Video Sharing

Rainbow Media’s IFC.com plans to introduce an original Web series each month from July through November, the company told Beet.TV.

NEW YORK — VMIX, the San Diego-based video services company, is powering a number of newspaper and local television station Web sites, including the Tribune newspapers.  It has had a recent win with the Post-Newsweek television stations sites.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — You might think of YouTube as the site for viral videos and your cousin’s birthday clips, but the giant of the Web video world is on a mission to change that perception, YouTube spokesperson Chris Dale told Beet.TV in an interview at the corporate parent Google’s headquarters on Tuesday.

Showtime is the third most viewed entertainment channel of all-time on YouTube and the premium network relies heavily on the viral video site as a marketing platform.

For both Brightcove, the Boston-based video services company and Delve Networks, a competing start-up player in Seattle, the fastest growth in their business is coming from non-media customers such as businesses and universities who want to use video for marketing and other purposes.  

LAS VEGAS — We read the coverage about Adobe's Flash coming to television sets, which is an important development.  But this Flash content will only play on new television sets with new chips.  It will take quite some time. 

Conde Nast, which had organized most of its content on big, themed portals, has created new Web sites for most of its individual titles.  This is part of the transition from CondeNet to the new entity Conde Nast Digital, which was announced in January.

MENLO PARK, CA — Sun Microsystems, which has long been a leader in corporate blogging by executives and employees, is now empowering its 30,000 employees to upload employee-generated video to Sun's big video site Channel Sun as part of its communications with customers, developers and others.

Showtime will debut the full-length version of Edie Falco's new series Nurse Jackie, online in June before its first showing on the premium cable service.

China has been increasing its censorship of online video, according to published reports.  I spoke with Rebecca Fannin, a China watcher and author of the Silicon Dragon, last summer at Stanford.

HOLLYWOOD — Brightcove, the Boston-based video services company which has established itself as leading video solution for U.S. publishers, has built a considerable presence in Japan, the company will announce Tuesday. 

I interviewed Alex Castro, founder and CEO of Delve Media, at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable earlier this month.  Alex explains the value of Delve in a field filled with big, established competitors. 

News videos displayed on YouTube have been organized to be timely and relevant to the news of the day through the integration of Google News into YouTube News. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Driven by political and economic events and changing consumption patterns, Web video is becoming increasingly news-centric, according to Charlie Tillinghast, president of msnbc.com and Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube.

The new HD camcorders are inexpensive, easy to use and provide lots of storage, but they can be a big hassle to edit and convert files for the Web.

In keeping up with the unprecedented demand for bandwidth for streaming the Inauguration of Barack Obama, CNN.com relied on a peer-to-peer program in a substantial way, according to a report by Janko Roettgers at NewTeeVee.

comScore just came out with the video view ranking for December and Google sites (principally YouTube with 99 percent of company views) has registered 5.9 billion views.  Fox Interactive (MySpace) is a distant number two in views and unique visitors  

On January 12, 2009 in Washington, YouTube hosted an event: "Broadcasting the World: The New Ecosystem for News Online."  The panel ("Reeling Them In: Building an Audience for News Video") featured:  Chris Cillizza, Journalist, The Washington Post, Jim Brady, Executive Editor of WashingtonPost.com, Ann Derry, The New York Times' Editorial Director of Video and Television, […]

Adobe announced early today that Flash 10, the newest version of its ubiquitous Flash web plug-in which drives a vast majority of video consumption, has reached an installed base of 55 percent of global users of Flash.

YouTube came out the victor today in the comparison of best HD video sites by CNET.com's Webware, impressive for a site so new to HD. Webware's Josh Lowensohn writes that "YouTube was the runt of the litter last year, and one of the reasons we put together the initial comparison."