By Ben Homer, November 26th, 2008
If you don’t have an Xbox, a TiVo, a PS3, a Roku, a Vudu, or a MSO Set Top Box, or even if you do, you may also have a Slingbox. But hey, sometimes you’re not home and you want to watch on the net. There’s Hulu. YouTube. NBC.com. ABC.com. CBS.com. Fox.com, Joost. MLB.com. Nearly [...]
By Ben Homer, November 25th, 2008
Microsoft has acquired exclusive rights to season two of popular web series The Guild according to the Hollywood Reporter. The twelve episode series will debut exclusively on Xbox LIVE, MSN and Zune. After a four week period episodes will move to an embedded MSN video player on watchtheguild.com. Microsoft has lined up Sprint as a [...]
By Ben Homer, November 25th, 2008
YouTube, which recently rolled out 720P quality has redesigned its pages to include a widescreen player. As more content is created in 16:9 resolution this should put YouTube in greater competition with sites like Vimeo which cater to and have been winning over professional producers.
It should also increase average time viewing and help YouTube [...]
By Ben Homer, November 23rd, 2008
I’ll just say this. YouTube LIVE reached a reported 700K concurrent. A solid, very respectable viewership number to be sure, but there’s little in the way of innovation that came with it. The event was streamed by CDN Akamai, YouTube paid a substantial amount for that, and it proved that they are miles away from [...]
By Ben Homer, November 22nd, 2008
Tonight at 8PM Eastern YouTube will kick off their first live streaming event. There will be no shortage of online coverage, speculation already abounds as to if and who their partner will be since moving into live streaming as a business model would complicate YouTube’s already cloudy prospects.
Either way it’s a major event for [...]
