In case you didn’t notice the lights on your neighbor’s house or Santa appearing in every other commercial on television, the holiday season is upon us. Families all over the world will be gathering to celebrate together and we thought this would be the perfect time for you and your family to start a video … [Read more]

First…who knew there were so many CDNs in the world (OK, OK, I guess I knew…but all in one place it seems more impressive). Second; trolling the booths, attending the panels, and talking to the participants last week I was struck by how much is going on with video and how diverse the community is. … [Read more]

If you guessed YouTube.com, you’d be wrong according to recent statistics. Here at Watch.tv we’re proud to say that honor is reserved for the live streaming sites like Justin.tv and UStream.tv. YouTube has about 24 hours of video uploaded per minute. But, Justin.tv claims 30 hours and Ustream.tv claims over 53 hours per minute according … [Read more]

4.35MM people use Ustream.tv to watch the Chile Earthquake and Hawaii Tsunami Live: I saw this figure on The Tech Journal and I have to admit I have mixed reactions on this one. On the one hand, it seems a bit voyeuristic.  But then when something so terrible happens, it’s nice to know that technology … [Read more]

Out of personal interest this general topic was on my radar screen anyway, but Google’s announcement late last week sped up the timetable. In their DC policy office Google announced several capabilities for putting captions to videos: Auto-captioning: They will do automated captioning of YouTube videos. To start, it will only be certain channels (mostly … [Read more]