While there is some great video programming online, Web series rarely seem to get the kind of cultural buzz of TV. I have never seen Gossip Girl or even a full episode of Glee for that matter, but it is hard not to hear about them. Web shows may get millions of views without registering on anyone else's radar. Yahoo's TV recap show, Primetime in No Time, is hosted by comedian Frank Nicotero who announced on Wednesday's show that 'PINT' has been streamed 500 million times since it launched. "Which is more eyeballs than have watched the last five Super …

That was the prescient question asked by Mitch Oscar, EVP of Televisual Applications, MPG at yesterday's lively panel on convergence at OMMA Global. Following Gian Fulgoni's keynote and outline of the great promise for video advertising online, Gian joined a panel on "The Living Room Wars: Convergence or Chaos" that included Oscar, Anthony Soohoo of CBS Interactive, Bill Niemeyer of The Diffusion Group, and Ginny Musante from Microsoft Interactive Entertainment. Mitch's question was on point. "Where is the living room," he asked. "I have one but I rarely visit it." What he meant was that the video experience we say …

Books have become one of the most interesting sources of online video in the past year or so. As we have noted in VidBlog before, the new phenomenon of the book trailer has produced some stunningly good and often funny work. It gave us Thomas Pynchon's voice, narrating the trailer for his Inherent Vice trailer.