Today DailyMotion announced HD video upload and playback and rival site Vimeo announced high definition transcoding last October. With online HD content emerging, though, one has to wonder what the benefit is in promoting this type of content and at what cost. We know that streaming video is a difficult business to be in because [...]

Online video has been growing around the world and China is no exception. And while we’re all familiar with the likes of YouTube, etc. we probably have a lot less experience with sites like Tudou.com, 56.com and Youku.com. Sites like these are attracting over 100 million users to watch online video in China every [...]

vTap will launch a new mobile search service on September 10. The service plans to only use metadata about the various videos to create its index and provide results. It sounds like the same progression that occurred in online video search is playing out in the mobile space as well.
Additional details can be found over [...]

eMarketer has an interesting interview with Bart Feder, CEO of FeedRoom. Sounds like interesting competition in the premium content online video space is emerging. FeedRoom currently works with sites like The New York Times and BusinessWeek. This is a segment that Brightcove is very focused on.
One interesting twist with FeedRoom is that they don’t [...]

AT&T is offering LG’s new Trax handset which allows for video sharing and streaming. This device takes advantage of AT&T’s recently announced Video Share service. The Video Share service lets users share video during voice calls.
We previously covered the launch of the AT&T’s Video Share service in July:
AT&T Pushing Mobile Video Sharing

More handset options [...]