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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Online Video No Threat to Television says YouTube

Executives from YouTube and HDNet, appearing before a Congressional subcommittee on the future of video entertainment Thursday, agreed that online video...
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YouTube Adverts Already Here

YouTube has launched its video adverts a little earlier than anticipated. I was expecting a very short pre-roll advert and a...
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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...
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Google Bows Down to Censorship Once Again | Removing YouTube Clips for Thailand

Last month Thailand banned YouTube from the entire country because of an insulting video showing the Thai King. The video showed...
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StreamCast Player | Most Elegant Web TV Flash Player I Have Seen

When you see Joost, a company with millions of dollars behind it, create an internet TV platform that, while looks pretty,...
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MySpace Video Sharing Launching in Japan

MySpace, the social networking site which is expected to generate $525 million in revenue in the U.S. this year, has launched...
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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...
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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...
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Joost pulling in users despite scalability problems

Joost recently announced unlimited invites to download and beta test the Joost software. It was then inundated with new users which...
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BBC iPlayer given the go-ahead | Would a DVR be better?

Back in January the BBC was given a provisional approval for the BBC iPlayer that would allow BBC TV shows to...
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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...
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WorldTV | Another “create your own TV channel” startup

Joining the likes of SplashCast and CozmoTV is WorldTV, a new internet video startup currently bootstrapping in Ireland that is a...
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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...
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Embedding YouTube Videos for Profit

The massive stack of videos on YouTube presents an opportunity for creating blogs that spotlights the best videos from sites like...
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Google taking no shit from Viacom over YouTube

When Google acquired YouTube many considered it was only a matter of time before a TV company decided to step into...
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Joost is inviting everyone to become a beta tester

Joost, formally known as The Venice Project, has wedged open its doors to the public allowing current beta testers to invite...
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Country borders still exist in internet TV

About 3 years ago, way before the internet TV revolution had taken off, I noticed a number of people swarming around...
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Google cutting into the TV networks advertising cake?

YouTube recently announced it will adding video adverts to its online video portal. YouTube is owned by Google and Google is...
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Polycom RMX 2000 Review

Released just a few months ago in February the Polycom RMX 2000 is one of the most advanced and sophisticated pieces...
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News Bytes of the week

Top Stories on Web TV Wire: How Microsoft could lose its stronghold within 10 years YouTube has announced video ads for...
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YouTube Revenue Sharing | Leaving out the little guy?

We first got a sniff that YouTube was planning on sharing revenue with its video creators at the beginning of this...
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YouTube has announced video ads for this summer

I often wondered how long it would go before YouTube would decide to bring video adverts into user-uploaded-video and now YouTube...
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