It’s not the end of online access to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert but next week tracking them down may be a little less convenient for those used to watching on Hulu. Viacom (NYSE: VIA) is removing Comedy Central from the ad-supported video portal at 11:59 p.m. March 9 after…

Chinese search giant Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) says it has received a $50 million investment from Providence Equity Partners to start an online video subsidiary. Rafat was able to confirm reports that a deal for a Hulu-like service was in the final stages early last month. At the time, Baidu was…

About three years ago, power pop band Ok Go were catapulted to fame after its independently-produced music video for the song “Here It Goes Again” caught fire on YouTube. Fans began embedding the video, which featured the band dancing on treadmills. The band’s success appeared to point the way for…

Pali Capital’s Rich Greenfield opened the paidContent 2010 conference at the TimesCenter with a note of skepticism about the recent spate of media joint ventures, such as Hulu or the recently-launched YouTube music video channel Vevo. Moderator Quincy Smith, ex-CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) exec now partner, Code Advisers, put the…

Clicker, which promises to be a TV guide of sorts for video content online, has raised $11 million in a funding round. The round was led by JAFCO Ventures; existing backers Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures also participated. Clicker—which is headed by former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone—says it has indexed…

Video ad manager Adap.tv is expanding into the exchange business with several major publishers and ad agencies. Among the first to try out Adap.tv’s video advertising marketplace are Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Publicis Groupe’s digital hub VivaKi. Over the past year, ad exchanges have emerged as an extension of remnant ad…

Video ad network TidalTV has completed the $16 million second round funding it initiated last fall, Mediapost reports. As we reported in October, the Baltimore-based TidalTV raised an initial $8.9 million portion. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Capital, the cable operator’s venture arm, participated in the round, as did previous backers…

Updated: Veoh, the Michael Eisner-backed video site, has been struggling for some time and has now filed for bankruptcy, according to a message CEO Dmitry Shapiro put up on his blog this afternoon; MediaMemo first reported that a bankruptcy filing was coming, citing unidentified sources, earlier today. The San Diego…

Boxee’s inability to carry Hulu programming is a matter of Congress now, thanks to the proposed Comcast-NBCU deal. During this morning’s hearing at the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) CEO Jeff Zucker and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Chairman and CEO…

BrightRoll—which bills itself as the largest online video ad network—has raised $10 million in a third round of funding. In its announcement, the company also hypes that it has now been profitable for the last 12 months. BrightRoll’s network includes “three-fourths of the top 100 online media properties” in the…

A figure that doesn’t seem to bode too well for paid content on YouTube: The video site grossed just $10,709.16 by renting five Sundance Film Festival movies on the site over the course of 10 days last week. Granted this was a very limited run with a select audience (movie…

Ustream, the popular online live broadcasting service, just announced it has raised $75 million in a second round of funding led by Softbank. Updated: The actual funding is only $20 million, for now, with an option for Softbank to purchase more of Ustream by July 2011, by putting in another…

Comcast-owned white label video service ThePlatform is launching what it is describing as the biggest overhaul of its video management system since the company was started a decade ago. Apart from a total remake of the system’s user interface (and it is very different, i.e. a novice might actually be…

For some critics, the lack of participation from content companies at yesterday’s iPad launch threw some cold water on predictions for how the new device could help the media business regain revenues lost to the web. But if you looked hard enough, publishers were there and, more importantly, some have…

The amount raised by the Hope For Haiti Now telethon stands at more than $61 million, organizers announced late Monday, up from the preliminary figure of $58 million and likely to keep growing as proceeds from multimedia sales and more donations come in. Nielsen Media Research estimates that more 83…

Break Media, the LA-based parent of Break.com and other men’s entertainment online properties, is expanding into the currently lucrative business of social gaming, with the launch of its first game and its gaming division. The studio, located in Shanghai, China, will launch its first game on Feb 1, called MMA…

YouTube has been working a lot with the majors when it comes to getting movies online. Now it’s using indie 2010 Sundance Film Festival to test rentals, announcing today via the YouTube blog that it will offer five festival films. The run is as limited as the festival: U.S. only,…

Faced with murmurs that YouTube was on track to lose almost $500 million for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), executives went on the offensive last summer saying that the site was on a trajectory to become a “very profitable business” in the “not too distant future.” That “not too distant future” could…

As you may have noticed recently on our pages, we’ve launched a new video section, with help from Vodpod. The section pulls together interesting daily videos from third-party sources, our own video interviews, and video from our conference and events. We hope you’ll take a look around and let us…