02 maio 2006

VITAMEDIAS

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Video blogs, ready for prime time: Video blogs, a.k.a. vlogs, are booming, and Internet users and advertisers are taking note.

Video bloggers claim spotlight: Online diaries looking a lot like television
In less than two years, the number of video blogs, also known as vlogs and video podcasts, has exploded from a handful to more than 7,000, according to video blogging directory Mefeedia

Ultimate Guide to Online Video: Online video has arrived, unleashed from the networks, cable companies, and media giants. Thanks to growing bandwidth, easy access to the means of production, and cheap storage, it's exploding all around us and becoming a very real, very different way to experience news and entertainment.

TV Guide to Feature "Downloads" Column, Devoted to Multiplatform TV: The column will provide recommendations of TV programs that are newly available for download or online viewing each week, alongside information on where to find those programs

Get ?The Most? from Alison Stewart: Every day, ?The Most? will report on the most searched stories on the Internet, the most viewed stories from a multitude of news sources, the most e-mailed stories or photo images, the most downloaded music or blogged-about subject matter and the most viewed television programs or movies. Tapping into the top news stories of the day, ?The Most? will dig even deeper to give viewers the most information on their favorite topics.

Smells Like Teen Progress: Condé Nast will let young women supply the Web content
This embrace by Condé Nast, which publishes Teen Vogue, of "user-generated content" -- the toothache-inducing term for the stuff a media outlet's consumers create, which I'll call citizens' media -- comes at a critical juncture. Magazines as a medium are still struggling, with ad pages flat in the first quarter and showing signs of slowing thereafter. Meanwhile, total Internet ad spending is predicted to surpass the spending at magazines this year, according to Merrill Lynch