People that live in U.S. states that tend to sway towards blue (democratic) on the elections map watch 26% more online video than those in red states, according to Ooyala's latest global video index report.
Google is shuttering its TV ads product in favor of online video ad solutions.
YouTube could make more money. Video search could get much, much better. And that laborious process of tagging every video you upload to YouTube with all the keywords you can possibly think of might finally be over ... all because of technology based on a recently awarded Google patent that enables automated object recognition.
The first users of Minit, an iPhone app to record and screen short videos, may have found themselves revealing intimate life stories to Noa Tishby, a supermodel, actress, and technology entrepreneur.
ComScore released its July 2012 online video rankings for the U.S., and the news is that there is no contest. Google (read YouTube) is number one, and you've got to look a long way down the graph for numbers two, three, and four.
Beyond that, Facebook is now number two, and Hulu is quite obviously Queen of Ads.
Editor's Pick Jeff Fluhr, the serial entrepreneur who sold StubHub to eBay for $310 million, thinks there are far better options than Google Hangouts when you want to connect, engage, and communicate with groups of people.
Not surprisingly, high up on the list is his new startup, Spreecast.
Editor's Pick This just may be a blinding flash of the obvious, but apparently we like ads that don't suck. And fit into our current context. And give us something we want.
Whoda thunk?
oubleRobotics has just released a telepresence solution that isn't ugly, awkward, or the apparent product of a Junkyard Wars amateur hour competition.
In 2009, a startup known as Breakthrough announced it would make it cheap and easy for people to receive confidential counseling on the web. Three years later, with the upholding of healthcare reform, the startup has finally convinced angel investors …
The latest WikiLeaks release has shone a spotlight on an alleged domestic and foreign surveillance program run with cloud-based software provided by Texas company TrapWire, many of whose top leaders and employees are former members of three-letter American intelligence agencies.
2012 marks a key switch: the first time that more than half of retail clothing purchases -- almost 60 percent, actually -- are either online or influenced by the web.
If there are two things the Internet loves, and neither of those two things are allowed to be cats, they’re Bob Ross and autotuned remix vids. And PBS just served up the goods on both counts.
Bob Ross, longtime PBS …
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Video is the new audio. With more emotion, more nuance, and more effective real-time communication, videoconferencing is growing at a 20 percent annual rate in business.
But that’s not fast enough for Vidyo, the company that Google tapped for the …
Airtime, Sean Parker’s startup, launched a celebrity-filled promo today to bring in millions of new users to its open video network. The video has been making the rounds, since Internet entrepreneur Shaun Fanning, tweeted about it this morning.
The startup, …
It could be another case of inappropriate teen behavior on social media. But this time, it’s not just a relatively harmless video of teens partying or sexting: It’s a deadly, alleged attack on a disabled 62-year-old father who was collecting …
FuzeBox, a pioneer in real-time visual collaboration, raised a significant $21 million in its first round of institutional financing today.
The FuzeBox application allows people on any device, on any operating system, from anywhere in the world to conduct live …
Dailymotion, the largest streaming video site behind YouTube, has forged a syndication deal with web portal/media company Yahoo, Dailymotion International Content VP Daniel Adams said today at the Beet.tv Global Video Summit.
We’re unsure when this deal went into effect, …
In an age of surveillance, when over 200,000 cameras watch London ceaselessly and unmanned government spy planes patrol U.S. skies, the New Jersey ACLU is providing tools for citizens to engage in “reverse surveillance.”
The tool is a smartphone app, …
Netflix viewership passed 1 billion hours in a month for the first time ever, according to a Facebook status update by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings:
Hastings congratulates colleague Ted Sarandos for the feat. Sarandos is the company’s chief content officer, …
VLine, a cloud video conferencing platform for developers, showcased its platform for the first time yesterday at the Google developer conference. It also revealed raising $1.5 million in seed funding from Kleiner Perkins and Harrison Metal.
VLine enables web and …
