I happen to spell golf f-l-o-g, but I understand that some people like this game of maneuvering small white balls into small white cups. Even more than beer pong, apparently.
For the first time in two years, Apple will stream one of its events online.
Today the company announced that it's offering free live video broadcasting access via Livestream.com and a new iPhone app, Livestream for Producers, without any ads cluttering the experience. That means no banner ads, no preroll ads, and no mid-roll ads (which always feel particularly egregious in live broadcasts).
The iTunes Festival is an annual music event that Apple holds over 30 days. This year's event features musical performances by the likes of Usher, Deadmau5, Jack White, Muse, Alicia Keys, and more. Usually, the company raffles off tickets to each night of the shows, but this year it's doing considerably more.
Ustream has promoted co-founder and president Brad Hunstable to CEO of the popular live-streaming video service.
Google’s Hangouts group video-chat on Google+ continues to be the social network’s most compelling feature. Today, Google is opening up the Hangouts On Air feature to all users, allowing them to broadcast their video chat sessions for the world to …
Sports are best when watched live, so it’s fortunate that NBC’s coverage at the London 2012 Olympics will include live streaming video of all 32 sports online.
The broadcaster, which launched its official Olympics website today, will offer access to …
Continuing efforts to push its new social network into the mainstream, Google will live stream this year’s Republican National Convention on Google+, the company announced in a blog post today.
Google+ will also serve as the official social platform for …
While it’s easier than ever to stream video from our phone these days, setting up a professional-looking video stream at an event is still overly cumbersome. The biggest problem is encoding video and getting it on the web, something that …
YouTube is helping live video creators make money by charging viewers for access or placing ads within the stream, the site announced on its publishers blog today.
Essentially, this makes YouTube a pay-per-view service for the streaming video world. Satellite …
Hey, sports fans: Can’t catch the big game on the boob tube? No problem. Now you can turn to Slacker Radio for a live audio broadcast.
The music-streaming company has expanded its relationship with ESPN to include live streaming of …
For the first time ever, NBC and the National Football League have agreed to live stream the Super Bowl online and on mobile phones in February, the two organizations announced today.
The Super Bowl is the most-watched television program around …
You’re about to witness a sharp increase in the number of advertisements and marketing campaigns that use live, interactive broadcast platforms.
For example, look no further than the hidden webcams Honest Tea pointed at bottles of tea it left out …
After a rocky start, YouTube today officially launched its live streaming service, along with the support of popular shows from the web video network Revision3, including The Totally Rad Show, Dan 3.0, and Destructoid.
The move towards live streaming is …
140Fire, which slaps interactive advertisements like polls on streaming video, announced that it is launching today at the Launch Conference in San Francisco.
The advertisements pop up like most other advertisements do on videos — as a small bar at …
After a successful experiment with broadcasting cricket’s Indian Premier League last year, Google-owned YouTube wants to stream more sports events online.
The company is in negotiations with both the National Basketball Association and National Hockey Leage to start broadcasting live …
LiveU, which develops ways to transmit live video streams over wireless networks, announced today that it has raised $11 million in its third round of funding led by Pitango Venture Capital.
It’s basically a television streaming station in a backpack. …
DaCast is announcing today its self-serve live video streaming service after about three years of development.
The San Francisco-based company originally set out to create a peer-to-peer for live video streaming technology, as we wrote in mid-2008. But the company …
David Aufhauser, the chief business officer of live video streaming site Justin.tv, has left the streaming site now that it has decided to shift its focus to a consumer-driven “YouTube model” for live streaming.
Aufhauser’s specialty was bringing in large-scale …
Dyyno is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
