By Corey Kronengold, June 23rd, 2008
Backed by Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Veoh has secured content from ESPN and ABC for their video portal, according to a Reuters report.
Veoh will show full episodes of some of ABC’s lineup as well as clips from ESPN’s shows and sports highlights.
By Ben Homer, June 11th, 2008
Several announcements today about web series crossing over to television and film. Variety reports HBO has ordered 10 half hour segments from Funny or Die and taken a small equity stake in the company – a smart deal as HBO is in need of low cost highly original, high quality niche content, something Funny or [...]
By Corey Kronengold, May 20th, 2008
Moderator: Peter Price, NATAS
Panelists:
Isaac Josephson, ABC News Digital
Jordan Hoffner, YouTube
Vivian Schiller, NYTimes.com
Richard Glosser, CondeNet
Vivian: The challenge for legacy media companies is that people are coming and watching videos, but haven’t been able to significantly monetize it. We love our relationship with YouTube, but it needs to come to a point where it isn’t just “branding.”
Isaac: [...]
By Corey Kronengold, January 11th, 2008
Ok, so all of the football games are on TV, but didn’t want anyone to think that we’d forgotten about them.
As the writers strike lingers on, and most, if not all, of the good TV programming has gone into reruns, I’m ready to get the next season of Lost started. So I’m catching up on [...]
