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| Oct 9, 2020 | Twitch.tv is About to Get Placed On a WIPO Anti-Piracy Blacklist | Keeping advertising off pirate sites has become one of the key goals of entertainment industry and anti-piracy groups.
The theory is that if brands can be encouraged not to place their ads alongside infringing content, pirate sites will be ... |
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| Oct 8, 2013 | 15 Technologies The Legacy Content Companies Have Sued In The Past 15 Years | Many are familiar with the Sony Betamax case, the landmark Supreme Court decision which nearly 30 years ago ruled that selling videocassette recorders to consumers was not copyright infringement. Not as well known, but equally important, wa... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | Video Portal Veoh Retains Equity Partners CRB To Explore Sale, Other Strategic Options | So much for the YouTube competitors. The owners of Veoh, a video portal that claims to have millions of users worldwide, has said it has enlisted the help of Equity Partners CRB to explore strategic options for the company, including a sale... |
| Apr 7, 2010 | Qlipso's CEO Explains Why He Bought Veoh | The long, sad tale of video site Veoh seemed to be in its final chapter when founder Dmitry Shapiro declared the company was filing for bankruptcy back in February. The copyright litigation with Universal Music Group proved to be too costly... |
| Apr 7, 2010 | Israeli social media firm Qlipso buys assets of video site Veoh | Israeli social sharing firm Qlipso is announcing today that it has acquired the assets of San Diego, Calif.-based video site Veoh for an undisclosed price. As part of the transaction, Veoh executives will work at Qlipso.
Jerusalem-based Qli... |
| Apr 7, 2010 | Israeli social media firm Qlipso buys assets of video site Veoh | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Israeli social sharing firm Qlipso is announcing ... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Real-time search engine OneRiot makes it ads more mainstream | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Real-time search startup OneRiot is making its co... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Real-time search engine OneRiot makes it ads more mainstream | Real-time search startup OneRiot is making its content ads fit in with industry standards, as it pushes for broader distribution across the web.
It’s launching ad units today that match Interactive Advertising Bureau guidelines (see right).... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Where Did VCs Go Wrong In Online Video? | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo.You can also read his series on the state of Online video (Parts I, II, III, and IV) video..
Yesterday’s final implosion of video sit... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Smule's customers are its marketing machines | CEO Jeff Smith at Vator Splash on why the product and the end users are the marketing
While social networks have built a stage for everyone to become a writer, or pundit, Smule - the maker of popular iPhone apps Ocarina, Leaf Trombone and I... |
| Oct 22, 2009 | DailyMotion raises €17 million, with French government help | The French-born version of YouTube, DailyMotion – which has now grown into a global site with 60 million users – has officially confirmed its latest fundraising of €17 million, which was early reported as €15 million earlier this month. The... |
| Sep 14, 2009 | Video-sharing site Veoh wins suit against Universal | Veoh, a video-sharing web site that is a perennial punching bag for entertainment studios prosecuting copyright violations, has emerged victorious from the lawsuit filed against it by Universal Music Group two years ago. According to the ju... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | What'll happen to the video platforms? | Online video services proliferated like rabbits in the last few years, but can the market keep up?
Silicon Valley has a way of getting ahead of itself. The bust in 2000 didn’t happen because the internet was overhyped—it is, as promised, tr... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Internet lets bad spellers grieve for “Micheal Jackson” | One of the pleasures of Internet culture none of the eggheads talk about at conferences is that the Internet lets you be dumb.
This afternoon, the trending topics list on Twitter is a rotating set of call-outs to the late King of Pop. At fi... |
| Apr 11, 2009 | YouTube + Universal = Vevo | Another day, another arbitrarily-named video service.
Though Vevo is a name that could very easily be lost among the likes of Veoh and TiVo, the soon-to-be launched music video site has backers that are far from forgettable: Google and Vive... |
| Apr 10, 2009 | Veoh's Hail Mary: Spreading Video Search Across The Web With Video Compass | As video sites on the Web struggle to find a business model that will pay their mounting bandwidth and storage bills, many of them are trying to reinvent themselves. Veoh, which has raised a total of $70 million, had to cut 35 percent of it... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | Veoh Lays Off 25 Employees And Shifts Focus Away From Competing With YouTube And Hulu | In the world of Web video, either you are YouTube or you are in trouble. Today, well-funded video site Veoh laid off 25 people, the company confirmed today. The layoffs were brought on by a restructuring, as the company shifts focus away fr... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | Veoh Restructuring Includes Layoffs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Editors Note: See update below]
Veoh, the San Diego-based Internet video and TV program provider, is reportedly undergoing a “major restructuring” that includes significant c... |
| Mar 25, 2009 | Justin.tv Makes Global Video Site Top 5 | Justin.tv, popular live video stream and chat destination, announced today that they are now in the top five online video sites world-wide with 21.9 million monthly unique viewers according to Quantcast. Justin.tv is beating other streaming... |
| Mar 10, 2009 | Verizon Unveils their Vision for the Web-Connected TV | In the U.S., Verizon FiOS customers will soon receive an update to their set-top boxes that will connect their TVs to the web in an entirely new way. The company is preparing a major upgrade to their TV widgets platform which currently serv... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | Mitter: Friendfeed For Online Videos (And Other Media) | Sometimes it’s hard to remember which video you have seen, left a comment on, rated, or who recommended it to you. And it’s getting harder to cut the noise in the heavily crowded online video space (YouTube users alone are uploading 15 hour... |
| Feb 4, 2009 | Judge Tells UMG: No, You Cannot Sue Veoh's Investors For Copyright Infringement | Things are not going well for Universal Music Group’s in its lawsuit against video-sharing site Veoh. First, the Los Angeles judge, A. Howard Matz, ruled last month that the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act do ... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Veoh Video Compass: A Handy Automatic Video Search Plugin | Popular video site Veoh has just released a new version of its browser plugin, Veoh Video Compass. The plugin, which is available for Firefox 3 and IE7, presents a selection of videos relevant to your search queries and the pages you browse... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | Bring New Life to Static Documents with Adam | Don’t you hate it when you click a link only to discover it wasn’t a web page, but a slow-loading PDF instead? Maybe it’s time for publishers to find something to do with those PDFs that makes them a lot more interesting and engaging for th... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | SanDisk and Veoh team up on U3-enabled flash drives | Owners of the SanDisk Cruzer line of flash drives might be interested to learn that its now possible to launch the Veoh Web Player directly from the U3 interface that pops up when the drive is inserted into a USB port. You can use the Veoh ... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | VideoCrawler: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine | It is not quite clear to us how a video search engine fits into AT&T’s portfolio, but the telecom giant just launched VideoCrawler, a video search engine it developed in cooperation with Divvio, a Menlo Park-based startup. VideoCrawler ... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Video Startup Veoh Cuts 18% of Staff | Online video site Veoh is laying off 20 people, or 18% of its staff of 110. The move comes a month after Paidcontent reported layoffs in Veoh’s Russian office in St. Petersburg, which CEO Steve Mitgang says was a strategic decision rather t... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | Web TV studio For Your Imagination gets its funding wish | Online television studio For Your Imagination nabbed an undisclosed amount of funding from OmniReliant Holdings in a bridge capital round this week. The investor, primarily interested in direct marketing opportunities (with a focus on beaut... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | CBS goes after Hulu by aligning with YouTube | Though reports early last year said that a deal between CBS and Google for YouTube distribution had fallen by the wayside, the network's content will soon be available in full on the popular video site, complete with commercials.
Announcing... |
| Jul 14, 2008 | Veoh Targets Video Ads Based On Past Viewing Patterns | If behavioral targeting is the great hope for display advertising on the Web, can it work for videos as well? Web video startup Veoh thinks it can and is bringing its behavioral targeting advertising program out of beta today. The ads are t... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Intel Capital Invests $60 Million In Eight Startups | Today, Intel Capital announced new investments in eight startups totaling $60 million. Below is each company, along with the size of the round they just raised. (Not all would disclose when I asked during the conference call). And while Int... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford | Is there room for a video-sharing site besides YouTube? Intel Capital, Adobe Systems, and media investor Gordon Crawford are placing their bets on Veoh, which is announcing a $30 million series D financing. Intel Capital is leading the roun... |
| Jun 3, 2008 |
Veoh Networks Raises $30M
| Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Veoh Networks said Tuesday afternoon that the firm has raised $30M in additional funding, in a round led by Intel Capital. The firm said that Adobe Systems Incorporated and Gordon Crawford, Senior Vice Presi... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Intel Capital announces investments in eight start-ups | Intel announced at its Intel Capital CEO Summit event in San Francisco today that it has invested in eight new startups around the globe. Intel led the investments, which total $60 million, and the moves are part of the company’s counter-cy... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Metacafe Founders Ditch, Reportedly Cash Out Their Shares For $5 Million | The co-founders of once-hot video startup Metacafe, Arik Czerniak (pictured with his nephew son) and Ofer Adler, have left the company and cashed out their shares for $5 million, according to an article in the Israeli paper The Marker (in H... |
| Apr 8, 2008 | Adobe Releases Media Player 1.0, Launches Adobe TV | Today, Adobe is releasing the 1.0 version of its Media Player (AMP) software to the public. The player, which is an offline Flash video manager comparable to the Veoh player, was first released as a beta on the Adobe Labs site last Septembe... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | A Case Study In Personal Brand Destruction | A minor blogosphere tussle has turned ugly. That’s nothing new; what’s surprising about this particular fight is that one of the participants, Shel Israel, is a well known author and consultant who makes a living advising others on how to a... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | Blinkx Dabbles in Broadband TV With Its Own Joost-Like Service | Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Blinkx, the video search engine, is getting into video distribution. Today it will launch BBTV, a downloadable player that streams video from content partners using peer-to-peer technology.
The initi... |
| Feb 29, 2008 | Veoh is raising a round, claims to be pretty big and growing | Updated with more information from the company
Online video startup Veoh is in the process of raising a $40 million round at a proposed $150 million valuation and has hired investment bank Bear Sterns to help with the effort, Silicon Alley ... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | NewsClipper.org collects major networks’ videos, avoids ire – so far | The idea behind NewsClipper.org is a straightforward one – collect all the videos posted on the websites for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, BBC, CNN and ESPN and put them all in one place for a viewer to watch without visiting each of those respective... |
| Feb 18, 2008 | Dailymotion Offers Bandwidth-Hogging HD Videos | High-definition video is creeping into our browsers. Today, Dailymotion began offering a smattering of videos in HD. There is nothing you’d actually want to watch—mostly a bunch of trailers for video games—other than to see what HD looks li... |
| Feb 2, 2008 | Miro, a nonprofit Web TV player with big ideals, launches co-branding service | Web video may seem like a tough field for any company to enter, much less a nonprofit.
But the Participatory Culture Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization, says its Miro video player can play RSS-enabled videos hosted anywhere — and offers adv... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Strike this: Video sites you can make money from (or not) | While the strike by Hollywood writers is dragging on long enough to threaten the hallowed Oscars, video-viewing on the web is expanding as fast as ever. As a result, writers, directors and actors are considering splitting from the studios f... |
| Jan 8, 2008 | New Odeo Coming Next Month – FireAnt With a Coat of Paint | In May of last year, Sonic Mountain bought the assets of Evan William’s podcast directory Odeo (and then promptly renamed itself Odeo). In September, the new company bought out its chief rival, FireAnt, for about $400,000. The company plann... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | Veoh Adds Videos From Hulu | Today, video Website Veoh.com is adding more videos from traditional TV networks, including NBC (The A-Team, The Office, Heroes), Fox (The Simpsons, Family Guy, 24), the Sci-Fi Channel (Battlestar Galactica), the USA Network (Monk), and FX ... |
| Dec 16, 2007 | Loren Feldman Trashes Seesmic; Founder Loic Le Meur Takes The Bait | People who don’t follow Loren Feldman are usually surprised when he takes aim at their startup and lets loose. He combines valid points with a highly confrontational approach (he once called me a “pompous elitist asshole” and I still consid... |
| Oct 1, 2007 | Roundup: Adobe’s product launches, Joost, eBay-Skype charge, and more | Here’s an (updated) summary of the latest action:
–Adobe launches online-offline media player, and Share. Other applications launch using Adobe’s AIR
–Microsoft launches Office Live WorkSpace
–Joost officially launches its online TV service... |
| Sep 12, 2007 | Top digital media list… Backpackers bearing gifts… How to keep your data safe | Top digital media list
Backpackers bearing gifts
How to keep your data safe Adweek names hottest digital media players of 2007
Adweek has released its third annual Media Digital Hot List, which names web destinations that performed exceptio... |
| Sep 6, 2007 | Roundup: Google’s RSS search, VC sells blog, Veoh sued, Groxis and more | Here’s the latest action:
Google adds search to Reader — In an obvious but very useful move, Google Reader, the company’s web-based RSS feed reader, has added the ability to search through your RSS subscriptions, or the categories and tags ... |
| Aug 10, 2007 | Roundup: Veoh sues, MySpace’s tiny profit, Nirvanix, Wikipedia’s color-coding, more | Here’s the latest action:
Veoh Networks files preemptive suit against Universal Music Group — Veoh, the San Diego video start-up we’ve written about, said it filed the suit to assert its rights as a copyright-compliant company after UMG thr... |
| Aug 9, 2007 | Veoh’s $25 Million Third Round Of Funding Is Confirmed | Veoh is a website that serves online videos and Internet TV content. It was rumored that Veoh was in the process of raising $25 million in funding, but then it was later confirmed. |
| Jul 19, 2007 | Spark Capital’s Media-Entertainment-Technology Play, The Sequel | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Investors are so eager to get behind Boston-based venture firm Spark Capital—which has focused its $260 million Spark I fund exclusively on early-stage companies at the crossr... |
| Jul 10, 2007 | 100 invites to VeohTV | VeohTV is a competitor to Joost that wants to make video browsing, viewing, and downloading easier (see coverage here). The product is in a private testing phase, and Veoh has offered invites to the first 100 VentureBeat readers to go to to... |
| Jun 26, 2007 | Kiptronic, DigitalSmith join the many in video ad rush | Kiptronic, a company that launched to insert ads into downloaded podcasts, has announced it will do so for video downloads too.
It is just the latest in a never ending rush of new companies to partake of an expected jackpot totaling in the ... |
| Jun 20, 2007 | Veoh launches VeohTV, a high-quality TV for desktop too | Veoh, the video-sharing site that recently raised $26 million, today launches a test of VeohTV, a downloadable application that the company says will kill another new flashy competitor, Joost.
VeohTV’s hook is that unlike Joost, which limit... |
| Jun 20, 2007 | Veoh Announces VeohTV, A Sort of Distributed Joost | Veoh’s been busy. In addition to running its popular video sharing site, which is known for higher-quality streams (in terms of bitrate), they’ve announced VeohTV, which is best described as a distributed Joost.
The service, which involves,... |
| Jun 19, 2007 | VeohTV Launches – Taking Direct Aim at Joost | Dmitry Shapiro CEO of Veoh invited me to a
GoToMeeting webinar today to unveil a serious challenger in the Web TV market. VeohTV
Beta, subtly billed as a “Joost Killer”, is actually an amazing development in
online video viewing. The impetu... |
| Jun 15, 2007 |
Veoh Raises $26M
| San Diego-based online video sharing and distribution site Veoh has raised $26M in a Series C funding, according to a regulatory filing. According to PEHub, the site raised the new round of funding from Goldman Sachs, along with existing in... |
| Jun 14, 2007 | Veoh, the high-quality video sharing site, raises $26M | (Updated with Comscore and Hitwise stats, which show Veoh’s numbers lower than the company states; also updated with a fuller list of investors)
Veoh, the San Diego video-sharing site backed by former Disney exec Michael Eisner, has raised ... |
| Jun 14, 2007 | AjaxWindows, Why? | Another web desktop (webtop), AjaxWindows, launched and I’m left scratching my head. The site and service is allegedly from the creators of Linspire and is a lot like DesktopTwo, which mimics a desktop environment within your browser, taskb... |
| Jun 14, 2007 | Veoh Takes $26 million Round C | P2P and web video sharing service Veoh has taken $26million in Round C funding. The new money takes total investment in Veoh to $41.25million. The pre money valuation is rumored to be between $60 million and $70 million.
The company has Mic... |
| Apr 4, 2007 | Forget YouTube: Go To These Sites If You Want Hard Core Copyright Infringing Content | YouTube is clearly the most popular video sharing site on the web. But limits on video length, DMCA takedown notices and billion dollar lawsuits have damaged YouTube’s ability to facilitate serious copyright infringement. The smaller guys a... |
| Apr 3, 2007 | Two Episodes Into Prom Queen And I'm Completely Hooked | http://www.veoh.com/videodetails.swf?permalinkId=v349384PFJgJGaT&id=1&player=videodetails&videoAutoPlay=0
Two days and two episodes into the new 80-segment, Internet-only show Prom Queen and I’m completely hooked.
Ok, not really... |
| Mar 29, 2007 | Shakespeare, Happy Days and Prom Queen | http://www.veoh.com/videodetails.swf?player=videodetails&type=v&permalinkId=v285398RAPPaKER&id=1
Online Videos by Veoh.com
Prom Queen is coming, and it will be distributed on MySpace. Is the future of new media going to be a wor... |
| Feb 14, 2007 | Roundup: TrenchMice, Pheedo’s new ads, and more | The latest roundup of tech stuff:
TrenchMice, a nice F***ed Company? — TrenchMice is a new site trying to mobilize people to submit and edit comments about businesses and employers. Let us know what you think. We tried using it to look for ... |
| Feb 13, 2007 | Online Video Industry Index | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it’s easy to lose track
of them all. So let’s take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the
major play... |
| Feb 12, 2007 | PowerHype At Powerset | The more I dig into the new search engine startup Powerset the more I am wondering if it is nothing more than a house of cards. They’re an odd company with a bit of a split personality. For example, in some ways they are very secretive – ev... |
| Feb 12, 2007 | Powerset raising more money | After raising a decent $12.5 million in cash last year, Powerset, the secretive search engine company that wants to take on Google by using “natural language” technology, is going to raise a larger round this year.
This and other gossip abo... |
| Feb 12, 2007 | Veoh Relaunches Powerful Video Sharing Service | P2P and web video sharing service Veoh will relaunch Tuesday with some important new features and a new look. Cynics looking for interesting video sites post-GooTube will find Veoh of real interest. The company has Michael Eisner on its Boa... |
| Jan 23, 2007 | PayPal’s “other” story, and Wikio, Infinera, Zoho, Omnidrive & more | Roundup of the latest action in Silicon Valley & tech:
PayPal’s origin explored, one more time — Online payments company Paypal has spawned more Internet entrepreneurs from its founding team than any other company we know. Yet PayPal ha... |
| Dec 21, 2006 | Roundup: LinkedIn, Facebook, Wherifone, Google’s weather, and video consolidation? | Slow posting likely over next few days; here’s the latest:
Weatherbonk lets you do things like overlay weather on Google Maps — So you can plan trips and see what the weather will be like along the way. Click on the links here. (Via Battell... |
| Oct 25, 2006 | VCs Open Wallets for Eyespot, Mind Candy | It’s been a big day for Web 2.0 funding announcements. This morning we posted on Series A closing at $3 million for GotVoice. Now San Diego based online video editing service Eyespot has announced closure of its own first round of funding. ... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | Eyespot partners with Blip.tv, Veoh to provide online video editing | Three online video startups announced a partnership this morning that will allow users to edit their videos on Eyespot and publish with a single click to Blip.tv and Veoh. This sounds like a smart move for all involved as editing and remixi... |
| Jun 29, 2006 | Io: Keep your paws off my video porn! | And here we were, thinking So. Cal was the home of porn, and northern California was above it all.
Turns out, San Francisco adult entertainment company Io Group filed a lawsuit last week (WSJ subscription required) against southern Californ... |
| May 10, 2006 | A handful of tips to help Microsoft build a multimedia empire | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Apr 18, 2006 | Controversial video hosting company Veoh raises $12.5M | Veoh Networks, the start-up accused recently of letting people download entire videos scraped from other places without the creators’ permission, has raised $12.5 million in a second round of venture capital financing.
The company says it h... |
| Apr 18, 2006 |
Veoh Gets $12.5M From Eisner, Others
| La Jolla-based Veoh Networks has received $12.5M in a Series B venture round, including an investment from Michael Eisner, former chairman and CEO of Walt Disney. Veoh reported this morning that it received the venture round from new invest... |
| Apr 11, 2006 | Catchup: Google’s Orion, bubbling Internet IPOs, Web 2.0 ad nauseum | Here’s the latest, as of Tuesday afternoon:
Ori Allon
Google to let you avoid clicking through to pages? — Google has bought software developed by a graduate student in Australia, Ori Allon, that displays information from Web sites directly... |
