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The Next Frontier For Web Video? Your Television

According to a new report by In-Stat, by 2013 web video will not only become common place on our TV sets, but it will be a 3 billion dollar a year business. Already, 40% of “younger” households are watching web video on their TV’s.  And it’s predicted that once the process becomes simpler and more [...]

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People Spend 8.5 Hours a Day Staring At Screens

The Council For Research Excellence yesterday released a comprehensive study on what people essentially do with their time when it comes to video and media. And what they found was the average person spends a little over 8 hours a day staring at screens; TV, mobile devices and computers.  In fact, between these devices, 61 [...]

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Who Were The New Media Guru’s Behind Obama’s Election?

I can remember a former U.S. President, back when he was the active President, commenting in amazement about how supermarkets use scanners at the checkout line (a practice that had been in use for over a decade at the time). Today there is a U.S. President who does weekly video addresses via YouTube.  Times have [...]

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Why Mobile Devices Are Making Web Video About More Than Just The Web

Conventional wisdom is that when people want to watch web video, they sit down at their computer, browse the Internet, click a play button and watch. But recent statistics from Neilsen Company paint a different picture.  A picture that shows a fast-growing trend of web video being watched on mobile devices (iPods, cell phones, etc.). [...]

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Funeral Homes Begin Webcasting Funeral Services

First it was user-generated content.  Then porn.  Then large media and entertainment companies joined the game.  Next came lawyers, physicians and hospitals.  And now funeral homes have joined the web video phenomenon…seemingly completing the circle of life. Yes, now instead of traveling to the funeral service of a deceased, you can watch it via live, [...]