Content companies have struggled to monetize on the Web, and there has been plenty of debate over the effectiveness of paywalls. What's more, tech startups really can't seem to rush fast enough into t
<strong>Editor's Note:</strong> <em>Jordan Kurzweil is Co-CEO of <a href="http://independently.com/">Independent Content</a>, an agency that helps media companies launch new digital products and busin
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/06/verizon-and-redbox-taking-on-netflix-with-new-joint-venture/">From Redbox and Verizon teaming up</a> to take on Netflix to Connected TV and Netflix’s <a hr
<a href="http://www.livematrix.com/">Live Matrix</a>, the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/25/live-matrix/">TechCrunch Disrupt '10 finalist</a> that proclaimed to be the "TV Guide for the web,"
<a href="http://blip.tv/">Blip.tv</a> is going through some changes, with founder Mike Hudack gone and a search for a new CEO still ongoing. But the company raised a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/20
<a href="http://www.yokto.tv/">Yokto</a> is a newly launched video platform which offers an embeddable player that intelligently switches between a Flash-based interface or HTML5, depending on the dev
In its first quarterly <a href="http://ir.netflix.com/events.cfm">earnings</a> since it announced <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/ouch-the-netflix-price-change-hangover/">plans to hike pric
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Netflix is one of the best performing <a href="http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NFLX">stocks
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A few weeks ago, some <a href="http://www.multichannel.com/article/458744-Netf
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I've got to admit, the concept of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branded_content">"branded content" </a>on the Web make
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From an audience perspective, the ability to embed videos on other sites is what expands their viewership and makes th
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A couple weeks ago, in the wake of Steve Jobs' <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-apple-adobe-flash/">tira
The New York Times has a piece on the impact that digital video recording, on-demand offerings, and web video services have had on advertising budgets for prime time television slots. Apparently if pe
Wonh, woonnh. Seems Joost is acting up with the live streams of the NCAA games. I was able to get a split-second worth of one of those stupid cell shaded Charles Schwab commercials but every other tim
I’m not all that excited about watching 15 to 30 second pre-roll ads attached to videos. I understand that it’s a necessary evil and that advertising pays the bills and keeps the vide