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Virgin Media Served Almost 300m BBC iPlayer Videos Since Launch
Virgin Media has served almost 300 million views on its BBC iPlayer service, launched in May 2008. Monthly views have increased from 10.5 million views in June 2008 to 20 million views in December 2009.
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Player had 25 million views on Virgin Media...
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Univision’s YouTube Offering Goes Live
Making good on their November agreement, Google and the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision have launched a new YouTube channel that offers full-length TV show episodes and clips of other content from Univision, TeleFutura and Galavision.
Content on the new channel includes some of its more popular shows like...
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Ustream Lands up to $75m for More Live Web Streams
Ustream, the provider of a live video streaming service that incorporates real-time interaction with social networks, has closed its latest round of funding, which could bring in as much as $75 million. The round, led by Japan’s Softbank, will give Ustream $20 million now, and Softbank has the...
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Talk Talk to Become a Pay-TV Service
Talk Talk, the broadband service provider that’ll soon be spun out of Carphone Warehouse, is likely to offer a pay-TV service in 2011 over its broadband network, according to documents the company made public. BT already uses its broadband network to deliver its BT Vision pay-TV service.
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Wikipedia Readying Video
Wikimedia, the company behind various Net-information services such as Wikipedia, said that it has installed a new server that will allow for a large increase in video being uploaded to its encyclopedia site and others.
Video for Wikipedia was believed to be showing up last year, but...
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Reuters Launches Web Video Service
The news agency Reuters has announced plans to create a new video news platform for US newspapers, magazines and radio stations, partnering with News Distribution Network (NDN) for the service. Initially, the companies said the service will deliver licensed video content from partners including CBS News and E!...
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YouTube Shows off Presidential Credentials
YouTube has posted the video of its interview with President Barack Obama, taking questions submitted by YouTube users after his State of the Union address last week. The company said it received more than 11,000 questions for the President and more than 55,000 votes on which of these...
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Netflix Picks up More Flicks
The DVD rental and movie streaming service Netflix has announced a variety of new deals with independent film distributors to expand its instant streaming library. Deals with six new distributors will make roughly 300 new titles available for instant streaming. Some titles are already available, and others will...
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Hulu, CBS to Host Super Bowl Ads
Super Bowl Sunday is arguably one of the biggest money days for advertisers and often features commercials pushing the envelope. This year, Hulu and CBS Sports are giving all the ads space on their sites after they air. At Hulu.com/adzone and CBSSports.com, users will be able to see...
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Bollywood Film Hits YouTube, Theaters Same Day
The new Bollywood film "Striker" will be perhaps the first in its genre to premiere specifically on Google’s YouTube this Friday, the same day as its theatrical release. The film will be one of the new round of content YouTube tests its rental offerings with and so far...
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ITN First With German Show Biz Channel on YouTube
ITN this week launched the first German-language show biz news channel for YouTube. It’s called Promi411, and it’s at: http://www.youtube.com/PROMI411
The site offers celebrity news from around the globe.
ITN said its English-language show biz is one of the most viewed channels on YouTube....
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Sony PSP App to Stream Live Arsenal Football — Sort Of
Sony Computer Entertainment has announced a new app for its handheld PlayStation Portable that will provide live streaming video of the Arsenal’s English Premier League football matches, with one huge caveat: Users apparently must be in the Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. Users can see goal replays, player information and...
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Verizon Premieres Olympics Channel
Verizon Wireless has launched a 2010 Olympics channel from NBC on its V Cast Video.
Verizon has partnered with NBC for multi-platform coverage of the Winter Olympic Games; full coverage will begin February 12 with the games’ opening ceremonies.
Verizon will offer coverage on...
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