Watch out, Chris Matthews: WashPost/Newsweek Lands “Hardball” Producer Tammy Haddad for Super Tuesday Webcast….Jon Meacham takes the Anchor Seat

Click To Play Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, will anchor a six-hour live webcast covering the Super Tuesday primaries on February 5.  The webcast will originate from the Washington Post Newsweek Interactive studios in Arlington, Virginia. The show will have a line-up of reporters and columnists from the Post and Newsweek including Jonathan Alter, Dan […]

 
 

Exclusive: Boomers will Pay for Online Video, IBM’s Chief Media Strategist Tells Beet.TV

The conventional thinking around monetizing video is through advertising. But paid subscription and pay-per-view will be viable, according to Saul Berman, who heads the global media and entertainment strategy practice for IBM.  He is based in Los Angeles. He told me that as much as half of U.S. consumers over 45 years of age are […]

 
 

VC Titan Tim Draper: “Content Providers are Becoming More Important”…And Glam is the Fastest Growing Company “On the Face of the Earth”

Click To Play Tim Draper, one of the world’s most successful and influential venture capitalists who manages some $7 billion in VC funds, is bullish on content companies.  This is quite a shift for the big Sand Hill Road VC’s who have steered clear of content companies. He told my buddy AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins […]

 
 

Vuze, “Joost with an Audience,” Rocks the P2P HD Video World with 4 Million Monthly Registered Users

Click To Play Vuze, the P2P high resolution video platform has reached 4 million monthly registered users, of which half watch videos on the desktop application daily, Jim Diaz, head of strategy for the Palo Alto-based start-up told me today. I caught up with Jim at the AlwaysOn conference in Manhattan. I asked him how […]

 
 

Reuters Permits Publishers to Freely Monetize Video and to Offer Downloads

Click To Play Reuters, the global news organization which produces some 125 video clips a day, has just launched a program to make videos available to publishers big and small on a licensing basis.  We first reported on this development last week. In our second interview with Reuters’ Mitch Koppelman, we learn more about the […]

 
 

Williams Sonoma Has New, Video-Rich Web Site

Williams Sonoma, the essential gourmet supply source, has long offered tasty recipes in books, magazines and online.  Videos are now part of the mix. Today, the company announced to its customers via e-mail, the redesign of its web site which includes a considerable amount of cooking videos. TurnHere, the Emeryville-based Internet video production and distribution […]

 
 

Shel Israel Joins Robert Scoble at FastCompany.tv for Daily Video Show

Click To Play Shel Israel, blogger, consultant and co-author of Naked Conversations with Robert Scoble, will join FastCompany.tv, the company announced today. Shel’s daily show launches on March 3.  Here’s a description of the show in a statement from Mansueto Ventures, publishers of Fast Company: Primarily a daily interview show, Israel’s program, GlobalNeighbourhoods TV (GNTV), […]

 
 

Fast Company to Relauch the “First” Social Network for Business People…Next Month

Click To Play One of the most successful and unique drivers of Fast Company magazine’s growth in the late nineties was a social network called Company of Friends.  Long before Facebook or MeetUp, Fast Company galvanized readers around the nation for live events and online forums.  The network was launched in 1997. David Carr of […]

 
 

Obama Trounces Clinton by 11 to 1 in YouTube Views…..Edwards Comes in Third

As all the presidential candidates embrace online video to reach voters, it is interesting to see who has made a success of this medium.  In the online video match up between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in terms of the nubmers of views, Obama is the big winner, by a margin of 11 to 1 […]

 
 

Newsweek Builds Online Video Production Team — Jon Meacham has Video Editor’s Letter…and Beet.TV is on the Set

Click To Play Newsweek has been ambitiously implementing an in-house video production operation since last fall when it separated from MSNBC, after 7 years.    A team of video producers at the Manhattan headquarters, and others on the campaign trail and around the globe, are creating around a dozen videos everyday.  For breaking news, the […]

 
 

The “Commoditization” of IT Lowers Corporate Spending in U.S., Technology Review’s Jason Pontin

Click To Play Investment in information technology has slowed in recent years and will slow more in the months ahead with the prospects of a recession, according to a report by Steve Lohr in today’s New York Times. While this belt tightening may be tied to an economic cycle, Jason Pontin, editor of MIT’s Technology […]

 
 

Newsweek’s Steven Levy on MacBook Air: Sleek but “Circumcision” Cuts its Functionality

Click To Play I visited Steven Levy at his Newsweek office in midtown Manhattan today to get the lowdown on the new MacBook Air.  Steven has one of a handful of review units provided to big foot tech journalists. Steven gave the new computer a mixed review on newsweek.com and in the Washington Post, which […]

 
 

Amazing but True: Beet Revolution “Seeded” by Media Darling Michael McCarty

Click To Play As you might have guessed, we like beets here at the purple channel — we like ’em grilled, boiled, juiced, on sandwiches and in our soup — ah borscht! These days you’ll find beets served in some of the fanciest restaurants. But, this wasn’t always the case and Beet.TV has gotten to […]

 
 

Davos: Scoble Scoops Bono’s YouTube Spot with Streaming Phone

Uber video blogger Robert Scoble is  making video blogging  history in Davos at the World Economic Forum right now.  With a Nokia 95, a WiFi connection and a QIK account, he is streaming an extraordinary number of interviews.  Sure, the quality is not great, but the access to so many leaders is extraordinary.  It also […]

 
 

YouTube Launches World Economic Forum Channel

YouTube has a big presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  Co-founder Chad Hurley and executives are on the scene.  The video sharing site has launched a channel for citizens around the globe to upload questions and comments.  Above is a Reuters video report about the YouTube efforts at the summit.  Jeff Jarvis has […]

 
 

Robert Scoble Is Streaming Live Video on QIK from the World Economic Forum in Davos…Michael Arrington Wonders, “Why Not Meet in Hawaii?”

The World Economic Forum in Davos has been the super exclusive gathering for the world’s leaders in government, business and academia. It’s been covered by a very small group of journalists including The New York Times John Markoff Markoff blogs about the big presence this year of Silicon Valley execs and its elite bloggers.    […]

 
 

Microsoft Commits $235 Million to put PCs in Schools, Report…Bill Gates to Announce Details in Berlin Tomorrow

Click To Play Microsoft is making available some $235 million over the next five years to help students around the world with computer equipment and training, Reuters reports.  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled announce the program tomorrow in Berlin.   The New York Times has some additional perspective via an IDG News Service story. Beet.TV […]

 
 

YuMe Grabs NBC Direct Ad Insertion Business….Insertion of Dynamic Ads into Video Takes a Giant Step

Click To Play We’ve been talking about the prospects of inserting dynamic advertising into downloadable video clips as an emerging trend.  Clearly, consumers will download more clips. The big issue facing the industry is how can ads, once downloaded as part of file, be "changed" dynamically.  There is some big news with YuMe running the […]

 
 

Reuters to Make the Web News-Video-Rich as it Opens Vast Resources to Online Publishers

Click To Play In much the same way that Reuters made Web portals Yahoo! and AOL into news platforms by providing its newswire feeds some 10 years ago, the London-based information behemoth is set to make the Web video-news-rich by providing thousands of clips to publishers. Some 13,000 clips Reuters-produced videos, with 125 new clips […]

 
 

New Robert Scoble TV Show on FastCompany.TV will be Monetized via Sponsorships, No Pre/Post Roll

Click To Play As publishers large and small look to monetize online video content, one emerging model is sponsorship, a format in which a brand gets to be associated with a show, usually with an introductory  mention and/or graphic. This form of advertising harkens back to the early days of TV when sponsors, like Lucky […]

 
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