Logicbank Media

According to a comScore recent release, nearly 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched an average of three hours of online video during the month of July, with  Americans viewing more than 9 billion videos online.
Google Sites ranked as the top U.S. video property with nearly 2.5 billion videos viewed (27.0 percent share of videos), [...]

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Google’s SEC filing on February 7th, 2007, finally revealed the breakdown of profits shared by YouTube’s investors after the sale of the company to Google for $1.65 billion in stock in late 2006.The largest profits went to YouTube’s three founders and Sequoia Capital, the principal financier of the internet’s number one video-sharing site.The NY Times reported that founder and YouTube’s chief executive Chad Hurley received 694,087 shares of Google and an additional 41,232 in a trust.

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Netflix is introducing a service to deliver movies and television shows directly to users’ PCs, not as downloads but as streaming video, which is not retained in computer memory. The service, which is free to Netflix subscribers, is meant to give the company a toehold in the embryonic world of Internet movie distribution.
Netflix is entering [...]

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Silvio Scaglia, the Italian telecoms entrepreneur behind Fastweb and CEO of e.Biscom, is several months away from launching Babelgum, a global internet television service.
Milan-based e.Biscom is already funneling feature films and television shows — in addition to conventional Web and phone services to PCs and TVs in Milan, Rome, Florence, Naples, Bologna and Turin.
Babelgum, the [...]

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Joost™ is a new way to watch TV, free of the schedules and restrictions that come with traditional television.  Combining the best of TV with the best of the internet, Joost™ gives you more control and freedom than ever before - control over what you watch, and freedom to watch it whenever you like.  We’re providing a platform for the best television content on the planet - a platform that will bring you the biggest and best shows from the TV studios, as well as the specialist programs created by professionals and enthusiasts.  It’s all overlaid with a raft of nifty features that help you find the shows you love, watch and chat with friends, and even create your own TV channels.  Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have been talking about the idea behind Joost™ for a long time - even before their last venture, Skype, was born.  But to make it work, they needed the right combination of factors - widespread broadband and powerful computers in particular.  In early 2006, the time was right.  Gathering the world’s best engineers, web gurus and media visionaries, they started work under the code name of The Venice Project™ - and now, after much fretting and polishing, that work is ready for public viewing.

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