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NBC Wants To Be Back On Apple iTunes – But Wants Measures On Piracy & Pricing First

Last September saw Apple and NBC acrimoniously split over their joint deal to distribute NBC programmes through iTunes. At the time,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Livestation Shifting Focus To Live News | Differentiating It From Joost, Babelgum Etc.

Live video seems to be more in demand now than ever. With YouTube promising live streaming in the near future, and...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

YouTube Video Integrated In To Google Maps | Allowing Companies To Advertise On The Web

Last year saw YouTube integrated in to Google Earth, allowing surfers to watch videos tagged with the locations they are viewing...
Dave Parrack
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The Man Behind BBC iPlayer Jumps To Kangaroo | Ashley Highfield Heads British Hulu

Ashley Highfield, BBC future media and technology director, and the man who has made the BBC iPlayer so successful in such...
Dave Parrack
43 sec read

Mogulus Finally Adds Video On Demand

When Mogulus launched properly last November after spending a few months in beta, it enabled anyone and everyone to become television...
Dave Parrack
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Flickr Users Revolt Over Addition Of Videos – They Don’t Want To Become YouTube

When Flickr introduced the ability to share videos as well as photos last week, some were keen on the move, and...
Dave Parrack
49 sec read

Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Back Online With New Admin After Six Months Of Downtime

I didn’t see this one coming at all, in fact I thought Demonoid was dead and buried. But no, six months...
Dave Parrack
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TV Networks Look To The Web For Revenue | American Networks Test Web TV Advertising

Web Television is growing, that’s a fact that is indisputable at this moment in time. As broadband speeds increase, that’s only...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Hulu Finally Admits International Viewers Exist | Could A Global Hulu Be On The Way?

Hulu has been one of the most successful, and critically loved online television offerings since it launched at the end of...
Dave Parrack
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BBC iPlayer Web TV Launches On Nintendo Wii Console | PS3, Xbox 360 To Follow Suit Soon?

The BBC iPlayer is the Web based television catch up service from the UK’s public broadcaster. Since launching last year, and...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Maybe Flickr Should Have Just Stuck To Photos | Not A Serious YouTube Competitor

Last month saw rumours circulating (not for the first time) of Flickr adding video to their already massively popular photo sharing...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

Ripcode Exhibit On Demand Video Transcoding Solutions For Mobile Video At CTIA Show

Last week saw the CTIA Wireless show take place in Las Vegas. Ripcode were there for the first time, and exhibited...
Brendon Mills
1 min read

Joost To Undergo Major Company Restructuring | Web TV Company Scaling Back Global Plans

Joost was at one point cited as the next big thing, the future of Web television, the application that will take...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

South Park Mocks Viral Internet Stars | Clip Available On YouTube Despite Viacom Lawsuit

The latest episode of anarchic adult cartoon South Park, shown last night in the US, has mocked viral Internet stars who...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Blinkx Launch BBTV | Could The Speech Track Innovation Make This A Joost, Hulu Killer?

You may think the world already has enough Web TV applications to be going on with. But the likes of Joost,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Cult Of Rick Astley Goes Mainstream – YouTube RickRoll Users | Aprils Fools Day Gags

As anyone who surfs the World Wide Web on a daily basis couldn’t have failed to notice, today was April Fools...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Xbox Live Gets Original Programming | Microsoft Deal Makes Xbox Entertainment Hub

Xbox 360 owners already have access to some full length movies and television shows via Xbox Live, but now a deal...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Canadian Broadcaster Follows Norway’s Lead By Utilising BitTorrent As Distribution Method

A recent post on the Last100 blog (part of the Read/Write Web network) written by Guinevere Orvis, an interactive producer with the...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

YouTube Launches Video Statistics Package | YouTube Insight Gives Marketers The Edge

Up until today, people who uploaded videos to YouTube could only get limited statistics and information about the people who were...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Online Video Traffic Surges Massively In The UK | YouTube, BBC iPlayer Market Leaders

With most of the big players in the Web TV and streaming video industry being based in North America, read Google,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Video Encoding As A Protocol & Multi-Format Transcoding | Ripcode Interview Part 4

Over the last couple of weeks, we shared our four part interview series with Dr. Gerry Purdy, VP and Chief Analyst...
Brendon Mills
49 sec read

Justin.tv Reaches First Anniversary | Impressive Stats For The Lifecasting Network

Justin.tv, the lifecasting network which enables the most ordinary of people to become the star of their own Web TV shows,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

A Web-Based Version Of Joost On The Way | Can Joost Be Saved By Copying YouTube?

The last time we spoke about Joost here on Web TV Wire, it was to talk about its possible demise. Many...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Money Filtering Its Way Down | Co Founder Jawed Karim Eyes Internet Startups

Whether the success of video sharing website YouTube is pleasing to you or not, it looks like the money could soon...
Leslie Poston
1 min read

Would Video Vetting Ruin YouTube? | Site Founder Steve Chen Claims Immediacy Is Key

Since co-founding YouTube in 2005 along with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, Steve Chen has seen his site go from a...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Movie Industry Rallies Against Net Neutrality | Surely Hulu Proves They Are Wrong

The Internet hasn’t been good for the movie or music industry, at least in terms of providing a new way for...
Art Brodsky
6 min read

Global Growth Of The Mobile Video Market | Interview With Frost & Sullivan Part 3

In our four part interview series with Dr. Gerry Purdy, VP and Chief Analyst with Frost & Sullivan, we are discussing...
Brendon Mills
38 sec read

The New YouTube API & Plans For TiVo | What’s The Big Deal Behind Them?

Last week saw Google announce two new elements in its YouTube arsenal: the all singing, all dancing, all new API, and...
Leslie Poston
2 min read

Flickr Video To Launch In Beta In April | Will Rumored Service Compete With YouTube?

A Flickr video service to compliment and work alongside the brilliant photo sharing service has been rumoured for what seems like...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

VideoConversionExperts Review | Keeping Video Memories From Dying With New Formats

Over the last 30 years, capturing memories on film has gone from being a rarity to something that everyone does on...
Dave Parrack
1 min read