Archive for the ‘video’ Category
YouTube Fights Back
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
And just like that, YouTube fights back against Hulu’s monopoly on premium online video content ($): Google Inc.’s YouTube and Universal Music Group are discussing a significant partnership under which YouTube would provide technology and ad sales support to help distribute Universal’s video content to other Web sites, said people familiar. The plan would entail [...]
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Hulu vs. Google
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Young MC gets this so right that I almost don’t need to write anything else. In this case, the old media experts realized that brands will pay to advertise on Hulu’s TV shows and movies, not on YouTube’s home video of someone face planting after a sick 360-ollie-turbo-axel gone wrong. It’s dead certain that YouTube’s [...]
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Hispanics are watching video online!
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
If there’s any doubt about Hispanics being online and watching video, check out this piece by AdAge on the popularity of pirated Univision video content on YouTube. According to TubeMogul, Univision is the most pirated network on YouTube, drawing 586 million views for mostly telenovela clips. Ironically, I was just interviewed yesterday about the viability [...]
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Blogging and Video
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
One of my favorite blogs is EveryDayShouldBeSaturday. It’s about college football and funny as hell – two of my very favorite things. However, Orson (the blogger) has one annoying habit – about every 4th or 5th post he resorts to the blogging equivalent of mailing it in – he posts a video. Posting a video, [...]
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