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Look at your TV... It’s run by executives! It’s time for a change. It’s time you called the shots.
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Earlier in May we reported that NBCU (NYSE: GE) and News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) were looking for $100 million in exchange for 10 percent of equity in their new video JV for a pre-launch valuation of $1 billion. Now, according to the NYT, they have their deal:
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WeShow (www.WeShow.com) launches a human-powered guide to making Online Video as Entertaining and Organized as Television
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Zeige anderen wer du bist. Zeige ihnen dein Programm. Mit einem Click können deine Freunde dein Programm zu ihrem machen. Oder folge ganz einfach den Empfehlungen deiner Freunde. Bekommst du ein Programmtipp ? mit einem Click ist er Teil deines Programm
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Online video is a huge trend - so huge that’s it’s proving hard to keep track. From video sharing sites to video mixers, mashups and converters, we’ve brought together more than 150 of our favorite sites in this category. Enjoy. Live Video Communic
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AdPerk™ recognizes that your time is a precious commodity. That’s why we’ve developed a system where you can literally spend your time (instead of your money) as payment for some pretty cool stuff. Imagine getting things that you want, just for
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Professionally made video has a lot of things going for it — assurance of copyright ownership, good indexing and metadata, and, of course, advertiser and usually viewer interest. But what about the loads of sites paying to host their users’ uploads an
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Slapvid runs as a Java applet coupled with a Flash video player. Unfortunately this means users have to authorize the 300Kb applet to run the first time, but that still requires less initiative on the users behalf than a full blown browser plugin. The app
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The most valuable thing you can do is actually build your product. When in doubt, focus on that. The next most valuable thing you can do is get customers -- or, for a consumer Internet service, establish a pattern of page view growth.
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Last-fm co-founder Martin Stiksel confirmed the deal to BBC News: “This move will really support us to get every track ever recorded and every music video ever made onto Last.fm. With a strong partner like CBS, this is now within our reach. They want to
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Ooyala is focused on delivering a high-quality, interactive, video-viewing experience. The release of the beta is still a couple of months away, but you can sign up for it now by adding your email above.
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Start a live TV show on your blog. Create video podcasts in one click.
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tyve bringt das Fernsehen kostenlos ins Internet, überall und zu jeder Zeit! Sie benötigen keine TV-Karte oder sonstige Hardware, nur unsere tyve Software!
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live streamin via flash
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in the first quarter of 2007, some 19 video software and services companies have raised $210.7 million. Put another way, American video startups raised $1.96 million per day over the past 15 months. And there’s been one exit to write home about: $1.7 bi
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Kiptronic1, a San Francisco-based startup that coordinates dynamic ad insertion for audio and video podcasts, will announce today or tomorrow that it has raised $4 million in venture capital funding. The Series A round was led by Blueprint Ventures and Pr
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music videos. Music Nation exists to promote unsigned rock, pop and urban artists - it’s essentially a niche YouTube for emerging artists, allowing visitors to explore the newest and most viewed clips, track down artists in their local area, join region
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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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Venture capital still plays an important role in financing web entrepreneurs. But the need for capital comes later in the company formation process. And that is a very good thing for everyone involved. Because VCs can scale their capital (ie risk) exposu
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Jeff Pulver and I have co-founded a new studio network. And so begins Abbey Corps.
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ExpoTV, an NYC-based consumer-generated video product reviews site, has received $6 million in first round of funding. The round was led by Masthead Venture Partners and Prism VentureWorks,
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Digital fingerprinting is attracting an increasing number of companies’ time and money, as we wrote this morning. Attributor is the latest startup to join the space, launching today with a WSJ writeup. We haven’t seen proof that anyone has fingerprin
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Pagel is aiming at customized solutions rather than automated ones, building platforms specifically for the video-sharing sites he has signed. “I’m the turtle, and not the hare, in this video advertising space,” he said.
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Om Mailk erweitert sein Netzwerk um NewTeeVee. Nach der NYT (screens), dem IHT (MetaMedia), dem Hollywood Reporter (ReelPOP) und der BBC (Future of TV) also ein weites Schwergewicht in dem Bereich. Wenn das mal kein Trend ist. Ich bin wohl zu klein. ;-)
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But no one besides MobiTV has an existing, battle-tested platform, with distibution deals and relationships already in place. That is a large competitive advantage. So what’s the $100 million for? Maybe its to pay off the people who need to be paid off.
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Our Role: We will pay you $US100 every time one of your Rewards Program videos is viewed 20,000 times.This means that if your clip gets 200,000 views, you could earn $USD1000!
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Users upload clips, and viewers vote on them to find the top performers in various categories. If you’re aware of Bix.com, SingShot and the Yahoo Talent Show, there should be no surprises here. FameWave wants to differentiate itself by sharing revenue w
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GiggedUp, which launched yesterday, is a social site for posting video job interviews. Users create profiles, post their resume in up to four different formats, add a list of skills and languages spoken, and request endorsements from friends.
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1) related video recommendations 2) one-click emailing to spam a friend about a video 3) more social networking and user interaction tools like video comments 4) an external video player.
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Six execs from the worlds of Hollywood and Madison Avenue --including Steven Bochco, John Kamen and Ken Solomon -- are teaming to launch a broadband video Web site devoted to new and classic TV commercials.
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And as large firms try to go small, they are encountering a new crop of competitors who are happy to bankroll start-ups on the cheap and are fueling the current Internet boom. They include a large pool of angel investors and a number of small venture fund
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Venture capital investments into “Web 2.0″ Internet companies this year are on track to double last year’s levels to about $500 million, according to a new report on the bubbling sector. The report shows investors pumped $263 million into Web 2.0 co
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Paris-based and venture-backed vpod.tv launched this week and had the enviable issue of too many visitors and users wishing to sign up. The site performance was strained despite having its own content distribution network, according to its blog.
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BlackArrow was founded to help agencies, programmers, and operators achieve reach and efficiency in next-generation TV advertising. We provide integrated ad management services that help our customers plan, contract, traffic, report and bill ODTV ads acro
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OnlineTVRecorder is a free network-based video recorder project in Germany that claims to have reached nearly a quarter of a million users within three months. Its developers are now seeking further investor backing for the service, together with a peer-t
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I think its a smart model. Build a network of web services (Evan calls them web apps), use the popularity of one service to launch another, keep the services that are small but successful, shut down the ones that don't work, and spin off the ones that rea
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You’re street wise, so you know that you can’t depend on patents. You understand that very few companies are truly defensible for reasons other than because they either achieved critical mass or had a nine-month head start.
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1) related video recommendations, 2) one-click emailing to spam a friend about a video, 3) more social networking and user interaction tools like video comments, and 4) an external video player.
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"With $10,000 to $15,000, you can start a Web 2.0 company," Krishnan said. "If your site is compelling enough, you'll get users. And if you get users, Google is watching."
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So what this says is we are starting our investment positions in our portfolio companies with $1mm and under investments almost half of the time
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Fame TV hopes to create a TV channel based entirely on user generated content. Unlike regular passive TV, Fame TV allows for interactivity through txt and picture messages from your cell phone and the ability to vote for your favorite content.
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The site ranks third (see chart, right) in average minutes per visitor (64.3), right behind YouTube (66.7). Both trail long-form TV destination Veoh (247.1).
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but the truth is that, across 20 major deals, those 3 stand out as the exception and not the rule. It appears that, on average, deals are generally below $50 million and, in most cases, lower than $10 million.
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Das neue Projekt der Skype und Kazaa Gründer. P2P-Streaming von Fernsehsignalen. 1Mit/s, Werbefinanziert, start im November.
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Wie können Webstartups sinnvoll skalieren: Rather, look for companies that can disrupt the existing market structure by doing one thing well and then we work with those companies to discover novel ways to scale in the restructured market.
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Videoegg Zuschauer sind das doppelte Wert, weil sie häufiger auf Werbung klicken. A smaller audience may be more valuable than a big one, if the small one does the sorts of things that advertisers like—such as clicking on ads, buying products, or visit
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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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The company’s model for advertising is a throwback to the 1950s, when sponsors were named in advance of shows by the hosts. The hosts talk up the products and sometimes joke about them—even going so far as to poke fun at them.
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Neues Start-UP der DIgg Gründer um Internetvideos zu produzieren und zu vermarkten. Der Diggnation Podcast nimmt monatlich zw. 50-100k Dollar an Werbung ein.
