BlogTV
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blogTV is an online video service. blogTV began in June 2004, in Israel, and was a pioneer in the webcasting industry. Its goals were to supply anyone and everyone, with internet access, a way to express their talents & ideas to the world and to socially network with people face to face. In 2006 blogTV expanded and opened its Canadian equivalent, blogTV.ca. After seeing great success in Canada, blogTV.com was officially launched in June 2007 to America and the rest of the world.
Users can create live video shows, interact with their audiences or invite co-hosts to join their show over the internet or by using WAP
. The broadcaster can broadcast to its audience with a webcam
. The platform also includes a chat system. The site has a promotional partnership with ICQ
which is an IM type platform.
for mobile phone
s. Handset owners can watch live content that is being produced and broadcast on blogTV.com.
On April 16, 2008 blogTV launched a "new season" with updates to the viewing platform such as personalized user pages. It also announced a series of new users including Christine Gambito
, Michael Buckley
, Phillip DeFranco, Kevin Edwards, and Mike Mozart.
In July 2008, blogTV launched its Russian sister site. Worldwide blogTV has a partnership with ICQ
, ICQ
also established a promotional partnership with the blogTV Russian sister site. ICQ
is an IM platform widely used in Europe, Israel and in Russia. The sister site, has its on personal community manager much the same as worldwide blogTV.
In December 2008, blogTV began its Video Ad Revenue Share Program. With certain criteria to apply, such as a need of 10,000 views from all of your combined videos, $100 of ad revenue must be made to receive the product. Only certain people may be able to be a part of this program but it could still produce 50% of the ad revenue generated from live shows, videos and embedded shows.
In February 2009, blogTV gave introduction to a new type of account, Pro. This type of account allows users to navigate beyond the usual free account features at the cost of $24.99 a year. This newly introduced account allows users to host private shows, generate new emoticons, more recording space: up to 30 minutes per recording (500 minutes total). A recent feature has been added to gift your friends the pro status, the cost of the account remains the same and you are given the choice to gift a pro account as yourself (sharing who is gifting the account) or you can gift the pro account anonymously.
SUP
On March 4, 2009 blogTV released the junior channel type. This is for users aged between 13 and 15 years of age. The junior members can only broadcast to other junior users (13-15 year olds), junior members can only view junior member's profiles, guests are not allowed to enter the chat room, and no co-hosting or inviting a co-host is allowed. Other features for the junior members include no private message options, there will be no way to change the age of a junior member to change their age into a regular member account type. For the regular members they are also not given the right to change their age to a junior member profile (to watch other junior members).
blogTV Community Manager, Kara Hannah Tells the Site Users: "Each of these features was put into place with the well being of the junior members at heart and absolutely not done in order to remove privileges from our younger friends. We hope that this new junior channel will allow our junior members to safely enjoy their time on the internet and will allow our older members to mingle with more people in their own peer group."
On July 16, 2009 Karen Alloy
aka Spricket24, a well known YouTube
celebrity, went into labor and gave her fans live updates during her delivery. It has been declared as blogTV's very first live birth. Incredibly, despite hospital restrictions preventing a video feed, the live text chat had over 400 viewers.
Lulu Augustine Alloy was born 22", 8 lbs, 12 oz at 11:22 p.m. CDT.
On September 16, 2009 blogTV launched their 1.0 version of their toolbar. On June 29, 2010 the site released its 2.0 version of the toolbar, with many more features, Currently the toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer
, Mozilla Firefox
and the Firefox related browsers with the ability to use Firefox Add-ons Epic Browser and Wyzo
.
Users can create live video shows, interact with their audiences or invite co-hosts to join their show over the internet or by using WAP
Wireless Application Protocol
Wireless Application Protocol is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network.A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that uses the protocol.Before the introduction of WAP, mobile service providers had limited opportunities to offer...
. The broadcaster can broadcast to its audience with a webcam
Webcam
A webcam is a video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet, or Wi-Fi.Their most popular use is the establishment of video links, permitting computers to act as videophones or videoconference stations. This common use as a video camera...
. The platform also includes a chat system. The site has a promotional partnership with ICQ
ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...
which is an IM type platform.
Ongoing updates
In February 2008, blogTV launched the first live User-generated contentUser-generated content
User generated content covers a range of media content available in a range of modern communications technologies. It entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles...
for mobile phone
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
s. Handset owners can watch live content that is being produced and broadcast on blogTV.com.
On April 16, 2008 blogTV launched a "new season" with updates to the viewing platform such as personalized user pages. It also announced a series of new users including Christine Gambito
Christine Gambito
Christine Gambito, better known by her screen name HappySlip, is an American Internet personality, actress, and comedian. She maintains one of the most-subscribed-to channels on YouTube, a popular video sharing website...
, Michael Buckley
Michael Buckley (Internet celebrity)
Michael Buckley is an American Internet celebrity, comedian and vlogger. Noted for his vlog What the Buck?!, Buckley comments on popular culture events and celebrities. He also maintains one of YouTube's most popular channels with several million viewers each month...
, Phillip DeFranco, Kevin Edwards, and Mike Mozart.
In July 2008, blogTV launched its Russian sister site. Worldwide blogTV has a partnership with ICQ
ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...
, ICQ
ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...
also established a promotional partnership with the blogTV Russian sister site. ICQ
ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...
is an IM platform widely used in Europe, Israel and in Russia. The sister site, has its on personal community manager much the same as worldwide blogTV.
In December 2008, blogTV began its Video Ad Revenue Share Program. With certain criteria to apply, such as a need of 10,000 views from all of your combined videos, $100 of ad revenue must be made to receive the product. Only certain people may be able to be a part of this program but it could still produce 50% of the ad revenue generated from live shows, videos and embedded shows.
In February 2009, blogTV gave introduction to a new type of account, Pro. This type of account allows users to navigate beyond the usual free account features at the cost of $24.99 a year. This newly introduced account allows users to host private shows, generate new emoticons, more recording space: up to 30 minutes per recording (500 minutes total). A recent feature has been added to gift your friends the pro status, the cost of the account remains the same and you are given the choice to gift a pro account as yourself (sharing who is gifting the account) or you can gift the pro account anonymously.
SUP
On March 4, 2009 blogTV released the junior channel type. This is for users aged between 13 and 15 years of age. The junior members can only broadcast to other junior users (13-15 year olds), junior members can only view junior member's profiles, guests are not allowed to enter the chat room, and no co-hosting or inviting a co-host is allowed. Other features for the junior members include no private message options, there will be no way to change the age of a junior member to change their age into a regular member account type. For the regular members they are also not given the right to change their age to a junior member profile (to watch other junior members).
blogTV Community Manager, Kara Hannah Tells the Site Users: "Each of these features was put into place with the well being of the junior members at heart and absolutely not done in order to remove privileges from our younger friends. We hope that this new junior channel will allow our junior members to safely enjoy their time on the internet and will allow our older members to mingle with more people in their own peer group."
On July 16, 2009 Karen Alloy
Karen Alloy
Karen Schindler Alloy is an American comedian and Regional Emmy award-winning entertainer, best known for her work on YouTube under the name spricket24...
aka Spricket24, a well known YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
celebrity, went into labor and gave her fans live updates during her delivery. It has been declared as blogTV's very first live birth. Incredibly, despite hospital restrictions preventing a video feed, the live text chat had over 400 viewers.
Lulu Augustine Alloy was born 22", 8 lbs, 12 oz at 11:22 p.m. CDT.
On September 16, 2009 blogTV launched their 1.0 version of their toolbar. On June 29, 2010 the site released its 2.0 version of the toolbar, with many more features, Currently the toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...
, Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...
and the Firefox related browsers with the ability to use Firefox Add-ons Epic Browser and Wyzo
Wyzo
Radical Software Ltd is an internet startup company that is based in Jersey, UK. It is known for developing the FireTorrent extension and Wyzo web browser.-Radical Software Ltd Products:...
.
See also
- LifecastingLifecasting (video stream)Lifecasting is a continual broadcast of events in a person's life through digital media. Typically, lifecasting is transmitted through the medium of the Internet and can involve wearable technology...
- Social networkSocial networkA social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
- Virtual communityVirtual communityA virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals...
- Internet TVInternet televisionInternet television is the digital distribution of television content via the Internet...
- BroadcastingBroadcastingBroadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
- Streaming MediaStreaming mediaStreaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...