Just in time for the Fourth, Auditude CRO Mike Gaffney shows us his recipe for homemade BBQ sauce and grills up chicken on the bone and three magic words: cheese, filled, sausage. Join us for some summer fun on our new GigaOM TV series BBQ&A. Read More »
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Could more exposure to Baywatch be a good thing for people of developing countries? Well, Baywatch, might be a bad example, but during his presentation at the National Association of Television Programming Executives Conference in Las Vegas this week, World Bank Sr. Economist Charles Kenny… Read More »
Today is my last day with NewTeeVee/GigaOM. How’s that for not burying the lede? As corny as it sounds, I can’t stop thinking about The Matrix as my time here winds down. More than two years ago, I quit a rather lucrative job working with short-form filmmakers to join… Read More »
We received word this morning that YouTube has decided to end its short-lived video downloads beta program. David Rodriguez of StuffWeLike.com posted a video explaining the move yesterday along with an excerpt from the email he received from YouTube. The email from YouTube stated: “We want to thank… Read More »
If you thought the movie 2012 was disaster porn, just wait for the entertainment apocalypse that Redbox’s dollar-a-night movie rentals will bring about. That, in a nutshell, is the bottom line of a new report (PDF, hat tip to Video Business)… Read More »
Whoo! Roll Tide! Alabama walloped Florida 32 – 13 in the SEC Championship game over the weekend, delivering with it big gains in viewership on both old and newteevee. According to CBSSports.com, 91,401 unique users consumed more than 144,236 total hours of live video from the… Read More »
We’ll leave it to other blogs to spill more ink on the colorful history of the new JooJoo tablet (formerly known as the CrunchPad). The phrase “HD video” is what caught our eye. From our pal Kevin Tofel: The operating system is Unix-based and the device… Read More »
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Nielsen: Online Video and DVR Up Double Digits in 3Q
While 99 percent of video is watched on a TV in the U.S., in the third quarter DVR use and online video grew 21.1 percent and 34.9 percent respectively, year-over-year, according to the latest Nielsen A2/M2 Three Screen Report. Americans spent 129 hours… Read More »
SOS: Sony Online Service or “Save Our Sony?”
OK, for realsies this time you guys, Sony has finally figured all this digital stuff out. Sony CEO Howard Stringer told a gathering of reporters as much yesterday when he touted his company’s new strategic initiative, the Sony Online Service (which bears the unfortunate distress acronym… Read More »
Sponsor post: Thanks to Our NewTeeVee Sponsors!
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Zappos to Produce 50,000 Original Vids in 2010
Online retailer Zappos will be making a big push into original online video next year. The company, which was acquired by Amazon earlier this year, will be upping the number of product videos it makes to 50,000 next year, from the still-impressive 8,500 it… Read More »
Vevo Gets Music Content from CBS Interactive
VEVO, the forthcoming music video site from Universal and Sony music (and powered by YouTube), announced today that it will also be getting content from “the vaults” of CBS Interactive Music Group. Starting next year, VEVO will run programming from Last.fm and more than 90 CBS… Read More »
Vid-Biz: Avatar, Apple, YouTube
James Cameron Talks Avatar on Facebook Webcast Today; director is joined by the film’s stars and will appear on the social network in conjunction with MTV. (Facebook) Apple Sued Over HTTP Streaming; Israeli company Emblaze doing the suing, but hasn’t disclosed what technology is being infringed… Read More »
YouTube Pages Go Light as a Feather
In this gimme-gimme-now-now-now! Internet era, even waiting just a few seconds can spell the difference between someone staying on a page or exiting immediately. To appeal to the instant gratification set, YouTube unveiled its “YouTube Feather” format today. Feather is basically a lightweight version of a YouTube… Read More »
Out Come Those Who Oppose Comcast/NBC
In the land of mega-meals and mega-churches, it’s only natural that we’d have a mega-media hookup like the one announced today between Comcast and NBC. But a deal this big will naturally bring along with it some regulatory scrutiny. Read More »
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