Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
So YouTube want better recommendations?
Posted by: David on: August 23, 2009
was drawn to the story on YouTube trying to “avoid Van Halen fatigue” by improving recommendations.
My team at The Filter have been delivering recommendations based on behavior and consumption (rather than based on key words/tags) for some of the biggest video companies on the web (US TV networks and video aggregators). So, we know [...]
Huge growth in video consumption
Posted by: David on: August 14, 2009
Just seen the latest Nielsen numbers for video consumption on Mashable. In the US alone, there were 11.2 billion video streams in July – that’s some 31% growth compared to the year before. Mashable dig further into the stats pointing out that “there were 135.9 million unique viewers of online video… that means that the [...]
eGuiders – curated video done well
Posted by: David on: August 12, 2009
I’ve been playing around with a beta of eGuiders. It’s a site that uses industry insiders and pioneers to find great video making it easy for us to just enjoy great video without having to view millions of rubbish videos to find the gems.
There is no doubt that you can start watching great video content [...]
Young adults watching online video at “near-universal levels”
Posted by: David on: July 30, 2009
The rise of online video services has been fascinating to watch. Especially over the last 6 months. Even though video sharing sites like YouTube have lead video consumption online, it is actually the “quality” end of the market (dominated by Hulu in the US and BBC iPlayer in the UK) that has further fueled this [...]
Online video to dominate our living rooms?
Posted by: David on: July 21, 2009
I was reading NewTeeVee’s quarterly review – it highlights two main facts: (i) we are buying more and more “living room” devices that are capable of playing online video (e.g. set top boxes, games consoles) – projections are for 57 million devices to be sold in 2009 in the US, and (ii) cable operators are [...]
Movies and music to my games console
Posted by: David on: July 17, 2009
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he battle for the living room is growing in intensity. The latest announcement from Warners on delivering movies to the Wii (in Japan) is not the first or last of its kind, but it did make me stop to think about video games consoles and which one makes the best living room hub.
So, the PS3 [...]
ITV looking to charge viewers for clips
Posted by: David on: July 13, 2009
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My jaw dropped when Brand Republic posted a story about Michael Grade, Chairman of ITV talking about charging for video clips of shows like Britain’s Got Talent.
This a classic example of a highly experienced ‘traditional’ media guy struggling with the world of digital. The embarrassment of having missed out on millions of pounds of advertising [...]
Glasto hits online maturity
Posted by: David on: July 9, 2009
Glastonbury was four times bigger in 2009 than in 2008… well, in digital terms, anyway.
The BBC festival website managed a record of 7.2 million video streams and the red button coverage on digital TV attracted over 6.1 million viewers over the weekend. Lady Gaga was by far the biggest act online – attracting 1.3 million [...]
I heart my NewTeeVee
Posted by: David on: July 6, 2009
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It’s been, what, 6 months? Followed a link on Twitter, and ended up at NewTeeVee (part of the GigaOM collection of blogs). And within minutes I was hooked – I signed up to the daily email alerts and I visit every day.
NewTeeVee brands itself as the place to go to “follow the video revolution”. If [...]
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Hi, I am David Maher Roberts - digital media expert and CEO of The Filter, a sophisticated recommendation and relevance engine backed by Peter Gabriel and Eden Ventures.
