PROVO, Utah—August 20, 2008—StageGold™ today introduced CinemaForge 3.0, the most significant upgrade to StageGold's highly popular video conversion, and tube site video downloader application.With CinemaForge 3.0, StageGold has added the ability to download videos from anywhere on the Internet including YouTube, Google, etc, and the ability to convert the downloaded videos to all popular video formats, including video support for the new iPhone 3G and Apple TV. CinemaForge... Read Full Story

I love the early parts of American Idol...the bad singers, the outrageous acts and Simon's criticism. My favorites are the people who sound horrible, but somehow think the judges are making a mistake. But that part is over now.We're down to the final 24 and tonight the men take center stage. Check out the video to get caught up on who made the cut. Read Full Story

Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic won this year's NBA dunk contest during All-Star Weekend. Both the players and the NBA wanted this year's dunk contest to be something special and both delivered. For the first time, fans were allowed to vote in the final round and the players delivered some creative and spectacular dunks.Check out the video to see for yourself. Be sure to click on the menu button to see the video in full screen. Read Full Story

It's really interesting to see how our StageGold video player gets deployed across the Internet. Our tracking software pointed us to this site; the Harlem Movie Club. In existence for five years, this avid group of movie buffs decided to start a blog to chronicle their picks. What a great idea for a blog!Additionally, they're using our player to show previews of upcoming movies. Another great idea. Many movie companies and indie film directors utilize the power of the web to get pre-relea... Read Full Story

It's really interesting what becomes popular in our culture. Dispersed among YouTube's most popular videos of 2007 were the Leave Britney Alone video and a Paris Hilton parody. Politics surfaced with Obama Girl and Soulja Boy's instructional dance video rated a lot of views. The most popular? The nature film embedded above. Proof you don't leave your own behind, there is strength in numbers and you should never, ever, ever, ever give up.Enjoy! Read Full Story

We got an interesting email yesterday. It was simple and to the point - can I buy the software with the skins to play video on my site my self (sic)?Of course we'd be happy to sell our player, but we don't. Our revenue model is advertising driven, so we don't have to sell our products. They're free!Few things in this life are that way. Some may argue our product isn't really free because we require registration that collects personal information. We also display ads. If you haven't noti... Read Full Story

I stumbled across the following question today on a Mac forum -i cant find any good FLV 4 Converteri think FLV 4 is a Flash 9this is not a youtube FLVi tried total Video Converterbut the bottom part is blurredi tried Replay Converter etc.. but the Audio and Video is out of Syncanyone plsDo we know the answer to this one? You betcha! It's CinemaForge, our video converter that works with iPods, YouTube, MySpace video and so much more.Don't take our word for it. Maybe our top review from C... Read Full Story

StageGold has launched a new, web-based video uploader for adding videos and music to the StageGold hosting site. Unlike the old uploader which was a client based download, the new uploader doesn't require users to download it, meaning users can upload videos sooner, with less steps.The new uploader only works with .flv and .mp4 files meaning multimedia files like .wmv, .mov, .avi and .mpeg must first be converted to .flv or .mp4. StageGold offers a free video converter in its CinemaForge p... Read Full Story

Here are our favorite videos from the Superbowl. We hope you enjoyed the game and the commercials. It was certainly one of the most exciting Superbowls in years.If you missed some or all of the commercials, this site has all the videos in one convenient place.Feel free to comment and let us know which Superbowl commercials were your favorites this year. Read Full Story

Yes, it's that time of year again. A great football game to decide who's the best in the NFL. For 2008 it's the Patriots vs. the Giants and the Patriots are looking to go undefeated for the first time since 1972. Sure we'll watch the big game, but we all know the Superbowl is about the commercials.We've started this playlist with a favorite from last year and two that didn't make TV distribution. They were funny commercials nonetheless.Once this year's commercials hit web distribution, ... Read Full Story