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Social Networking site Bebo has launched Open Media platform. Using the platform, media companies can host their premium video content on Bebo. The users can provide build a video profile. Users can distribute the videos among each other.
 
Bebo won’t charge anything for all the paid contents from the users. But what is surprising is, it [...]

A recent report by media analysts Screen Digest reveals that by 2011, 30% of all European households will have true Video on Demand capabilities. As stated on Wikipedia, Video on demand (VOD) systems allow users to select and watch video and clip content over a network as part of an interactive television system. VOD systems [...]

Just recently we had blogged about Buzz18 launching a short film contest for amateur directors. Well this trend of short films looks like increasing as i stumbled upon 2 more sites looking to attract similar kind of film making audience and leverage their talent to create a pool of user generated short films.
First in the line [...]

Talk about offline giant striking a deal with an online giant! The British Broadcasting Corp. more commonly known as BBC has struck a multi-year content deal with YouTube that will make BBC’s programming available via three branded channels on the now google owned video-sharing site.
Three YouTube channels — one for news and two for entertainment [...]

Exchange4Media: MouthShut.com is probably one of the oldest players in consmers reviews content space in India but that does not stop them from moving with the times and launching products that are "in" with the trends.
So recently mouthshut.com launched video reviews and video blogging features for its users.
Faisal I Farooqui, CEO of MouthShut.com explained [...]

Online video entertainment which was made popular world over by Youtube is starting to catch on in India and leading the way is suprisingly is Rajshri Media the digital media and entertainment arm of the Rajshri group which recently launched rajshri.com as a broadband entertainment destination online for premium Indian video content on November 10. It started the [...]

Business Standard: An Indian YouTube clone, Meravideo.com, is close to getting $1.5 million venture capital funding Kanwaldeep S Kalsi, Head, Braingain Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., said: “The money, which is for an initial period of 8-9 months, will be spent on infrastructure, bandwidth scalability, manpower and public relations and marketing of the site.” MeraVideo is a [...]

About 106.5 million people — or three in five U.S. Web surfers — watched an online video in July, according to comScore’s Video Metrix Index (the first and only service to track actual online streaming video behavior among U.S. Internet users)
In total, nearly 7.2 billion videos were streamed or downloaded by U.S. Internet users for [...]

 This is a Continuation of Online Video Advertising Analysis done by Rajiv some time back. According to Jupiter Research, online video advertising is a tiny segment of the overall market, drawing a scant $121 million in spending last year compared with $9.5 billion for all online media. Though only a  tenth of a percent of [...]

Recently Interactive Avenues whose management team boasts of the veterans of online advertising came out with click to play online ads powered by google. Interactive Avenues has started off with 30-second TVCs for WorldSpace Satellite Radio, General Motors and HDFC Standard Life on Indian websites. These video ads are visible to visitors from India on relevant niche content websites [...]