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Will AOL and Demand Media’s Content Farm Strategy Prevail?

Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. In this post he examines the two biggest content farms springing up on the Web: Demand Media and Aol. You can find his previous guest posts about online video here.

Are content farms the future of online media?  Demand [...]

Tags: Aol Media, Business Models, Clay Shirky, Content Consumption, Cool Kids, Facing Tv, Guest Author, Lifetime Value, Mathematical Proof, Media Database, Monetization, Octogenarian, Richard Rosenblatt, Rupert Murdoch, Septuagenarian, Sumner Redstone, Tv Executives, Usa Today, Video Site, Watchmojo

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The Ten Most Likely M&A Deals In Online Video

Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. Below are his picks for the ten most likely M&A deals in online video. Previously, he wrote a series if posts about the state of online video (Part I, II, III, and IV).
Which online video companies will [...]

Tags: 20b, 40b, Acquirers, Amazon, Content Business, Dancing Partner, Domain Registrar, Google, Guest Author, Inventory Company, Larger Companies, Match Made In Heaven, Monetization, Sheer Number, Tremor Media, Venture Capitalists, Video Companies, Video Editor, Video Site, Watchmojo

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Where Did VCs Go Wrong In Online Video?

Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo.You can also read his series on the state of Online video (Parts I, II, III, and IV) video..
Yesterday’s final implosion of video site Veoh, which declared bankruptcy after burning through $70 million of venture capital, was a long time [...]

Tags: Brightroll, Ceo Michael Eisner, Disney Ceo, Fellow Ceo, Financial Engineering, Fire Sale, Goldman Sachs, Implosion, Meaningful Background, Michael Eisner, Moral Compass, Sacerdoti, Selling Software, Smart Money, Venture Arm, Veoh, Video Editor, Video Industry, Video Site, Watchmojo

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ComScore: Netflix Now A Top 20 Online Video Site

There was some hoopla yesterday about the news that Hulu had broken the 1 billion videos viewed in a month threshold in December. And rightfully so, it’s the first video service to do that other than YouTube. But there’s another hot property that is rising fast in the streaming video realm as well: Netflix.
The movie [...]

Tags: Espn, Facebook, Fox Interactive, Google, Greeing, Hot Property, Indie Films, Justin Tv, Metrix, Netflix, New Dvd Releases, Number 19, Quarterly Earnings, Release Films, Rental Customers, Streaming Service, Video Service, Video Site, Video Sites, Youtube

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5min Rules The How-To Video Space

We recently wrote about the traction that how-to video site and producer Howcast is seeing online. But there’s another information and how-to video startup that is dominating the space: 5min. The company is a syndication platform for instructional, knowledge and lifestyle videos, both professionally produced and user-generated. The service’s video library boasts 150,000 of videos [...]

Tags: 30 Million, Aol, Branded Content, Competitor, Comscore, Content Providers, Food Health, Google, Hearst, Hulu, Independent Producers, Launch, Niche Content, Rev Share, Scripps, Turner Networks, Video Library, Video Site, Video Space, Video Streams

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Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites

This has not been the greatest start to the year for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Days after news of the latest security flaw in Internet Explorer, Google is adding fuel to the fire by phasing out support for IE6 for two of its Google Apps products, Docs and Sites (which recently got an aesthetic upgrade).
For [...]

Tags: Better Security, Enterprise Versions, First Move, Fuel To The Fire, Gmail, Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer Browser, Latest Security, Microsoft Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Modern Browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Security Flaw, Security Flaws, Video Site, Web Developers

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