The New York Times
The division will produce one 10-minute film a month and two longer ones each year. Kira Pollack, Time’s director of photography, said the idea for a new business came after a Time's special project on the 10th anniversary of the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that was adapted to several Time platforms.
Destination CRM
Like, how about ending your video with a question and adding a Twitter hashtag to keep the conversation going? That's what British Airways did, successfully.
Brisbane Times
This video that seemingly shows bears pole dancing in a Canadian forest has gone viral, but is presented here mainly because your Around the Net curator just returned from an Alaska vacation.
USA Today
A "perfect storm" of online video, new devices, rising prices and programming blackouts is eroding traditional pay-TV providers' grip on living rooms.
The Wall Street Journal
Facebook intends to introduce video advertising in a big way, probably this fall, but how to do it without alienating users, and how to do it in a way advertisers find efficient is still a concern. Facebook wants up to $2 million for TV-type ads.
FierceOnlineVideo.com
As a result of its retransmission dispute with Time Warner Cable, CBS is blocking TWC broadband subscribers from accessing CBS.com.
Advertising Age
Ad Age queries media buyers and sellers about which sites can fetch top dollar. Not many surprises, 'til they tout StarGreetz, which allows an advertiser to refer to an individual consumer by his/her name.
Fast Company
MixBit is a new social video sharing site, from Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, the original founders of YouTube. It goes head to head, in a more arty way, with Vine and Instagram
LABusiness Journal
The National Music Publishers' Association, brought a copyright infringement claim against Fullscreen, alleging that the company's YouTube artists used unlicensed music in their online videos. The issue, NMPA said in its filing, is that Fullscreen generates revenue through advertising from the videos and hasn't paid royalties to those artists and music publishers.
Indepdendent.ie
Wanna sell your horse? There's a video for that, now, out of Ireland.