Deals, Mergers, Funding, Partnerships and Aquisitions in the Internet TV, IPTV and Web Video industry

Deals, Funding & Acquisitions

Fox Partners with Brightcove to Provide Web TV

Fox Entertainment Group has announced a partnership with Brightcove to launch internet video channels of all Fox broadcast and cable content,...
Kevin Groppe
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Joost Advertisers Want Copyright Assurances

Joost has reached advertising agreements with over 36 companies, with many insisting that they will only have advertisements placed next to...
Kevin Groppe
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U.S. Presidential Debates | CNN and YouTube Partnership Overrated

Next month, CNN is hosting a Democratic Party debate in which questions for the Presidential candidates will be asked via YouTube...
Kevin Groppe
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Amazon Rumored to Acquire Netflix And Merge Video Download Services

The latest company acquisition rumor to hit the internet, according to Businessweek, is the potential purchase of Netflix by Amazon. As...
Kevin Groppe
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Clip+Sling | NHL and SlingMedia Want You to Share Video Clips Online

Last week Major League Baseball was in the news complaining about the Slingbox from SlingMedia. This week the National Hockey League...
Kevin Groppe
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New Joost CEO | Mike Volpi from Cisco

We’d seen solid rumors that Mike Volpi was going to be the new CEO of Joost to replace the founding CEO,...
Chris Tew
2 min read

Ooyala | New Video Startup from Ex-Google Employees

Ooyola is a new video startup that is keeping quiet about what it has in the pipeline. The company has been...
Chris Tew
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Blinkx Grows its Video Index with Travelistic Travel Videos

Blinkx is quickly standing out as the online video search engine that is indexing videos from more video sites than anywhere...
Chris Tew
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CBS Buys WallStrip | Confirmed

We got wind of an unconfirmed rumor last week that CBS was going to acquire the stock market video blog WallStrip....
Chris Tew
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Realnetworks Acquires Sony Netservices

After recently acquiring WiderThan, a global provider of wireless entertainment solutions, Realnetworks has now acquired Sony NetServices, a provider of mobile...
Chris Tew
19 sec read

Streaming Media East Coverage & Funding News

Streaming Media East has kicked off today and will run until tomorrow showcasing hot new developments in the broadband video market....
Chris Tew
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VatorTV | Entrepreneur Video Community Raises Funding

VatorTV is an internet video community for entrepreneurs and investors where people can share their business advice and ideas with the...
Chris Tew
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Mogulus | New Personal Internet TV Platform Raises $1.2 Million

Mogulus recently launched in beta and offers people the ability to create their own personalized internet TV channel that can be...
Chris Tew
19 sec read

CBS to Acquire WallStrip for $5 million

WallStrip is an internet video blog that showcases hot trends in business and stocks at all time highs. The show is...
Chris Tew
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Roo Secures $25 Million More Funding

Roo is an online video network that offers turnkey services to website publishers, content producers and advertisers to help them take...
Chris Tew
14 sec read

ScanScout Video Ad Broker Secures $7 Million

ScanScout is another video ad-broker start-up promising to deliver relevant in-context advertising for online video broadcasters. The company has just closed...
Chris Tew
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Black20 – The Online Video Production Company Gets Angel Investment

Black20, an NYC-based online video production company, has received angel investment from Jeff Jarvis. The site, co-founded by two NBC creatives...
Chris Tew
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MetaCafe to Launch Static Video Ads Similar to YouTube with Adap.tv

MetaCafe will be taking a similar approach to advertising as YouTube by inserting static text-based adverts within video clips on its...
Chris Tew
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Virgin Media Keeps NarrowStep as Internet TV Platform

Those of you living in the UK may have noticed that Virgin Media has recently taken over Blueyonder and is going...
Chris Tew
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Joost bags $45 million dollars in financing

Joost, the new internet TV platform from the makers of Skype and Kazaa, has secured a whopping $45 million dollars in...
Chris Tew
5 min read

ClipBlast snag CinemaNow’s ex-president

In April CinemaNow president Bruce Eisen recently left the company to start his own consultancy firm, Digital Advisors. He was a...
Chris Tew
2 min read

Motorola spotlighted as Most Prominent IPTV STB Vendor

Motorola is not a company that you may instantly associate with IPTV boxes, or set top boxes in general. If you...
Chris Tew
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Comcast Strengthening its Internet TV Presence | Will it try to thwart the competition?

We often hear about how the traditional cable and satellite companies are going to suffer as internet TV begins to take...
Chris Tew
1 min read

DailyComedy and Paltalk raise the bar with a new interactive comedy broadcast

DailyComedy and Paltalk just teamed up together to raise the bar on internet TV by announcing a new interactive comedy show....
Chris Tew
3 min read

Joost adds independent films to the mix

Joost has just singed yet another content deal which will add more high quality channels to the broadcast quality internet TV...
Chris Tew
2 min read

CBS gives the finger to YouTube

CBS has decided to really take the bull by the horns and bring a lot of its content onto the internet...
Chris Tew
3 min read

Blinkx adds VideoJug to search index

VideoJug, one of the major instructional ‘How-to’ video sites, has inked a deal with Blinkx to have its videos made available...
Chris Tew
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Google TV Ads

Google does love getting it’s hands dirty with anything video at the moment. After announcing a bold move into TV ads...
Chris Tew
19 sec read

Viacom: “Good-bye YouTube, Hello Joost!”

I’ve just got news that Viacom will be teaming up with Joost to provide TV shows from MTV, BET Networks and...
Chris Tew
4 min read