Zillion.tv Gets $10MM from Qwest: Zillion.tv, a provider of a Web-based video-on-demand service, has received a $10 million investment from Qwest Communications, Multichannel News reported. The service will offer a library of over 15,000 movies, TV episodes and other videos, licensed from partners including Disney, Fox, NBC Universal, Sony and Warner Bros. Ustream.tv Recognized as … [Read more]

The Internet added 11 million domain name registrations in the fourth quarter of 2009, reflecting a steady pace of Internet growth a quarter-century after the birth of .com. Those findings and more are featured in the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked … [Read more]

eMarketer leads with MLB.tv in their recent report “Monetizing Sports Content Online” describing them as “trailblazing”. The Sports Business Journal says MLB.tv earned $40MM in 2009 streaming their subscription packages for out of market games. As evidence it’s working for them, they added Postseason.tv this past year too, for subscription to just the post season … [Read more]

Adap.tv Announces an Industry First: AdAge has a good write up where they say “For years, online advertisers have used online ad exchanges to buy display advertising. But now exchanges are also coming to the more complex and fractured world of online video. Adap.tv, a 3-year-old Silicon Valley video ad-serving company, has opened the doors … [Read more]

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” From Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner Though it’s just beginning, I suspect this blog will be more about the future than it will be about the past. However, when I saw this posting on my friend’s Facebook page (thanks Mike). I thought there were … [Read more]