Media

One of the rubs against online video has been the near-pervasive lack of subtitles.

Online video advertising is on the rise, but the medium will grow rise faster as consumers watch more long-form programs online, eMarketer Senior Analyst David Hallerman says.

NewsMarket, a New York based video services company which provides distribution for institutional and corporate video, has merged with the publicly-held MediaLink.

ESPN plans to share regular results from its Disney ESPN Ad Lab for emerging media perhaps as early as this summer, Beet.TV has learned.

BoingBoing, the popular and influential blog about culture and technology, has had video for sometime and now it's bigger than ever, literally.

TMZ, the Los Angeles-based Time Warner-owned entertainment gossip site, is getting quite a lot of attention for having first broke the news of Michael Jackson's tragic death earlier today.

CNN's iReport popularity as a destination has surged with the Iran crisis. A CNN spokeswoman citing internal numbers told me that page views for the iReport reached 1 million on Monday. 

Showtime’s top-rated comedy “Weeds” has seen strong online results for its newly launched original companion Web series, Beet.TV has learned.

We wonder why Dan Lyons, author of the "Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," the clever, stinging first person send up of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, has restarted is blog. Particularly now that his identity is known and he is a staffer at Newsweek…

Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, has expanded his consulting to include an engagement with NBC News, the New York Observer reports.

YouTube has been striking deals with programmers like ABC, ESPN, Sony, Lionsgate, and MGM this year, and now it’s also letting many of those programmers use their own video players and sell their own ads on the site.

Paul Slavin, who heads digital operations for for ABC News, explains the difficulty of news gathering in Iran.  We spoke last Tuesday (June 16) about news gathering in Iran; this was before the government imposed strict restrictions on foreign journalists.

In an effort to learn more about online video ad formats, Starcom is expanding its research project called “The Pool” to include new publishers and advertisers focused on short-form content for the Web, said Tracey Scheppach, SVP and video innovation director at Starcom USA. In my interview at the OMMA Video conference in New York […]

Six Apart, the San Francisco-based blog hosting and software company, has linked up with VideoEgg, the video ad network, to offer bloggers the opportunity to integrate interactive video ads.

Well, now, this is not really complete coverage, but we covered a bit of the waterfront and produced 14 segments from the conference and put all the clips together here on one directory page.

Those clever folks at JibJab have debuted an animated "superhero" clip of President Barack Obama.  It went live yesterday. It was shown to President Obama at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night

Borrell Associates told me at the OMMA Video conference June 16 in New York. “Health is the largest category and we also see automotive and travel picking up as well,” Gordon Borrell said. He predicts local TV broadcasters will generate $1.31 billion in online revenue this year, but video will only account for $52 million, […]

Newser, a new news content aggregation site, has raised $2.5 million investment funds, its first, Rafat Ali at paidContent reports tonight. 

Earlier week, CBS News introduced a completely redesigned website with more videos featured and integrated into text reporting. 

Earlier this week, authorities in Iran blocked YouTube along with several other sites and mobile networks.  For YouTube, the crackdown has been highly effective, with traffic dropping by 90 percent.