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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

CBS Digital Boss Quincy Smith’s Not-Quite Exit Interview: “Hulu’s a Great Service. That’s Part of the Problem.”

cbs_video_buttonsThe man who helped shape CBS’s standalone Web video strategy explains himself, for the record.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Video Site Veoh Cuts Staff, Boots CEO, Bets on Browser Plug-in

Video site Veoh, one of the biggest players in the “who will be the next YouTube” competition, is restructuring the company, laying off a good chunk of its staff and replacing CEO Steve Mitgang with founder Dmitry Shapiro. Shapiro says the company, which has been primarily focused on playing video and selling ads on its own site, will now be concentrating on a new “Video Compass” player that users will have to download onto their Web browsers in order to use.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Coming to Sling.com: Viacom Shows That YouTube, Hulu Can’t Show You

Sling.com will soon get Viacom shows like “SpongeBob Squarepants,” which you can see on Joost but not on Hulu or YouTube. Confused? Of course you are. And Hollywood wonders why pirate sites are popular.

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

YouTube’s Big Live Debut: Pretty Small

Did you watch YouTube Live last night? Odds are you didn’t. The video site’s first attempt at a live-streamed event drew a peak audience of 700,000 people. That’s a lot for a Web event. But if it was a TV show, it would have been canceled.

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About Peter

Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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