Best Place For Pirated Hindi Movies Veoh.com – Files For Bankruptcy

This comes as a great shock , one of the best sources for streaming pirated hindi movies and once Youtube competitor Veoh has filed for bankruptcy. In a parting letter Dmitry Shapiro, Founder and CEO,...
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YouTube Getting Stronger and Perhaps Cracking Better Ways To Monetize

Earlier today I blogged about NDTV’s cricket portal where I also put in a few words about their video portal Tubaah. My view was owning the copyright of the content shared on the web will help garner...
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YouTube Link Embed Feature Gets an Unexpected Dimension – New Photo Hunt Game

A YouTube user who goes by the name Copyrighthater has made a series of photo-videos and made an interesting game on the video sharing site. Copyrighthater alias Joe Sabia claims this to be the first interactive...
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“95% Of Our Current Revenues Come From Advertising” – Gurmeet Singh, CEO – Rajshri Media

Rajshri.com has changed its positioning and the current design and layout makes it look like an ad driven free to view video site. Though the pay to download model is still being pursued by Rajshri the...
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Contests2Win Sets Up YouCharades.com: WATBlog Pays a Visit

Last month the guys at Contests2Win brought the good ol’ dumb charades online with their brand new site – YouCharades.com. WATblog decided to go browse around on what seemed an intriguing concept,...
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Exclusive WATShow with Jai Maroo – Director Shemaroo Entertainment Pvt Ltd

After a looong weekend WATShow is back! We caught up with someone who would primarily be associated with the offline media industry but who is well versed with the online video and its potential.   We...
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Making Full Movie Streaming/Downloads Available Online.. A Growing Trend?

Yashraj Films one of the biggest Movie Production Houses in India have announced a tie up with watchindia.tv and tinselvision by which they would be making available full movie downloads of movies made...
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Indiabiz.tv – Youtube for brands launched in India!

We had blogged earlier how youtube is going to soon launch an Indian site focussing on Indian content. Also we had questioned whether many of the youtube clones would be able to survive given youtube’s...
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Youtube planning India centric site!! Death Knell for ‘Indian Video Sharing sites’?

Youtube is planning an India specific video sharing site by the domain name of youtube.in to be launched next year i.e. 2008 between January and March. Even though currently not more than 1% of youtube’s...
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India still going Ga-Ga over videos (More YouTube Clones..)

We had recently reviewed around 20 Indian video sharing sites… Now lets see what the 2 most promising ones are up to and we are also including a small mention about some new players in the scene.   Lets...
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YouTube to begin paying it’s Star Users

We recently posted a review of around 20 Indian YouTube clones and you would have noticed that some of the sites were paying their users to load videos, primarily to promote usage and also get content....
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Meravideo.com close to getting $1.5 million funding

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,...
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Universal Music sues two video sharing websites

Universal Music Group filed lawsuits against  two video-sharing Web sites Grouper.com and Bolt.com  for copyright laws  violation and by allowing users to share music clips and other content...
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India 2.0 Part 3 (Video Sharing Special)

After our Part 1 and Part 2 of the India 2.0 series we are back again this time with Part 3 with special focus on Video sharing sites or in short YouTube clones. Youtube has been internationally popular...
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