New York: Video-sharing website YouTube has announced that the British royal wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William will be shown live on the website's live streaming channel.

The live stream will focus on the April 29 wedding procession and the marriage ceremony at Westminster Abbey as well as the balcony kiss, Xinhua reported.

The official channel – www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel – will have live blog commentary of the event, and users can also upload video wishes for the couple on the site.

"This one is already heralded as the first of the internet age, where for the first time in thousands of years of royal history, the moment will be captured online and preserved forever," YouTube said in its blog.

YouTube will provide the technical support for the broadcast and the footage will be provided by BBC.

Live streaming service YouTube Live was launched April 8.

Los Angeles: Amazon.com is getting into the business of making films, launching a movie studio Wednesday that will both choose projects based on the site's ratings systems and allow anyone to edit the raw material.

Washington : Google is teaming up big-name brands like HBO, Netflix, Pandora and the NBA for the expected rollout of Google TV, the web giant’s “multimillion-channel TV” system some time soon.
Run by Google’s Android operating system, it will let users view all kinds of Web content on their televisions, Google said Monday announcing the partnerships on its official blog.

The post announced that other deals are in place for Web sites to optimize their content for Google TV. CNN.com is one of those sites as are others, including TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, owned by parent company Time Warner.

“One of our goals with Google TV is to finally open up the living room and enable new innovation from content creators, programmers, developers and advertisers,” Ambarish Kenghe, developer product manager for Google TV, said in the post.

Other partnerships include NBC Universal, which plans CNBC Real Time, an application that tracks stocks, and Twitter, which will let users post to the microblogging site as they’re watching a show.

HBO, also owned by Time Warner, will offer more than 600 hours of programming optimized for Google TV. The NBA has built NBA Game Time, which will give real-time score updates and highlights.

Google joins fellow tech giant Apple in making preholiday season moves into the world of television. While online entertainment has emerged as a viable option through sites such as YouTube and Hulu, there are still significantly more television viewers than Web users worldwide.

Music sites such as VEVO, Pandora and Napster are building apps for the platform, as are Amazon Video on Demand, The New York Times and USA Today.

“This is just the beginning,” Kenghe wrote. “Over the next few weeks, you can expect to hear from more sites that are enhancing their Web content for the television.”

Boston : Boston.com, the most-visited local online news source in New England, is joining with the number one broadband sports programming service, CineSport, to provide sports video highlights, news, and custom features for Boston.com Sports.

“By joining with CineSport we will greatly expand the number of sports video highlights we can offer our audience, which includes some of the most passionate sports fans in the country,” said Bob Kempf, vice president, digital for Boston.com. “This also brings another creative opportunity for advertisers to reach and engage with our big fan base here in Boston and across the country.”

Boston.com attracts five million unique visitors monthly. Its sports section up-to-the minute scores and breaking news, insightful blogs and all the content of The Boston Globe’s sports section, which is consistently ranked among the top ten newspaper sports sections in the country.

“The addition of Boston.com to our growing list of affiliates solidifies our position as the top provider of sports video to online sites,” said CineSport CEO Gregg Winik. “We look forward to joining this prestigious organization and its distinguished journalists in creating an immersive video experience.”

Launched in 2007, CineSport is the number one online sports programming service in terms of unique visitors, providing highlights, news and features to more than 70 blue chip Web sites including the New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Philadelphia Inquirer. CineSport provides sites with an end-to-end video programming, production, hosting and advertising sales platform. January 2010 comScore Video Metrix data ranks CineSport atop the sports category with 13.9 million monthly unique viewers.

Los Angeles : Ten gorgeous models and ten talented photographers from around the world have paired up on the set of Playboy TV’s newest reality series,  Playboy Shootout, to compete for the chance to be featured in Playboy magazine. The all-new series, produced by America’s Next Top Model director Claudia Frank and hosted by The Celebrity Apprentice 2 contender and 2001 Playmate of the Year Brande Roderick, pits model/photographer teams against each other for the chance to shoot at Playboy’s famed Studio West and to have their photos published in Playboy! The competition begins with the series premiere on Saturday, April 3, at 10:00 P.M. EST/PT.

“To be featured in Playboy magazine is the ultimate accomplishment for a photographer or model,” says Playboy Editorial Director and Chief Content Officer Jimmy Jellinek. “For one of the first times ever, we are affording that opportunity through a competition. It won’t be easy; competition will be stiff, and only photos that live up to Playboy’s highest standards of class, sex appeal, and style will be considered for the magazine.”

In each of the series’ ten episodes, two teams are charged with one sexy photo shoot assignment and given a chance to wow Shootout’s panel of judges, comprised of celebrities and Playboy Playmates and photographers. During the photo shoots, competing photographers and models receive guidance from longtime Playboy Senior Contributing Photographer Arny Freytag, who has spent years shooting celebrity pictorials and Playmate Centerfolds for the magazine. Following the photo shoots – with themes ranging from “boudoir” to “Centerfold” – the teams are evaluated, and one is sent packing.

Playboy Shootout showcases the unique talents and demanding trades of both photographers and models. But in the end, only one photographer and one model are lucky enough to grace the pages of Playboy magazine. And only one person is qualified to make that decision: Hugh Hefner. In Shootout’s penultimate episode, the stars of The Girls Next Door will hand-deliver Hef’s final decision, sealing the fate of the final two teams. The season finale will document the winning model and photographer pair shooting their Playboy pictorial.

The special one-hour series premiere of Playboy Shootout will air on Playboy TV on Saturday, April 3 at 10:00 P.M. EST/PT, as part of Playboy TV’s Date Night. Date Night is a new, special lineup of original Playboy TV programming created specifically for couples to enjoy together. New thirty minute episodes of Shootout will air every Saturday during the Date Night lineup until the season finale on June 5.

Reston: comScore, Inc. has released November 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that more than 170 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in November with nearly 31 billion videos viewed during the month, and Google Sites accounting for 39 percent of all videos viewed online in the U.S.

Google Sites continued to rank as the top U.S. video property in November as it delivered 12.2 billion videos viewed with YouTube.com accounting for nearly 99 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Hulu ranked second with 924 million videos viewed (3.0 percent) followed by Viacom Digital with 500 million (1.6 percent) and Microsoft Sites with 480 million (1.5 percent).

More than 170 million viewers watched an average of 182 videos per viewer during the month of November. Google Sites attracted 129 million unique viewers during the month (94.7 videos per viewer), followed by Yahoo! Sites with more than 55 million viewers (8.5 videos per viewer) and Fox Interactive Media with 50 million viewers (8.9 videos per viewer). The average Hulu viewer watched 21.1 videos during the month, representing another all-time high for the property.

In November, Tremor Media ranked as the #1 video ad network with a potential reach of 85 million viewers, or 49.8 percent of the total viewing audience. Advertising.com Video Network ranked second with a potential reach of 80 million viewers (47.1 percent penetration) followed by YuMe Video Network with 73 million viewers (43.0 percent).