Online television network Next New Networks and the creators of the popular Web channel BarelyPolitical have launched a new comedy network called BarelyDigital, the companies announced today. The tech humor site will feature satirical content sending up the technology world….
The Catholic Church launched its own channel on YouTube as part of Pope Benedict XVI’s efforts to reach out to a broader audience, the Associated Press reports. The Pope praised social networks as a way to create friendships and understanding,…
Media companies are mining their vaults to take old shows and turn them into online clips, the New York Times says. The paper interviews one of the producer-editors, or preditors, at Discovery Communications who creates the short video bits that…
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Popular Internet celebrity iJustine is preparing to introduce closed captioning to accompany her quirky online videos within the next few weeks, underscoring the growing trend of using subtitles in online video to reach wider audiences. iJustine, whose name is Justine…
In the media business it’s often said that content is king, but perhaps that old bromide needs to be reframed in our iTunes-Amazon-Netflix-Comcast-YouTube-Veoh-Google world. In today’s far-flung universe of portals and sites and RSS feeds, could distribution be king, too?…