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What were Twitterati like Michelle Malkin, Xeni Jardin, and Michael Buckley high on today? Doesn't really matter — they're all addicted to Twitter. Today's most addled tweets:
Veoh lays off 15, still lacks reason for being
An online-video industry insider emails us to tell us that Veoh has laid off 40 percent of its staff. On Monday afternoon, LinkedIn had 94 people listed as Veoh employees. PaidContent says that the company laid off 15 employees from its Russian office in St. Petersburg, and is hiring stateside. Veoh has raised almost…
Once again, Vanity Fair leaves geeks at the kids' power table
Preeminent among the magazine world's kingmaking power lists is Vanity Fair's New Establishment, which appears in the October issue — on newsstands in L.A. and New York today, but not in the Bay Area for another six days. Silicon Valley gets similar short shrift: The names who make it there are predictable bigs like…
Veoh wins DMCA case against gay porn producer Titan Media
In a summary judgement issued today, Judge Howard Lloyd of the Northern California Federal District Court declared that online video site Veoh can not be held liable for copyright infringement in a case brought by the Io Group, an adult content producer better known as Titan Media. Users had uploaded clips of steamy…
Vogue's new reality show hopes to bedazzle the Internet
Every print publisher, and especially the glossies, want in on the online-video game. Unlike the text-and-photos Web, where there are more pageviews than media buyers know what to do with, there's not enough slickly packaged content that big brands deem safe enough to advertise themselves on. Condé Nast's Vogue has …
YouTube blowing away competition as distribution platform
TubeMogul, a startup which allows content creators to post video clips to multiple sites at once and track aggregate views for the clip across sites, did a survey of over 200,000 clips and how much traffic they garnered after 90 days. The results? The average clip got more views on YouTube in three months (3,092)…
Site visits slightly down overall, but YouTube picks up market share
Within a group of 63 online video destination sites tracked by HitWise, YouTube increased market share to 75 percent from 59 percent from May of 2007 to May of 2008. Visits among all the sites were down a scant over 1 percent, but time spent on the sites were up 9 percent. Why are views slightly down? One reason is…
Veoh raises another $30 million
Veoh, the YouTube also-ran, has raised another $30 million, bringing its total funding to $70 million. We hear Google's looking for a way to make money with YouTube. If only they'd come up with Veoh's clever plan: Continue soaking investors! [News.com]
Another $40 million and Veoh will work, founder promises
Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro has hired investment bank Bear Stearns to find him another $40 million in venture capital. Shapiro's Veoh, an online-video site, took $26 million only last spring in a round led by Goldman Sachs. If Shapiro finds a $40 million sucker investor, that would set Veoh's value at $150 million.…
Veoh goes for the simple way to grab video
Lazy, scummy, and smart. That's just the way we like them. YouTube-wannabe Veoh has jumped into Hulu's hoop by adding streaming video from all the Fox and NBC properties we know and love. Only, unlike Hulu, a joint venture between NBC and News Corp., or any of its distribution partners, Veoh hasn't actually worked…
Can a Yahoo rescue Veoh from its pirate founder?
Veoh, the overhyped, piracy-riddled online-video site, has hired Steve Mitgang, a former SVP at Yahoo. Mitgang, one of the myriad of Yahoos who's taking credit for its Project Panama online-ad system, may be a suit well-suited to make Veoh friendlier to advertisers. Not an easy task.
Veoh still beneath Viacom's notice
Though video sharing site Veoh would desperately love to get some Youtube-level attention, they can't even get it via copyright infringement. CNET darkly titles this Veoh article "A new copyright battlefield," based primarily on Veoh's offer to host long-form video (like whole TV shows and movies!). All they can…
Team Party Crash: Rated X at Luke & Leroy
Ever since the MisShapes party vamoosed, downtown hellmouth Luke & Leroy has been strugglin' a little. Its Saturday-night MisShapes party replacement, Rated X, goes straight for the gonads with enthusiastic amateur nudity. The hipsters are still drawn in droves, MisShapes or no; many probably haven't even noticed the…
Helen Gurley Brown Advises Peter Cook
This is a bit longer a clip than we might usually take your time with, but the creep factor makes it worth a look. It's videographist "Boss Tweed's" mashup of legendary sexolutionary Helen Gurley Brown giving advice on how to have an affair, run over news clips and other ephemera relating to the love triangle between…
Why Veoh pulled the plug on porn
Video sites like YouTube and Google Video are sloppy about allowing TV shows and other copyrighted material on their sites — and we all thank them for that — but take a hard line against anything R-rated. Now we know why.
