Month: January 2010

Robin Sloan, formerly a top online strategist at Current TV is headed to Twitter to manage media partnerships, he announced on his blog.

Ooyala, the two-year old online video services company, is putting a big effort around its live streaming platform.  It will get considerable  exposure with the live streaming of the Grammy Awards pre-show, the "red carpet" and back stage activity.

LAS VEGAS — Producers of Fox’s super-popular freshman hit “Glee” will host an open casting call online for a few new roles in the Glee club. The roles are open to both amateurs and professionals.

LAS VEGAS, FreeWheel, the video advertising platform, is off to a strong start, with new customers in Turner and and VEVO, the company announced earlier this week at the NAPTE convention. 

Break.com, the Los Angeles-based video portal for young men, has expanded into social games, the company announced earlier this week.

The Beet.TV Online Video Executive Roundtable: An Exploration of Online Video Distribution, Analytics and Monetization Moderated by: Kara Swisher, AllThingsD and Andy Plesser, Beet.TV In addition to the on-demand feed of the video above, we have published a number of segments and one-on-one interviews from the conference, so please check back for updates: 2/26/10 Top […]

Howcast, the two year-old producer and distributor of how-to short form videos, is on track to reach profitability this year, co-founder and COO Daniel Blackman said in this interview.

To lure more ad dollars and improve the quality of Web TV shows, the International Academy of Web Television is developing a set of best practices for Web TV creators, Beet.TV has learned.

After months of hype, Apple introduced its new iPad tablet today, which boasts a $499 price but is unlikely to wow folks in the digital media or TV business.

Online video network Revision3 is hiring, adding new advertisers, and charting a course toward profitability by year end, the company’s CEO Jim Louderback told me during an interview at the NATPE conference in Las Vegas.

Kyte, the video services platform, has announced significant improvement to its user interface and range of services.

LAS VEGAS — As one of the top-rated cable networks, USA continues to bet heavily on digital extensions to grow and nurture audiences for its programs, said the network’s digital strategy VP Jesse Redniss.

Justin.tv has changed its user interface which it hopes will be easier for users to users.  The company made the announced earlier today.

International expansion is going to be vital to the growth of the cable and network TV business over the next several years. 

LAS VEGAS, NV–One of the first television networks to announce plans to launch a 3-D network, Discovery told Beet.TV the new network will likely launch later this year or early 2011.

Recent moves by YouTube and Vimeo to preliminarily embrace HTM5, a technology for publishing video directly onto Web pages, using an open source code, has been generating a lot of excitement, but not from the Mozilla Foundation which manages the Firefox browser.

Brightcove, the big online video services company, has announced an initiative to enable its customers to participate in the much anticipated initiative known as "TV Everywhere."

Ustream, one of the big live streaming video sites, announced on Friday that it is beginning a pay-per-view scheme on some of the sites channels. 

Google co-founder Sergey Brin conceded in an interview that Google’s management lacks "emotional intelligence," said the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, author of the best-selling book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know it."

This is no joke:  JibJab, the video site which got its name from funny political video cartoons, is the second fastest growing media property on the Web, according to a report just released by comScore.