http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net It's Not A Series of Tubes: Broadband & Mobile Content Production Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:17:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 34% of adults online play online games each week according to Park Associates, making it the most popular online activity ahead of both online video and social networking. Despite a surge in use, online video is still behind gaming with 29% of adults surveyed watching short clips weekly and ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/08/17/gaming-a-king-online/ It's all about the advertising. Google announced that it would cease selling videos on the site. http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/08/13/no-more-videos-for-sale-on-google-video/ For a good long while now, comScore has been honing its video stats to be a more accurate reflection of how people watch video. This was predicated on measuring the number of videos initiated and watched as opposed to users to the site. Now via NewTeeVee, comScore is ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/08/10/comscore-tinkers-with-video-stats/ The nameless NBC/News Corp. joint online video venture received a $100 million dollar investment from Providence Equity Partners, according to The New York Times, giving the Rhode Island-based VC firm a 10% share in the company. (Yes, that means the market is valuating "NewCo." at $1 billion before it streams ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/08/10/money-to-the-nameless-veoh-suit/ Veoh raised an additional $25 million on third round of funding, led by Goldman Sachs and including Spark Capital, Shelter Capital Partners, Time Warner Investments and Michael Eisner's Torante. Former Viacom CEO Tom Freston and former Viacom Entertainment Group Chairman Jonathan Dolgen also joined the round, according to paidcontent.org. Revver.com ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/08/09/shake-your-money-makers/ This Arby's / NBC Lunch Break thing was clearly too dumb to last (see end of the New Tee Vee entry). Rather than damn it from the beginning, I thought it might have a chance using some nuanced analysis, like this: Advantages: * Targeting an audience ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/08/08/dont-equivocate-perelson/ Former president of Nickelodeon Albie Hecht has raised $9 million and secured distribution partners for his new family-friendly digital production studios Worldwide Biggies. NBC Universal, Hearst Corp., Alan Patricof's Greycroft LLC, Platform Equity and PrismVentureWorks have backed the venture, which will focus on digital fare including web shorts, games and ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/08/07/some-news-items/ Nine new NBC Universal channels were added to Verizon Wireless' V Cast mobile TV service, including offerings from NBC's prime time and late night shows, NBC News, NBC Sports, Access Hollywood, Telemundo, Mun2, Bravo and iVillage. Clips from Heroes, Friday Night Lights, The Office, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/08/01/daily-brief-nbcvcast-itunes/ (from Cynopsis Digital) Former MTV and VH1 executive Rob Barnett has gathered together some big names in comedy and music for the launch of MyDamnChannel today, a new online entertainment studio/channel geared around regular episodic shows viewers can return to once a week. Mr. Barnett's strategy is to try and sign ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/07/31/mydamnchannel/ This time the founders are some dudes from Berkeley who have gotten big cash from the Woz (Steve Wozniak who founded Apple or something). The site is called Hotswap and the plan is to bring HD quality video to e-commerce. Specifically Hotswap's immediate plan is to focus on ... http://tubewire.opensourcecomedy.net/2007/07/30/another-internet-video-venture/