Ned Randolph
Ned Randolph is a reporter for Video Business and VideoBusiness.com.
THE DOWN LOWRecent PostsOnline Video Rises, Google Floats HighestJanuary 17, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) According to a new report by the research firm, comScore, Google increased its video market share in November by more than 2 percentage points to 31.3%. The comScore survey, called the Video Metrix Report, found that American Internet users watched 3.25 hours of online video in November, totaling 9.5 billion online videos. Among all sites, Google's ranked first with a total of 3 billion videos viewed. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 419 million videos viewed or 4.4%, followed by Yahoo! sites with 328 million or 3.5% and Viacom Digital with 245...Read More Industries: Studios/Suppliers, Technology, VOD/Downloads Recent PostsWriter's Strike, Cancellations casting Out ViewersJanuary 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1) A pair of recent studies by Nielson Online and Pew Internet and American Life Project show an increasing number of Americans visiting online web sites -- including amateur sites where they watch and post videos -- in the last year and some sites such as YouTube and Crackle spiking upward in visits cooinciding with the writer's strike that started in late October. And some companies, like Blockbuster, say they expect customers to rent more DVDs, as the television content grows stale with the elongated strike. According to Nielsen Online, sites like YouTube and Crackle, have experienced unprecedented growth in the two months since the strike began. YouTube's audience wa...Read More Industries: Retail, Studios/Suppliers, Technology, VOD/Downloads What's your Green Initiative?Recent PostsWriter's Strike Sending Viewers online, to storesJanuary 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) New evidence suggest that visits to online video sites have risen drammatically in the last year, aided in part by the ongoing writer's strike and lack of new material on TV. ...Read More
A pair of recent studies by Nielson Online and Pew Internet and American Life Project show an increasing number of Americans visiting online web sites -- including amateur sites where they watch and post videos -- in the last year and some sites such as YouTube and Crackle spiking upward in visits cooinciding with the writer's strike that started in late October. And some companies, like Blockbuster, say they expect customers to rent more DVDs, as the television content grows stale with the elongated strike. According to Nielsen Online, sites like YouTube and Crackle, have experienced unprecedented growth in the two months since the strike began. YouTube's a Industries: Retail, Technology, VOD/Downloads THE DOWN LOWRecent PostsMore Speculation for Apple RentalsJanuary 9, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2) And it appears that he may have inked the deals in time to make headlines when he opens the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday. Bloomberg reported today that Jobs has cut a deal with Warner Bros. in addition to Paramount, Walt Disney Co., Lionsgate and Fox to offer $3.99 rentals on iTunes. Not expected to join the club is NBC Universal, which had a public nasty with Apple this fall and pulled all of its programming from the web store. No one in Apple's camp or any of the studios has commented on the speculation. The rental content would help boost sales of Apple products that are ve...Read More Industries: Retail, Studios/Suppliers, VOD/Downloads Recent PostsMOD POD to Sell Digital Content in StoresJanuary 9, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) MOD Systems, which has a pilot program to deliver digital music at Best Buy stores, has begun selling its new "MOD POD" consumer kiosks to retailers. A 10-inch by 8-inch touch screen device, the MOD POD enables customers to search, sample and download digital content onto media storage devices, while inside a retail store. The $1,000 consumer kiosk is sold by MOD Systems as part of a "turnkey solution" for retailers to manage a virtual inventory of digital content at both the corporate and store level to augment their physical inventory. The complete solution, in addition to the MOD POD, includes the MOD Systems data center, a corporate server, a device to burn CDs and DVDs, the MOD player, and the MOD Web Store, which is a websit Industries: Retail, VOD/Downloads
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