Month: October 2006
“Savory” New Start-up Serving Up Tasty Restaurant Videos in New York and San Francisco…..Google Wants a “All the World’s Videos” Could that Include YouTube?….Beet.TV Debuts in French!
Click To Play I think there are some smart entrepreneurs out there who are going to disintermediate traditional media with online video tools. Chris and Jennifer McBride will really shake up the city guide business with Savory Cities, their new start-up that creates little video guides to restaurants. They’ve been tirelessly taping over 100 […]
OK, So It’s Not “Law and Order” But It’s A Darn Good Vlog about Law School
Here at Beet.TV, we’ve been working away on a video blog about legal education for Fordham Law School. LawClinic.TV is about the school’s department that teaches aspiring lawyers in real experiences with clients. To our understanding it’s the first video blog to chronicle the academic world. The project got a terrific write-up in The New […]
Google to Acquire YouTube? WSJ Issues Alert — Techcrunch Has the Scoop…..
The Wall Street Journal just issued a news alert (noon EDT) about a possible purchase of YouTube by Google for $1.6 billion. The Journal (subscription) attributes Techcrunch for first reporting the "rumors". Last night, Techcrunch’s Michael Harrington called the rumors "completely unsubstantiated." Today, the Journal’s intrepid Google-beat-reporter Kevin Delaney cites a "a person familiar with […]
Television’s New Syndication Model Isn’t Late Night Re-Runs, It’s RSS!……Anti-U.S. Attack Videos from Iraq Propogate YouTube, New York Times Reports
Click To Play We vloggers have known for some time that providing RSS feeds of our posts is key to building an audience. How interesting it is to find that at least one television network is embracing RSS in a big way to build audiences. NewsGator has just announced an agreement with nbbc, the NBC-owned […]
24/7’s Jeff Marcus Declares: Interactive Video Advertising on Web Pages Work!
Click To Play While the most common form of online video advertising is "pre-roll" advertising, meaning ad messages viewed before the requested video, one model that has proven quite effective is video advertising that resides on a web page, where visitors can "interact" by playing the clip. That’s the view of Jeff Marcus, chief […]
Pre-Roll Video Advertising is “Annoying” to Consumers — Marketers Need a New Gamebook, Forrester Research Analyst Brian Haven Concludes
Click To Play Forrester Research has just released a comprehensive study examining online video consumption and the effectiveness of online video advertising. For those of us trying to figure out how online video advertising will work, this is a very valuable report. Senior Analyst Brian Haven speaks with Beet.TV from his Cambridge, Massachusetts office. His […]
RSS Made Podcasts Huge — Videoblogs are Next, NewsGator CEO J.B. Hoston Explains
Click To Play RSS has driven the growth of the blogs by allowing consumers to aggregate feeds fo their favorite content sources to one simple page. NewsGator has one of the best — and I am pleased to say it’s quite popular with Beet.TV watchers. We met with NewsGator CEO J.B. Holston at the Beet.TV […]