Posts on October 19th, 2007

2007-10-19

Weekend OVW Picks: Better the Second Time

Comedy Central this week launched a new Daily Show Microsite, re-upped Jon Stewart’s contract thru 2010 and opened up their online video archive for the show going back to Stewart’s first day in 1999.

Above: Jon Stewart on Clinton’s ‘99 Sate of the Union

Video is supported by a 7-second pre-roll, overlay ads and 15-second post-roll. Online video is removing the linear boundaries of TV, enabling every ironic moment of history to be referenced with video at any time. Now if only Seinfeld would offer something like this.

Above: Different Strokes -…

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Coalition Creates Vague Guidelines for UGC

The cooperation between the major networks (and Veoh and Dailymotion) to create principles for finding and removing copyright infringing content on UGC services is a first for networks previously unable to come together in their digital media strategies. These guidelines are a long time coming.

But getting all networks together to agree on principles for user-generated content and video sharing has resulted in some vague principles and an alliance that leaves room for anticompetitive cooperation down the line.

At a minimum these guidelines will raise the barrier to entry for startups looking to…

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