YouTube getting ready for live-streaming

On November 22 2008 YouTube will host a live streaming event as advertised below:

A comment by Steve Chen about YouTube working on a live-streaming product to be released this year was reported back in February.

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Veoh getting $30 million investment from Intel and Adobe

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NewTeeVee is reporting that someone new has stepped up to pay Veoh’s bandwidth bills as it figures out its business. The Internet video portal and software maker is announcing today it has raised $30 million from Intel Capital, Adobe Systems Inc., and Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Research Global Investors.

Veoh now has $69.5 million in total investment from these three plus previous investors Shelter Capital, Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Time Warner Investments and Jonathan Dolgen. The Los Angeles-based company reports 28 million viewers per month, spending an average of more than 100 minutes per month.

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JVC YouTube Camera

JVC is entering the YouTube space with the introduction of the “YouTube camcorder”. JVC is targeting the space firmly occupied by Pure Digital’s Flip Ultra video camera.

Pure Digital managed to get 17-percent of the digital camcorder marketplace with its low-quality, easily uploaded videos.

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Guinness World Records(TM)TV Increases Online Video Presence

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ — Guinness World Records TV has this week announced an increase in the line up of portals on which its multi-language original TV programming may now be viewed. Building on existing successes with the likes of YouTube and Joost, new channels have now been added on [...]

Matsushita’s Panasonic, Google to launch Internet TVs

TOKYO (Reuters) – Web giant Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is developing televisions that display Internet content such as photos and videos together with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd’s (6752.T: Quote, Profile, Research) Panasonic unit.

The TVs, to be launched this spring, will allow users to directly browse and access videos from YouTube, a video-sharing Web [...]

NBC Pull YouTube Content in Preparation for Hulu

A representative from NBC Universal called NewTeeVee today and let them know that the network did indeed remove its channel from YouTube over the weekend in preparation for the launch of its own online video portal, Hulu. The spokesperson also de-emphasized the YouTube channel, calling it “promotional.”

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TBS Europe joins forces with Joost, YouTube

MIPCOM: Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Europe has closed two significant content deals with internet TV service Joost and social networking and file-sharing site YouTube in Cannes.

The deals cover shortform content from TBS brands including CNN International, Adult Swim, Nuts TV and Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

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Microsoft going after YouTube, Apple and Joost

If Internet-based video is the wave of the future, many of us are already drenched with options including such as YouTube, Joost and Apple’s iTunes. But today, Microsoft is making a play to have its own video download service added to the mix.

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LiveStation multi-channel demo

Here is a small YouTube video recorded at IBC 2007 about LiveStation. The video show the multi channel version of the client in action.

The multi-channel version will be released to beta testers within the next 3 months.

YouTube Pens Deal with UK Music Royalties Alliance

YouTube has signed a deal with the MCPS-PRS Alliance, which is a music collection society in the UK. This is the first deal of its kind for the video-sharing network, in regards to a music royalties organization.

The deal entails the licensing of 10 million pieces of music to YouTube. In exchange, YouTube will pay a [...]