NBC took a bit of criticism earlier this week when it launched its new series Community on Facebook rather than its own site, NBC.com or Hulu, a video streaming site that it also happens to be a founding partner of; however it seems that NBC had bigger ideas when it came to the social networking site. (more…)

More and more readers are talking about the decline of print media, and its growing competition on the web.

Publications like The Rocky Mountain News and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer have disappeared, and even the great Canwest media empire is walking a line dangerously close to bankruptcy. Online - new user-generated hyperlocal news sites are popping up in an attempt to replace them, when profit seems to be a rare commodity. (more…)

A redesign of YouTube that will take advantage of its monetizing potential is in the works. ClickZ reported that the new layout will clearly separate user-generated content (UGC) from premium content.

The reason for the change is directly related to the inability of YouTube to post dramatic profits despite a staggering amount of traffic on the website. YouTube is ranked the number one online video viewing website with one million unique visitors and five billion videos viewed per month. (more…)

Hulu, still known as the new online vid kid in town, moved up another two spots and is now ranked fourth in most online video views in the U.S.

According to ComScore the total views of online videos was down 12 per cent in the month of February. The company attributes this to, among other factors, February being a shorter month. During this downturn Hulu was still able to jump to 34.7 million unique visitors in February, a 42 per cent growth. (more…)

YouTube quietly moved past a milestone in January, 2009 by surpassing 100 million unique visitors per month in the U.S. This is the first time that a user-generated content (UGC) video sharing website has reached that mark.

eMarketer reported the numbers supplied by comScore last week that show YouTube the runaway leader in U.S. online video viewership. Second was Fox Interactive Media at 62 million unique visitors and Yahoo! was third with just over 40 million unique visitors. (more…)

It has been leaked that YouTube, owned by Google, and William Morris Agency may be nearing a deal that would see professionally produced material by celebrities appear on the most popular online video website in the world. (more…)

Hulu has gotten YouTube to take note after LiveRail released the “State of the Industry Report” report announcing that Hulu sold out its advertising inventory in the third quarter of last year. The report showed that Hulu, an online video site that can be viewed only in the U.S., is running a far more profitable operation in comparison to their larger, Google-owned rival YouTube. Estimates have Hulu earning US$90 million in its first year. (more…)

Radus announced a new media hub platform that provides consistent user experience for reading news feeds, sharing content, blogging or watching videos while also offering access to mainstream and user-generated content like news, sports and entertainment.

“Today, you’re forced to jump between an endless array of news, entertainment, and social sites just to keep up,” said Radus CEO Scott Rankine in an article here. “Radus solves this problem by offering consumers a new approach, one that brings together the best in online media and social networking in a way that’s visually stunning and remarkably easy to use.” (more…)