Topic Archives: video

How does YouTube make money?

The team at Broadstuff blog have posted an interesting set of articles about how (and if) YouTube is making money. The article compares revenue streams of YouTube and Hulu.com, the American portal from Universal.
We estimate that Hulu is marginally lossmaking today, losing around $9m this year on revenue of $52m, and YouTube will lose about [...]

Searching Rich Media

Google has been indexing Flash since 2004 but the underlying technology that powers millions of front pages and zillions of banner ads has defied the kind of interrogation that makes it truly searchable, until very recently. At the beginning of July, Adobe released what it calls Searchable SWF technology but although this is a step [...]

Using Video Conversation For Brands

Using online video in ways which resemble more everyday communication has brought some key new players into the online world. Leading the way is Seesmic Inc. of San Francisco, which has been followed by Poodz, Viddyou, and the UK-based Phreadz. All of these sites offer “video conversation”.
In practice, this means that users get the facility [...]