McCain-Palin Supporters Gone Wild (1)
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Video interviews by confrontational Barack Obama supporters at John McCain rallies are shooting up the YouTube charts, revealing angry and nasty anti-Obama sentiment that is in turn motivational for the Democratic presidential contender’s supporters. You almost feel like Joe Francis is behind the camera asking girls to flash him. And watching brings the same voyeuristic and embarrassed emotional response. A video titled The McCain-Palin Mob is the No. 3 most-discussed video on YouTube today, with ...
5 Reasons to Finally Ditch Cable (2)
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How many times have you opened up your monthly bill from Comcast or Time Warner and thought, that’s it, I’m ditching my cable — only to keep on paying? Well the time has come. With countless ways to watch your favorite shows online, ditching cable has never been easier. And with the economic crisis tightening its grip, there’s never been a better time to save some money. Chances are there’s already a line-up of customers ...
YouTube Gets CBS Shows, Pre-Rolls (2)
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Updated. In the first big network content coup it’s gotten in a long time, YouTube got access to some full-length episodes of old CBS shows today. The shows — five episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 (the original), five episodes of MacGyver, five episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, and 14 episodes of The Young and the Restless — will be accompanied by much more advertising than YouTube has ever shown on a per-video basis, ...
NFL Live-Streaming Pulls in 500K Uniques (1)
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Over the course of the first four live-streamed NFL games (which kicked off Sept. 4), the league says it attracted an audience of more than 500,000 unique visitors, each of whom spent an average of 40 minutes online. The NFL also found that the live-streaming is not cannibalizing the TV audience; in fact, most people are looking at the games on the web in addition to watching them on television. “We’ve found that this is ...
GM Goes to YouTube, But Leaves You Out (3)
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A story popped up on the web Thursday reporting that in these trying economic times General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner was taking “a message of hope” straight to the people through YouTube. Too bad the video message was posted on Sept. 22 — before the big BIG meltdown. Also too bad is GM’s unwillingness to put the “you” in its YouTube channel. The Case for GM is a series of videos featuring GM’s ...
New Web Pilot Stars Justine Bateman and Ze Frank (2)
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Actors from Smallville and other TV shows. The writer of Go, Big Fish and Charlie’s Angels. Web star Ze Frank. Famous-for-other-things-but-now-all-about-the-web Justine Bateman. All these people and more are involved in what sounds like a promising upcoming web series, The Remnants. The Remnants (preview) from John August on Vimeo. The show was unveiled for the first time this week as part of a broader announcement from NBC detailing the slate of original productions it created ...
What Does “Ur an Ideyot!!!!!” Sound Like? (1)
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In a move that promises to test the limits of even the most powerful automated text-to-speech program, YouTube has implemented an audio preview feature that will say your comments back to you before you post them. Thus giving you ample opportunity to hear exactly what “OMG!!! THATZZ SO STOOPID! =)” as well as various references to genitalia and sexual orientation sound like when read aloud. As Webmonkey pointed out, it looks like YouTube developers may ...
Research: Engaged Viewers and Male Behavior (2)
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What do you do when the economy is in crisis and your online video startup relies on advertising as its business model? Commission a study to show the world just how valuable web video is! Both Veoh and Break Media recently released separate research reports to let marketers know that Hey! Advertising online works and is much better than that stupid ole television. Veoh worked with Forrester Consulting on a study that revealed so-called “engaged ...
Rick Astley in HD, PG Porn: NTV Station Today (1)
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Today’s video to check out is actually four videos that aim to create a low-tech HD experience — while embedding won’t work for this pretty cool experiment using YouTube embeds and a rarely-seen Rick Astley track, it’s definitely worth your time to click this link or the screengrab below. And the newest web video project to star Nathan Fillion is much more risque than Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog — but also much more of a ...
Crackle Shutting NorCal Office to Move in with Parent Sony (1)
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Crackle will be closing up its Sausalito, Calif.-based shop at the end of the month and moving down to Culver City to join its corporate parent, Sony Pictures Entertainment. The move comes more than two years after Sony acquired Crackle, then called Grouper. It is also being accompanied by the departure of most of Crackle’s staff, many of whom were given job offers but declined to move to Southern California. “It’s really the next logical ...
Palin on SNL, Take On Me, Literally: NTV Station Today (1)
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For all you a-ha fans, here’s a treat — the classic video for Take On Me, with lyrics updated to reflect… exactly what you see happening on the screen. Watch out for the pipes! And thanks to a certain candidate’s resemblance to a certain former head writer, Saturday Night Live has been having an amazing burst of popularity — but what has making the candidate into a joke cost the show? Find out what we ...
IAB: $345M in Online Video Revenue in First Half of 2008 (1)
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Advertising market research is already being infiltrated by terms like “dramatically lowered expectations,” and even online video — where growth rates are huge because it’s so new — hasn’t been immune to downgrades. Indeed, eMarketer recently chopped its estimate for 2008 U.S. video ad revenue by more than half, to $505 million from $1.3 billion. But looking back at the recent past isn’t quite as painful. The Interactive Advertising Bureau said today that U.S. online ...
Hulu to Live-Stream Obama-McCain Debate (3)
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Add Hulu to the list of places live-streaming John McCain and Barack Obama duking it out in their remaining presidential debates. The site will stream NBC’s coverage of Tuesday’s debate from Belmont University in Nashville Tenn. starting at 9 p.m. EST. This is also the first time that Hulu is live-streaming content. Hulu told paidContent that live-streaming is something the site is “experimenting with initially as the presidential debates are highly relevant now.” And since ...
YouTube Plays with Theater View for Long-Form Videos (1)
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YouTube is experimenting with two new viewing options for long-form content: “Theater View,” which shoves down creator information, pulls a clip into widescreen mode, and frames it with red curtains, and “Lights Off,” which dims the browser window outside the video player. The options were documented in a Google Operating System post earlier today. Long-form content is not very common on YouTube, because nearly all users are prohibited from uploading it. The site recently changed ...
BBC iPlayer: An American Perspective (1)
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The past few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of attending to my NewTeeVee duties from jolly old London, England — enabling me to indulge in playing with BBC’s Flash-based web player. While I’ve always had a high regard for Hulu’s smooth streaming and well-designed user interface, I’ve been really blown away by iPlayer — it takes the Hulu standard to a new level, emphasizing high quality to deliver the BBC’s radio and TV content for ...
Vid-Biz: TiVo, Time Warner, Blinkx (1)
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Supreme Court Stays Out of TiVo vs. Dish; high court won’t consider an appeal of the $74 million judgment against the satellite company over a patent dispute with the DVR maker. (The Associated Press) Time Warner Reacts to LIN Dispute By Urging People Online; after the two companies didn’t reach an agreement, Time Warner displays a URL on channels formerly occupied by LIN that hosts a video on how to watch TV programs online. (The ...
Where’s the Money in Online Video? « NewTeeVee (3)
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This post was originally written for GigaOM’s syndicated column relationship with BusinessWeek. It’s relevant to NewTeeVee so we’re publishing it here as well. The sharp growth in online video viewing, increasing availability of TV online, and proliferation of high-quality, web-originated content has made it easy to point the arrow for online video advertising up and to the right. But while video will probably continue to be a bright spot of growth in a dull economy, ...
Bottom 5 Celebrity Get-Out-the-Vote Videos (4)
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Celebrities — they care about using their power for good. They all want you to vote (for Obama). And they’re making videos about it! Most of them, however, are kind of bad. Here are the five (plus one) most recent celebrity get-out-the-vote videos we’ve seen, ranked from worst to most worst. 5) Diddy Blog #24 - Sarah Palin Scares Me In the dark, under the covers, illuminated by a flashlight, it’s…Diddy! The bogeyman is Sarah ...
