Time Out New York has partnered with the video curation platform Magnify.net to provide video content to it's readers as an effort to increase their digital presence. As a resource of entertainment, arts, restaurants, museums and more around the city Time Out will be using the videos to add a [Full Story…]
Vimeo Launches Filter Option to Videos
March 4, 2013 at 11:33 am
With the new 'Looks' program from Vimeo, video creators are now able to add filters to their pieces on the site. Through their partnership with video enhancer startup Vivoom, the NY-based startup is offering their users 700 different filters. The filters are browsable by genre, mood, color, and [Full Story…]
#HuffPo Releases New Improved App for iPad
February 25, 2013 at 1:26 pm
The Huffington Post has launched a new iPad app in the iTunes App Store. Mobile Insider writer Steve Smith says that the new version is completely re-engineered for touch screens. The new interface makes it easier for users to bookmark, personalize, share, and comment on articles. The new app [Full Story…]
#Met Museum of Art Launches Web Series
February 10, 2013 at 9:54 am
In their third major online initiative, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY has launched a year long web series called 82nd & Fifth. There will be 100 episodes, each two minutes long, representing 100 works of art that they feel changed the world. Two videos will be posted every Wednesday until [Full Story…]
NY Colleges Expanding #Video and #Cinema Offerings
January 25, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Video is the new writing, according to Leighton Pierce, the acting dean of Pratt’s School of Art and Design. Pratt’s Clinton Hill campus is expanding its film/video department. By fall of 2014, they will have space for 200 students in the program, up from 50. They also hope to open a new [Full Story…]
#CheckOutTheLatest Reaches 1M Unique Monthly Visits
January 15, 2013 at 4:17 pm
CheckOutTheLatest is a new startup that lets users do exactly that. The NY-based video and aggregation company takes millions of videos from sites including YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion so users can go to one spot for searches. Co-founder Deni Belanich told Nibletz that the idea and the name came [Full Story…]
Tim Armstrong Takes a Long Term View of #AOL
December 16, 2012 at 4:09 pm
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong talked with Business Insider editor-in-chief Henry Blodget about the future. Armstrong said, "In the content business, we are investing into what may not be popular in the time period, which is people think that the content businesses are expensive, and they don't look like [Full Story…]
Acting as Editor, NDN Posts Video Directly to NY Daily News Site
December 10, 2012 at 4:12 pm
News Distribution Network (NDN) recently made comScore's list of top ten online video properties. According to Adweek, the video wire service's audience just topped 53 million. NDN distributes video content from providers including AP, CBS News, Fox Sports as well as local TV stations. NDN has [Full Story…]
#Vimeo Releases New iPhone App
December 3, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Vimeo just released its latest iPhone app. Their mobile team said Vimeo 3.0 is "awesomer, sleeker, more beautiful, way awesomer, and also much more awesomer than ever before." The NY-based company’s app allows users to record video and upload it directly to the web without leaving the [Full Story…]
Top Tech Execs Ponder Trends at #BusinessInsider NY Conference
December 3, 2012 at 10:02 am
Tech giants discussed the difficulty of being in the spotlight at the Business Insider Ignition Conference in NY this week. AOL founder Steve Case said, "One day you're the smartest guy in the world, the next day you're the dumbest. It goes with the territory." According to Variety, Case fell from [Full Story…]
NY’s #Vimeo Revving up for Pay-Per-View Features
November 15, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Vimeo debuted its pay-per-view content platform this week with six select movies to highlight some of the new features, like flexible viewing windows and exclusive content. According to GigaOm, the movies include options like We Are Legion: The Story of Hactivists and LCD Soundsystem's concert [Full Story…]
NowThis News Makes a Showing in Online and Mobile Video News
November 11, 2012 at 2:01 pm
NowThis News is attempting to revamp news with video news content. The company was founded by Eric Hippeau and Ken Lerer, both Huffington Post ex-executives. The app and website feature professionally produced video content in short segments. The site has content from other networks and repackaged [Full Story…]
Former NY HuffPo Founders Launch NowThis News App
November 9, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau, both former Huffington Post executives, recently released their social video news app, NowThis News. The goal of the app is to make watching news an interesting and exciting experience for the newer generations of consumers. According to paidContent, the app has [Full Story…]
#MTA Holds First Video Conference Hearings
November 9, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Recently, the MTA hosted its first video conference hearing in light of the recent proposal of fare hikes for the subway and tolls. However, according to The NY Post, only two people showed up to the event to record their feelings about the hikes on camera. One of the speakers, Kendra Bennett, [Full Story…]
HuffPost Live’s New iPad App Provides Multi-Screen Experience
November 7, 2012 at 8:21 am
The Huffington Post unveiled their new iPad app, HuffPost Live, recently. The app has a mix of entertainment and social interaction, and can be displayed on a TV screen. According to GigaOm, the site launched its online TV network in August, which streams 12 hours of live footage daily from NY [Full Story…]
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