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Internet TV to reach mainstream viewers in 2008

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It seems the invasion of Internet TV is inevitable. According to the latest projections by eMarketers.com, 154 million or 52.5% of all Americans will stream or download online videos at least once a month.

Now here’s something hulu.com is dying to hear. It turned out American and British online viewers prefer to “watch programming online that is produced by professional TV networks and film studios.” In terms of video contents, 40% of Americans favor short clips, usually five minutes or less, about movie trailers, music videos, news, TV shows and jokes.

Looking forward, the growth of rising channel is expected to slow down in 2012 simply because it will reach its saturation point with almost 90% of the American population watching online videos.

On the perspectives of video providers, an ideal business model goes beyond the ability to stream and store online videos.

“From the video provider’s perspective, online video is not scalable, which means that the more people viewing video at a Web site, the more it costs that site to serve video and/or the slower the video gets served,” says David Hallerman, eMarketer senior analyst and author of this report.

Via MarketingCharts

Originally posted on March 3, 2008 @ 8:59 am

Pakistan loves YouTube again

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pakistan.gifThe Associated Press reports that Pakistan’s telecoms regulator has lifted restrictions on YouTube and restoring access to the site.

Pakistan ordered YouTube blocked last Friday over a clip featuring a Dutch lawmaker who has said he plans to release a movie portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence.

Originally posted on February 26, 2008 @ 5:21 pm

DailyMotion implements INA’s technology on copyright detection

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Dailymotion said that it is implementing INA’s “Signature” technology across all localized and local language Dailymotion sites. Dailymotion’s use of video filtering technology follows several other copyrighted material protection initiatives throughout the site, including a hashing system, blocking videos that have already been removed from the site and use of an audio fingerprinting solution. In addition, Dailymotion is an original signatory to the UGC Copyright Principles.

INA´s innovative image-based technology is based on a signature, or digital fingerprint, which constitutes a genetic code representing a sequence of images. Content that has been protected by a producer or a broadcaster using this technology will be automatically detected and will either be rejected or managed according to agreements before it is placed online.

Originally posted on February 25, 2008 @ 11:50 am

GyPSii, Shanghai Rannuo, China Unicom to launch mobile-location services for 2008 Olympic Games

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GyPSii has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

The GyPSii service combines social networking, mobile, location and web 2.0 technologies to offer China Unicom users a seamless mobile lifestyle experience. It will allow users to create pictures, video and blogs centered on all things Olympic while using their existing camera phone. GyPSii users can capture their special moments during the Olympic games, upload the content to their personal space and share it with friends, family and communities. The users can also search other GyPSii User Generated Content (UGC), people and points of interest and get maps and directions to their location – all from their mobile phone.

The GyPSii service will be available to Unicom users in March 2008 at yypsii.com.cn.

Originally posted on February 20, 2008 @ 10:36 am

National Lampoon to feature content on DailyMotion

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nationallampoon.pngNational Lampoon Inc. has inked a licensing deal to place content on Dailymotion. In turn, the two companies will share in advertising revenues generated by the additional content.

The agreement gives Dailymotion access to National Lampoon’s acclaimed comedy programming, including its hugely popular webisodes, which have drawn praise from top critics nationwide. National Lampoon will also be providing premium comedy content in HD on the newly launched Dailymotion HD player.

All of National Lampoon’s new content will be made available on Dailymotion’s Funny channel, where Dailymotion’s team will program the licensed content alongside original content from Dailymotion’s Motionmaker program for the creative community. Combining professional along with user-generated content around users’ areas of interest allows them to more easily discover, view, and share the content they love.

Originally posted on February 19, 2008 @ 11:17 am