Unequivocally, folks, the unquestioned ruler of the online video realm is YouTube. But Hulu, that surprise little upstart, is making a play for the top slot, and they’ve got quite a case to back up their own bid for supremacy. Hulu’s currently boasting over forty million users, and just recently cleared its one hundred billionth [...]

Once again we’ve got a studio pleading poverty due to piracy–well, to be fair, they’re also blaming the most miserable economic conditions in eighty years.  But the end result is the same for Sony Pictures, who just showed four hundred and fifty people to the door by telling them they’ll be fired this March. Give [...]

So I read this article over at IPTV where they ask the question, what’s “king”?  Is it content, distribution or discovery? Discovery is something of a new element to the debate, and represents the “how” of the mix.  While content serves as the “what” and distribution the “where”, it’s discovery that determines how the marketplace [...]

We were afraid this might happen. Seems that Disney took exception to having Starz lease out their films to Netflix in a deal that seems to be legally sound (I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV) but very much against the spirit of the deal. See, Disney made an agreement [...]

Now here’s a strange bit to jump up and bite us, folks–seems that the streaming video company Vudu is in sellout talks, having had “meaningful acquisitions talks” with an as yet unnamed buyer. But the rumor is making the rounds that the company looking to pick up Vudu is none other than Walmart. Walmart’s been [...]