The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NBC failed to cash in on interest in the Olympics with its online presence:
NBC’s decision to limit the amount of Olympics footage on its Web site has ticked off sports fans. But that decision could also dog the network in another way: NBCOlympics.com will generate just $5.75 million [...]

Last week, we asked Is It Too Early To Declare NBC’s Online Olympic Coverage A Failure?
If your comments are any indication, the answer is a resounding “No!”. A lot of Podcasting News readers are frustrated with the hassles of NBC’s 2008 Olympic coverage.
Here’s a sampling of what readers had to say about NBC’s online Olympic [...]

We’ve published several articles looking at how NBC & the Olympics are losing viewers with the restrictions they’ve placed on online coverage, and noted that millions may be turning to unofficial sources like BitTorrent or skipping the Olympics altogether as a result.
Some think that NBC has a winning strategy, though: use online video to drive [...]

Make magazine has announced a new project a new national public television series, Make: television, coming in January, 2009, and is looking for Makers to submit projects to be featured on the show:
Each week, Make: television will showcase the best projects from Makers who submit their videos, a segment of the show we call Maker [...]

Professor Michael Wesch’s presentation on the Anthropology of YouTube at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.
It’s a great presentation, jam-packed with information, but with enough new media references to make it a lot of fun, too.
More info on Professor Wesch at his Kansas State University site on Digital Ethnography.

28 percent of Europeans now regularly watch online video, more than double the rate in 2006, according to a new report from JupiterResearch. In addition, time spent watching online video has grown by 50 percent in the last 12 months.
Short form video content – typified by YouTube - currently accounts for most of this. Just [...]

Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder is heading to Internet television, as the star of Electric Farm Entertainment’s zombie comedy Woke Up Dead.
The comedy centers on a USC student who wakes up underwater in the bathtub one morning and suspects that he might be dead.
Woke Up Dead will be a series of fifty three-minute episodes, designed for [...]

Despite the success of Hulu, a lot of people seem to be struggling with the simple idea that people want free, ad-supported Internet television.
A new survey may help change that. The survey (Ipsos) found that three out of four people are willing to watch some ads in exchange for free TV shows and movies.
The Shorter [...]

A new version of aTV Flash, a $49.95 software upgrade to enhance the functionality of your Apple TV, has been released that’s compatible with the version 2.1 of Apple TV firmware.
aTV Flash adds support for more video formats, USB external hard drives & web browsing.
Key Features:

Play most video formats (DivX, Xvid, AVI, WMV, [...]

Google’s problem with YouTube is even bigger than many thought.
More than 97% of YouTube’s videos are deadweight - videos that the company can’t put ads on.
According to Silicon Alley Insider’s Michael Learmonth:
We know Google’s (GOOG) YouTube is a tough sell for advertisers. But video site’s sales team may be having an even tougher time than [...]