Internet video viewing is leaving video-on-demand in the dust. That’s the conclusion of a new study from Solutions Research Group. The study found that, in November, about 20% of Internet users watched a TV show online each week, compared to…
HD programming picks for Jan. 31-Feb. 6: “The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Departed,” Super Bowl XLII “The Shawshank Redemption” (Cinemax). Thursday, Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m. ET. Combine Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins and Bob Gunton (yes, the Warden) with a Stephen King…
ROO Group, a service provider specializing in maximizing Web content usage for companies and advertisers, has created an alliance with Abacast and Pando Networks to offer peer-to-peer streaming video services. The companies will collaborate to offer live streaming and on-demand…
Elisabeth Murdoch, chairman-CEO of U.K. producer Shine, will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s Mip TV Featuring MILIA on April 7. This year’s event, with the theme “Audiences on the Move,” will focus on the latest global developments in…
Production company Endemol USA is producing an online game show in partnership with popular video Web site Metacafe, the companies announced today. The show, called “Buzzed,” will feature impromptu, man-on-the-street interviews with bar and nightclub patrons answering general-interest and pop…
YouTube’s audience grew for the first time in two weeks when it reached 30.3 million viewers for the week ending Jan. 20. That’s up from 29.7 million unique users for the week ending Jan. 13, according to Nielsen Online. MSN…
Online video ad network Tremor Media has partnered with video ad targeting firm Digitalsmiths to offer contextually relevant ads to the more than 800 Web sites in Tremor’s network, the companies announced today. Tremor reaches more than 92 million unique…
TVWeek writer Daisy Whitney is hitting Vegas to cover the convention of the National Association of Television Program Executives and delivers a preview of the show in her “New Media Minute.” New digital media shops are converging on NATPE to…
Al Gore’s Current Media filed plans for an initial public offering to sell up to $100 million in stock. Current operates a cable TV network that airs mostly user-generated content. It also has a related Web site. According to the…
Virgin America will begin to feature original content from Revision3, an online TV network that produces titles such as “Diggnation,” “Tekzilla” and “Web Drifter,” on its flights to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and…