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Will the Web Save SportsCenter?
(This post is by Fouad ElNaggar)
Paul Kapustka recently wrote a post on how changing media consumption in the sports world could herald the end of SportsCenter. In a world where on-demand highlights are just a click away, I can understand his skepticism regarding the future of SportsCenter. While I agree with his assessment that the sun may be setting on the hour-long sports programming block, I believe that the innovations we are seeing in the “bite-sizeification of content” will lead to maintaining, or even increasing, the relevance of ESPN.
Thursday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video:
Video Gets Search Spotlight from Google, with video results part of new first-page ‘universal search’ effort. (Variety)
UK Morning Show Picks Roo for Online Support, video portal will feature news, fashion, showbiz and health info. (PR Newswire)
Verizon Wireless Gets ESPN Deal, will offer video highlights, headlines to cell phone users. (Reuters)
Wireless Set-top IPTV Box Launches, using 802.11n technology. (Globes)
Wal-Mart Providing Online Video Feeds, Samsung following suit with FeedRoom technology. (Beet.TV)
Wednesday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video:
Disney to Offer VOD Travel Channels, may let you book a trip from your cable remote. (AP)
Comcast to Drop Microsoft TV Guide, instead will offer Motorola-based system to Washington State customers. (Light Reading)
Cisco, MTV Hook Up Again, continue ‘digital incubator’ for college entrepreneurs. (CNet)
NuVu.TV adds Broadcasters, Funding, expands coverage for online news sites. (PR Newswire)
Akamai Says it Will Stream Live Flash, ready for your live events come July. (WebWire)
Digital Distribution Workshop June 12 in S.F., learn how to build audiences and make money online. (CinemaTech)
Gotuit Debuts Metadata-based Vid Mixer
Online video infrastructure player Gotuit is now in the professional video-mixing business, debuting its newest technology offering Tuesday as the support behind a mix-my-videos site from R&B/hip-hop artist Akon.
Called VideoMixer, Gotuit’s software gives content publishers a different choice when it comes to developing sharing sites for fans. Instead of creating and having to support multiple new video clips, Gotuit’s technology instead creates new metadata files, which then are used to display a mixed-up or mashed video via the metadata pointers back to the original video material.
“To the viewers, it looks like any other remix,” said Gotuit VP Patrick Donovan, in a phone interview Tuesday. While Gotuit said its implementation can save content owners from the cost and complexity of hosting user-created remixes (like, say, those from the NBA’s remix site), to make the video easy to use the metadata tags — which can point to specific parts of a video for easier indexing and searching — have to be inserted by humans prior to remixing.
Online Video is NOT a Crime — Yet
OK, creative types, time to crank up the volume and craft an HTML bumper sticker like the old skateboarding ones, saying this time: Online video is NOT a crime.
Of course, you’d never know that by reading the headlines, where online video is under attack from the U.S. Attorney General (who apparently wants to make even thinking about online video a crime), the U.S. military (which apparently thinks the best way to fight for freedom is to supress it), and an ever-growing list of content creators who are quite sure that they’re somehow being cheated out of their copyright-protected dollars. But should viewing YouTube be a crime?
Tuesday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video:
‘Hometown Baghdad’ Is Online Hit, but not in Iraq where Internet speeds are slow. (LA Times)
Vyyo’s Loss Gets Bigger, even as company says sales picking up for the cable-overlay product. (Light Reading)
Where the Apple TV Falls Short, such as lack of HD, Flash support. (MacNewsWorld)
MySpace Launches a Bunch of Video Channels, including New York Times, National Geographic, and IGN Entertainment — unclear if any of these deals are exclusive. (AP)
Next New Networks Launches… its Next New Network? ‘Indy Mogul’ features DIY Jet Packs in first show. (NextNewNetworks Blog)
Vidmeter Debuts Online Video Metrics Tool, includes traffic and ‘buzz’ stats across video sites. (Company website)
Is Online Video ‘Freeing’ the WSJ?
Given the fact that online video is already a big business, it’s not a surprise to see the Wall Street Journal covering the topic thoroughly, like it did in two separate stories today. What is unusual is that the Journal’s online-video efforts — a news analysis about CBS’s online moves, and a feature about how to gain fame in a YouTube world — were both free to view Monday, instead of being locked behind the Journal’s famed pay-per-view firewall.
Even a short video clip that accompanied the YouTube feature offered embeddable code, showing at least in its coverage of the wide-open world of online video, the Journal is loosening up its pay-to-read ethos.
Monday Morning Vid-biz Headlines
Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video:
Internet VOD Sees Big Increase in France, with offerings up 23%, according to French survey. (MuniWireless/LeMonde)
No Future for iTunes Video Stores, as free content grows, says Forrester Research. (Reuters)
How-To Videos, and the 10 Best Places to Find them. (Mashable)
Car Buyers Turning to Web Videos, as 70 percent of buyers go online for info. (NY Times)
Defense Dept. to Block YouTube, MySpace, citing a need to protect information. (AP)
NBC to Launch The Office 360, and other additional digital extensions of its shows (emailed press release).
Saturday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video:
MySpace Has ‘Take Down’ Feature, to protect copyright holders. (Businesswire)
AT&T, WildBlue Extend Satellite Services, for the first time in BellSouth region. (Converge!)
Vator.TV Raises Venture Round, for entrepreneur video-pitch play. (VentureBeat)
Video-Messaging Eyejot Gets Funding, $750K seed to help expand operations. (Alarm:Clock)
Will Mexico’s TV Giants Expand? Supreme Court to hear case for granting top two broadcasters more spectrum. (LA Times)
Friday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video:
Movies on the Phone from Motorola, coming next week first for Euro market. (Reuters)
YouTube’s Hurley takes Heat at Congressional Hearing, after chairman Markey starts session by vlogging the room. (CNet)
Roxio ‘Crunches’ Video for Apple TV, as well as iPod, iPhone, for those who don’t want to convert to disc. (Macworld)
Roo Raises $25 Million, mainly through stock sale to current investors. (PR Newswire)
HBO Exec Says DRM isn’t so Bad, proposes “enablement” as a better term. (Broadcasting & Cable)
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