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

Video Sharing & Video Clips

Joost Up For Sale As An Online Video Solution?

Joost, once the darling of the burgeoning online video market, could be about to evolve into something altogether less exciting. There...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Susan Boyle Clips Making No Revenue Due To YouTube and ITV Arguing Over Advertising

Old media and new media are often uncomfortable bedfellows. The old knows it needs the new but cannot quite give up...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

BBC iPlayer Goes HD | Desktop Download Manager Welcomes Mac and Linux To The Party

The BBC iPlayer is constantly evolving to better suit the needs of its users. The latest innovation – high-definition programming, just...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Google Acts To Protect YouTube Commenters From South Korea’s Cyber Defamation Law

The idea of freedom, and rights to privacy and anonymity differ greatly from country to country. While those of us who...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

IPREDator Grabs 100,000 Users In First Week As Facebook Blocks The Pirate Bay Torrent Links

With a verdict expected in the “spectrial” of The Pirate Bay next week, the site isn’t exactly keeping a low profile....
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

‘Blank’ Movie Director Foregoes Hollywood For P2P | Movie Legally Available On BitTorrent

From today, you can download a newly-released feature film through any one of a number of peer-to-peer networks. That’s not news,...
Dave Parrack
2 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

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

The Pirate Bay Court Case Ends – Verdict Hanging In The Balance Until April 17

The court case which saw The Pirate Bay in the dock facing charges of assisting copyright infringement has ended after just...
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

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