Posts Tagged ‘ user-generated media ’

Tiger Woods On Dealing With Fanboy Critics

Aug 21st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

More and more companies are finding themselves dealing with user-generated criticism - on blogs, forums and on YouTube.
This video is a great example of how to deal with this.
As a response to a fan video for Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 that points out an apparent glitch in the game, Tiger Woods and EA Sports [...]



The Real Reason YouTube Can’t Make Money: Teleporting Fat Guy

Jul 3rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Video

Google has a problem.
It’s got the biggest video destination on the Internet - YouTube - but it’s struggling to find a way to make money with the site.
Meanwhile, Hulu is “kicking YouTube’s ass”, and building a business on long tail video that’s advertiser-friendly.
Google’s problem, in a nutshell, is the fact that most of the content [...]



YouTube Yanking 1 In 12 Videos

May 20th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

YouTube is removing about 1 in 12 of its popular videos, according to stats collected by YouTomb.
YouTomb is tracking the videos because of concerns that YouTube may be pulling videos that may incorporate copyrighted material under fair use.
Currently:

223,187 YouTube videos are being monitored by YouTomb;
4,395 of these videos have been taken down because of copyright [...]



New Free NIN Track

May 3rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music

Nine Inch Nails has released a new free mp3 single, Echoplex, via the music site iLike. You can check it out below.
NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music:

The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or use [...]

 
icon for podpress  Echoplex: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


Clay Shirky On Why User-Generated Media Is Better Than Gilligan’s Island

Apr 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Author Clay Shirky gave a speech at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008, that touched on his idea of the social surplus - the vast quantity of people’s time that is being freed up to do user-generated media, Wikipedia and other useful things as they move their attention from television to the Internet
Along the [...]



New Media Is Going Mainstream

Dec 28th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Internet TV, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics, Streaming Video, Video

Internet media is moving to the mainstream, according to research from Deloitte & Touche:

38% of Americans are watching TV shows online.
36% use their cell phones for entertainment.
54% of Americans use social networking sites, chat rooms or message boards to socialize.
45 percent have a profile on a social networking site.
Online ads are second only to TV [...]