IP Democracy: Our Tally: 222 Internet and Mobile Video Noteworthies

As we rush to get ready for The New Video Summit next Monday in Boston, I'm putting the finishing touches on a gargantuan document that all Summit-goers will get in downloadable PDF format: a directory of top/noteworthy Internet and mobile video noteworthies. (We've got big plans, however, for an interactive web-based database...more on that later.)

This directory provides descriptions, URLs and complete contact information for 222 sites, services, technologies and companies that are smack in the middle of the web and mobile video revolutions. I've pasted a table of the directory entries below, although I don't have space enough to explain this interesting mix.

And it is a mix of different types of video options, ranging from YouTube to Zvue, from video sharing sites to traditional TV shows on the web.

But Internet and mobile video are moving targets and the boundaries are blurring all the time. Does a website that shows a lot of Brightcove-published videos belong on this list? Beats me. Internet video is already becoming almost as ubiquitous as graphical images, so in a sense practically every web site, every company is an Internet video-related business.

Yet there's no denying that a certain group of companies and a number of web-based video services are influential enough, or historically important enough, to be considered "noteworthies" for our directory. Notably not included, for the most part, are a lot of pure tech providers or network operators or entertainment production houses. We're saving those guys for later...

Am I missing anybody? Drop me a line at cynthia at emediadynamics.com or cynthia at ipdemocracy.com to let me know who else should go in this directory.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on October 22, 2007 3:18 PM to IP Democracy