Month: April 2013

CANNES – The greatest value in second-screen interactivity and TV Everywhere services lies in customer retention says Fabienne Fourquet, Director of Digital Content at Canal + in an interview with Beet.TV at MIPTV 2013. The French premium TV service offers second-screen services for its soccer games, for instance, and regularly draws more than 100,000 users each weekend, she […]

LAS VEGAS – Microsoft inked a deal with NBC Sports for its Windows Azure Media Services to handle live and on-demand streaming for NBC Sports’ digital platforms as part of the tech giant’s efforts to build out its content management platform. At the recent NAB show, Beet.TV caught up with Taras Bugir, Worldwide Managing Director, Media […]

LAS VEGAS – The big news at NAB is about HEVC, a new compression format and successor to H.264, says Rovi’s Thomas Kramer, VP of product management, in an interview with Beet. TV at NAB. This new video compression standard will improve the online video streaming by providing a better experience with the same internet […]

CANNES – Magine promises TV delivery without cable, over the Internet. The Stockholm-based company gives subscribers access to cloud-based TV service. Beet.TV interviewed Michael Werner, chairman of Magine, at MIPTV. “We have developed Magine into a fully-integrated TV service,” Werner says. “We’re meaning to replace your cable network.” With Magine, watching television becomes a dynamic […]

CANNES – Gruvi aims to develop tools that drive sales of entertainment content through social media, says Ben Johnson, founder of the social technology agency in this interview with Beet.TV. Today the Copenhagen-based company is working internationally with Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. along with smaller production companies throughout Europe to create more fiscally effective […]

CANNES – Whether it be via cell phones, radio, Facebook or other websites, Melvin Alusa, director of Well Told Story, a multimedia communications project based in Kenya, says he found it effective to deliver his message to young people on platforms and devices where they already spend their time. “The way I perceive transmedia is just basically […]

LAS VEGAS – HEVC technology, a successor to the H.264 video compression standard, will soon be available on DivX.com. Rovi’s tri-fold plan aims to bring HEVC into the mainstream market. By making this compression standard readily available on DivX.com, consumers will be able access technology once reserved for professionals. Users can encode, decode and playback content in […]

CANNES — Second screen applications and technologies are becoming increasingly popular. ExMachina CEO Jeroen Elfferich says statistics are showing that up to 20 percent of television viewers will “gladly pick up a device and participate” if they are prompted to.  Beet.TV spoke with Elfferich at the MIPTV Conference in Cannes to find out more about […]

LAS VEGAS  —  At NAB last week,  Adobe presented its collaborative editing solution called Adobe Anywhere.  At the show, Beet.TV interviewed Adobe Anywhere Senior Product Manager Michael Coleman about the product. Coleman explained, “Anywhere is going to allow professionals that are working with Premiere Pro and Prelude to collaborate on media over the network.”  Groups […]

CANNES – Digital studio Vuguru and distribution partner FremantleMedia are launching two new comedies for the global marketplace, says Scott Nocas, Head of Distribution & Marketing at Vuguru, in an interview with Beet.TV at MIPTV 2013.   At MIPTV, the two companies internationally rolled out the original multi-platform comedies “Fetching” and “Hollywood Help,” stemming from the programming deal […]

LAS VEGAS — As consumers are watching vastly increasing content on digital devices, discovery of relevant content is becoming an increasing problem.  Rovi has a discovery engine that associates content by machine and human editors, explains Rovi’s Damian Francis in this video interview with Beet.TV.  We spoke with him last week, at NAB. Francis explains […]

CANNES – The traditional role of a documentary or news show host – the “presenter” in the parlance of British television – is over, says Liz Warner, founder of  Betty productions, the highly successful producer of reality TV which was purchased by the Discovery Networks two years ago. Warner is a former commissioner of programming […]

CANNES – While streaming or broadcasting super high quality  4K (four times the highest HD) by  the world’s broadcasters is still in the working stage, and as the industry seeks to adopt compression standards, the camera and editing of the new format is beginning to take hold with both Hollywood producers and some broadcasters, including […]

LAS VEGAS – Akamai is expanding its video analytics product that allows publishers to understand video viewing down to the individual, says Barrett Mononen in this video interview at the NAB conference last week. In this interview with Beet.TV, he explains and demos Akamai’s ability to encode quickly and render video into a number of formats […]

LAS VEGAS – Now that TV Everywhere has been established, the next step is customizing the TV watching experience for the individual user – what Rovi is calling ‘Entertainment Unbound’, says Andy Townsend, senior product manager at Rovi, in an interview with Beet.TV at NAB. Entertainment Unbound aims to evolve the TV Everywhere initiative by working […]

CANNES – While technology and social trends are accelerating branded video, the measurement of the impact of the new medium has yet to be established, says Doug Scott, President of Ogilvy Entertainment, in this interview with Beet.TV this week at the MIPTV conference. We spoke with him about the emergence of branded video, industry initiatives […]

CANNES – The Valley Girl Show, the video talk show about business produced in Silicon Valley, is finding a big audience in “out-of-home” videos that display in fast food restaurants and other retail locations, says Jesse Draper, actress and founder of The Valley Girl Show.  We spoke with her earlier this week at the MIPTV conference […]

CANNES – VICE, the fast-growing, New York-based video programmer of edgy lifestyle and entertainment, is readying the launch of a global news organization this year in the company’s “biggest commitment” says Andrew Creighton, president, in this interview with Beet.TV.  The project involves the opening of bureaus around the world with a big expansion of staffers […]

CANNES – Audience targeting already has proven it can lower costs and reduce waste for marketers, and the next step is to reach consumers as they move from device to device, says Ryan Jamboretz, Chief Development Officer at Videology, an advertising technology platform, in this video interview with Beet.TV at MIPTV 2013. “The holy grail is the ability to […]

CANNES – Social TV is an important aspect of the next-generation television experience, says Stephanie Hospital, Executive Vice President of Orange Digital, in this video interview with Beet.TV at MIPTV 2013. In an effort to connect with multi-device consumers, the service provider relies on an application called TV check, she tells us. “It’s a social application that […]