The long-overdue consolidation that we have been expecting in online video is starting to happen. continue reading...
Daily Motion is escalating the battle for #3 in their space (after YouTube and MySpace TV).
Online video advertising is growing, quickly. continue reading...
The next panel sought to answer the question: Is there money in Long Tail Video?” or mainly: how do you make money. The panel was moderated by Jeremy Liew, from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
“There’s 150 people in this room who believe there is money in video, so let’s ask how do you make it,” starts Liew. continue reading...
Apparently, traditional media’s love and hate relationship with YouTube took an interesting turn tonight: NBC canceled its channel on YouTube.
I won’t comment on that directly since WatchMojo.com is a content provider on YouTube and enough people are already commenting on the unconfirmed news, but I’ve been meaning to look at the interesting dynamic between traditional media companies and web video startups, and this is one more chess move in the big game that’s really only starting. continue reading...
Scanscout, often described as Ad Sense for Video, just raised some more money from Time Warner, reports Tech Crunch, beating the press release.
History repeats itself, clearly, in the video space, too. Last year you saw VCs investing in Series A rounds for video file sharing sites. Now that is rare, with VCs investing in Series B, C and D rounds. Think Daily Motion, Veoh, Metacafe. continue reading...
