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Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/09/13 11:05:13 AM

YouTube’s ‘Trends’ Page Is an Unbelievable Time Suck

Kelly Faircloth of BetaBeat writes: YouTube has just debuted an entertaining feature on its Trends page: a map where you can see which videos are the most popular by city and region. It is a K-hole without parallel. For example! Did you know that while Alan Jackson’s cover of George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today” is unsurprisingly popular in the Southeast, Blake Shelton’s latest redneck anthem pops up more often in the Midwest? The True Blood season six trailer, on the other hand, practically outlines the shape of the country–apparently raunchy vampires aren’t as popular in the flyover states. READ THE FULL STORY HERE.

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Kelly Faircloth, BetaBeat

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/08/13 11:05:40 PM

AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart

Splatf writes: At the end of March, almost 2.7 million people still subscribed to AOL service, the company reported this morning. That’s about where Netflix stood at the end of 2004. Since then, Netflix’s subscriber base has grown — 29 million at the end of March — and AOL’s has declined at a remarkably parallel rate. But that makes perfect sense: Nothing says “dialup” more than AOL, and few services have benefited more from the growth of broadband than Netflix. (The paths cross in early 2008, just as Netflix’s streaming video service was starting to take off.) READ THE FULL STORY HERE.

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Splatf

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/08/13 11:05:14 PM

Inside the Internet Archive

Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg of The Atlantic writes: You'll find wonderful things surfing the pages of the Internet Archive, an online library of millions of books, films, audio recordings, web pages, and more. You can watch what might be the oldest "cat video" of all time -- an 1894 reel from Thomas Edison's movie studio.

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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, The Atlantic

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/08/13 11:05:04 PM

Monday Q&A: The New York Times’ New Head of Video Production on Plans for Growth

Caroline O’Donovan of Nieman Lab writes: Rebecca Howard occupies a unique position at The New York Times. She came to the paper with experience from the AOL/Huffington Post video department and Fox Digital Studios, where she has worked on both branded and original content. Now she holds one of very few positions at the Times — and maybe in the industry — that reports to both business and editorial managers: general manager of video production. Right now, Howard says that means her number one priority is distribution — making sure, as her boss Denise Warren, put it, that the Times transitions from “a place you just read to a place you just watch.”

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Caroline O’Donovan, Nieman Lab

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/08/13 11:05:23 PM

YouTube Trends Map Shows You What the Rest of the Country is Watching

Mat Smith of Engadget writes: In an effort to give some visual pizazz to the often dry world of regional metrics, Google has announced a new trends map for its YouTube viewers. While the top video (True Blood's season six teaser, if you're asking) currently dominates across the (for now, US-only) map, there are some Walking Dead fans that can't get enough bad lip-reading in the North-West. An upgrade from YouTube's Trends Dashboard, the Trends Map can be tweaked for gender and age profiles, with scrollable bars showing the number of regions in which a video has claimed the top spot. While we're still not sure how YouTube is assigning the regions just yet, take a look at what's popular in your locale at the source below.

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Mat Smith, Engadget

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/07/13 03:05:25 PM

Broadcast Video Will Soon Be Packed into Smartphone Signals

David Talbot of Technology Review writes: If you want to watch video on your phone or tablet, you’ll find that many networks can’t always serve up the data fast enough. So your choices are either to find a Wi-Fi hotspot, take your chances on congestion and high data charges on a cellular network, or plug in a special dongle that picks up TV broadcasts (see “Broadcast TV Aims for Your Smartphone”). Early next year, an emerging wireless technology known as LTE Broadcast could change all that, essentially making it possible for carriers to put a TV-like broadcast stream within LTE cellular signals. READ THE FULL STORY HERE.

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David Talbot, Technology Review

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/07/13 03:05:02 PM

Tiffany Shlain Explains How and Why Non-Profits and Others Can Crowdsource Film Production for Free

Tiffany Shlain of IndieWire writes: Tiffany Shlain, who has been a player in the Bay Area tech scene for over a decade and who directed the 2011 Sundance film "Connected," is currently promoting her cloud filmmaking project, a way for organizations and others to get filmmakers all over the world to contribute to collaborative film projects on specific topics.  Shlain also recently announced that she would be creating a web series, "The Future Starts Here," about connected life, for AOL. Here is the full transcript of filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s keynote address “The Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto” delivered at Tribeca Film Festival’s Interactive Day 2013 in New York on April 20th.

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Tiffany Shlain, IndieWire

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/06/13 12:05:21 PM

Building Films for the iPad: The National Film Board's New Tablet-Focused Projects

Neal Ungerleider of FastCoCreate writes: What happens when a major film producer decides to create original entertainment for tablets? Canada’s National Film Board (NFB) is experimenting with a series of new tablet-centric projects that merge gaming, journalism, and cinema. The applications come in iOS, Android, and web-Flash flavors and are intentionally created to mash up movies and computer games once and for all. The National Film Board is a publicly funded film producer and distributor known for its legendary animation work and, lately, for becoming a pioneer of new, interactive forms of storytelling.

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Neal Ungerleider, FastCoCreate

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/06/13 11:05:33 AM

What You Need to Know About Interactivity

Andy Stout of Red Shark News writes: With more and more projects demanding some form of interactive component nowadays, anybody working with moving images ignores the subject at their peril. Andy Stout talks to Michael Salmond, one of the authors of a new book 'The Fundamentals of Interactive Design' about what you need to know First off, what are the headlines here? Briefly what do video professionals need to know about interactive design? As with pretty much every creative avenue these days, so much of what is produced ends up with an interactive component. This is not going to change, it's likely to become ever more the case. From a pure video production standpoint other than SD, HD and whatever's -next-HD, not much changes, but what will change is in the planning and idea development phase. READ THE FULL STORY HERE.

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Andy Stout, Red Shark News

Added by jzaccaria--Creative Planet Network, 05/06/13 11:05:12 AM

Neil LaBute's 'Some Girl(s)' Is the First Live-Action Narrative to Self Release Via Vimeo-On-Demand

Nigel M. Smith of IndieWire  writes: The Neil LaBute-penned comedy "Some Girl(s)" will be the first live-action narrative feature to be released exclusively on Vimeo, as part of the site's new Vimeo-On-Demand program that they launched at SXSW, where the film also premiered. Leeden Media turned down distribution offers to release the film on Vimeo and in select theaters on June 28. READ MORE: VOD for Everyone? Vimeo's Blake Whitman Tells Us About Opening Up Self-Distribution With Vimeo On Demand

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Nigel M. Smith, IndieWire

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