Sony Looks to Have PS3 Online Video Service by Summer Sony, whose PlayStation 3 helped the company’s Blu-ray win the next-generation DVD player format war, will launch an online video service for the game console as early as this summer,…
Viewers switching to digital TV broadcast may find they need to buy a new antenna to go with their new sets or converter boxes, the New York Times says. “The bigger the better,” advises the director of technology and standards…
YouTube continued to smoke the competition in the number of videos watched each month, posting a 24% gain in March compared with the month before, according to the latest Video Census figures from Nielsen Online. The world’s biggest video-sharing site…
Online video ad network Broadband Enterprises has paired up with technology firm ScanScout to provide in-stream video ads and overlay ads to Broadband Enterprises’ affiliated Web sites. Broadband Enterprises counts more than 1,800 sites in its network and will use…
Podcast provider PodShow is relaunching its service today as Mevio with a focus on original episodic content programmed for the Internet, the company said. Mevio said it will offer “millions” of hours of episodic programming, videos and music centered around…
Comedy Central’s long-running cartoon “South Park” has successfully bridged the gap from the pre-Internet era to now both in its latest episodes on cable and with its new Web site, the Los Angeles Times says. Co-creator Trey Stone says he’s…
Amazon.com Inc. may provide data on how its digital-media initiatives are faring as it announces quarterly earnings Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reports. Deutsche Bank estimates Amazon has invested $300 million on its downloading service over the past three years,…
Sen. Barack Obama is No. 1 in the Web video race. According to a study released today by Nielsen Online, Sen. Obama’s Web site had the most unique viewers of video content for the month of March, at 518,000. Sen….
NBC News and MSNBC.com have partnered with MySpace to create an election-related destination on the social-networking site that features news, analysis and discussion about politics. The information hub, Decision ’08, will feature live election coverage, news feeds, and recap videos…
Online video company Break Media has formed the Online Video Advertising ROI Council, the company announced today. The purpose of the group is to analyze and determine online video advertising effectiveness. Break Media is the parent company for Break.com, the…