Broadband Directions

If you're in the broadband video business you should be talking to Will Richmond at Broadband Directions and subscribing to his Broadband Video Focus market intelligence service. He is the one analyst out there exclusively focused on broadband video and is a smart guy w/ some very good insights. He has a couple of great reports out: 1) How Broadband is Creating a New Generation of Video Distributors: The Market Opportunity for Google, Yahoo, MSFT, AOL, Apple and Others and 2) an interview w/ yours truly.

News Flash: Broadband Video is Mainstream

OPA Broadband Video study confirming what we see everyday.

More Evidence Mobile Video Is Big and Will Be (at least in part) Ad Supported

Two more data points on what will be a very interesting space in the next few years.

eMarketer and techdirt

New InStream Site

Thanks to my friends at EAT.tv we have a fantasitc new video-centric Web site for our InStream business -- check it out at www.InStream.com

March Madness Breaks Live Internet Video Audience Record

. . . and who do you think did the live ad insertion?

Brightcove/ Metastories

Interesting . . . I know, like and work w/ both companies -- Lightningcast is providing the ad tech for Brightcove's Reuters and AOL deals and same for Metastories at Scripps and National Geographic. Maybe Brightcove is filling a specific technology gap -- although I would have guessed that the Metastories publishing capabilities were a core competency of Brightcove -- or maybe its more of a customer acquisition or both.

AOL Launches In2TV

AOL launches a seminal product -- http://television.aol.com/in2tv -- using Lightningcast ad tech and p2p tech from Kontiki -- that's the first delivery of several product initiatives in the market (ABC among others comes to mind) to put traditional, long-form TV programming online. Its a very strong offering from AOL and shows that they can still lead.

Slivercast is Born

Good article by Saul Hansell but remember you read it here first (a year earlier) in my inaugural post "The Video Internet"!