AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Silicon Alley Insider
A funny but uncomfortable exchange today between Michael Eisner and Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro. Shapiro was supposed to be interviewing Eisner at Digitas’ “Newfront,” a showcase of Web video for potential advertisers held in New York.
But since Eisner is an investor in Veoh, and well, because he’s Michael Eisner, he felt he had [...]

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paidContent.org
Just this weekend it was reported that video network Veoh was out for a new round and here it is: The LA-based company has raised a $30 million round led by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) and investor Gordon Crawford. Past backers—Shelter Capital, Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Time Warner [...]

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Integration With Online Video Search And Discovery is Critical to Advertisers - Digital Media Wire
From Future of Television Forum West “The killer video app,” according to Veoh CEO Steve Mitgang, “will be an intelligent piece of software that creates a mode-sensitive, personalized [electronics program guide],” so that people can find content they’re interested in amid [...]

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Content Distributor Channeling Online Television - Los Angeles Business Journal
Next.tv under Dave Networks includes videos from CBS and HSN.
Once solely a video distributor, Dave Networks saw revenues grow five times over the past year after its segue into the social networking scene, revamping 20 Web sites for TV shows such as “Price Is Right.”
Now it’s [...]

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UStream.TV Partners with Veoh - Mashable
UStream is at it again, releasing a new update today. Brad Hunstable, a founder at UStream, just contacted me via IM regarding a new partnership they’re announcing this morning with Internet Television leader, Veoh Networks. Together they’re launching Veoh’s new Web series, “Viral LIVE,” a live monthly program that gives [...]

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Veoh aims to be one-stop shop for Net TV viewers - USA Today
Dmitry Shapiro wanted to start a website that promised to be the CBS, NBC and ABC of the Internet, a one-stop shop for TV programming on the Web.
Shapiro wasn’t the first to come up with such a lofty concept. At the time of [...]

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