I’ve previously written about VCs draconian terms and how they miss the boat with their crazy investing strategy which leaves more carnage than successes. Today, Tech Crunch published my fifth article in a month, entitled Where Did VCs Go Wrong In Online Video? continue reading...
From AdAge.com:
Warner Music Group is calling on a startup to help execute the lynchpin in its new approach the web. The company struck a deal with Outrigger Media, a small group spun out of video site Veoh, to package artists such as Madonna, Ashley Tisdale and Green Day for advertisers. continue reading...
Once in a while, I spot a comment that is either interesting, insightful, intelligent, irreverent… and I post it.
From Tech Crunch’s piece on Veoh Compass continue reading...
In November 2007, we published a piece called Online Video Distribution: The Race for #3 is On…
Hulu wasn’t even around, so #1 was YouTube and #2 was MySpace TV. Then came the usual suspects: Metacafe, DailyMotion, Break and Veoh. continue reading...
From NYTimes:
After college, Michael Eisner briefly sought the life of a playwright before settling on the corporate media world, working his way up through ABC and Paramount. He became chief executive of Disney in 1984. continue reading...
Funny to see web entrepreneurs Loic LeMeur and Om Malik duke it out in the comments section of this entry, on Veoh’s layoffs, which was reported first by Valleywag, and confirmed to varying extent by PaidContent.
Says Seesmic founder Loic: continue reading...
Question: “As far as your business goes, which is proving the bigger challenge monetising existing content or increasing views?”
Answer: continue reading...
From TubeMogul:
About a month ago, we launched a “Top 40″ list of the users getting the most views from videos deployed by us (an admittedly biased list, but an interesting one). We will be releasing an updated list shortly, but it’s worth pondering: what is the key to their success? Great content, for one. An additional insight came after we released our recent research on “Online Video’s Short Shelf Life.” A blogger savvily pointed out that most successful content creators already understood that online video fans have a short attention span, and thus put out a high quantity of videos. continue reading...
According to eMarketer, the size of online advertising revenue is $1.35B in 2008.
Since launching WatchMojo.com in 2006, I’ve had some questions about that figure… so here goes: continue reading...
Everyone is freaking out over the fact that YouTube is trying to monetize but 4% of its massive inventory.
Truth is, I thought that number was lower. But whatever the number, it’s a good thing. continue reading...
