Online Video & Web TV: News Roundup
Leading Publishers to Support Adobe Media Player. Major TV and content companies deliver video via Adobe AIR Application. Adobe Media Player is a lightweight desktop application that offers new features for both viewers and content owners. The player allows viewers to watch content online or download and view videos offline, all with full-screen playback. Adobe Media Player offers new ways to distribute, measure and build businesses around video content.
Google Officially Announces AdSense-Embedded YouTube Video Units. “Simply embed a snippet of code and have relevant YouTube partner content streamed to your site.” Before this procedure website owners must have an AdSense account and a YouTube account that must be interlinked. And after that do copy-paste manipulation.
Revver Wordpress Plugin Tool Screencasting Tutorial. According to webtvwire.com,
Revver added some new features in order to create their own wordpress plugin. Thanks to the Tubetorial 7 Must Have Killer Plugins For Wordpress series users are allowed to search, upload, post, track and check in on the revenues for a video right from their WordPress backend.
12 Million US Households Are Paying for Online Video Downloads (Up From 3 Million a Year Ago). “19% of US households with broadband are paying for video content - roughly 12 million households, up from 3 million a year ago. Two rising profit centers from the last 5 years - DVD sales and rentals - are experiencing a significant slowdown in growth. “Broadcast networks are reporting early success for their online offerings,” including a strong argument that the “catch up” model will be a hit with consumers.”
File-Sharing Down, Legal Music Services Gain Among U.S. Teens. A recent survey of 980 U.S. teens conducted by Piper Jaffray found that 64% said they download music illegally, down from 72% a year ago, while 36% said they purchase music from online services, up from 28% last year.
Brightcove Launches Broadcast-Quality Internet TV. “In the last two years, Internet TV has transformed the Web by bringing the storytelling power of video directly into sites, but contextual and viral video clips are only the beginning,” said Jeremy Allaire, chairman and chief executive officer of Brightcove. “Now the industry is ready for the next major leap in the evolution of Internet TV, and that’s gracefully extending from short video clips on sites into full-length programs and movies delivered via the Internet to PCs.”
Curse.com – a site for online gamers. News, forums, blogs, game list, videos, images, wiki, shop. “It’s the community’s decision as to whether a game sucks. We can then give priority to the best games,” says Hubert Thiebot, a founder of the site that receives more than four million unique users each month, most incoming traffic comes from its download section.
Blinkx Puts Ads in Embeds. Video search engine Blinkx unveils a program allowing embedders to put contextual ads in any video from any popular video-sharing site. Blinkx AdHoc — now there are more ways than ever for embedders to get a secondary slice of the growing online video ad revenue pie.
Sony, KT to Launch PlayStation 3-based IPTV Service in Korea. “With this partnership, Mega TV will include high-definition games and Blue-Ray (sic) media in its periphery,” Lee Young-hee, chief of the Media Center at KT, told The Korea Times.
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