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But they sure are in the spotlight now: a source with knowledge of the deal indicates that the $1 billion News Corp./NBC online video joint venture Hulu has acquired the company and is using its platform for the basis of the upcoming Hulu service.
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Joost has reportedly acquired OnTheToob, which is a programming guide keeping users up to date on Joost’s Internet television shows. Created by a Joost beta user, there are pre-determined RSS feeds as well as customized channels and RSS feeds for Joost
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MY SCOOP => http://www.gugelproductions.de/blog/2007/prosiebensat1-uebernimmt-myvideo-fuer-weitere-19-millionen-euro.html not Blognations never mind ;)
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DivX (Nadsdaq: DIVX), the video codec firm, has bought Veatros, a Kansas-based startup spun out of University of Kansas. Veatros’s technology is designed to conduct real-time digital video processing and will be used by DivX primarily for producing enha
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Pickle enables you to easily organize and share ALL your media (photos and videos) from ALL your devices (camera and mobile phone), but with a revolutionary twist. In addition to sharing on Pickle, you can post individual items or entire channels of conte
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Streaming Media - Live and Video On Demand, Digital Rights Management, Content Management, Customer Relationship Management, Billing Services, Syndication Services, Custom Developments and Commercial consultancy.
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t may provide a way for Google to easily and legally amass the world's biggest database of video, helping it figure out better ways to search that kind of material. Google confirmed Tuesday it would begin collecting that content as part of the test of
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YouTube, one of the most successful exits of the Web 2.0 era, needs little introduction. YouTube’s single biggest contribution is that it brought into the mainstream the concept of sharing videos online. YouTube shot into limelight when Google acquired
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Jumpcut was clearly acquired for its team, technology and its product, rather than for traffic, revenue or any other component of its business. Big internet companies, especially Yahoo!, Google and Fox, have made a number of similar acquisition in the pa
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The company, in an effort to bring up money for this, has sold itself to video search and aggregation site GoFish, for about $30 million in stock (GoFish is traded on OTC board). UMG sued video sharing sites Grouper and Bolt.com for allowing users to swa
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HandHeld Entertainment™ (NASDAQ: ZVUE, ZVUEW) today announced it has acquired Putfile.com™, a leading free digital media service featuring user-generated content for approximately $7.1 million ($1.08 million in cash and approximat
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Grouper developed video indexing and search optimization tools that gave a big boost to traffic in the time before every major internet portal, especially Yahoo!, had its own video area.
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Our sources, some close to Metacafe, say that the negotiations are continuing and Yahoo is one of the likely suitors. Nothing has been finalized as yet, though the tone of our sources regarding the closure of a deal is much more solid today than over the
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Armed with this kitty of money Youtube approached the media companies with an open checkbook to buy peace. The media companies smelled a transaction when Youtube radically changed their initial 'revenue sharing' offer to one laden with cash.
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Nope, we don't need your stinkin' technology, Google is paying $1.65 billion (with a "b") or 1.3% of Google's current value, for a media property. Plain and simple. But what does that even mean?
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Interestingly, today "social" features like YouTube's ratings and opinions have been more helpful in video search than algorithmic approaches like Google's, which rely on metatags. if Google doesn't make sure the media comapnies make money from all of the
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Ahh, so that’s what Google is getting with its $1.6 billion. It is building a moat around its advertising sales force and saying “you can’t get your hands on our advertisers.”
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Google has to amplify (and protect) it's key revenue stream - ppc. Video ppc is a higher value domain, and a hugely untapped one. Google wants assets at the edges of the value chain which can exert market power against 1.0 publishers - just like it's doin
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If no one is going to sue anyone for copyright infringement anymore, maybe you could upload stuff you dont have the rights to and get paid by generous people who want to transfer some dollars via PayPal to you.
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a Google-owned YouTube would suck. Google doesn’t get community in the slightest. Google Video’s social filters are terrible. What’s more, they’ll insist on tying YouTube to Google accounts.
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YouTube is winning the hearts of the audience because video search simply doesn’t work. You have to instead rely on the opinions, ratings, and playlist compilations of others to discover good video.
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Because it is a video editor, Jumpcut can also a remix mainstream media microchunks with consumer-generated clips. In fact, Jumpcut powers the video-editing features of Fox Atomic's video blender, which runs video-making contests for MySpace.
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Grouper’s recent sale to Sony for $65 million suggests a YouTube valuation of around $2 billion when you look at relative traffic. YouTube may get their $1.5 billion in the near future. But first they’ll have to find a buyer with a strong stomach for
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Sony bought a team and is betting that this team can build something with YouTube-like value. Vermutung das Geld mit internetvideos wird in der Kombination aus guten original Inhalten und dem User-Generated Content gemacht.
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YouTube is a time bomb and a gold mine waiting to happen. The question is which one will be bigger. Grouper hatte 1% Marktanteil, deshalb könnte YouTube $1Mrd wert sein. Aber es ist absolut nicht klar ob sich das GEschäft lohnt.
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30% to $16 Mrd, according to estimates by New York research firm eMarketer. By 2009, the company predicts advertisers will spend $26.6 Mrd online. About $1.5 Mrd of that amount will go to Internet video advertising, the kind the Web video sites specialize
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Sony Corp.'s entertainment unit said it had agreed to pay $65 million to buy Web video-watching site Grouper.com, marking the growing embrace of the user-generated video craze by big media.
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Interessante Gedanken wie Apple durch den Kauf von YouTube die Video iPod verkäufe anheizen könnte. Außerdem hätte Apple eine Top50 Seite, was für Werbung und ein Onlinepräsenz sowie ein soziales Netzwerk
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Atom's real value isn't the number of viewers its sites have accumulated, but its ability to create (inexpensively) and license cool, short-form content in a fast, fluid, non-bureaucratic way. Strategisch war es sehr schlau Atomfilm zu kaufen.
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Atom Entertainment hat eine komplizierte Besitzer struktur, die sich aus den $87 mio an VC ergibt. Prinzipiell kann es synergien zw. iFilm und Atomfilm geben, da sie direkte konkurrenten sind. Außerdem einige restrukturierungen.
