YouTube collaborates with iTunes and Amazon.com that offers the YouTube community direct access to buy and download music, games, and other products with a few clicks of a mouse. This is a first step to building a broader eCommerce platform for content partners and users on YouTube.

The YouTube eCommerce Platform will be rolled out on a larger scale over the coming months to allow partners across all industries including music, film, TV, and publishing to generate additional revenue from their content beyond the advertising we serve against their videos. Just as YouTube users can share, favorite, comment on, and respond to videos with a single click, now users can click-to-buy products -- like songs, books and movies -- related to the content they're watching on the site

In spite of satellite television technology, many African immigrant groups are unable to obtain cultural programming in North America. Vidvo.tv is filling the service void for this growing demographic in the United States and Canada with its subscription-based IPTV broadband service. Designed to be practical and affordable, Vidvo’s programming includes television channels from countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Senegal.

Intercast Networks announces the expansion of its free Kazam video service to a select number of US university campuses with more to follow in the coming weeks. Following a successful spring semester alpha trial at Columbia and Purdue University, in which students validated the service, Kazam has redesigned the UI based on student's feedback and partnered with many new content providers to create a channel lineup that specifically caters to the student audience. The beta service will be available via the next-generation Internet2 Network for Internet2 university members that want to participate in the service. The network provides advanced IP multicast capabilities and connects over 50,000 U.S. research and education institutions today.

During a morning keynote at Contentonomics in Los Angeles, Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, disclosed that thePlatform's clients, as tracked by comScore's Video Metrix, had a combined total of 329 million video views in July of 2008.

Compared to the leading U.S. online video properties, thePlatform's volume of video ranks it third in terms of the amount of video the company manages. However, unlike Google (including YouTube) and Fox Interactive Media (including MySpace), which rank first and second respectively, the video managed by thePlatform is all premium video from leading media companies, nearly all of which is monetized through advertising.

Research and Markets has added Screen Digest's new report "IPTV Business Models: Profit and Loss in the Telco TV Space" to their offering. The report 'IPTV Business Models: Profit and loss in the telco TV space,' discusses the business models and strategies adopted by IPTV services across Europe. IPTV services are rapidly becoming commonplace across much of Europe, however many are struggling to generate subscriber revenues at sustainable levels. This report looks at some of the strategies adopted by European IPTV operators and also examines how the presence of IPTV has impacted the existing broadband business.

Hupo TV has selected to use Swarmcast’s Autobahn Platform as the foundation for its online video offerings across its broad range of music, celebrity, live sports and general entertainment channels. Hupo TV is one of only five licensed video sites in China and the largest professional content site, with more than 60 million unique monthly visitors. Hupo TV has partnerships with MSN China, Baidu Entertainment, China Music Radio and Major League Baseball. Through Swarmcast, Hupo TV will offer its customers and advertising partners a TV-like experience for live and on-demand Internet video. Hupo TV is part of the Broadwebasia group of companies. Broadwebasia (OTC Bulletin Board: OTC.OB), is controlled by Brad Greenspan, the founder of MySpace.

KIT digital has acquired privately-held Visual Connection, a digital media and IPTV solutions provider for major media outlets in Europe and the Middle East. Financial figures below are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

Through its headquarters in the Czech Republic and sales offices in Bratislava (Slovakia), London, and Dubai, Visual Connection offers content digitization, localization and IP-based editing, storage, video players, and content streaming, as well as set up of digital network operations centers for television broadcasters, government entities, healthcare providers and telecommunications companies.

Optibase's encoders were selected by UTStarcom as part of an integrated IPTV solution to United Telecoms, Bangalore, that was chosen to supply and implement Goa Broadband Network.

UTStarcom’s RollingStream advanced IPTV solution, incorporating Optibase’s H.264 streaming platforms, will provide Goa's citizens top broadcast quality TV and advanced on-demand entertainment services over IP networks.

Tiscali has signed an agreement to supply Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and Cisco IPTV headend equipment and technology for the Tiscali.tv IPTV service. The comprehensive portfolio of Cisco video headend products, supported by the company’s long-standing expertise in IP-based video delivery and the systems integration skills of Cisco SciCare Services, provided the headend solution to support Tiscali’s new SD digital video service.

Jungo releases its OpenRG residential gateway software now supports a patent-pending, fast channel-switching feature. This solution enables service providers to enhance consumers’ IPTV experience by improving the channel-switching performance of broadband access equipment.

Subscriber Quality of Experience is critical to the success of an IPTV service. While there are many factors affecting IPTV service quality – such as picture quality, transport and reliability – a key QoE element is how quickly and reliably subscribers can change TV channels.

AT&T U-verse TV ranks highest in customer satisfaction among residential television customers in all three regions where it was ranked, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Residential Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study. In the annual study of television service, customers cited AT&T for exceptional performance and reliability, customer service, cost of service, billing, and offerings and promotions.