Amid strong sales for the video-friendly iPhone and high hopes for its PC-to-TV-screen product Apple TV, the company is increasingly emphasizing video content, and the addition of a prestige brand like HBO certainly will not hurt.
Like other Web companies, SpinMedia is emphasizing video, as well as branded content — features created with advertisers, which are increasingly common but controversial for blurring the line between advertising and editorial content.
Still they are closed, centralized, structured, and teacher-centered courses that emphasize video lectures and assignments.
By emphasizing video in its product, Micgoat's goal is to persuade people to talk to one another in a more human way, reducing the disinhibition effect that comes from posting text online.
The paper emphasizes videos and diaries as a multifaceted resource not only revealing facts from the producers׳ lives but also playful experimenting with different positions and genres highlighting constant identity exploration and construction going on during the creation of the data.
Mr. Neeleman, JetBlue's chief executive, emphasized that video pictures on its airliners would not be recorded, and that no cameras would be installed in the bathrooms.
Instagram's own CEO, Kevin Systrom, recently emphasized that video is "hard" (downright "gnarly" in the words of Bruce Dunlevie of Benchmark Capital).
A Macworld review gave it 4 out of 5 stars for "very good" and emphasized the video quality and ease-of-use.
The authors also emphasized that videos should be selected with a clear goal in mind.
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley used an April Fools' joke to promote his upcoming new product, a video-focused site called MixBit (via the Verge) that emphasizes collaborative video creation, rather than trying to compete with YouTube for a viewing audience.
