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With 17 successful episodes under their belt, the controversial break-out web series, Midwest Teen Sex Show (MTSS), has landed its first major sponsor with KoldCast TV.  The series, which has been airing on-demand on several video web sites and on KoldCast TV since its Beta launch in March, will now air exclusively on the KoldCast TV Network beginning today through December.  Beyond KoldCast, only the MTSS web site will distribute these five KoldCast TV-sponsored episodes. Since the launch of Midwest Teen

Metacafe, whose more than 30 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world???s largest video entertainment sites, now enables viewers to personalize their entertainment experiences by adding dialog bubbles, photos, webcam video, clip art, subtitles and more to online videos. These viewers turned co-creators can save their work for the enjoyment of other members of the Metacafe community and can share their personalized clips with friends v

Michael Learmonth posted an article last week that outlines the amount of money that has been poured into online video companies and platforms for the last several years: 2005: $1.764 billion 2006: $2.117 billion 2007: $2.009 billion 2008: $453 million - data from DowJones VentureSource Just back in March, we posted that investors had already put more than $200 million towards online video in the first quarter of this year. When you total up those investments along with various acquisitions (Youtube, Groupe

American University’s Center for Social Media today released a white paper that details guidelines for using copyrighted material in online video. Fair use is often misunderstood as there are complex laws that govern fair use.  A set of clear guidelines was absolutely needed. The first of their kind, these best practices will allow users to make remixes, mashups, and other common online genres with the knowledge that they are staying within copyright law. The code identifies, among other things, six

Flixwagon, a mobile live video broadcasting platform (sometimes referred to as lifecasting), announced yesterday that using their alpha client they successfully streamed the first-ever high quality video stream from unlocked iPhones to the internet. They also mentioned that they are doing their best to work with the SDK for iphone in order to offer this functionality once Apple decides to make video a standard part of the iphone. For now, they plan to offer the functionality to all of their alpha testers n