Deals, Mergers, Funding, Partnerships and Aquisitions in the Internet TV, IPTV and Web Video industry
Deals, Funding & Acquisitions
Were you one of the many who back in 2006 wondered why on earth Google was paying $1.65 billion for YouTube,...
The storm in a teacup which saw everyone, YouTube, Warner, and viewers, lose out when music videos were pulled from the...
Netflix is seemingly everywhere now, at least in the U.S., yet there are actually still many devices the service isn’t available...
British YouTube users will soon be able to start watching their favorite music videos after Google and PRS for Music settled...
YouTube’s business model is currently based entirely on advertising revenue. But what if the site started offering streaming movie rentals for...
Hollywood has been very slow in cottoning on to the fact that how people consume media is changing rapidly. Thus making...
Those of us outside of the U.S. have been looking on with envy at the glorious job Hulu has been doing...
The good news: YouTube has secured video clips from Time Warner channels including CNN and Cartoon Network. The bad news: Clips...
Boxee is a tech startup with zero revenue and few plans for where revenue will come from. But that hasn’t stopped...
The Xbox 360 is winning the fight for consoles to become important cogs in the online video sector. And a set...
Netflix is a movie rental company first and foremost but it’s also developing a very strong online video streaming strategy, with...
Project Kangaroo has been dead for a while now, but the technology, infrastructure, and branding were all up for sale. Orange...
One area of online video which isn’t short of competition is ‘How to’ sites which specialize in instructional videos. One of...
HBO and Cinemax have joined the likes of TBS, TNT, and Starz in providing content for Comcast and Time Warner’s new...
Original Web shows, programming made just for the Internet, seemed to be the next big thing at one point. And then...
The Pirate Bay has sold out, to a Swedish company no one has ever heard of. The acquisition has been confirmed...
The social side of online video is becoming an increasingly important tool in demonstrating the divergence between traditional broadcasts and Web-only...
The music industry took far too long to adjust to the new realities which the Web brought, and look at the...
Could an International version of the BBC iPlayer be on the way? Possibly, if rumors of talks happening between Google and...
Sky Player is BSkyB’s foray onto the Web, enabling subscribers to access Sky programming on their computer. And now, thanks to...
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) collects royalties for music artists, and it generally does a good job. Except when it pushed...
YouTube has, for a long time, been the king of short-form content. And despite various pretenders to its crown, this looks...
Hulu has been an absolute revelation in the online video sector since launching at the beginning of last year. The only...
Vevo, the joint venture between Universal and YouTube which is aiming to be a Hulu for music videos is starting to...
Just one day after it emerged Hulu was cracking down on anonymous proxy servers, it has announced a raft of international...
Disney content is now on Hulu, and in exchange The Walt Disney Company has taken an equal-third share of the service....
Joost, once the darling of the burgeoning online video market, could be about to evolve into something altogether less exciting. There...
Video games consoles are rapidly becoming an important part of the distribution of online video. Already available on Microsoft’s Xbox 360,...
Project kangaroo was pronounced dead in February after the Competition Commission decided it would create a monopoly. However, the technology still...
Music videos have been an important part of YouTube for a good while now, being amongst the most-watched videos on the...
