YouTube will change in a few days and is prepping to launch paid YouTube subscriptions for individual channels to lure producers away from traditional TV.
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My Damn Channel is looking for a few hundred original comedy series to launch in 2013. The company has hired Eric Mortensen, formerly at Blip, as its director of programming and acquisitions, a new role.
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In the fourth quarter, the traditional pay-TV industry began to show signs of severe internal stresses after having held off the immediate challenge of over-the-top video. Meanwhile the music industry fell into an internal battle over performance royalties. 
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As TV viewing has gone online, the delivery of content has become fractured. With more players, there are more things to break, and it’s often the consumer that gets stuck in the middle when ISPs and the content giants like Netflix and amazon fight. 
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Amazon raised the curtain on its Instant Video App for iPhone and iPod touch devices, which join the iPad and iPad mini for video purchase or rental playback. You’ll still have to buy or rent videos through the web, however; it can’t be done in app.
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Online video advertising is booming. comScore reported that U.S. Online viewers watched 10.8 billion video ads in October of this year alone. But a new study from Kantar Media reveals that brands may not be as quick to jump on the online video adve…
It was a packed house Tuesday night at Busby’s East in Los Angeles as online video heavyweights gathered to discuss the future of the medium. Tubefilter founder Drew Baldwin moderated a panel that featured Chill co-founder and chief-executive…
2012 has been a break out year for online video, with online video consumption at an all time high. A new infographic from SundaySky takes a look at the State of Online Video in 2012, as well as some trends to look for in 2013.
According to the infog…
It looks like Time Inc. Is preparing to get a lot more serious about online video. Last week they announced the launch of a new digital video unit. The new unit will help the company tap into the lucrative online video market, and the revenue that …
At 5:15 am…
My car drove alongside the train track down towards the highway heading to the airport for my early morning flight. This train track connects many suburbs to the downtown core of Montreal. It’s at the end of my corner and you would never…
The demand for mobile data continues to rise: Doubling in the past 12 months according to a new report for Ericsson. Smartphones are obviously part of the equation, but so too are tablets; particularly video consumption, which accounts for 40 percent of data use on tablets.
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So you’re thinking about making an online video about your brand, eh? As online video viewership continues to boom, more and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon and putting video content online. However, if you’re going to do online vid…
Here at Social Times we write a lot about YouTube, but I wanted to take just a few minutes out to talk about Vimeo for a change. Vimeo is something of an underdog in the online video scene and (imho) it doesn’t get nearly enough coverage or attenti…
My two-month Chromebook experience has been so great, I use the Google laptop as a primary device. But one flaw I found last month bothered me: No Google Play video support. The latest ChromeOS update, available now, fixes the problem and I’m happy again.
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Amazon takes another step on Apple’s digital media turf: Amazon Instant Video is now available for iPad, bringing another media option for movie purchases, rentals and television shows to Apple’s tablet. For now, Amazon is keeping this away from Android tablets, save its own Kindle Fire.
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. 
Google has improved its movie and TV show offerings in Google Play; great for the new Nexus 7 tablet and Nexus Q streaming device. But you’re out of luck for video playback — rentals or purchases — if you have a Google-powered Chromebook. What gives?
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