Andy Plesser

Having established iReport three years ago, CNN is the most established mainstream media organization publishing user generated content. 

Microsoft’s Silverlight software is powering the new videoplayer used by NBCSports.com for Sunday Sunday Night Football. 

CNN.com has nearly 6 million followers on Twitter, KC Estenson, Sr. VP and General Manager of CNN.com. told Beet.TV in this video interview.    

The Wall Street Journal's twice-daily, 8-minute show the News Hub, expanded this week with a live report on Monday's Apple earnings.  It was the first live Web video program around earnings. On Tuesday, the paper did a Webcast on Yahoo.

CNN.com has taken notice of the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast as "opinion destinations" and wants to be a "horse in that race," CNN.com General Manager KC Estenson told me last night, after the industry introduction of the revamped CNN.com site.  (transcript below)

Msnbc.com,  was the first major video provider to provide an embeddable player, allowing users to play videos on their sites. 

Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, the influential blog about social media and technology, will be among new personalities and contributors to the new CNN.com which launches on Monday.

ESPOO, FINLAND – Earlier today Nokia filed suit in a U.S. federal court alleging patent infringement by Apple and iPhone.  The Wall Street Journal reports the matter has to do with wireless standards.

As an online video news source, msnbc.com has the enormous advantage of the resources of NBC, but opportunities exist for video news producers who focus on a niche areas and use low cost digital news gathering.

I’m very pleased to announce that Beet.TV has a syndication agreement with NBC Local Media to provide our videos to NBCBayArea for its growing technology coverage spearheaded by Owen Thomas, a veteran digital journalist who is the Editorial Director of the Bay Area site.

A Research Triangle, North Carolina company called DigitalSmiths has developed a technology to recognize faces and scenes and convert that information for publishers to index  content.

Last month, the Wall Street Journal launched an initiative around live video programming, with a twice daily, eight-minute show titled The News Hub, originating from the paper's newsroom. 

TV Everywhere, the big move by cable operators to put content on the Web for subscribers to watch on PC's and mobile devices, will be beneficial to many industry players, according to Will Richmond, industry consultant and editor of the authoritative site VideoNuze.

The fast growing business of online video does not revolve exclusively around media companies, but increasingly around companies and organizations who want to publish video for internal and external audiences.

The Economist, which has been quickly expanding online, is creating original online video with a weekly series entitled "Tea with the Economist."

SAN FRANCISCO — NewTeeVee, the indispensable news source about the online video revolution, will be in full tilt tomorrow, November 12 with NewTeeVee Live.

The Huffington Post has passed both the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times in monthly unique visitors, according to Web tracking service Compete.com. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, says that as video on the Web continues to grow, the movie industry needs evolve from a "channels" scenario to a "random access" platform, where films can be universally searched, watched, and paid for.

Hulu is number two in monthly streams to YouTube, but Yahoo! has some 30 million unique monthly users, more than double the number of Hulu, Nielsen has just reported.

Daisy and I are pleased to announce our next online video roundtable set for Tuesday, October 20th from 3-6 p.m. ET.