Big rectangular screen, controls along the bottom, triangular play button, some kind of timeline. The fact that video players look mostly the same doesn’t stop every platform from making its own (see a collage of five control strips below). But we’re seeing some ways that video players a...

One day, Web viewers will be able to go to any video site and see any TV show they want. But until then, if you want to see your favorite stuff on the Web (legally), you’ll need a well-annotated map: You can see ABC shows like “Lost” on Veoh, but not on Joost. Joost can show you st...

Ken Ferree and I just filed an amicus brief with the D.C. Circuit in what could be among the most important First Amendment cases involving economic regulation in years:  Comcast’s challenge to the FCC’s cap on the maximum size of a cable operator’s nationwide subscriber-audience.  W...

From NYTimes: After college, Michael Eisner briefly sought the life of a playwright before settling on the corporate media world, working his way up through ABC and Paramount. He became chief executive of Disney in 1984. Today, without shareholders to worry about, he is driven by his creative impuls...

Everyone is freaking out over the fact that YouTube is trying to monetize but 4% of its massive inventory. Truth is, I thought that number was lower.  But whatever the number, it’s a good thing. YouTube is much bigger than its competitors.  I do not think it’s easy for an outsider to r...

Veoh last week discontinued Viral , its original video show, by laying off host Sunny Gault. Gault was the only member of the cast and crew who was a full-time employee, the company told NewTeeVee. The show’s final episode is embedded below: Viral, which debuted in November 2006, looked at the...

The Misplaced Bet on UGC Back in 2006, we’d get the occasional call from someone pitching us a turnkey solution to add User-Generated Content (UGC) videos to our WatchMojo.com property, which houses professionally produced videos we have created. At the time, I thought it was an odd pitch, aki...

ABC to provide media content to Veoh Media Company ABC has announced their latest deal. This time around they are going to work with Veoh online service. The deal would see Veoh broadcasting full-length episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost and Ugly Betty. Dmitry Shapiro, Veoh’s founder and c...

One of the prevalent business models for video content owners is to sign a partnership and then split the proceeds of the revenue share. The model is fair, technically, but fairness can be moot if advertisers don’t actually bankroll online video content and underwrite the costs of content crea...

We’d thought the days of big investor reups for video portals were coming to an end, but someone new has stepped up to pay Veoh’s bandwidth bills as it figures out its business. The Internet video portal and software maker is announcing today it has raised $30 million from Intel Capital,...