Exclusive: Amazon “Delivers” Justin.TV

Click To Play We have been facinated by Justin.TV and Justin Kan.  His wearing a live webcam on his baseball cap is much more than a publicity stunt, it’s a demonstration of the viability of live video origination and broad distribution via embed code.  Beet.TV has learned from a source at Amazon, that the streaming […]

 
 

Who is the Sexiest Tech Online Video Pesonality: Morgan Webb, Dan Farber, Om Malik or Robert Scoble?

There is quite a lot of activity in the online video tech news, with many innovators descended from the old TechTV finding themselves in numerous new shows as Om Malik reports.  The latest launch is called WebbAlert with Morgan Webb (l).  Morgan is a real pro and her good looks are getting some attention and […]

 
 

Who is the Sexiest Tech Video News Personality: Monica Webb or Dan Farber or Robert Scoble?

or or As online video news programming heats up with the latest entry today by Monica Webb (above) and her WebbAlert, we wonder how sex appeal fits into all of this: success, impact, buzz, money? For power blogger Michael Arrington, lust appears to looms large according today an analysis of his libido in Valleywag. I […]

 
 

Oh Wow: Online Video Have a “Second Life” on Second Life, Philip Rosedale Tells Beet.TV

Click To Play I was on the Stanford campus yesterday at the AlwaysOn conference where I met Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, the vast virtual world. Philip told me that Second Life provides functionalities to post video to virtual movie screens and television sets.  He said there […]

 
 

CondeNet Doubles Video Clip Production and Introduces New Travel Content

CondeNet, the online division of the magazine company Conde Nast, is making a big push in creating video on its several themed portals.  It has doubled the amount of video clips produces this year over last, and the pace is going to pick-up with an ambitious program to build out travel videos of world destinations […]

 
 

Maven Playing in the Majors with Big MLB Hire

Click To Play We’ve been impressed with Maven Networks, the Boston-based company that provides video publishing and content management platform for larger content video producers including Hearst Magazines, TV Guide and 20th Century Fox.  Today, it inked a deal with a big Canadian producer of broadband content. Maven is providing a two part solution: one […]

 
 

Where’s the Moolah for Video Publishers, Beyond Ads? Carefully Insert Sponsor Messages, Says Former MTVi Boss

Click To Play Nicholas Butterworth has launched a pioneering special-interest broadband programming and distribution company in Diversion Media and its Tavelisitic and SnowVision channels.  He’s broken quite a lot of ground in his former job as head of MTV’s interactive operations.  Nicholas shares his views on how independent content companies can succeed with advertising and […]

 
 

Program Bulletin: Beets Grow in Silicon Valley — Our Show Goes On the Road Next Week!

One of the major "roots" of the media revolution lies somewhere between San Jose and San Francisco.  New next week, we’re going to in California, digging deep. I’m packing up and heading to San Francisco tomorrow morning.  It’s going to be quite a week with visits to Fora.TV, AdPerk.com, Adobe, Google, VeriSign, HP and Yahoo!!!! […]

 
 

Microsoft News: Silverlight has Launced in Beta — Beet.TV Has Sneak Preview of MLB’s New Video Playing Field

Microsoft has just released an advanced Beta of Silverlight, the new multi-media authoring, encoding and user platform.  The technology competes directly with Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash ecosystem. Like Flash, users of Silverlight need to download a thin Web-based application. Here’s a good explanation from PC World.  The big public introduction of Silverlight will be its use […]

 
 

The New York Times Introduces Advertiser-Sponsored, Original Video with FedEx

Click To Play The New York Times has just introduced long-form sponsored videos which appear on the paper’s main video page.  The new program launched yesterday with videos produced by FedEx.  The short vignettes are about five FedEx employees from around the globe.  I like this one of a delivery guy driving around the English […]

 
 

Donald Graham Sees Online Video as a Key Opportuntiy for the Washington Post

There’s has been a lot of buzz about a Washington Post video of an accomplished violinist performing in the capital city’s subways.  Donald Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Company, showed the clip at an annual shareholder meeting, writes Fortune’s Marc Gunther about the clip and its implications.  This is the kind of thing that […]

 
 

Convergence Alert! “The CableCard is a Silent Bomb,” Forrester’s James McQuivey Declares

Smart TV’s and other devices that use CableCards are going to have a profound impact on how consumers watch television, according to Forrester television analyst James McQuivey.  There is a big feature on this emerging technology in today’s New York Times. I asked James what he thinks of these new cards. He told me it’s […]

 
 

Adap.TV Raises $10 Million Venture Round and Introduces Exciting Ad Platform for Narrowcasters with 70/30 Revenue Split

Click To Play In May we covered the launch of Adap.tv, a new company that has developed a technology to insert overly ads onto streaming video clips.  It’s akin to the banners you see running at the bottom of a news or sports TV program — although the ads don’t stay in place throughout the […]

 
 

Joost Selects Level 3 to Power Content Distribution in the U.S. and Europe

Joost, the new and much talked about P2P television platform, will use Level 3 as its content delivery network (CDN), both companies announced this morning.  Update/Correction:  Level 3 is providing colocation services and high-speed Internet connectivity, not CDN services. Seems to us a big win for Level 3, which has made big moves into the […]

 
 

Beet.TV is Now a Podcast — We Look So Good via iTunes, at Full-Screen!

Well, we’ve finally got around to creating a video podcast for Beet.TV and it’s great. We’ve been uploading our videos to Blip.TV, which provides a very nice quality Quicktime video for the iTunes player.  (Actually my summer intern, my daughter Becky, who will be a sophomore at Colgate, has been uploading our some 300 Beet.TV […]

 
 

P2P Protocol for Video Distribution is on the Rise and BitTorrent Paved the Way…….Amazon Web Services using P2P, NewTeeVee Reports

Click To Play The escalating demands of bandwidth for online video is posing a challenge and an opportunity for companies that deliver this content.  Big content delivery companies who distribute the files over global networks of giant servers, companies like Akamai, Limewire and VeriSign, are incorprorating peer-to-peer protocol to distribute content more effectively.  Even Microsoft […]

 
 

Murdoch Acquistion of Dow Jones Would Benefit Publicist Howard J. Rubenstein, New Yorker’s Ken Auletta Tells Beet.TV

Howard J. Rubenstein is the smartest and most powerful independent public relations practitioner.  But, he’s more than just a PR man, he’s the ultimate powerbroker.  I should know, I had the good fortune to work for him for eight years until I started my own PR firm back in 1992. No one has reported more […]

 
 

Beet.TV is Purple on YouTube! Customization of the Ubiquitous Player is Here…….and Beet.TV is on the iPhone!

How cool is this:  YouTube is allowing users to create custom players with a selection of colors, layouts and names.  This is an important development for content creators large and small who want to create an identity on YouTube. Here’s Beet.TV, the "purple channel," in purple! Like my esteeemed colleague Duncan Riley wrote about this […]

 
 

Revver Introduces New Advertising Scheme with High CPM’s

Revver, an early pioneer in online video sharing, has implemented a big change as it has began inserting in-stream advertising into a few of its clips.  Up until know, Revver offered just a simple, post roll click-to-action advertisement.  Revver and content creators shared the revenue created by the clicks.  A Revver spokeswoman told me that […]

 
 

Yahoo! Lands Former AOL Exec Ruth Sarfaty for Big PR Post…Smart Move, Jerry!

With new management in place, there’s a lot of action underway at Yahoo! these days. The clock is running on Jerry Yang’s new 100-day action plan. Not sure if corporate communications is part of the plan, but Yahoo! surely needs to improve its image and could be making some progress by landing Ruth Sarfaty as […]

 
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