The judge presiding over the Viacom vs. Google $1 billion dollar lawsuit made a definitive decision today saying that Google did not have to turn over its source code that is used on Youtube to Viacom. Viacom requested the code giving the reason that they believed Youtube (GOOG) was ...
Atom.com has relaunched and re branded their entertainment portal in conjunction with Comedy Central. Not pretending to go after youtube, it appears they are positioning Atom.com to compete directly with Will Ferrel's Funnyordie video site.
We all knew this was coming, this afternoon TidalTV launched their beta website, which they are touting as a true competitor to Hulu.com.
Online video is here to stay, and there will be business models that evolve into fully profitable enterprises. In my opinion this will be due to increasing the number of in-stream ad units users are willing to put up combined with decreasing bandwidth fees.
