How Could YouTube Finally Make Some Dough?

YouTube wants to be your friend. Well, if you’re a media company, that is. The site has been striking deals with programmers like Sony, Lionsgate and MGM, as well as with the ABC Television Network and ESPN TV (both owned...

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June 24, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)

YouTube Star Earns Six Figures

The high-pitched Web star Fred is raking in the bucks, earning a six-figure income from his YouTube videos, a Google-YouTube executive said at the OMMA Video conference. Last week in New York executives in online video are gathering in New...

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June 22, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)

What Do Women Want to Watch on TV?

What do women want? It’s an age-old question and it’s getting a lot tougher for TV networks to answer because, evidently, a lot of women are tuning out the TV. It’s mostly background music, says a new study from Solutions...

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June 10, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Publishers Keep Up With Online Video

Publishers and authors step up their game when it comes to online video. The young adult genre is taking the lead with new creative experiments in Web video to promote books like Jay Asher’s “Thirteen Reasons Why,” Alyson Noel’s “Evermore”...

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May 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)

An Upfront for Web Video Shows

Online video news and review site Tilzy.TV plans to host a Web video upfront for Web shows and media buyers in early June in New York with Generate CEO Jordan Levin slated as the keynote speaker for the event. The...

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May 6, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (7)

Best Practices in Online Video

In this week’s edition of New Media Minute with multimedia journalist Daisy Whitney, Daisy sends her New York correspondent Lori Harfenist to a summit at the Internet Advertising Bureau. Harfenist asks industry insiders about best practices for online video. What...

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April 29, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Mobile Broadcasters Do Vegas

Attendance might have been down at the National Association of Broadcasters show but television broadcasters hit the floor to check out new tools and gadgets, especially those in the nascent mobile DTV business. They came to Vegas without their entourages,...

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April 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Online Video Metrics: Blessing or Curse?

Are online video metrics a blessing or a curse? What type of tools and features should surround your online videos? How are Hulu and YouTube doing and who will win? Author, thinker and social media visionary Charlene Li shares her...

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April 16, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

iPhone TV: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Television networks, Web shows and movie studios alike are rushing to develop iPhone apps, but could we be approaching app burnout? Daisy Whitney asks that question in the New Media Minute. This week alone, iPhone users can play with new...

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April 8, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (5)

Great Balls of Fire!

Remember when Brian Brushwood, host of Revision3’s “Scam School,” taught Daisy Whitney to hammer a nail in her nose and blow smoke? Well, he’s back in this week’s edition trying to read her mind and persuade the “New Media Minute”...

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April 1, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)