A few years ago, we published a list of companies who ruled the Internet each year, from 1994-2007. Then, we forgot to update it for 2008-2010. On this week’s HipMojo show, we run down the list and picked a company for 2008, 2009, and 2010… and then open it up for you to suggest companies for 2011. Vote for the company of the Year below in the Comments, feel free to vote for the company you work for, but explain WHY, what was the one thing or many things that made the company stand out from the noise? 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...
Paid Content reports that video ad network Bright Roll has raised $5M in Series B. I interviewed the firm’s CEO Tod Sacerdoti some time ago, to read the post, click here.
This comes on the heels of YuMe’s $9M round this week, which in turn came on the heels of the massive Scanscout investment by Time Warner Investments… which itself was a knee-jerk reaction to Video Egg’s Series D round (nope, not a typo, that is D as in dude?). See my interview with Video Egg’s CEO Matt Sanchez here. continue reading...
Video ad enabler YuMe raised a $9M Series B, repeating the trend we saw earlier in file sharing networks, where investment flowed into the leading and more promising file sharing networks while the wannabe has-been’s fizzled and lost relevance.
Looking at the top 10 video sites by market share as of May 2007, it’s interesting to see relatively new media players YouTube, MySpace and Google Video hold on to the top 3 spots, followed by some traditional media players AOL and Yahoo! Videos… continue reading...
