Jalipo, an online video service, has announced that they will now be carrying televised sporting events.
As opposed to the more usual way of paying for the pleasure of watching sports events – on a subscriptions or pay-per-view basis – Jalipo will be charged on a pay-per-minute basis.
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The Charlatans plan to give away their forthcoming single.
If the news from earlier in the week about Radiohead letting their fans choose how much to pay for their next album didn’t make you sit up, you could well spit out your coffee when you hear what Alan McGee and the Charlatans are planning to do.
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With rumours of a possible election in the UK, we wonder if there’s a co-incidence that one of the Labour parties media strategist has launched a Web site called CampaignTV.org, whose major focus is on politics.
Don’t expect too much balance in the politics on offer, but they’re not hiding that away either. In their words, “CampaignTV is the first free to view, independently-owned Labour-supporting internet TV channel.” That’s fair enough, as there’s plenty of pro-Conservative Web site around.
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We’ve been watching Joost since the days it was The Venice Project.
Well yesterday it left its invite-only beta stage, opening up for all to sign up. Given the large interest we saw in people wanting to sign up for the Joost beta when we offered it, we imagine that the take-up will be strong.
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Radiohead have long been known as a band who like to do things differently, and their approach to selling their long-awaited seventh studio album certainly breaks new ground, with fans invited to pay whatever they like.
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Another week, another purchase of a Web-based service by a TV broadcaster.
US, sports-mad ESPN have announced that they are buying UK scrum.com, a site that, not surprisingly is about rugby.
Founded nearly ten years ago, in 1997, they take pride in their ability to break stories faster than “conventional media.”
There’s been a number of moves of late by broadcasters to buy Web sites that focus on, what to broadcasters, are small niches – such as Discovery buying Treehugger.com, Cricket site, Cricinfo, which was also bought by ESPN and most recently cycling.tv by JumpTV.
Cycling.tv, UK-based, Internet TV station that covers, not surprisingly, Cycling, has sold to Canadian online broadcaster JumpTV for $5m (£2.48m, E3.66), most of which is in cash.
We’ve been holding back with Apple news since the vomit-inducing coverage of the iPhone launch that many publications gave (Engadget and Gizmodo appearing top of the list, in that order).
Here’s one worth noting though, Apple has announced that they’ve now sold over THREE BILLION tracks.
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We nearly fell off our chairs when we saw the Independent reporting that Virgin-backed games company, A World Of My Own (AWOMO) were hoping to list for $1Bn in London and Frankfurt.
The Big Idea is that people will use the 3D world of AWOMO to download their games.
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Apple is knee deep in advanced talks with some of Hollywood’s biggest hotshots as it prepares to launch an online film rental service to challenge cable and satellite TV operators head on.
According to a report in the Financial Times, the company is looking to sign up enough studios to provide a mass of in-demand premium film content.
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