Viacom's president and CEO agrees with Hulu: Measurements of online video audiences are off. By a lot. Noting that "you get paid on measurement," Philippe Dauman charged that streaming-video tracking done by online ratings services are "extremely inaccurate." "What we see internally is very different than what the measuring services have," … [Read more...]
YouTube puts premium on movies, TV
Google bought YouTube more than two years ago. Now the bill has arrived. YouTube's upcoming redesign will dump its current navigation scheme using "channels" and instead funnel viewers into more traditional categories such as "Movies," "Shows" (TV) and "Music." Looks like Google thinks amateur content, YouTube's lifeblood to date, isn't … [Read more...]
‘Little Rascals’: The kids are all right, still
"The Little Rascals" was the original after-school special, seemingly on a local TV loop that ran every day of the week. Those kids and that dog were everywhere. The shorts looked old even in the 1950s and '60s, and the adults insisted on calling them "Our Gang" comedies, but no one seemed to mind: These inventive kids from the past always were … [Read more...]
Fey’s Palin video hits 6 mil on NBC.com
To no one's surprise, that "Saturday Night Live" skit with Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton has logged about 6 million views on NBC.com. (Some, however, were surprised to learn "SNL" was still on the air.) That makes it NBC.com's most-watched clip ever, swamping the previous champ "Dick in a Box" (with a mere 1 million views), the Hollywood … [Read more...]
Joost shifts to browser-based video
The P2P video service Joost is abandoning its proprietary desktop system and moving to a browser format, similar to Hulu's. Users still have to play host to a Joost plugin (18 MB or so), but by and large the move is another signal that the Internet's video future will come without download applications that insist on control of your … [Read more...]
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