Vobile to Ustream: Don't blame us for your Hugo Awards SNAFU

Vobile to Ustream: Don't blame us for your Hugo Awards SNAFU
GigaOM
Remember that Hugo Awards live stream that got yanked off Ustream earlier this week just as author Neil Gaiman was delivering his acceptance speech? Ustream blamed Vobile's content filters for the incident. Now Vobile is shooting back and saying it was ...

GigaOM 

'Third wave' of TV on screen near you
Stock and Land
According to the biggest online video-sharing site in the world, YouTube, the so-called third wave of television is an unstoppable force and it's increasingly being used by traditional TV and big brands to drive business their way. Alex Carloss, head ...

Cord Cutters: Our review of Vizio's Co-Star Google TV box — Online ...
By Janko Roettgers
Vizio's Co-Star is the company's first Google TV device. How does it stack up to Roku, Apple TV and other media streamers, and how well does it work for cord cutters? Check out our video review for a detailed look at the device.
GigaOM

YouTube coy about its new Apple app
The Australian
ONLINE video-sharing behemoth YouTube is coy on the launch of its app dedicated to Apple's upcoming mobile operating environment after duo's relationship hit a roadblock last month. The YouTube app on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads give ...

The Breakfast Meeting: New Amazon Devices, and Apple's Plans for Digital Radio
New York Times (blog)
The intimate connection between digital media and the devices that play them was in full effect on Thursday, as the online store Amazon.com announced a range of new Kindles for reading, listening and watching. Also on Thursday, it was learned that ...

Daily News Staff Report
San Jose Mercury News
Facebook representatives dropped in at Thursday night's dedication ceremony for Menlo-Atherton High School's new Digital Media Arts Building and presented a $46,000 check to help support the project. Counting the $50,000 it already contributed, ...

Gameloft Studio Settles in New Orleans, Fuels A Growing Industry
Forbes
Courted by the city's enticing assets and Louisiana's generous tax incentive program, Gameloft was the first major game development studio to open in New Orleans, joining an impressive roster of large and small interactive digital media, production ...

Forbes

Calling All Bloggers! Join Our Digital Media Lounge During UN Week
Mashable
The Digital Media Lounge offers unfettered access to speaking sessions concerning UN Week and the digital journalism community, with topics covering women's health, emergency response, environmental conservancy, citizen journalism, digital diplomacy ...

Digital Rapids Announces Extensive Industry Support and New Partnerships for ...
Embedded.com
F33 -- Digital Rapids – the trusted provider of innovative media transformation and workflow solutions for bringing content to wider audiences – today announced accelerating industry support for the company's ground-breaking new Kayak™ dynamic ...

Online Darwinism And The Evolution of Performance Marketing
MediaPost Communications
With apologies to Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution, my embrace of the Online Darwinism Theory, a concept I developed after watching so many affiliates drop like flies in recent months, encapsulates my views of the evolution of digital media ...

AFL, NRL will bypass pay TV: Turnbull
The Australian
MALCOLM Turnbull's crystal ball tells him the AFL and NRL will one day cut out pay-TV and go direct to football fans using digital media applications. "I think the AFL will cut out the pay TV platforms,'' the opposition communications spokesman told an ...

Verimatrix Selects Arxan Content Protection Solutions to Secure Premium ...
Reuters
To address the need for effective and non-invasive security, Arxan provides a defense-in-depth approach to digital media security that shields digital media stakeholders against tampering and reverse-engineering of code and IP in a resilient and proven ...

Digital PR, $ocial Media and ROI
Business 2 Community
According to the Chartered Institute of Marketing Social Media Benchmark study a skills gap is preventing businesses from getting value from social media. The study found that 1 in 5 marketers said their business was “fundamentally ill-equipped to take ...


HootSuite acquires Seesmic to grow business ... - Digital Media Wire
By Chris Marlowe
Vancouver-based HootSuite has acquired fellow social management company Seesmic, in what the larger company indicated is a move to increase its business customer base.
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

How data-driven content marketing changes the game
By Mary Wallace
... recipients than ever before. By leveraging behavioral data, as well as the basic demographic data individuals tells us about themselves, media companies are now uniquely positioned to create, package and deliver content aligned with the audience's needs. ... This “digital body language” is the composite of all digital activity: each email that is opened or clicked, each web visit, each form completed or abandoned, and each referral from a social media site. Segmenting the audience ...
eMedia Vitals - Online magazine...

Digital media etiquette: Where do you stand?
Modern technology has made of us less formal when it comes to communication. Just because you're not always able to see the person in whom you are ...

Spreecast raises $7M to take on Google+ Hangouts
GigaOM
A group video chat that can be broadcasted to an unlimited number of viewers: Sounds like Google+ Hangouts, doesn't it? Video chat Startup Spreecast believes it can compete with Hangouts by offering more interactivity, and it just raised a $7 Series A ...

GigaOM

Russian Punks Thank Madonna & Bjork For Support In Hard-Hitting Online Video
Contactmusic.com
Masked fans of Russian punk collective Pussy Riot have filmed a hard-hitting online video, in which they set fire to images of Vladimir Putin and thank Madonna and Bjork for their support, while abseiling down a building. Three of the bandmates are ...

Contactmusic.com

A Look Back at Barack Obama's First Online Video Appearance
Tubefilter
[Editor's Note: The First Drafts Series is a Tubefilter column that highlights and critiques the first online videos from the world's greatest online video stars. Check out the last edition of FDS featuring Fred.] Before he supported same-sex couples...

Tubefilter

Low-Price Video Host Vzaar Opens North American Office
OnlineVideo.net
“An online video strategy is a must-have for every brand and every company, large or small,” said Jim Henry, Vzaar's vice president of sales, who works out of the new office. “The U.S. market is leading the charge in harnessing the marketing and sales ...

OnlineVideo.net

Announcing The Distilled Guide to Online Video Marketing | distilled
By cheri-percy
Following on from our recent piece on Video Infographics, we are excited to announce the launch of the Distilled Guide to Online Video Marketing. To support our belief that every business can leverage video – our interactive guide helps take ...
distilled

How to Improve B2B Online Video Marketing | Wooshii Blog
Beet.tv has a very interesting video post this week with analyst Ashley Swartz on how to improve a sector that many times is ignored in online video but that is ...

Online Video | Econsultancy
We are looking at maybe offering our clients video as part of our web design / SEO service and wonder if we should set up a new branded site for this with a ...

The revolution will be live streamed on Ustream
TheNewsTribune.com
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A protester looked at Nathan Grant and gestured behind him. Police lined the streets during the Tuesday night protest march through uptown Charlotte. “They don't care what we have to say,” the protester said. “Our voices are silenced ...

TheNewsTribune.com

Olusegun vs. Matthysse Weigh-In Will Be Streamed Live At USTREAM.TV ...
EastsideBoxing.com
One day before the World Boxing Council (WBC) Interim Super Lightweight World Championship fight between undefeated Nigerian OLUSEGUN AJOSE and Argentine power-puncher LUCAS MATTHYSSE, SHOWTIME Sports® brings boxing fans closer to ...

EastsideBoxing.com

Livestream Enters Switcher Market With Studio HD500
TV Technology
NEW YORK—Livestream is introducing the Livestream Studio HD500, an all-in-one broadcast video switcher. The HD500 is designed to perform as a standalone, broadcast quality live video switcher for in-venue screen broadcasting, live-to-tape production ...

Latest Old Spice Viral Hit Pushes Vimeo Into the Spotlight
AdAge.com
As the web's default operating system for video, and its first social platform at scale, YouTube powered the branded video phenomenon that took off about five years ago. Indeed, YouTube is the one constant of all but one other branded campaign on the ...

AdAge.com

Forget the VMAs: Here Are Your Alternative Music Videos Of The Year
Co.Create
The video-sharing site recently posted its picks for the 10 best music videos of the year in an album cheekily titled "The Vimeo AMVs: Alternative Music Videos on Vimeo." The list includes 10 divergent, visually dazzling vids completely unaffiliated ...

Algorithmic Copyright Cops: How YouTube shut down Michelle Obama's speech
Democratic Underground
On Tuesday, some visitors trying to get to the livestream of Michelle Obama's widely lauded speech at the Democratic National Convention were met with a bizarre notice on YouTube, which said that the speech had been blocked on copyright grounds.

the beauty alchemist: Maybelline & Milk Livestream Fashion Week
By noreply@blogger.com (The Beauty Alchemist)
2012 (233). ▽ September (5). Maybelline & Milk Livestream Fashion Week · Chanel Destination Illusion D'Ombre from Blue Illu... Stila Stay All Day Foundation/Concealer Duo · St. Tropez Self Tan Gel · NARS Andy Warhol Flowers 3 Palette ...
the beauty alchemist

Ustream to Re-Broadcast 2012 Hugo Awards Ceremony on Sunday ...
By John DeNardo
Chicago, Illinois, USA – Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), is pleased to announce that the 2012 Hugo Awards Ceremony will be re-broadcast in its entirety and ad-free via Ustream on Sunday, September 9, ...
SF Signal

YouTube's WIGS channel finds the drama in women
The Associated Press
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer – 1 minute ago. NEW YORK (AP) — Not to play favorites, but if you'd like to sample the tasty new WIGS channel, just take 9 minutes and try "Denise." This nifty little set piece was written by celebrated ...

The Associated Press

Why Hulu, Netflix, and Others Don't Need to Revive Canceled TV Shows
TV.com (blog)
When reports surfaced recently that both Netflix and DirecTV were "in early talks" with Fox Television to possibly resurrect the recently axed AMC drama The Killing, all I could do was laugh. No offense to fans of The Killing—there's a time and a ...

When Will Amazon Take on Netflix Directly? Ask Jeff Bezos.
All Things Digital
But unlike Netflix, you can only use Amazon's subscription service if you're a member of Amazon Prime, its $79-a-year free-shipping program. Many people, including Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, expect Amazon to eventually detach its library from Prime and ...

Good Gangnam! This Korean music video has 117+ million YouTube views
NBCNews.com (blog)
If you haven't watched it yet, you're about to. If you haven't shared it with friends yet, that's coming, too. And if you don't already have this earworm playing a constant loop in your head, get ready! It's not often that a South Korean dance hit ...

Bryan Singer's Big Budget H+ Digital Series Spikes Views With Help From ...
AdAge.com
YouTube has a vested interest in seeing its original "channels" succeed. One way to do that is to give them some healthy home page promotion, which is what happened for H+ Digital Series, a big-budget web production from "X-Men" director Bryan Singer.

'Lindbergh Fights' Videos Of School Fight Club Posted To YouTube, Facebook ...
Huffington Post
Posted to Facebook and YouTube under the title "Lindbergh Fights," the videos depict teens throwing punches in a field and parking lots around Lindbergh High School as spectating teens cheered. School officials learned of the videos Tuesday after an ...

Scottish stunt biker Danny 'MegaSkill' MacAskill takes on San Francisco in new ...
New York Daily News
Danny MacAskill is taking on San Francisco's famous landmarks — including areas around the Golden Gate Bridge, Potrero Hill, and the Oakland Bay Bridge — in his latest YouTube video showing his extreme biking skills. The 25-year-old, originally from ...

New York Daily News

Young rapper's slaying linked to feuds on Twitter, YouTube
Chicago Tribune
Indeed, over the last few years, many South Side gang members have created rap videos to taunt and threaten their rivals, posting them on YouTube and other websites, veteran gang investigators have said. In addition to crime-ridden Englewood, ...

Chicago Tribune

Half Of Netflix Subscribers Would Switch To A Pay TV Streaming ...
By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
Guarantee you a Pay TV service would end up being twice as expensive as the monthly Netflixfee. Or ad supported in some fashion like Hulu. Or you'd have to purchase it in a bundle package with other channels to keep the cost down.
Deadline.com

YouTube Analytics: Measuring the Value of Your Video | Search ...
By Todd Bailey
For the past several years, rich content has been on the rise, and Google subsidiary, YouTube, has remained the undisputed leader of online video sharing. Currently, the site controls approximately 43 percent of the Internet video market.
Search Engine Journal

Power of Youtube
By yuna
We have had discussions in the past about the power of the number of youtube clicks in relation to k-pop. The after-MTV VMA-awards-interview with Psy: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1693362/vma-2012-psy.jhtml There have been a lot of ...
The Marmot's Hole

Angry Birds join Freddie For A Day! - YouTube
Rovio and Angry Birds are proud supporters of the Mercury Phoenix Trust and Freddie For A Day ...
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