Video Sharing Websites such as YouTube and Revver and any sites that are involved with showing or delivering video clips

Video Sharing & Video Clips

BBC iPlayer Notches Up 1 Million Viewers In 20 Days | British MPs Still Critical Of Inequality

The BBC iPlayer relaunched at the end of last year, with the British Broadcasting Corporation trying to iron out some of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Video Length Limitation Gets Pushed To Over Nine Hours By Charles Trippy

YouTube has had a well intentioned upload limitation of 100 megabytes, or 10 minutes, for a long time now. Mainly in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Data Indicates A Big Shift To Online TV & Video | The Writers Strike Effect In Action?

With the writers strike still in almost full effect, people are starting to wonder whether it’s actively affected people’s viewing habits....
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

NBC Universal One Of Many Broadband Video Companies At CES 2008 – Missing From iTunes

This past week has seen the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) happening in Las Vegas.  At this trade show, most of...
Alex Curtis
2 min read

Earn Money & Download Free Videos & Ringtones With The Cellware Social Network

Cellware is a new start-up, which offers users the chance to participate in a social network, and gives mobile users the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Fancast Goes Live | Comcast Officially Enters The World Of IPTV At CES Las Vegas

Fancast has been in beta testing for the last six months, but at CES in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the site...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Church of England Goes YouTube | Following In The Queen’s Hallowed Footsteps

It was announced just before Christmas that the British royal family were getting their own YouTube channel, and a key part...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Top 10 IPTV Awards For 2007 | The Products and Technologies Shaping The Industry

It’s new year, which means it must be time for the ubiqutous year-end list?  This best of 2007, which we hope captures...
Dave Parrack
5 min read

Apple & 20th Century Fox Deal Allows iTunes Users To Rent Films By The Studio

There has been widespread anticipation and rumours of a deal being concocted by Apple and Fox ahead of Macworld Expo ’08. ...
Paul Glazowski
2 min read

The Royal Family Team Up With YouTube | The Queen Unveils ‘The Royal Channel’

Our sister site WebTVHub reported last week on the new YouTube channel completely devoted to the British royal family. But we...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

TorrentSpy Falls To The Power Of The MPAA | Tampering With Evidence Is Never A Good Idea

The MPAA is becoming increasingly like the RIAA, in its attempts at going after organisations, and individuals, who share (or allow...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Avot mV – New Features & iPhone/iPod Touch Support | Watch Video Clips On Your Mobile

We reviewed Avot mV back at the beginning of October, and were enthusiastic by how simple yet brilliant the application was....
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Vuze Attracts Investment | Video Distribution Company Also Recruits Former TiVo CEO

As regular readers of WebTVWire will know, Vuze is a video content distribution company built upon the P2P-based platform Azureus. It’s...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

A Successful Hulu Launch | Will Other TV Networks Take Note Of The Example Set?

Hulu launched back in October, and although opinion was divided, there were a fair few people who criticised the service.  It...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

Writers Strike Continues | Ripe For IPTV and Online Video To Take Traditional TV’s Place?

The writers strike is now in its second month and shows no sign of ending. As we discussed when the strike...
Gilbert Hammer
58 sec read

BBC iPlayer Relaunch | Out Of Beta On Christmas Day – Now With Mac & Linux Support

It looks as though the BBC has listened to the criticisms levelled at it after it launched its iPlayer in July...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

OPENhulu – Hulu Videos For Everyone, Invitation Or Not | How Long Will It Last?

When Hulu first launched in late October, it received praise from all quarters, and since then, everyone has either begged, borrowed...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

New York Video 2.0 Meeting Coverage | Pitches From New Startups Of Video & IPTV

Last night saw NY Video 2.0 meeting in the plush surroundings  of the Roosevelt Hotel’s Grand Ballroom. Unusual for such an...
Gilbert Hammer
2 min read

YouTube AdSense Revenue Share Scheme Being Extended To More Of The General Public

YouTube have been experimenting with advertising on videos for a good few months now, and by all accounts, it;s been quite...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

YouTube’s New AtGoogleTalks Video Page | Google Breaks Own 10 Minute Rule On Uploads

Google’s time limit for user-submitted videos uploaded to YouTube is well established, and known by almost everyone these days. Ten minutes. That’s...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Is YouTube The Proper Forum For Human Rights Abuse Videos? The Wael Abbas Case

What is YouTube for? We all know it is there as a means for ordinary people to make and upload clips...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Xbox 360 Gets DivX Functionality – Xbox Live Marketplace Video Store Launching In UK

After last month’s announcement that DixX support was coming to the Sony PS3 games console, there was speculation that the same...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Video Streaming Gets More Affordable With Release Of Adobe Media Service Software

Adobe hasn’t always been a favourite company of ours, especially after the recent PDF overlay advertising plan with the folks at...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

MyStrands Social Music Service Raises $24 Million In Funding From Spanish Bank

Back in September, we covered the launch of MyStrands.tv, the music video accompaniment to MyStrands, a social music network. At the...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

High Speed, High Quality Digital Film Downloads Demand Growing In The UK

Today saw a survey which produced the interesting yet thoroughly predictable result that there is now an overwhelming demand for fast and...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

YouTube Still Dominating Online Video Market

A ComScore report has further confirmed what we all suspected, that Google YouTube completely dominates the online video market. The report...
Dave Parrack
54 sec read

The DSP Technology Behind Video Transcoding

RipCode is a company offering on-demand video transcoding solutions to ease the process of re-purposing video into multiple viewing formats. If...
Brendon Mills
33 sec read

Brightcove.tv Gets Canned In Light Of Failure To Beat YouTube At Own Game

By way of sending out a message to all their many users, Brightcove has announced that it is soon going to...
Michael Garrett
2 min read