Video Magazines to Launch

Entertainment Weekly (owned by CBS) will on September 18th run the first video ad inside a magazine promoting Pepsi Max. The revolutionary technology comes from Americhip.   The technology for the battery-powered ads can handle about 40 minutes of video. The screen, is 2.7 mm thick with a 320×240 resolution screen which uses thin film transistor liquid [...]

YouTube Redesign focusses on Search and AdSense

YouTube has launched a home page redesign which brings search more to the fore. Not surprising given it is the second biggest search engine on the web, after parent company Google. However I suspect the redesign is more about the launch of YouTube AdSense.   An evolutionary change reducing clutter and putting focus on search. [...]

Americans watching 13 billion online videos a month

Americans watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago, according to numbers released Monday by market researcher ComScore.   Driven primarily by YouTube 77% of the US internet population viewed online videos in 2008. With the already massive volume of online video content further increasing in quantity, quality their is not a [...]

Finally you can get your video top of YouTube

Finally YouTube announced on Wednesday that they will be copying parent company, Google’s core advertising search business model and offering reverse auction bids for top of search placement of videos. This will enable both corporate, SME, and even hard core video producers, the ability to get their video (ad) to the top of the list. [...]

Yellowbook.com follows onto Youtube.com

Yellowbook.com, the US directory giant, announced today a content distribution agreement with YouTube™, the world’s most popular online video community allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally created videos, to showcase yellowbook.com’s video advertisers across YouTube’s network. Good to see major media companies folowing on from start-ups like us here at Siverlinemedia.tv in [...]

German video consumption on youtube

25.9 million German Internet users viewed more than 3 billion videos online in August 2008 according to the comScore Video Metrix service. That’s an incredible 95 videos per user with the average video playing just over 4 minutes.  Google Sites lead the pack, primarily due to YouTube. Therefore the total German online video viewing audience in August watched an [...]

‘Distribute your content’ – You Tube Founder

At Silverlinemedia.tv we distribute our clients videos to all the key video sharing sites plus targeted niche sites. Distribution of content to the right audience is obviously critical. YouTube  Cofounder Chad Hurley, 31,  speaking at the MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, has compared the current state of online video to the nascent years of television.  Yes, we get that. The [...]