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Logo Shows to Get On-Demand Treatment at TLAondemand.comPosted by Danny King on November 20, 2008
A big fan of Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World? If so, you’re just about to get, uh, happier.Gay-and-lesbian oriented television network Logo will make its shows available for video-on-demand viewing at TLAondemand.com. So, in addition to Rick & Steve, Logo series such as Noah’s Arc and The Big Gay Sketch Show will be available on TLAondemand.com for those who missed out on the festivities the first time around. Viacom launched Logo last year as part of its MTV Networks division. Amazon: Champion of the indie film?Posted by Danny King on November 19, 2008
One may not associate Amazon.com with "indie cred" but it's not like the world's largest Internet retailer isn't trying.Last week, Amazon and New York-based independent film producer Cinetic Rights Management reached an agreement in which Amazon will exclusively sell Cinetic's film titles on DVD and for digital download. Amazon and Cinetic will release about 20 films a month, first on DVD, then through both Amazon's Video on Demand download and on Amazon's CreateSpace, which produces DVDs on demand, Cinetic said last week. Some of the titles to be released this month include the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk and the Stanley Tucci-starring A Modern Affair. Amazon has been trying to position CreateSpace, formerly known as Cu...Read More Amazon's new music 'stores': What, no Blasters?Posted by Danny King on November 18, 2008
Proving once again that you don't pay rent for more cyberspace, Amazon.com is trying to boost music sales heading into the holiday season by launching what it says are 100,000 music "stores" dedicated to particular musical artists. The Internet giant yesterday started promoting the new section by trumpeting (sorry) features such as pre-sales of a new EP in the Coldplay store, a photo gallery/retrospective in the Bob Dylan store and -- brace yourselves -- a drawing to win tickets t...Read More Naruto onlinePosted by Samantha Clark on November 17, 2008
Viz Media will debut the newest Naruto Shippuden episode online on Jan. 15, days after it airs in Japan. The episode from the hot anime series will be available for free on Naruto.com, and it will be available on Crunchyroll.com members through subscription or ad-supported. Crunchyroll says the title is one of many anime titles the site plans to bring online quickly following the Japanese broadcast. Viz also plans to debut on Naruto.com eight uncut, English-subtitled episodes of Naruto Shippuden online for free starting Jan. 2, with another eight bowing every Friday thereafter. A new episode will bow every Thursday after the Japanese premiere. AT&T's 'Crawler': Google for Web Videos?Posted by Danny King on November 11, 2008
In case you haven't noticed, AT& T wants to be everywhere. The telephone giant, which two years ago jumped into the television game with its U-verse service, yesterday said it's beta-testing a Web site that will help people search for and index their favorite Web videos. VideoCrawler (www.videocrawler.com) will index "hundreds of millions of video clips from thousands of sites," the company ...Read More YouTube to stream moviesPosted by Cheryl Cheng on November 7, 2008
For all the YouTube fans who love to watch short-form videos on the Google-owned site, expect feature films to soon be added. YouTube is currently in talks with at least one Hollywood movie studio for an ad-supported streaming movie service to launch as early as next month. There are still some problems to work out, however, such as whether enough ads can make the service profitable. Though a popular short-form video site, YouTube has yet to generate significant income. Following in the footsteps of iTunes, Amazon Video On Demand, Netflix’s Watch Now and CinemaNow, YouTube is hoping a streaming movie service will be the way to the green. CBS.com No. 1Posted by Samantha Clark on October 30, 2008
Looks like a lot more people are getting used to watching their TV shows online. According to ComScore Video Matrix, in September, CBS.com was No. 1 among the broadcast network Web sites in unique monthly users (6.1MM), video streams (44.4MM) and minutes streamed per user (143MM). The site also scored double digit growth in unique viewers month over month (16%) and year over year (60%). Plus, streams grew 107% over last year. According to a Los Angeles Times story, this could be a bad sign for regular TV, with consumers moving online. And with more and more online services streaming onto TV sets (Netflix just added TiVo to its plethora of ways to stream Netflix content on a TV set), we could see a lot more news like this. Industries: VOD/Downloads Online screaming with MovieFlixPosted by Danny King on October 29, 2008
It may not be a drive-in monster movie or even a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show but MovieFlix still thinks there are horrors to be had at the computer screen. The closely held movie-download service is celebrating Halloween most of the week with its Halloween Horror Film Festival, featuring exclusive screenings of movies ranging from Bela Lugosi's Apeman to Little Shop of Horrors, which features the awesomely booming pipes of the recently and dearly departed Levi Stubbs as the voice of the blood-swilling plant Audrey II. Trivia and giveaways are also part of the festivities. ...Read More CBS, Saturn team up on WebisodesPosted by Danny King on October 22, 2008
It ain't Dinah Shore singing See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet, but it's not far off. CBS.com next month will debut Novel Adventures, a Web-based series created by Jonathan Prince (The Cleaner) and starring Daphne Zuniga, of One Tree Hill fame, and How I Met Your Mother's Ashley Williams. The series, which is slated for eight Webisodes for starters and also stars Paola Turbay and Jolie Jenkins, centers on four book club members inspired to pursue various adventures from the novels they read. ...Read More Big bow for online premiere of PrincessPosted by Samantha Clark on October 21, 2008
Here's even more evidence that online video-on-demand is taking off, and not just for funny "cat attacks tootbrush" videos. Magnolia debuted Wayne Wang's feature-length The Princess of Nebraska on YouTube over the weekend and it scored 160,000 views. According to VB sister publication Variety, that would have been a 15th place ranking if the movie had been in theaters. But the question is, if it had been in theaters, would it have made that much? To go to a theater, a viewer has to get dressed, get in the car, drive to the theater, buy a ticket, find a seat and do all this to coincide with the showing times the theater has ...Read More Joost tries out FlashPosted by Samantha Clark on October 15, 2008
Looking to compete more closely with Hulu and YouTube, Joost has relaunched with a Flash-based player and content from CBS, Warner and Viacom networks. To add more flash to its service, it has boosted its social networking features, according to VB sister publication Broadcasting & Cable. Being part Facebook and part cable provider seems like it could be a good move. Industries: VOD/Downloads NBC, Fox, Disney make movesPosted by Samantha Clark on October 14, 2008
Bunch of international digital news: First up, from MIPCOM, Disney has signed a deal with Microsoft to put content on MSN Video for European audiences and will offer up Ugly Betty, and others, for VOD broadcast in Poland. And Fox is offering up content for digital delivery in Germany and Netherlands, as well as other European territories, through a deal with RTL Group's Broadcasting Center Europe. And on the local front, NBC Local Media will roll out city-centric Web sites that will include content from a variety of sources, including NBC local stations. The distribution format expands further and further. Industries: Studios/Suppliers
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