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Video

Hulu Casually Jumps Into Top 5 US Video Sites

March 23, 2009

Hulu made some serious ground last month, overtaking not only Viacom but Microsoft as well in the top US video sites category.  Looks as if they can even use Yahoo as a goal for March.
comScore VideoMetrix is reporting a 42% unique and 33% stream increase in February, up from 24.5 million uniques and 250.5 million [...]

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CollegeHumor To Be A Show On MTV…Soon

December 18, 2008

Barry Diller’s InterActive Corp. (IAC), which struck a TV deal about the life of the crew working at their popular video destination, CollegeHumor in July, is close to airing. 
The show looks to be like a younger version of the ‘office’ mixed with some of the usual craziness that comes out of the CollegeHumor production team. [...]

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Microsoft Goes To Battle With Adobe

December 17, 2008

Microsoft takes the main-stage to battle Adobe and a slew of startup companies trying to be the leader in Web video and collaborative animation/web design tools. The WSJ outlines the major online destinations that have gone with each service this year. For example, Netflix, CBS, The Olynpics (via NBC.com) have all gone with Microsoft’s Silverlight player this year [...]

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Facebook Video Gets Upgrade: Embeddable Videos & 720P

December 8, 2008

Facebook video has flown somewhat under the radar since its launch last year.  Even though it’s a small part of the site, it still pulls in some 100,000 new videos everyday, with a total of over 45 million.
Facebook just announced some upgrades to their video service that’s sure to up those numbers in the upcoming [...]

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Eyyy Anvato, Help Me Find My Videos

December 8, 2008

Anvato is a new startup that can identify videos across the web using an automated visual detection engine. Anvato’s technology can recognize content regardless of meta data or destination.
The company has raised $2 million in a partial Series A funding round led by Oxantium Ventures and is currently seeking more investment.
This is a great tool [...]

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