Hulu is making a big splash this summer with a fairly large investment in original online video series showing that it is just as important to their business model as TV content is. It has to make you wonder what kind of meetings are going on in that board room at times. I suspect that, with the ownership partners pushing to have pay TV authentication (the requirement that users have a pay TV subscription in order to view content from the networks), Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is looking at other ways to keep the company viable as doing so would probably put a serious pinch on user numbers

Accenture recently did a study on Video Over Internet Consumers and there were some pretty interesting findings in the report. Today I’m going to look at perceived problems with online video from the consumer standpoint which had some pretty surprising stuff

Google will hold their first ever upfront today, highlighting a bevy of star-packed channels and releasing exciting findings from a comprehensive study of YouTube trends.

Yes, even the Olympics is getting in on the live streaming action this year.

Zencoder announced several new features at the NAB Show, I knew I should have been there, that will boost its usefulness and make it the first cloud transcoding provider to support closed captioning for multiple formats including Apple HTTP Live Streaming.

Last week the MyDamnChannel network on YouTube launched the first ever LIVE Internet comedy show. Every Wednesday at 4pm Rachael Hoyt goes live online on their YouTube channel to stream a show that features celebrity guests, premiere clips of other shows on the network, humor, and some audience interaction. On every other weekday the show ...

The tipping point is rapidly approaching as we, as a society, are ready to flip from a physical rental society to a digital delivery society. According to Rentrak and Screen Digest anyway, who say that it might not be too long before online streaming tops physical disc rentals.Sure, rentals of DVD and Blu-Ray discs totaled ...

In the hustle and bustle of the work week and the weekend, it’s entirely possible you missed a big news story in the online video world.

Netflix seems to have a two-pronged strategy for their original content efforts, creating new shows from scratch and buying existing shows from other publishers or producers.

Well, it seems some companies, including Netflix and Microsoft, have got together behind a single format for media streaming. The format, MPEG DASH, now has its own Promoters Group . DASH, or dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP, was just finalized in November and allows for, obviously, the ability of the stream to change bitrate based on network health.