More than 1 million consumers have requested $40-off coupons for DTV converters in the first week the government offered the coupons. The Department of Commerce said today that consumers have requested 1.9 million coupons. Each household without satellite or cable…
The Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences is partnering with the Foo Fighters, CBS Interactive and YouTube on this year’s “My Grammy Moment” contest. After doing a similar contest that put an unknown singer on stage with Justin Timberlake during…
Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton’s war against YouTube didn’t last long. After posting a YouTube kiss-off video Dec. 20 urging other video creators to defect from the site as well, Mr. Hilton returned to the site Dec. 27 with a…
Video search service Truveo said it now indexes more than 100 million online videos. That’s 20 times the number of videos it tracked on the Web at the start of last year. A year ago, Truveo’s servers were adding 20,000…
Online video network Revision3 said it served up 11 million shows and 44 million clips in the fourth quarter of 2007, a more than five-fold increase from the first quarter of 2007, the company said. For the full year, Revision3…
YouTube’s audience grew slightly the week before Christmas, according to the latest weekly figures for video-sharing sites from Nielsen Online. YouTube, far and away the leader in video sites, drew 32.8 million unique visitors for the week ending Dec. 23,…
After a public split with popular video-sharing site YouTube last week, celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton said he’s rebuffing offers from other video sites and instead is testing out a private-label service from a little-known company called Twistage. With the…
Music network Fuse TV is kicking off the new year by offering free downloads of 50 songs on its Web site, Fuse.tv, Jan. 2-14. The music network is running its Web promotion “Dozen Days of Downloads” in partnership with major…
Cable network Current TV will carry a special performance on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day by one of the year’s most talked-about bands, Radiohead, the network announced today. Radiohead will perform all the songs from its new album…