Here’s an interesting shift. While many content farms are expanding their pace and even going public, About.com is trying to step into the world of premium video.
The plan is to double the kind of high quality videos that are increasingly the long trail revenue drivers. This is similar to Youtube, which is spending $100 million to launch 20 channels with focuses on art, sports and entertainment, as well as celebrity driven specials. Read More
A lot of folks are convinced that the future of television is less about sitting down and enjoying a program and more about participating in the real-time conversation around what you’re watching.
New York startup Social Guide just raised $1.5 million to build out its list of trending shows and localized hash tags Read More
The last time we heard from Hulu CEO Jason Kilar he was feeling feisty, firing off a Jerry McGuire style blog post that basically asked the networks who created Hulu to stop kneecapping the site and let them get on with the business of reinventing TV. Read More
In the battle to build the universal screen, where anyone can watch anything from anywhere so long as they are a paying customer, Time Warner has gone into retreat. Read More
In the basement of the Crosby Street Hotel, Kiefer Sutherland munched on a miniature hamburger. He was wearing a gray blazer and pointy cowboy boots and bestowing hugs. “This all started with a challenge, which was to tell a story in five minutes,” he said. Read More
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar was feeling triumphant last night, having just won the right to start airing top properties like The Daily Show and Colbert Report again.
In a lengthy blog post, Kilar laid out the future of web TV as Hulu sees it, and didn’t mince words when describing the traditional Read More
