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Video on Demand

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

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

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

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

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

With YouTube Growing Fast, How On-Demand Transcoding Helps New Media Storage

On the digital media website Contentinople yesterday, Frank Smith talked about a comment that Philip Inghelbrecht of video sharing site YouTube made...
Brendon Mills
1 min read

After Hulu Has Launched – How Many People Are Actually Switching Over To Web TV?

Hulu eventually launched on Wednesday to an almost equal amount of hype and cynicism. While some people, such as former CEO of...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
2 min read

Exploring Hulu In Full | Out Of Beta And Officially Launched But Is It Any Good?

Hulu officially launched on Wednesday after an extended and very successful period in beta.  Hulu is a joint venture between NBC...
Gilbert Hammer
2 min read

YouTube Expands Developer Tools & APIs To Allow External Websites To Interact

For the last few days there has been speculation over what big announcement YouTube were about to make: A deal with...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ghost’ Video Hosting Network Venture Gains Investment Support

Steven Spielberg may be best known around the world as a movie director and film mogul, but he is also a...
Leslie Poston
1 min read

How iPhone and YouTube Have Impacted Mobile Users | Frost & Sullivan Interview Part 2

Transcoding on demand for mobile video is starting to play an important part in the growth of online video as the...
Brendon Mills
35 sec read

MobiTV Channels Completely Unsecured | Site Threatens HowardForums For Posting URL

In a move which furthers the debate as to what constitutes content stealing, MobiTV has threatened to take legal action against...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
1 min read

Watching Web TV While At Work | Businesses Cracking Down On Employees Surfing YouTube

The growing popularity of Internet television isn’t good news for everyone, as businesses are finding to their cost, with falling productivity...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

NBC Universal Argue That ISPs Blocking File Sharing BitTorrent Traffic Is Justified

It’s a well known fact that some Internet users share files illegally. But does that justify ISPs around the world bringing...
Alex Curtis
2 min read

Testing The Sansa Take TV System & Fanfare TV Portal | Content & Ease Of Use To Succeed?

Last October, Sandisk launched Sansa Take TV, a current solution for moving video content from your computer to your large screen....
Gilbert Hammer
39 sec read

Pitchfork To Launch Music Web TV Station | Enough Interest To Pay For Video Bandwidth?

The independent music website Pitchfork has today announced the launch of Pitchfork.tv, a new Web TV station which they hope will...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YourTrumanShow VideoMap Widget Arrives On Facebook | MySpace & Mobile To Follow

YourTrumanShow is a video blogging initiative which allows ordinary people like you and me distribute great stories via video diaries. In...
Leslie Poston
2 min read

Quarterlife Dumped By NBC – New Web Show From Family Guy’s Seth McFarlane On Way

It’s now been confirmed that after poor ratings for the first episode of Quarterlife, screened on NBC last Thursday night, the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Discussing The Future Transcoding Market | Interview With Frost & Sullivan Part 1

Transcoding on demand, especially when it comes to mobile video, is going to play an important part in the growth of...
Brendon Mills
48 sec read

YouTube Experiences Worldwide Outage Due To Pakistan Government Block Attempt

YouTube experienced an outage lasting almost two hours last night after an attempt by the Pakistani government to block access to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

How On Demand Video Transcoding Enables More Personalised Advertising Opportunities

The business of online television and video is growing at a incredibly fast rate, and as well as user created and free...
Brendon Mills
34 sec read

CBS Join NBC & News Corp. By Putting Classic Television Online | Inc. MacGyver & Star Trek

The growth of the Internet as a viable place to watch television and videos is fully in evidence today, as another...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

TVCatchup Suspends Services After Complaints From Broadcasters Such As BBC, ITV, Channel 4

An advertising funded broadband service which only launched fully at the beginning of January, has already been forced to suspend its...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

CNN Launch iReport.com | Your Stories, Your Videos – A Site For All Citizen Journalists

Although CNN moved in to the world of citizen journalism over 18 months ago with iReport, most of the submissions made by users never...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
8 sec read

How To Connect A Projector To Your PC Or Laptop To Watch High Definition Online Video

Internet television is growing at a phenomenal rate, with services such as Joost, Hulu and Stage6 all providing more reasons than...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Yahoo! Video Relaunches | Higher Resolution Widescreen Videos But What Else Is On Offer?

Yahoo! currently seems to be on a mission to take over the world of online video, despite facing the immediate threat...
Dave Parrack
2 min read