Andy Plesser

SAN JOSE, Calif –  We read the today's annual report on global web traffic from Cisco and the dramatic rise in video file traffic on the Internet. Stacy Higginbotham over at GigaOm has an analysis, as does Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch. 

Over the past year, the Wall Street Journal Digital Network has passed both MSN Money and AOL Money & Finance to become the second biggest site among the top 15 Financial News & Information Sites tracked by The Nielsen Company. Yahoo! remains the leader.

Consumption of news on mobile devices is on the rise.  At The New York Times, there were 60 million mobile views in April, nearly double the number from April 2008.

On Tuesday, Warner Brothers will release the newly expanded Woodstock film on Blu-ray and DVD to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the festival. 

The New York Times has internally developed, in collaboration with Palm, an application for the new smart phone called the Pre.

Reports out today on the downturn in online advertising for Q1 must not come as surprise to most publishers. 

ESPN is planning on merging its magazine and other online offerings, including Web videos from the the cable network, into a paid subscription site in August, Jon Fine reports in BusinessWeek

Yesterday, at the much talked about iWantMedia panel on the future of the media, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton said that a third of his company's "posts are video centric."*

We stopped by the Business Insider daylong conference about the start-up scene yesterday at NYU.

AOL Video includes scores of brands in many countries. Over the past several months, much of the video publishing operations has switched to the Brightcove platform.

Caught up with Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist immediately after his panel organized by iWantMedia today in Manhattan.  

Great to be here at the iWantMedia event live at NYU.  Tune in now Jack Dorsey, Bonnie Fuller, Alan Murray, Craig Newmark, Nick Denton.  Moderated by Patrick Phillips.

Lauren Rich Fine, former longtime newspaper analyst for Merrill Lynch, and now research director for ContentNext Media, parent of paidContent, tells me that some newspapers will be able to charge for selected, premium content, but not many can charge for full, recurring subscriptions.

It is fascinating  to see how advertisers are seeking creative solutions to integrate brand messages into online line video sponsorships.

NEW YORK — Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary to President George Bush, thinks that President Obama's use of online video for his weekly addresses is "great." 

Gordon Crovitz, former longtime publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has partnered with Steven Brill and Leo Hindrey to create an e-commerce company for news publishers to charge for content. 

John Battelle, a pioneer in publishing who was the first publisher of WIRED and the Industry Standard, has been running an ad agency for blogs and other niche publishers called Federated Media.

One of the most striking aspects of Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, is how it organizes video search results on a page of living thumbnails. 

Having dominated rich media design, Adobe is bringing its development and design tools to business applications.  Companies including SAP are using Flash to create apps.

Robert Levitan, chairman and founder of Pando Networks, a P2P distribution company with 30 million installs and major clients including NBC, says that P2P is an essential tool in video content delivery, and he says it can save publishers up to 75 percent of delivery costs.