Month: June 2012

FOX's American Idol ranked top in Optimedia's fifth annual Content Power Ratings, which measures performance across televisions, computers, smart phones and tablets, says its Executive Vice President and Business Development Director, Greg Kahn, in this video interview with Beet.TV

LONDON – Livestation has signed aggreement with the BBC, Sky News and Euronews to bring this bundle of news channels to digital consumers in the U.S. and  Canada, says CEO Lippe Oosterhof in this inteview with Beet.TV

LONDON -About half of online video impressions in the United Kingdom in the first quarter came from the categories of consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and financial services, according to a study of nearly 300 million online video ad impressions by technology provider Videology. We spoke to Jana Eisenstein, the company's managing director in the UK for […]

Increasing discoverabilty for online video, using metadata, will increase traffic and drive business opportunities forward say news publishers at Beet.TV’s recent video news strategy session.

Online video news does not need to meet the manicured production demands of television, says video news panel at Beet.TV’s  video news strategy session.

The Wall Street Journal and Reuters are leveraging mobile devices and reformating online video content to create a more streamlined brand of video journalism that audiences can identify with, says WSJ's Video Director, Rahul Chopra and Reuters' Head of Global Programming, Dan Colarusso, at Beet.TV's video news strategy session.

Online video broadens audience engagement and establishes print news organizations as a stronger competitor in local markets, but it requires a significant investment of time for consumers says a panel of news executives at Beet.TV's video news strategy session.

Half of The Wall Street Journal’s video views are coming sites other than its own says Alisa Bowen, General Manager for the paper’s digital network, in this interview with Beet.TV

Chicago-based startup, Clearstream, launched new software, Clearview to help advertisers better measure the impact of online videos on target consumers.

The Wall Street Journal, which has been expanding its daily live video programming to more than five hours, with a show from New York and a new one from Hong Kong, will debut a weekly live show from the paper’s DC bureau, says Rahul Chopra, Director of Video at the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, […]

Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video recommendation engine, which serves up videos on publishers’ web pages, will soon be operational on Apps and the mobile web, says CEO Adam Singolda in this interview with Beet.TV

Journalism students need to learn how to specialize, while being able to adapt says Craig Duff, Journalism Professor at Medill Northwestern University, in this video interview with Beet.TV

SpotXchange's latest ad skipping service, 'SkipIt,' which charges consumers a small fee to skip ads, will soon allow audiences to earn free skips, in exchange for engagement with a brand on its desired platform, says Michael Shehan, President and CEO, in this video interview with Beet.TV

The duPont-Columbia University Awards, is soliciting submissions from broadcast, digital and documentary journalists covering stories in the public interest, says director, Abi Wright, in this interview with Beet.TV  

Using Twitter in a structured way, puts him one step ahead of the game says The Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) new Social Media Editor Neal Mann, in this video interview with Beet.TV

Reuters' TV shows will be more personality driven says Dan Colarusso, Head of Global Programming in this video interview with Beet.TV

Xbox LIVE users are more engaged with video news than MSNBC.com’s desktop audience says Executive Producer, Stokes Young, in this video interview with Beet.TV

The Monday to Friday online tech news program, CNET Update, debuted a new interactive video player that produces real-time links to topics covered by the show, allowing viewers to read more on each story, while they watch.

Social media guru, Neal Mann says, using new technology alongside Twitter is an excellent way of verifying tip-offs from followers, in this video interview with Beet.TV

Wibbitz, a Tel Aviv-based startup, which has developed a text-to-video solution, has raised $2.3 million, its first venture round, from Hong Kong-based Horizon Ventures, the investment fund of billionaire Li Ka-shing.