Terms as Found on http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/

Terms as Found on http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/


Web video: Short clips of video that are found on the internet.

Viral video: The term refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites.

User-driven video: Online video’s made by users of the website. Could include video’s found on youtube that are posted by users.

Custom interactive video: Video posted by users that other users can than respond to.

Embedded video ads: Video ads that are embedded in websites and play without any user interaction.


Web-based VOD: systems that allow users to select and watch video and clip content over a network as part of an interactive television system.

Broadband television: involves accessing multimedia content via an unmanaged broadband connection and viewing it on a PC or sometimes a normal TV.

Diavlogs: A sort of online video dialog blog between two or more users.

Vcasts: A product of version wireless that allows its subscribers to download music, television clips, and other media material.

Vlogs: (video Blogs): a blog that comprises video. Regular entries are typically presented in reverse chronological order and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata.

Video podcasts: is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content. Most commonly this content is found through itunes.

Mobisodes: is a term first coined by Fox Broadcasting Company, for a broadcast television episode specially made for viewing on a mobile telephone screen and usually of short duration (from one to three minutes).

Webisodes: an episode of a television show that airs initially as an Internet download or stream as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television.

Mashup: A derivative work consisting of two pieces of (generally digital) media conjoined together in some interesting way, such as a video clip with a different soundtrack applied for humorous effect, or a digital map overlaid with user-supplied data.