Google’s YouTube, the biggest Web-video sharing site, introduced a service that sells video advertisements linked to search results on the site, the Wall Street Journal says. The program will deliver users online commercials next to their search results and advertisers…
HD programming picks for Nov. 13-19: “Law & Order,” “Bad Boys,” “Rush Hour 3” “Law & Order” (NBC) Wed., Nov. 19, 10 p.m.: Lt. Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) and detectives Lupo (Jeremy Sisto) and Bernard (Anthony Anderson) square off…
Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy Done in by the struggling economy, electronics retailer Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, making it the largest retailer to do so in the current slowing market, Bloomberg reports. Suppliers, concerned…
On-demand providers Verizon FiOS TV and Vudu have beefed up their high-definition offerings. Verizon this week said it crossed the 1,000-title threshold, while Vudu claimed the largest HD library in existence with 1,100 titles. Aggressively adding HD content during the…
MGM and AT&T have signed a carriage deal placing MGM’s high-definition linear network, MGM HD, on the AT&T U-verse TV system, MGM announced Monday. The network will be offered on U-verse’s HD Premium package, a new tier of the service…
In the latest effort to wring revenue from YouTube, parent company Google said Wednesday that it will sell ad space on YouTube search-result pages. That means advertisers can buy keywords related to YouTube videos, similar to the model Google pioneered…
Comcast’s online video portal Fancast.com has linked up with four popular blogs to include their recommendations for top video picks on the site. Bloggers from Ask a Ninja, Boing Boing, Dooce and NOTCOT will pick the best Fancast.com content from…
Online video destination site Veoh Networks has partnered with SanDisk Corp. to offer the Veoh player on SanDisk’s portable flash drives. Under the deal, Veoh’s player will be integrated on SanDisk flash drives, which consumers use to store computer files….
According to a panel at the CTAM Summit in Boston, cable networks are not likely to get their own version of Hulu.com any time soon, Advertising Age reports. Cable networks still receive at least half of their revenue from cable…
Former Discovery Times general manager Vivian Schiller is leaving her current post as head of online operations at the New York Times to be president and CEO of National Public Radio, the New York Times reports. “What we were looking…