U.S. President Barack Obama addresses America’s schoolchildren today at 12 p.m. ET. He’ll welcome kids back for the school year and encourage them to take personal responsibility for their education. The… Read more »
Thriller Gets 28M Views Since Jackson’s Death; copies of the groundbreaking music video rack up the playcounts, according to Visible Measures. (company blog) Digital Media Sales Up Only 0.9% Year-Over-Year; but… Read more »
Without Stephen Colbert lambasting journalistic complacency or Karl Rove rapping like in years past, videos from the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend weren’t preordained to go viral. Plus, they… Read more »
By bringing his messages to different media, President Obama is making history. Last night he was the first sitting president to appear on a late-night talk show, pitching Jay Leno on… Read more »
U.S. President Barack Obama has soured on YouTube, it seems, and with the latest posting of his weekly address chose to embed an Akamai (s AKAM) player on his blog and… Read more »
Live video is a slam dunk for sporting events, bringing in major viewership via the Olympics and golf’s U.S. Open and basketball’s March Madness, and significant paying audiences for sports from… Read more »
At the TED Conference last week, I had the chance to sit down with a number of filmmakers. My first question, of course, was what were their web distribution and marketing… Read more »
We’ve been collecting stats all week from news outlets and streaming providers about the audiences they received during the Obama Inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20. These numbers are necessarily imperfect, but… Read more »
With much of the U.S. at the office instead of in front of their TVs for today’s inauguration festivities, the many, many outlets carrying the action gave online video a big… Read more »
President Barack Obama’s inauguration was a global moment, not just in terms of history and politics but also web participation. And now, the numbers are starting to roll in for Inauguration… Read more »