By admin at August 11, 2008 0 Comments
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges against four Google executives over a video posted on Google’s Italian web site showing a disabled teen with Down Syndrome being taunted by peers. The United Kingdom’s TimesOnline reports that the clip, which lasts for 191 seconds, “showed the youths making fun of the teenager before hitting him over the head.”
Prosecutors are expected to ask that Google executives stand trial on More»
Labels: charges, google, italy, video
By Daya Baran at July 30, 2008 0 Comments
Google’s YouTube has been sued by Mediaset SpA, the television company controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Mediaset is seeking 500 million Euros in “immediate damages” or approximately US$800 million. Lost advertising revenue linked to the videos may add to the amount of compensation said Mediaset.
According to the lawsuit Google and YouTube allegedly carried out the “illegal distribution and commercial use of audio and video files” owned by Mediaset. A sample analysis run More»
Labels: google, video, Youtube
By Daya Baran at July 09, 2008 0 Comments
The WSJ has an interesting article on the difficulty Google is having monetizing YouTube. Some of the reasons include the enormous difficulty advertisers have understanding YouTube’s ad sales system. Google has identified some 105 problems with the system. Despite all the bragging about Google’s technical competence they lack a fully automated billing system for YouTube, Google staffers had to calculate some bills manually further compounding the constellation of errors. More >>
We have had a challenge … with social networking inventory as a whole and some More»
Labels: google, Online Advertising, video, Youtube
By Reshma Kumar at June 30, 2008 2 Comments
Dell has teamed up with SightSpeed to deliver “Dell Video Chat” a communications application now being bundled with Dell’s new Studio laptops. The application also includes instant messaging and Internet voice phone capability for a full suite of communications options. Video chat is gaining acceptance as a way to stay in touch with friends and family across the country or the globe.
The application is pre-installed on the systems and is activated with one mouse click. SightSpeed has also made it easy for users to share the application with their friends and family who can simply download the “invitee” client program More»
Labels: multimedia, video
By Joseph Hunkins at May 20, 2008 0 Comments
WASHINGTON D.C. From Senate Committee on Homeland Security:Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Monday called on Google to remove Internet video content produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda. The videos – readily available on YouTube –show assassinations, deaths of U.S. soldiers and civilians, weapons training, incendiary speeches by al-Qaeda leadership, and other material intended to encourage violence against the West.
The videos are branded with Al-Qaeda logos – a practice detailed in a recent bipartisan Committee staff report entitled “Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat.” These production logos are More»
Labels: video
By Daya Baran at May 05, 2008 0 Comments
Google has filed a patent application for “Targeted Video Advertising” with the USPTO, for “a computer-implemented method of providing targeted video promotional material”.
The process being patented includes transmitting a promotional item for display on a video terminal, monitoring a viewer’s interactions with particular advertisements, such as skipping advertisements and presenting advertisements determined to be similar to those that the user has watched and less like those the user has skipped. The “Targeted Video Advertising” patent application suggests it may go into set-top boxes.
The patent also covers the following More»
Labels: Online Advertising, video
By Daya Baran at April 02, 2008 1 Comments
Video search engine Blinkx is launching its own Internet TV service called BBTV. Viewers will be able to surf the web within full-screen video, as well as jump around using keyword search for specific dialog. This is was something Blinkx Founder & CTO, Suranga Chandratillake has hinted to me way back at one of the WebGuild events.
According to Blinkx the service harnesses their core speech recognition video transcription technology to offer searchability and clickable subtitles that point to web pages. This allows advertisements to be targeted to certain keywords More»
Labels: Online Advertising, video, WebGuild
By Daya Baran at April 01, 2008 0 Comments
Having witnessed the tremendous success Barack Obama has had with YouTube, heads of state and royalty from around the world are taking a page from The Book of Barack. Barack’s video which the producer hoped to get 100,000 views got 2,000,000 million view in 2 days.
Queen Rania of Jordan, has launched a YouTube channel to educate the west about the Arab World and dispel negative stereotypes about muslims. The Queen, who has been an outspoken advocate of women’s rights and education reform in the Arab world.
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Labels: barack obama, video
By Daya Baran at April 01, 2008 0 Comments
A report issued by Society for New Communications Research reveals that many companies are adopting social media as a marketing tool however they are struggling to find effective metrics.
The report is based on findings from a survey of 297 advertising, marketing, PR and corporate communications professionals, 57% felt social media tools are becoming more valuable, 27% of whom say that social media is a core element of their communications strategy.
The most popular social media tools used were;1) Blogs - 78%2) Online Video - 63%3) Social Networks - 56%4) Podcasts - 49%
Awareness and engagement were More»
Labels: Blogs, podcast, social media, social networks, video, wikis
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