Q&A: USTA's Phil Green on live streaming the U.S. Open

… web traffic. As far as live streaming for 2009, this is the next … we are able to offer live streaming in the U.S. Our goal … scores and stats, live radio streaming with USOpen.org radio, which … scores, live stats and the streaming. People in their office can …

ABC partners with Netflix to stream its backlog of shows

… ABC, CBS and NBC are all streaming content with Netflix.  The initial fear for … sales. But that's inevitable. As streaming becomes more readily available, interest in … shows. And Netflix and Hulu will stream the content against advertising, kicking back …

Inauguration streams in on iPhone

A short report in Techcrunch today about the app is already burning up the blogosphere and Twitter, spreading early-adopter techno-lust in its wake. Anyone can watch Obama on TV. But the inauguration on an iPhone? That outcools cool.

BBC launches live streaming TV

BBC The BBC streams BBC1 and BBC2 through the iPlayer, which is excellent in … t seem to be promoting this new live streaming service anywhere on its website, unless you … its catch up TV service, ITV's streaming TV online doesn't match up to …

Eyeblaster: Video ads don't work in social media

… . internet users watching online video during August of this year, according to comScore. And Nielsen registered that the number of video streams watched by U.S. viewers increased by 24.8% between September of 2008 and September 2009. The average time per …

YouTube introduces "skippable" video ads. Uh oh.

YouTube is allowing viewers to skip ads in the hopes of getting feedback on the advertising they serve — and higher revenues from advertisers. On certain videos, users will be able to click on a link to skip pre-roll ads, and just start watching …

FOX plants its digital flag with Strategy Room

… section drew 3.5 million uniques and nearly 10 million streams--increases of 40% and 88%, since the same time … the network deal with the problems and opportunities afforded by streaming live shows. The cable companies are working on bringing terrestrial …

Gamers coming clean on scam ads: Is contrition enough?

… of their bottom line? Will they get a leg up now? Possibly, since they've had to figure out other revenue streams.  Individual gamers have already learned to shy away from such offers or have become accustomed to the repercussions of selling their info …

Ad:Tech NY: Free doesn't have to be a four letter word

… Everywhere, cable companies are planning to offer free online video streaming of cable content to retain and buoy subscrptions to their … for. Says Stinchcomb: "We're going to need multiple streams of revenue." Many attendees at ad:tech this year object …

Q&A with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

… subscribers as we added new features such as mobile, CD quality streaming and offline use.  Did you imagine that Spotify would grow so … just how much hunger there is for a quality, legal music streaming service. How are you coping in terms of scale? What …

There is now a mobile device dedicated to Twitter. Why?

… around?" Also, since the TwitterPeek won't have web access, users currently can't see links in their tweet stream, which actually means it provides less functionality than most mobile Twitter clients. It also lacks search capability. But this effort …

Be afraid cable companies: Apple is at work on an iTunes version of TV Everywhere

… missed. The cable companies are already working on a plan to stream cable content, and that effort — "TV Everywhere" — will … — like YouTube, Netflix or Hulu — are set up to stream television content and charge or advertise against it. Even if Apple …

Q&A: Rob Colling on why online video needs subtitles

… . What charging models do you offer? A flat rate of £10 per minute of footage, which covers captioning, subtitles or language streams. I felt it was important to simplify and offer a flat rate because no-one else does. I get sick of surfing the …

Five easy freemium tricks Hulu can use to make more money

… is enticing, but finding an internet connection is not always easy. Viewers who want free online video can deal with real-time streaming. But offline viewing is a nice perk that many people would pay for. Hulu already offers this service, but you'd barely …

Search experts weigh in on Google and Bing's real-time deals with Twitter

… Tnooz, calls the deal "The Perfect Storm of travel search": It is unclear as yet how Google will index and rank the stream from Twitter – but if it uses the same relevancy and linking protocols it applies at the moment to natural search, then this is …