Podcast Solutions, the “complete guide to podcasting” co-authored by award-winning podcaster (and Kindle fan) Michael Geoghegan, is now available on the Amazon Kindle.
Geoghegan is the creator of wine podcast Grape Radio (for which he won a James Beard award), and the behind-the-scenes Disney podcast, among others, and creator-facilitator of the Podcast Academy.
We first reviewed the [...]

Disney announced today that for the first time, the company will stream its full-length movies online.
The films will first air on ABC as part of the network’s weekly Wonderful World of Disney presentation on Saturday nights throughout summer 2008. The full-length films will then be available for free streaming online for the following week.
Here’s what they’ve lined [...]

Several of the world’s leading Internet and media companies today announced their joint support for a set of copyright guidelines for user-generated content designed to protect the intellectual property of content owners.
According to the companies, the principles offer a comprehensive set of guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) services and content creators work together to [...]

The modest success of Prom Queen, a teen drama serialized on MySpace, is demonstrating the economics of low-budget Internet video. The show, which mixes standard teen mystery fare with a dash of lonelygirl15, is the first production of Vuguru, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s new studio.
“Prom Queen” was designed to test the business model as [...]

Turner Broadcasting System’s TNT and TBS plan to stream all of their original summer series to the Web the morning after they premiere on TV. They will be available on the networks’ Websites, TNT.tv and TBS.com, the next day and remain online for about a month.
“We want new viewers to come in, and, while we [...]

Four major studios, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros, are reported to be pressuring Apple Computer are pressing Apple to make changes to iTunes before they will agree to make their films available via the iTunes Store.Currently, content on iTunes can be synced to an unlimited number of iPods. The studios want Apple [...]

Disney has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer’s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million, Disney chief executive Robert Iger said Tuesday. iTunes lets users purchase movies online that can be downloaded for viewing on a computer or on video iPods.
“Clearly customers are saying to us they want content [...]

You won’t hear it from Apple, but an Apple Movie Store appears to be on its way.During an earnings conference call last week, Lions Gate Entertainment CEO Jon Feltheimer said that his company had a digital delivery deal in place with iTunes, and that it would launch some time before the end of this year.
Lions [...]

Disney is using video podcasting to help promote the upcoming Pixar computer-animated film, Cars.
The movie, directed by John Lasseter (Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug’s Life), is a comedy adventure set inside the world of cars.

The video podcast features the kind of behind-the-scenes additions that are often added to DVD releases, including features on [...]

 

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