full service production company whose television credits include work for Warner Bros. Records, MTV, Fuse TV, as well as dozens of top musical acts and movie studios. Under the terms of the agreement, Guerilla Hollywood founders Devin Boddie (Producer) and Michael Mihail (Director), along with Mike Jones (Director of Photography) and Craig Wenaweser (Editor), have joined the fulltime staff at maniaTV’s new LA Studio. They will direct and produce maniaTV’s existing web TV hits such as Dave Navarro’s Spread Entertainment and Arcade, as well as jointly develop new television shows for maniaTV’s monthly audience of eight million 13-34 year olds.
Go Daddy’s CEO and founder recently unveiled his latest venture, not your average corporate communication, or a typical canned PR message. Nope, www.BobParsons.tv is an in-your-face, tell-it-like-it-is video blog used to speak directly to customers, employees and even the media. It’s blunt, it’s unvarnished, even irreverent – and it’s out there for anyone to see.
Few business leaders provide transparent messages or understand the importance of embracing new technology. Some critics have questioned the wisdom of letting an executive speak off the cuff and PR professionals might scoff at publishing an unfiltered message – but Parsons sees true value in putting his views ‘on the record.’
ummm.. Yikes!
Ustreamtv tapped into more $ according to ‘always-on’ Caroline McCarthy:
There are seemingly more “livestreaming” services out there than people actually using them, but that hasn’t stopped Ustream.tv from raising $11.1 million in Series A funding. The cash comes from venture firm DCM, as well as existing investors Labrador Ventures and The Band of Angels. To be fair, Ustream has pulled away from the pack a bit: it’s the streaming service of choice for some high-profile live Web events like the Digg Town Hall.
With the new cash, Ustream will focus on product development and “meet(ing) growing market demand for an interactive-broadcasting platform.” In other words, it’s to better compete as the space grows tighter.
Adding fuel to burn the fire from their last round in December.
Wildscreen.TV lets video creators cash in, not sell out and offers 100% Ad Revenue to their users if they place their own ads on their custom channel. The new source for watching and sharing videos in HD-Quality - about music, theatre, dance, art and creative shortfilm. It is, as its slogan states, “fresh films by demanding directors for hungry consumers”. It provides a forum for those in search of quality, as contrast to the “everything goes” attitude of other sites. With Wildscreen.tv, the makers are aware of the major problem of the independent creative scene - the continual lack of financial resources.
Consequently, they offer their users the opportunity to support their own channel with advertising of their choice. 100% of the proceeds go directly to the operator of the channel. Quality applies not only to content, but also to the technical. The video resolution of wildscreen.tv is double that of other video portals (640 x 480 pixels) and the videos are streamed without interruption. There is also no limit on film length and data size.
Whoa.. whicked logo dudes.. 
Reality Digital announced the closing of $6.3 million in its Series B round of venture funding from OpenView Venture Partners. The company provides an on-demand platform that enables businesses to add video sharing, social media and networking features, as well as business tools to their digital media initiatives. The flagship product, Reality Digital Opus, applies a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model that can be rapidly launched as either a brand new Web environment, or within an existing Web domain to allow users to upload, manage and share digital video, audio and images online. Reality Digital customers include some of the leading players in media, publishing, and online entertainment, including MTV Networks, ITV Local and Lonely Planet.
By using a methodology that analyzes in fine detail 17 key Web site variables, the VideoBloom VIEW Index tracks, for example: placement of video within the Web site, the Web video formats used, the uses of online videos, and if there is an Internet video center. VideoBloom VIEW then offers analysis of these trends along groupings of companies.
VideoBloom breaks down its results into three main percentages that indicate organizations’ use of video on their main Web sites. For example, in February 2008, the VIEW main index for the 30 Dow Jones companies was 13-93-7, which indicates that 13% of the companies had video on their home page, 93% had video on their site, and 7% didn’t use video at all. As more and more companies discover the effectiveness of Web video, this information will become an invaluable resource and window into online video’s evolution.
Dailymotion will begin hosting host an exclusive premiere episode of My Damn Channel’s newest web series, Bedtime Stories. Written and co-directed by Steve Kerper. In addition to the exclusive Bedtime Stories premiere, Dailymotion will now feature My Damn Channel’s original comedy and music videos including Horrible People, a soap opera with an evil, comedic twist written and directed by A. D. Miles (Wet Hot American Summer); Cookin’ with Coolio, a production of Dead Crow Pictures featuring hip-hop star Coolio creating his favorite funkalicious dishes and Wainy Days, an hilarious, fictionalized account of comedian David Wain’s (The State, Reno 911) search for romance. My Damn Channel artists also include Harry Shearer, Andy Milonakis, Big Fat Brain (You Suck at Photoshop) and Don Was.
In cubicles across the country, lunchtime has become the new prime time, as workers click aside their spreadsheets to watch videos on YouTube, news highlights on CNN.com or other Web offerings. The trend — part of a broader phenomenon known as video snacking — is turning into a growth business for news and media companies, which are feeding the lunch crowd more fresh content.
From an apartment in Greenwich Village, Rob Millis and Will Coghlan are hosts and producers of a three-minute daily Webcast, Political Lunch, done around 10 a.m., followed by an hour and a half of editing, in time for uploading just before noon. The program, which was introduced in September and appears on several Web sites, is viewed 10,000 to 20,000 times a week, with a peak in traffic from 1 to 3 p.m.
Via: NYT
PalBee.com announced today that is has begun a beta test of its Mashup API. The Mashup API allows beta participants to embed a PalBee video conference anywhere on their own web site. This is made possible by a widget that allows real time video conferencing to anyone who visits the web page. The Flash-based technology does not require setup or configuration; simply copy and paste the code and everything else falls into place.
