Check out the videos in the YouTube Change.gov channel, and you’ll see a link at the bottom of the videos “Click to download” which allows you to download the video onto your hard drive in MP4 format. The question is whether it is going to be open for political videos of the likes of the [...]
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Online video increasingly looks like one of the year’s big winners. According to estimates, more than 146 million US Internet users, or 77% of the total US Internet audience, watched an average of 87 videos per viewer, amounting to a total of 12.7 billion videos viewed in November 2008. Up more than one-third over November [...]
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eMarketer draws upon the 2008 elections to show the importance that online video is gaining in our lives. In the 2008 campaign season, primary debates were co-sponsored by YouTube, and questions from the public were submitted through the video-sharing site. Footage of Sen. Obama’s election night victory speech received 500 unique online placements within 36 [...]
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“The bulk of video consumed online today is typically short-form entertainment, rather than full TV episodes or full-length movies,” says David Hallerman, senior analyst at eMarketer. Last year, about one-half or more of US online video viewers surveyed regularly watched short news pieces, humor clips, movie trailers and music videos. Only about one in four [...]
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Cleartrip has launched Cleartrip Videos – a section containing about 1,000 travel videos covering 36 cities across India, which were submitted by amateur film makers during the Short Flicks Festival sponsored by Cleartrip last year. The videos are searchable by destination, popularity or tags. As their blog claims: One to three minutes long, these videos [...]
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Looking to tap new revenue through online ads, attract new viewers and keep loyal fans, broadcast networks are making bigger, riskier bets on Internet delivery of their shows. The latest to put up an entire premier episode was CBS for their series debut of Big Bang Theory last fall according to this article. The show, [...]
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