Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube, is 27. Chad Hurley, the other co-founder who worked with Chen at Paypal, now employ 27 people. Think about that. Twenty seven people running the most popular site for online videos-one that streams 50 million videos a day to the 12.5 million visitors they get a month. For another of the…
What's the tolerance for ads before online videos? I kinda like the Office Pirates model of one 15-second ad before every third video. Obviously we'd all like to watch our videos without ads, but then we'd have to pay for them or the companies would go the route of www.Chapter11TV.com. On the continuum, iFilm is…
This post's headline is from eMarketer, which did a story covering the Comscore Networks report about growth in online videos. Not a lot of new information, but some perty charts. And if you're lucky you might find an ad from a new Pointroll video banner.
A new site is helping video bloggers (vloggers) get funding for their projects. Below is a the description from the site, and here's a writeup by DVGuru on the initiative: "Have Money Will Vlog." Traditional artists can apply for grants to make their work. Have Money Will Vlog supports videobloggers trying to do the amazing….
At last Hitwise does a public ranking of the online video sites. I use Hitwise in my day job (the company track about 25 million Americans web habits by buying ISP data). However I can't release any of the rankings. Now it's public! Some highlights & observations: YouTube is obviously number one- with 42% market…
Remember when FLASHY banners were hot? I used to have a pack of post-its that I'd tape over the banner so I could read without distraction. Time to buy 3M stock. About.com recently announced it will use Brightcove to stream online videos on its site. Here's what you can expect: "Nearly all of these video…
I ask my dad what medicine he's taking, and he says "the one from CVS Drugstore." You ask millennials (people born after 1980) and 33% can't name the TV networks (according to a Bolt Survey covered by ClickZ). Such is the dilemma of being a middleman between a creator and a consumer. Nobody remembers you….
Oh, man. It was only a matter of time. The worlds of online video and multi-level marketing have collided. Check out this stunningly awkward video — click the "two minute introduction" about "EVE" (the extendable video engine." I haven't been this confused since I got drunk and went to an Amway pitch in college. "What…
The number of Internet users watching video online went up 18 percent between October 2005 and March 2006 according to a ComScore's analysis of U.S. Web users' online video viewing habits. In March, U.S. Internet users initiated a total of 3.7 billion video content streams; and we watched an average 100 minutes of video content each…
Interesting news. Google will offer video ads through Adsense in a very "non-intrusive" way… meaning the visitor would have to select it before it loads (thank goodness). What I find most intriguing is that Google seems to offer this for its partners (any site that "syndicates" Google ads via Adsense to make money). But apparently…