Andy Plesser

For both Brightcove, the Boston-based video services company and Delve Networks, a competing start-up player in Seattle, the fastest growth in their business is coming from non-media customers such as businesses and universities who want to use video for marketing and other purposes.  

Owen Thomas, who has been the editor of tech/gossip blog Valleywag for the past two years, will be Managing Editor of NBC Bay Area , one of a new series of regional online sites created by NBC Universal.  The site is in beta.

The small number of U.S. newspaper with online video operations, are seeing 27 percent of their online revenue coming from video ad sales, according to a research report released today by Borrell and published in Editor & Publisher by Jennifer Saba.

NEW YORK — Congrats to the crew at New York magazine for winning last night for best magazine web site with over 1 million unique visitors.  The National Magazine Award was presented at the industry's annual gala held here last night.

LAS VEGAS — With newspaper and other media sites going multimedia, the AP is finding fast-rising demand for its online video news products, Bill Burke who heads up global online video for the AP tells Beet.TV

LAS VEGAS — 3D viewing, currently a growth area for Hollywood's theatrical business, will come to a significant number of homes in two to three years with the adoption of a new cable box from Motorola and new encoding processes, we have been told.

NEW YORK — CBS News is finding increased online video views with effective use of social media tools, Dan Farber, CBSNews.com Editor-in-Chief, told me this afternoon.

SplashCast has had considerable success with its Facebook app, a video player that allows users to chat around video content. 

Seattle-based Wetpaint, a Web publishing platform for smaller companies and individuals hopes that the recent announced shuttering of Yahoo's GeoCities will provide a big biz dev opportunity.

There's concern among publishers big and small about how to "monetize" online video, particularly in light of recent reports which have scaled backed ad growth forecasts.

Associated Content, a online publishing platform has raised an new $6 million venture round, TechCrunch is reporting tonight.  

YouTube will live stream its first news event, tomorrow's (4/29) prime time press conference by President Obama at 8:00 pm ET on the White House YouTube channel, we have learned. The White House had asked YouTube to integrate its live feed from the White House site to be embedded onto its YouTube channel, a spokesperson […]

Earlier this year, Conde Nast launched individual sites for its magazines, expanding beyond what had been a handful of topic-centric portals.  This was the transformation of CondeNet to Conde Nast Digital.

SeeqPod, the multi-media search engine which grew out of research at the Lawrence Livermore Labs as a biometric search engine,  which has raised the ire of the music business, is about to be sold to a "major media company," founder Kasian Franks tells Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired's Epicenter. 

Microsoft's Chief Research at Strategy Officer Craig Mundie, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and 20 others have been named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House just announced.

LAS VEGAS — Avid, which has been the industry standard for television and film editing for some time, is becomingly increasingly agnostic. 

LAS VEGAS — We have heard really good things about Market7, a new San Francisco-based start-up that provides video collaboration and project management services via the Web.

National Pubic Radio has had the highest ratings period in its history, some 20.5 million weekly listeners for its news programming, according to a report by Arbitron published last month in the Washington Post. 

With 1000 videos in the archives and more than three million video streams viewed since Beet.TV launched three years ago, I am mighty proud of our progress. 

LAS VEGAS –  HD video is becoming a larger part of the online video ecosystem with nearly a third of computer users viewing HD content.