Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Video News Needs Someone to Deliver

News portals enable readers to customize then home page to track their interests, and the "My" pages on Google, Yahoo, etc. have proven very popular. But when it comes to news video, there is a gaping hole.

CNN Headline News provides the "top" half hour of news on TV, but there is no equivalent online. CNN says it will no longer charge viewers to watch streams online, which should greatly increase traffic to the site.

I'd like to see (and you are with me, right?) a "My news page" where I can browse the videos of the top stories du jour and play them back in an order I specify. No video search engine today enables search of news headlines.

Video search engine Blinkx now is full of cash after a successful IPO, and the company has the best news video content available. Manually searching to find videos one by one on its site is unacceptable.

This is the video generation, and whomever can monetize news through video ads will be wildly successful. Just as TiVo freed us from the programmers schedule, someone should let us watch the news we want when and how we want.

Posted By John Gartner at 09:46 AM
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