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ClipBlast! distributes The Hill’s video content

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ClipBlastAs the action heats up on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, ClipBlast! announced that it is indexing video content from leading political newspaper The Hill.

ClipBlast! will index all current and future content from The Hill’s video channel, HillTube, including streaming videos from the site’s popular features Leading the News, Opinion, and Capital Living.

The Hill has a print circulation above 21,000, more than any other Capitol Hill publication. It is aimed at the 100 senators, 435 House members, 40,000 aides and tens of thousands in the influence industry whose work affects the lives of all Americans. The newspaper is a subsidiary of News Communications Inc., a publicly owned company.

Originally posted on April 1, 2008 @ 4:22 pm

MTV Networks delivers 57 million mobile video streams in a year

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MTV Networks announced that it streamed more than 57 million mobile videos across all its brands and carriers between February 2007 and February 2008, representing 94% growth over the year prior. The record growth capped off a year in which MTVN cemented its standing as the world’s largest provider of mobile video, with more than 100 days of mobile video content available globally.

All of MTVN’s brands experienced strong growth in mobile video, even as they achieved tremendous momentum across mobile websites, participation TV campaigns, games and more.

Originally posted on April 1, 2008 @ 11:02 am

KoldCast TV inks Internet television deal with Ester Goldberg

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KoldCast EMV, having officially launched its new media television network, KoldCast TV, has ordered 24 original episodes of “Showbiz Schmooze with Ester Goldberg,” a spin-off of the highly-popular MySpace Blog, “Views From A Broad.” Hosting this three-episode-a-week, 3-minute dish on show business and celebrity is actor and comic, Michael Airington, in character as the persistently irreverent and always charming 73- year-old International Glamour Puss of All Media, Ester Goldberg. New episodes of “Schmooze” will be available on-demand 7 days a week with original episodes releasing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays exclusively on KoldCast TV, beginning in early April.

KoldCast TV is a new media Television Network of Networks delivering a selective range of short-form professional programming on demand 24/7/365 to the public, with the primary charter of introducing genuinely creative talent to the masses via the Internet, traditional television, mobile and other digital devices.

Originally posted on March 29, 2008 @ 6:48 pm

Velocix releases complete family of scalable live streaming solutions

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velocix.pngVelocix announced the addition of a complete family of Live Video Streaming solutions to its current product portfolio. The Velocix Live Streaming product family includes: Velocix Live Video Streaming for Adobe Flash & Microsoft Windows Media, together with Velocix Live Audio Streaming.

Velocix Live Streaming also includes a revolutionary new hybrid-P2P live streaming option, which provides scalability to the largest global audiences for online video and audio events and broadcasts, with compelling delivery costs and economics. With these new services, Velocix further extends its lead in the provision of digital delivery services for large digital assets, such as video, software and games, offering the widest variety of online delivery options available on the market today.

Originally posted on March 26, 2008 @ 6:02 am

Study reveals video and Web 2.0 are helping companies increase collaboration

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Cisco released a study on the use of video and Web 2.0 technology in businesses worldwide. The study revealed that as consumer adoption of video and Web 2.0 has grown, companies are increasingly interested in using video to help grow their businesses, reach new customers, increase collaboration between their employees and look for more environmentally conscious means of communicating. More than half of the 850 corporate information technology (IT) decision makers surveyed say they are using video and Web 2.0 tools today. Another 25 percent said they are exploring such tools. However, nearly all those surveyed said more needs to be done to ready the network before they can implement video and Web 2.0 technologies to support organization-wide communication and collaboration.

Video and Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, Wikis, telepresence and web conferencing are helping companies to keep pace with rapid market changes. Nearly 30 percent of companies surveyed reported that the primary business reason for investing in video and Web 2.0 tools is to address the demand for innovative products and services from their customers. The desire to be more environmentally conscious (26 percent) was also reported as a consideration in rolling out video applications.

The new study includes responses from more than 850 corporate IT decision makers from companies with more than 1,000 employees in seven countries: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, Russia and Brazil. The research was written and analyzed in the fall of 2007 by an independent international third-party market research firm, Illuminas.

Originally posted on March 25, 2008 @ 10:39 am