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for: ‘June, 2010’

If you’ve been sitting on the fence about whether to attend the VideoSchmooze breakfast/panel discussion in LA on Tues, June 15th, the early bird discount ends today, so save by registering now! The event will be at the luxurious SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. The topic of our panel discussion, which I’ll moderate, is “How …

Search engine MeFeedia is announcing this morning a new real-time analytics suite for HTML5 video viewed using the company’s All Player. Content providers using All Player will be able to track a variety of data for video consumed across all devices supporting HTML5 – iPads, iPhones, Android phones and the web. They can view data …

Cisco released its annual Visual Networking Index forecast today, a model based on a combination of analyst projections and data collected from Cisco customers. Cisco is forecasting that global IP traffic will increase 4.3 times though 2014 and that video will be the primary driver, accounting for 91% of traffic by 2014. Video’s dominance is …

Mobile video ad network Transpera is announcing this morning that it has raised a Series C round of $9 million, led by BlackBerry Partners Fund, with participation from existing investors Flybridge Capital Partners, First Round Capital, Intel Capital and Labrador Ventures. Transpera CEO Frank Barbieri told me yesterday that total company funding to date is …

comScore has released its new online video rankings for April ’10 which show total videos viewed of 30.3 billion, down almost 3% from the prior month’s 31.2 billion. As a result, YouTube, which was roughly flat in April at 13.1 billion videos, saw its market share increase to 43.5%, its highest level since July ’08. …

A heads-up that the early bird discount for the June 15th VideoSchmooze LA breakfast end this Friday. The breakfast and panel discussion will be at the beautiful SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills. The topic of our panel discussion is “How Hollywood Succeeds in the Digital Distribution Era.”   Click here to learn more and take …

A couple of weeks ago at the Google I/O conference, YouTube provided a tantalizing glimpse of a new UI called “Leanback” which optimizes YouTube for viewing on TV. With Leanback, YouTube videos can be navigated and consumed in more of a TV-like manner – more passively and for longer durations. Converting YouTube – the king …

A report this morning from Rhythm New Media, a firm that develops mobile video apps for TV programs and runs its own mobile video ad network, provides fresh reasons to be bullish on mobile video. The report is based on an estimated 250 million video views/month that Rhythm has tracked in Q1 ’10 on its …

Roku will begin pushing out a snazzy new UI for Netflix Watch Instantly users tomorrow. I’ve been playing around with it today and can enthusiastically say it’s a huge step forward over the prior UI. First and foremost the new UI allows on-screen search, browse and Watch Instantly queuing – features that eliminate the process …

Daisy Whitney and I are pleased to present the 63rd edition of the VideoNuze Report podcast, for May 27, 2010. In today’s podcast Daisy starts us off by discussing her New Media Minute this week, in which she highlights recent research from Yankee Group forecasting that 1 in 8 consumers will become cord-cutters in the …

I’ll (Grant Crowell here) be at the 2010 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE) June 8-11, 2010 at the McCormick Place West in downtown Chicago. I plan to report on what are the latest proven technologies and marketing strategies in e-commerce, and how online video is becoming an increasingly important part of that mix. ReelSEO …

It’s time again for our weekly Viral Video Round Up series, where we analyze the very hottest viral video hits for clues about how we, too, can go viral.  We have some excellent examples this week—including a bonus forth example beyond our traditional three—and some great reminders and nuggets of wisdom we can all apply …