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Bollywood Distributor Deals in Google Video
BODVOD, a South Asian distributor of some of India’s hottest movies, TV shows and music vids, has announced that it will be distributing content on Google Video under the name Saavn. The Saavn channel currently contains clips from Bollywood movies and South Asian TV shows. The first five full-length movies [...] more...
CBS Ditches Paid Downloads For Ad-Supported On-Demand
This week, CBS and Comcast announced they would be replacing their former deal, which entailed offering CBS shows online as a $0.99 download, to something a little more lucrative and closer to home. Now, CBS shows will be offered online for free, but supported by advertising, while the former agreement provided [...] more...
Concert.tv Licenses Northstar Media Music Program
Video-on-demand (VOD) music and documentary network Concert.tv has licensed the music program Later With Jools Holland from Northstar Media, an indie TV, film, and video distribution company. Concert.tv reaches more than 15 million viewers through cable providers and over the internet. According to the 3-year-long deal, the full series of [...] more...
Anheuser-Busch Launching Online Video Network
National brewer Anheuser-Busch will be launching an online video network called Bud.TV in February 2007, just in time to capitalize on the buzz from Superbowl XLI. Bud.TV will feature live and on-demand content. Viewers will be able to watch branded and original comedy, sports, news, celebrity interviews, short films and [...] more...
Sunflower Broadband, MTV Networks Launch Dynamic VOD Ad Campaign
MTV Networks and Cable television operator Sunflower Broadband have teamed up to launch a campaign that dynamically inserts national ads into on-demand cable television. Beginning this week, Sunflower will dynamically place ads into MTV’s on-demand programming, kicking off with a campaign to promote Paramount Pictures’ “Jackass Number Two.” Sunflower’s VOD system [...] more...
Shanghai Media Group Pushes Chinese IPTV Service
The Shanghai Media Group (SMG) has begun promoting its Internet TV service called BesTV, after receiving additional licensing to distribute IPTV over landline networks owned by China Telecommunications Corp. BesTV COO Li Huaiyu expects the IPTV service to reach anywhere from 80,000 to 100,000 households by the end of this year, [...] more...
AOL Overhauls Music Service
AOL today announced it has retooled its online music download service to include music videos, streaming radio, and social features. Users of the subscription-based AOL Music Now service can now stream an unlimited number of songs and music videos on-demand. Additionally, those with “portable tier” subscriptions can transfer music and [...] more...
AOL Presses Play on Video Downloads
AOL has partnered with 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. to offer its users downloadable movies through AOL Video. With prices ranging from $9.99 to $19.99, customers will be able to download recent DVD releases and archived movies in all film genres, and watch them online, [...] more...
OR-Live Serves On-Demand Video Ads
OR-Live, a website that plays live surgical video for medical professionals, is trying to hook up with medical industry advertisers with its new on-demand video advertising program. Tower ads on the home page contain a button that will allow short-form ads and long-form product information videos, which can last anywhere [...] more...
Atlas Forms Video on Demand Ad Alliance
Digital marketing company Atlas today announced a partnership with on-demand technology firm Concurrent and its softward-based subsidiary Everstream to integrate their respective technologies in order to market an end-to-end Video On Demand (VOD) advertising campaign management and measurement solution. Together, the companies will integrate Atlas On Demand’s automated campaign management technology [...] more...
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