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Looking back at TV’s past to foreshadow it’s future...
Posted in IPTV, Television, News on July 5th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
How what’s important in a communication platform is changing values, and how TV’s future business model could be in it’s past. (more…)
Live TV: Where Traditional Broadcasters Will Live On...
Posted in IPTV, Television, News on June 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Broadcasting used to require an expensive, government auctioned, broadcasting license. It granted the right to use a portion of the limited radio frequency spectrum. With cable and satellite, the limited radio spectrum issue was largely solved, (more…)
It’s payback time: Monetizing User Generated Content...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, Advertising, News on June 28th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
‘Can User Generated Content (UCG) be monetized?’ A new study by Bear Stearns is asking (Via The Long Tail). ‘Yes.’ would be the answer of 20-year-old Brandon Fletcher, who just signed a revenue-sharing deal with YouTube for his online dating show. (more…)
A Successful Business Model in an Evolving TV...
Posted in IPTV, Television, News on June 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
What used to be the device that living rooms where designed around is losing it’s spotlight to younger and more intelligent gadgets such as the PC or the mobile phone. Or isn’t it? The fact that Joost might soon be bundled with your brand new TV, or your future cable/satellite box, might indicate that rather than disapearing, TV is finally evolving. (more…)
Mini Episodes, a possible first step into IPTV...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Mobile, News on June 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Following the Snack Size Contents trend we reported about a few months ago, Sony Pictures Television recently launched on MySpace what they call their minisode network. It features carefully reedited versions of their “out of catalog” TV shows so that, while preserving the story arc, each chapter is reduced to about six minutes. Pre-roll ad included. Here at Bamboo we’ve been working on that very same concept, applied to live TV. (more…)
Youtubing: Turning a brand into a cultural practice...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, Mobile, News on June 21st, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Every week, we hear news from YouTube. Exciting, interesting, groundbreaking. No way to ignore them. Especially not if our goal is to cover new developments and new technologies in media. But we started to ask ourself: Are we still reflecting? What about all the other platforms, other companies, other brands? And here, while asking the question, we already got the answer: YouTube is more than a brand, more than just a name between others. It is actually on its way to become a cultural practice. (more…)
YouTube to start filtering copyrighted contents...
Posted in IPTV, News on June 14th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Eagerly awaited by the film and television industries as well as by copyright owners all over the world, Google announced its development of Video Fingerprinting (more…)
Links from Last Week...
Posted in IPTV, News on June 14th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
1 Apple plots a DVD player for the broadband era
As explained by Om Malik, Apple’s strategy for Internet Video is based on Apple TV and the iTunes model that has worked so well for their music business. (more…)
Of love, politics and money: YouTube and broadcast television...
Posted in IPTV, Television, News on June 8th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
In the exciting times of the starting love between broadcasting and Internet video services, it seems almost unromantic to make distinctions between them. But this is politics: (more…)
Links from Last Week...
Posted in IPTV, News on June 8th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
News from the familiy: Digital Television
All this talking about Joost and ignoring the fact that this little boy is not an only child: Babelgum launched its beta phase. Like Joost, it is showing hundreds of hours of content to invited viewers. (more…)