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Analysts Claim YouTube On Course For Massive Loss In 2009 | The Site Impossible To Monetize?

On the day that it’s rumored Google is looking to buy Twitter, analysts claim that the company is set to make...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Disney Comes To Hulu and YouTube

Disney has suddenly become a key member of the battle for viewers raging between Hulu and YouTube, by doing deals with...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Redesign On Way? | Google-owned Online Video Site To Get A Hulu Makeover

Google has been trying to turn YouTube into a sleeker, slicker, money-making site for nigh on a year now. Although it’s...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Violence Video | Freedom Of Expression – Not Likely

No-one living in China will be able to access YouTube for the foreseeable future after the site was mysteriously blocked in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon and Apple Start Online HD Video War

We’re slowly but surely moving towards a high-definition future. Both Apple and Amazon now look to be offering HD downloads, with...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Web Video Cannot Succeed Until TV-Style Advertising Revenue Arrives | Money Is Key

Money is key. It’s a shame that is the case but true nevertheless. And this adage is having a direct influence...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Rickrolling Songwriter Pete Waterman Hates YouTube | Rick Astley Tune Made £11 In 2008

Three issues have converged this week: YouTube’s inability to make revenue, the continuing fight between the PRS and YouTube, and Rickrolling....
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Filmmakers Embrace Digital Distribution | Morgan Spurlock Asks: Where Is The Revenue?

Online video and digital distribution has opened up the world of independent filmmakers to a larger audience. The option is now...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Is Netflix Throttling PC Streaming In Favor Of Xbox 360? | Or Is It Those Pesky ISPs Again?

Bandwidth throttling is a problem usually brought to bear by overzealous ISPs protecting their bottom line. But could it be that...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

PRS Steps Up Row With YouTube | Billy Bragg, Radiohead, and Bono All Argue The Case

The beginning of last week saw YouTube block access to music videos from the UK. This happened because the existing deal...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Hulu Turns One, Adds Social Networking Features, Overtakes Yahoo and MySpace

Hulu has turned one, having come out of private beta last March. In that time it has risen the ranks and...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

NBC Universal TV and Movies Come To PS3 In Fight With Xbox 360 | The Wii Could Be Next

The PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii are currently engaged in a three-way war for control of the home console market. All...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Blocks Music Videos In U.K. | PRS Accused Of Holding Video Site To Ransom

YouTube users in the U.K. are going to have trouble watching their favorite music videos on the site for the foreseeable...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Hulu, Boxee Play Cat & Mouse Game | Will This Rumble On Until Lawyers Get Involved?

Hulu and Boxee are currently embroiled in a cat and mouse game of workaround followed by a fix that is likely...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Music Video Site Edges Nearer | ‘Vevo’ Would Push Ad Revenues Skywards

Music videos are an integral part of YouTube, but the record labels which provide them want more than just a few...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

ZillionTV Launches | Yet Another Set-Top Box Promising The Earth, But Can This One Deliver?

The set-top box market is crowded. As is the online video sector. There are numerous ways of watching television and movies...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

White House Drops YouTube For President’s Weekly Address Over Privacy Concerns

Google, the owner of YouTube, is a sucker for information. It lives only because of data it collects about all of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Xbox 360 Gets More Downloadable Movies | Consoles Important Drivers Of Online Video

With the announcement of a collaboration between Microsoft and Universal which sees a new range of movies coming to the Xbox...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Project Canvas Edges Closer | The BBC, ITV, & BT Plan Internet-enabled Set-top Boxes

Project Kangaroo, the joint project between the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, may be dead, after having been killed off by...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Watch Television On Your iPhone With New TV.com iPhone App | Will Hulu Follow Suit?

It’s looking as though mobile television is going to grow exponentially over the next few years, with faster and more numerous...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Fliggo Opens Its Doors To The Public | Start Your Own YouTube Or Video Blog For Free

There’s a trend at present to offer people the opportunity to create their own version of popular Web destinations. You can...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

TV.com Realizes Other Countries Exist | Online Video Portal Goes International

The World Wide Web has supposedly drawn the whole of humanity closer together. Right? In the main, yes, but not in...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Netflix Heads For Streaming-Only Subscription | Forget DVDs, Streaming Video Is The Future

DVD and Blu-ray may now be busy battling it out to be the movie format of choice, but in reality, streaming...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Web TV On Knife Edge | The Harder Networks Push, The More Popular Piracy Will Become

Just when it seemed content providers such as the big American networks were finally getting it, the last few weeks have...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Cable TV Companies Look At Online Future | Brilliant Innovation or Too Little, Too Late?

If you can’t beat them, join them. This is true of many aspects of life, and it’s a strategy the cable...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Hulu Says Goodbye To Boxee Straight After TV.com | Cable Companies Running Scared

Web television exists and isn’t going to disappear anytime soon. And links between the Internet and the living room are increasing...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Hulu Pulls Videos Off TV.com | Could NBC and News Corp. See CBS Site As Competition?

Until now, Hulu and TV.com have existed side by side happily, with the latter even syndicating content provided by the former....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay Trial Begins In Sweden | IFPI Begins Fight Against File-sharers Everywhere

The Pirate Bay today went on trial on charges of copyright theft, promoting copyright infringements, and profiting from the file-sharing of...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

12seconds.tv – Twitter For Online Video Fans

Twitter is growing at an incredible rate of knots, by allowing anyone with half a brain to become a blogger of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Sony Music Videos Staying On YouTube | First Major Record Label To Agree A New Deal

YouTube is very important to the music industry, and the music industry is very important to YouTube. It’s a symbiotic relationship...
Dave Parrack
1 min read