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AOL, current.tv. Brightcove and Youtube jump ship.
[UPDATE 12/2] Expect the stampede away from user-generated video to accelerate: According to he IAB’s Randall Rothenberg in this week’s Economist user-generated content is a major obstacle to monetization:
The lesson appears to be that the problem was not the format but the fact that so […]

A month ago I seemed to be almost alone in expressing a distinct lack of excitement over the video capabilities of the new DSLRs from Canon and Sony. Stu Maschwitz nails it:

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David Eun VP of Google/YouTube  talking yesterday  at the VideoNuze breakfast panel in NYC
“…about the “head” and the “tail” of Chris Anderson’s “long tail” model. He said that in between the two (basically, between big hits and narrowly-focused content that appeals to a tiny audience), there’s a “torso”: high-quality specialty niche programming. “That’s what drove […]

Following up on the Context is King follow-up:
Further proof that with 25c and killer content, you’re only $3 short of the price of a tall latte. This time from the Digital Publishing and Advertising Conference:

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