Two weeks after Louis CK offered his downloadable streaming concert , “Live at the Beacon Theater” for $5, the experiment has now crossed the million-dollar mark .  A couple of days ago on CK’s website, he decided to tell everyone that he had made a million and what he was going to do with the money.  He even has a picture of his PayPal account showing the balance.  The questions raised by this successful venture become, “Do people copycat Louis CK in the future?” and “Can others be successful following Louis CK’s model?” Louis CK: Live At The Beacon Theater Hits A Million Bucks What is CK doing with the money?  On his website he says he’s splitting it up into 4 pieces: The first 250k is going to pay back what the special cost to produce and the website to build. The second 250k is going to his staff and the people who work for him.  Christmas Bonus! The third, 280k, is going to charity.  These charities include The Fistula Foundation, The Pablove Foundation, Charity: Water, Kiva, Green Chimneys. The remaining 220k will be his.  I love this explanation: Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my children.

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The Louis CK Online Video Experiment Is Now Worth A Million Dollars

Some very cool news today in the worlds of professional sports and online video, as NBC has announced they will stream this year’s Super Bowl online for free . While the network has been streaming their Sunday night games for some time now, this is the first time viewers can watch the Super Bowl online on a live stream. Watch The Super Bowl Online The networks alternate Super Bowl coverage (the ones with NFL contracts, at least–sorry ABC), and this year happens to be NBC’s year

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This Year Audiences Will Be Able To Watch The Super Bowl Online

A while back, I wrote about Raystream ’s new technology that is set to revolutionize the online video industry, or is it? I sent them a 271MB video file and asked them to do that voodoo that they do to it and send it back

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Putting Raystream To The Test, Does it Stand Up to Its Claims?

Last month, Chris Atkinson reported that Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR), one of the nation’s largest providers of telecommunications services, was creating TumTiki .  I was getting ready for SES Chicago, so I didn’t get a chance to check out the largest online library of premium TV episodes, movies, local content, professionally-produced clips, and web original series until this past weekend. Hold the phone, Mabel!  (TumTiki was created and is operated by Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR), one of the nation’s largest providers of telecommunications services.) TumTiki features more than 700,000 free TV episodes, movies, original web series, professionally-produced clips, and local programming directly within TumTiki.com , without redirecting to another site; and premium movies and episodes for rental through a partnership with Amazon.com.

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TumTiki Launches TikiGuide’s Video Countdown To Christmas

In part 3 of our series on selling video, we’re going to look at digital media (you can catch up on our introduction to the series here or Part 2, Pros & Cons of Physical Media, here ). While there are still plenty of valid reasons for selling video via physical media, many companies are choosing to make the switch to digital. So today we’re going to run down some of the pros and cons of digital media for selling video, and attempt to get at some of the reasons businesses and individuals have for going the digital route.

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Selling Video Online: The Pros & Cons Of Choosing Digital Media

Dailymotion is expanding outside of the curated content business and into the cloud-based online video serving business and why not? After all, everyone else is doing it too no

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Introducing Dailymotion Cloud Video Delivery Business

Unlike, well, pretty much everyone, I have had a WHDI device in my house for much of the year. What is it

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Wireless Home Digital Interface Product Roundup

So the new Xbox dashsboard is available and with it came some updated video streaming apps for Hulu Plus and Netflix . The updates fixed a lot of things that I had talked about as being problems like getting so deep into a menu that you had to pick up a controller to continue. However, there are some more interesting updates as well

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New Xbox Dashboard Brings Expanded Video Streaming Apps

Zencoder continues its rapid expansion of transcoding offerings and achievements with today’s announcement that they are now ready to offer optimized HTTP Live Streaming encoding (HLS) for iPhone and iPad applications .

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Zencoder Offering HTTP Live Streaming Encoding for iOS Devices

Some people may view the mobile and online app HBO GO as a good idea with limited appeal, which is fair, since not everyone can use it, even those who currently subscribe to HBO.  Some wish they could buy the app without needing a cable subscription.  There are plenty of criticisms of HBO’s application, but according to co-president Eric Kessler, HBO GO has seen over 98 million streams since its launch early last year.  So people who can use it are using it a lot, and HBO decided to take a gamble that it might hurt full-season disc-set sales for their original programs, but subscriptions will always rule their financial model. HBO GO Is Another Risky Move That Has Paid Off We talked about CBS’ live streaming of their college football coverage before , something that many networks have been reluctant to do with major sporting events because they fear the loss of overall TV viewers, and hence, advertising revenue.  But in many cases it makes sense to have both online and TV available, because not everyone has access to certain programming at any given time.  The HBO GO app is great for people who are looking to pass the time, say, at an airport

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HBO GO Another Maverick Success Story In Streaming