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Channel 4 Dumping 4oD In Favor Of All 4 | New Streaming Television Hub For UK Viewers

4oD has been a successful effort, with Channel 4 having offered on-demand television across a range of platforms for several years. But the...

Dave Parrack
Sep 12, 2014 1 min read

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Diet Coke & Mentos | Eepybird Makes History with Webby Viral Video Award

Are you one of the millions of people to have seen one of the many Diet Coke and Mentos experiments from...

Chris Tew
Jun 7, 2007 1 min read

VideoJug and Expert Village | “How To” Video Sites with Differing Models For Content Producers

I have previously outlined 3 video sites that specialize in “How-To” type educational videos. Of these 3 there are two which...

Gilbert Hammer
Jun 6, 2007 2 min read

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
Jun 5, 2007 2 min read

The News Room Video Feeds and CPM Rates

Michael Pick recently wrote an in-depth review of The News Room concentrating on how you can use its news video feeds...

Chris Tew
Jun 4, 2007 1 min read

Google Video Adverts | Powering On With New Advertising Projects

I previously wrote a quick overview of Google’s video advertising endeavors back on April 1st. Now 2 months later Google is...

Chris Tew
Jun 3, 2007 45 sec read

uLinkx | Video Search Startup Making Ground

uLinkx, currently my favorite video search engine, has told me it surpassed 2.5 million page views this month. From the Alexa...

Chris Tew
Jun 2, 2007 44 sec read

uStream.tv Broadcasts Live Presidentialcast

Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Chris Dodd made internet history on Wednesday by streaming live through Ustream.tv where he took questions from...

Chris Tew
Jun 1, 2007 17 sec read

Web TV Wire is Hiring

Web TV Wire is looking for new talented writers to add to our team. If you have a passion for keeping...

Chris Tew
Jun 1, 2007 1 min read

End of Pirated TV? Japan to Let Anyone Post TV Shows Online

Here is something that TV companies like Viacom are going to love: The Japanese government is apparently considering allowing anyone and...

Chris Tew
May 31, 2007 1 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
May 30, 2007 48 sec read

KickApps | Combining Broadband Video, User Content & Social Networking

Over the past couple of years the internet has changed drastically on three fronts: Broadband Video content has exploded and become...

Chris Tew
May 28, 2007 7 min read

Web TV Tools | Create Your Own Internet TV Show

The first stage of the broadband video revolution was driven by user uploaded content mainly consisting of short clips. Now people...

Chris Tew
May 28, 2007 7 min read

AOL & Broadband Video | A quick overview

AOL Video – A variety of free, ad-supported videos in addition to paid videos in a jam-packed video portal. Full TV...

Chris Tew
May 25, 2007 1 min read

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
May 24, 2007 22 sec read

FiOS TV 2.0 Arrives

Dave Zatz has gotten word that Verizon’s FiOS TV 2.0 Interactive Media Guide is now ready and will be deployed to...

Chris Tew
May 23, 2007 24 sec read

Mogulus | Free Powerful Personal Internet TV Platform in Closed Beta

Just recently we took a look at the various TV channel creation tools that allowed you to create both scheduled and...

Chris Tew
May 23, 2007 7 min read

Adjustables Announces Unique Broadband Video Advertising Platform

Adjustables.com has announced its new advertising platform for broadband videos which it states is an entirely new form of advertising. Adjustables...

Chris Tew
May 23, 2007 49 sec read

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
May 22, 2007 20 sec read

Are Paid Internet Video Downloads Doomed?

Forrester Research recently came out with a bold claim that paid internet video downloads have no future. The report claims that...

Chris Tew
May 21, 2007 1 min read

News Bytes of the Week

Top Stories on Web TV Wire: MetaCafe to Launch Static Video Ads Similar to YouTube with Adap.tv YouTube Clone Video Sharing...

Chris Tew
May 20, 2007 56 sec read

YouTube Challenges Military Pentagon Ban

Much like the situation in many schools the Pentagon decided to ban a variety of sites from the military including Metacafe,...

Chris Tew
May 20, 2007 17 sec read

Google Integrated Video Thumbnails into Its Regular Search

I just noticed that Google is integrating video thumbnails into its regular search results. It is doing this for video clips...

Chris Tew
May 19, 2007 21 sec read

Google Re-trial Coming For Linking Liability

If you’ve been reading Web TV Wire for a while you may remember when QuickSilverScreen (QSS), a website that links to...

Chris Tew
May 19, 2007 2 min read

Streaming Media East 2007 Interviews

IPTV Evangelist has several video interviews with some of the important people in IPTV and broadband video including: Fred McIntyre –...

Chris Tew
May 18, 2007 10 sec read

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
May 18, 2007 19 sec read

Connecting your PC to a HDMI High Definition TV

In the past year or so, computer graphic cards have begun to sprout HMDI ports allowing you to connect your PC...

Chris Tew
May 17, 2007 1 min read

TheNewsRoom | Add Video News Feeds to Make Money on Your Website

Here is a new unique monetization model for your website which results in a win-win situation. It involves syndicating the latest...

Chris Tew
May 17, 2007 8 min read

Celrun & Metalink Launch HD Wireless IPTV Set Top Box

While news was coming out of Streaming Media East in New York, on the other side of the world the IPTV...

Chris Tew
May 16, 2007 3 min read

YouTube Clone Video Sharing Script | Build your own YouTube

Do you have a site where users are demanding video sharing functionality? Do you have an idea for a new type...

Chris Tew
May 16, 2007 4 min 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
May 15, 2007 26 sec read

YouTube Unveils New Features For Content Creators | Studio App, Crowdfunding, 60fps YouTube would be nothing without content, and original content, no less. And the people who create that original content need as many tools at their disposal as possible. YouTube has delivered a new set... Read More