adap.tv, a unique online video advertising platform that allows publishers and advertisers to match relevant advertising with online video content, has closed a Series A round of $10 million from new investor Redpoint Ventures and existing investor Gemini Israel Funds, to enhance and expand the company’s product offerings, broaden recruitment efforts, and grow operations. The [...]
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Tivo brings Amazon.com Internet movies to a TV near you
TiVo announces its customers can now rent or buy movies right from the TiVo box or from Amazon.com and view them on a TV, without requiring a computer. when this service was first announced in February, it required users to select the video on a PC. The “Amazon Unbox on TiVo” service is for customers [...]
Is there a future for Current.tv?
Current.tv, the TV network founded by Al Gore, is the first 24-hour TV network to put user generated videos on TV Channels. These videos, which Current.tv calls VC2 (Viewer-Created Content), are short programs of 3 to 7 minutes called “pods”. About 30% of Current.tv are VC2 pods. Here’s how it works: users upload pods to [...]
Ushering a New Era of Consumer Choice in Set-Top Boxes
Today, July 1, marks the day the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that set-top boxes are separated from the security mechanisms that determines which channels are descrambled. The security comes in the form of a CableCard that is inserted into the set-top box. Rather than cable TV providers renting you a set-top for [...]
TV Advertising will grow, but who will eat the cake?
According to the USA Today, a recent report published by PWC is forecasting that traditional TV advertising sales will grow 4.5% a year to $46.3 billion in 2011. When you consider product placement revenue and fees that cable, satellite and phone services pay to carry a channel, network TV revenues could grow of 6.5% a [...]
YouTube inspired Adult sites
It’s interesting how a good deed goes unpunished, or rather a good site goes un-copied. Here are some Adult Video sites that I was recently alerted to that bear very close resemblance to YouTube. Below is the YouTube logo for comparison They say imitation is the best form of flattery, but I’m not sure if [...]
HTTP Takes back the Web
After more than four years of taking a backseat to peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, HTTP (Web) traffic has finally become the bandwidth hog of the Internet, according to data released by Ellacoya Networks, a leading provider of Deep Packet Inspection networking equipment. This study was based on usage data from about a million North American broadband [...]
Joost makes Strategic Acquisition
Last week Joost confirmed that former Cisco high-runner Mike Volpi will become the CEO. While its always good news to get a high-profile CEO, there is more to this – I think Joost is positioning itself to be a future acquisition. Think about it. In May Viacom, CBS, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, and the Chinese [...]
Babelgum is chewing on Internet TV
Joost, (the other Internet TV business) has company. Check out Babelgum beta, another peer-to-peer Internet TV service that is open for beta testing. The current content is limited, but there’s a good amount of professionally created niche content related to: Like Joost, the service requires a downloaded client to view the ad-supported channels. I tried [...]
