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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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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
May 15, 2007 20 sec read

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
May 15, 2007 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
May 15, 2007 14 sec read

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
May 15, 2007 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
May 15, 2007 10 sec read

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
May 15, 2007 22 sec read

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
May 14, 2007 44 sec read

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...

Chris Tew
May 13, 2007 1 min read

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...

Chris Tew
May 12, 2007 31 sec read

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
May 12, 2007 42 sec read

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...

Chris Tew
May 11, 2007 1 min read

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,...

Chris Tew
May 11, 2007 2 min read

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...

Chris Tew
May 10, 2007 43 sec read

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
May 10, 2007 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
May 10, 2007 2 min read

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...

Chris Tew
May 9, 2007 1 min read

Akimbo sending VOD Box to the grave

Chris Tew
May 8, 2007 33 sec read

AT&T says TV is the next multibillion-dollar business

Chris Tew
May 8, 2007 38 sec read

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...

Chris Tew
May 7, 2007 1 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
May 6, 2007 37 sec read

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...

Chris Tew
May 5, 2007 58 sec read

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
May 4, 2007 1 min read

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...

Chris Tew
May 3, 2007 1 min read

Free Video Calling Software | 3 recommendations

Chris Tew
May 2, 2007 52 sec read

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...

Chris Tew
May 2, 2007 1 min read

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...

Chris Tew
May 1, 2007 2 min read

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...

Chris Tew
May 1, 2007 1 min read

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...

Chris Tew
Apr 30, 2007 28 sec read

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...

Chris Tew
Apr 29, 2007 54 sec read

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...

Chris Tew
Apr 29, 2007 28 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