Posts Tagged ‘ ABC ’

Video Blogger Brigitte Dale Moving To ABC Family

Sep 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Video blogger Brigitte Dale, above, has announced that she’s moving to ABC Family.
Dale’s video blog, which covers news, pop culture and twenty-something issues, will be featured on ABCFamily.com starting this month.
Ms. Dale will continue to write, produce and edit the video blog, which will be produced in partnership with Stage 9 Digital Media.
“We are very [...]



ABC Wants You To Watch More Ads Online

May 2nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV

ABC wants to test your limits to see how much advertising you’re willing to sit through to watch Lost, Desperate Housewives & other shows online
According to a Hollywood Reporter article, Disney-ABC Television Group plans to test inserting multiple commercials into ad breaks for primetime series on its broadband player.
“It would be premature for us to [...]



Amanda Congdon & ABC To Part Ways?

Sep 21st, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Gawker is reporting that pioneering video blogger Amanda Congdon and ABC will be parting ways:
We hear that ABC News vlogger Amanda Congdon’s contract won’t be renewed. Congdon, who came to fame at RocketBoom, started contributing to their website late last year. She has been quite productive recently���taking tours of homes in Santa Barbara and talking [...]



Major Broadcasters Taking Baby Steps Into Internet Media

Sep 21st, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts

This year, it’s looking more and more like the major broadcast networks are going to be taking baby steps into Internet media, experimenting with a variety of different methods of delivery while trying to protect their traditional business model:

Fox plans to offer the season premiere episodes of seven programs for free through Apple’s iTunes store, [...]



Start The Holidays Right With Amanda Congdon, Body Oil & Live Video Chat

Dec 22nd, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Digital Video Downloads, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Networks, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

What do you get when you mix Amanda Condgon, body oil and video chat?
Starring Amanda Congdon, a new video blog, featuring the video blogger and former Rocketboom host scheduled, to debut today on Blip.tv. The show is one of the first video blogs to debut with the support of major sponsors, Dove Cream Oil [...]



More Proof That People Hate Intrusive Advertising In Online Video

Dec 19th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Remember Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron’s recent critique of ABC’s new Amanda Congdon video blog? One of his chief complaints was the show’s “irrelevant pre-roll ads that outlast many people‚Äôs curiosity.”
While Baron’s critique may not be completely impartial, his experience as a video podcasting pioneer gives him insight into what works and doesn’t work in video [...]



Amanda Congdon Moves To ABC, Feeds On The Way

Dec 14th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Making Money with Podcasts, Streaming Video, Vlogs

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon has made the move to ABC, where she “dishes” the news with the same irreverence that made her a video podcasting star.
ABC calls her work a videoblog. There’s no RSS feeds currently, and you have to sit through ads and you have to watch it through a pop-up interface. Feeds [...]



ABC - “Desperate” for Internet Viewers

May 1st, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: General

ABC has published the first episodes of four prime-time television shows for on-demand downloading, including current episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost, Commander in Chief and Alias. The trial was announced in March.

The videos display in a Flash-based interface. Users can jump ahead to later in the video, but can’t skip advertisements. The shows are still [...]