News You Missed Over Thanksgiving
- Understanding your online video advertising options
"The point at which a consumer has patience for an online video ad is 10 seconds." - New Australian download-to-own firm launches with Universal deal
Download three movie files for three different playback devices, each with different DRM. Ouch. - Clerks writer/director making cell phone vids for mtvU
His class at UCLA's film school produces the nine minute clips for "Sucks Less, with Kevin Smith" - Video processing firm Ripcode gets $7M funding
Automated file conversion for multiple playback devices. - Break.com will pay you $400 to upload a good video
An increase from $200. Short films can earn $2000. Both types have to be selected to appear on the homepage. - CBS has the most popular clips on YouTube
CBS has uploaded more than 300 clips that have a total of 29.2 million views on YouTube, averaging 857,000 views per day, since the service launched on October 18. - Google sued for hosting French film on Google Video
Producer of "The World According to Bush" says video viewed 50,000 times. - Xbox Live HD rentals not the easiest thing in the world
"You don’t turn on a new service without having a full support staff waiting by. Instead it seems that all the supervisors are home, getting ready to eat turkey, leaving clueless support staff to navigate what seems like a complete customer service nightmare." - Quebec students sent home after posting video of angry teacher on YouTube
A girl, who has not been identified, provoked the teacher while a boy secretly taped the encounter with a compact video camera.
