Mathew Ingram says Hollywood is still looking for hits online.
Busy day for online video today: not one but two “professional” video sites have launched — although one has no content to speak of yet, just an e-mail form and a press release. That one is 60frames.com, which according to the release was “incubated by leading [...]

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Phonescoop.com posted about AT&T’s plan to stream phone-to-phone videos.

Starting today, AT&T subscribers in 160 markets will be able to use AT&T’s Video Share service. The service lets users stream a live video signal from one phone to another during a phone call. While both people on the call will be able to see the [...]

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Revlayer is a new video ad tool that puts a “layered” ad above any embedded video on your site. It works in two ways, you can either put your own ad code in, or allow Revlayer to serve ads for you and you get a cut of the ad sales.
Here’s a sample, I picked any [...]

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Came across an awesome new tool today called Video Post Robot. Video Post Robot allows anyone to upload your videos to multiple online video sharing, like YouTube, sites with the push of a button! It’s the one and only tool that supports Flash video sites - like MSN, Metacafe, Revver, Break, Brightcove and many others.
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Stumbleupon Video is a wonderful tool. It’s just like it sounds, you browse videos and rate them just as you would Stumble’d websites.
But here’s the best part, you can choose channels of videos to watch. For example, you can just watch marketing videos, or videos about cats. Very useful.

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Businessweek.com is reporting that the online video ad space will be worth 4.3 billion by 2011.

But a new report by eMarketer, released July 16, suggests Web surfers ain’t seen nothing yet. Video ad sales are expected to grow from an estimated $775 million this year to $3.1 billion in 2010 and then to $4.3 billion [...]

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Techcrunch breaks down the “ads in video” playing field by showing how all the top online video sharing sites are handling this type of monetization.

Coming up with a kick ass, scalable ad platform solution for social video that satisfies the needs of publishers, advertisers, and viewers is only a piece of the problem. While finding [...]

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Adrants catches a story about YouTube showing off it’s new in-video advertising unit.
It seems Google’s YouTube has debuted a new in-video style ad format. It’s not pre-roll. It’s not post roll. It’s a transparent banner that appears on the bottom of the screen several seconds after beginning of the video which the user can either [...]

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Mashable dug down deep and analyzed the new MySpace TV in direct comparison with YouTube. Result? MySpace copies a bunch of stuff. 12 things to be exact.
I suppose imitation is the biggest form of flattery, but when billions of dollars are at stake? I’m not sure that thought still applies, does it?
As we played around [...]

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Hitwise is reporting that YouTube: 50% More Traffic than Other Video Sites Combined.
Wow! Talk about an elephant in the room, errr, filling the room. What does this mean? Does it mean that there’s plenty of room to grow for smaller tools? Or does this mean that YouTube simply just crushed them?

YouTube’s growth has not begun [...]

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