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The meteorite that broke windows and injured over 1,500 people as it disintegrated over Russia became the fastest video event ever to hit a True Reach of more than 100 million views, reported Visible Measures in a blog post. True Reach is a method that combines video clips related to the event being measured.

Consumers moving to online video to avoid watching ads are finding less relief and more pitches as the number of ads in digital content grew by about two-thirds between December 2011 and December 2012.

Limelight Networks sees an opportunity to build its business serving customers--current and yet-to-be-signed--who are facing increasing demand from their own customers to deliver digital content, and increasing digital video content, on any available connected device.

While online viewing opportunities are expanding at the pace of new connected devices--which, themselves, are exploding on the consumer electronics scene--most home viewers do their watching on two traditional devices: computers (84 percent) and TVs (83 percent), according to a Nielsen survey of 28,800 online consumers around the world.

U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti has ruled Netflix's 2011 stock slump wasn't caused by any actions on the part of management to mislead investors.

It's been a bad couple of days for Netflix, if you look at things from the content perspective. Pay TV channel Starz on Monday said it renewed an agreement to carry Sony Pictures movies released in theaters through 2021, and on Tuesday Amazon.com and CBS said they were expanding their licensing agreement.

Intel is ready to step outside of the box--literally and figuratively--with a new consumer electronics product and an Internet TV offering it hopes will reshape the online video delivery business, the chipmaker confirmed at the AllThingsDigital Dive into Media conference Tuesday.

ustralian regulators are concerned that the growth of online video services in competition with incumbent service providers could result in Internet slowdowns as the incumbents try to protect their own paid video content. As a result, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned incumbents they'll be investigated if they show signs that they are throttling competing online services.

People waiting for Social Security checks to arrive in the mail on Saturdays are a trifle upset with the idea that the U.S. Postal Service might stop Saturday mail service. People waiting for DVDs from Netflix, meanwhile, will probably just move over to online video--which wouldn't be a bad thing for the streaming services provider at all.