Andy Plesser

Today we launched BeetMedicine.TV, a new videoblog about women's health. 

AUSTIN — Hulu plans to premiere its third national prime-time ad this week on Thursday on Fox and NBC, said Eric Feng, senior VP and chief technical officer in this interview on Monday.

Advertisers who were previously nervous about Web video are starting to get religion thanks to the return on investment in the medium, said Web star Alex Albrecht in an interview with Beet.TV at SXSW.

AUSTIN — We caught up with Blip.tv CEO and co-founder Mike Hudack at SXSW to learn about the integration of Blip.tv onto Boxee. 

AUSTIN — Zadi Diaz has established herself as one of the pioneers in original Web video, known for several shows including Epic Fu.  She has recently linked up with NextNewNetworks for series about Hollywood called, Hacking Hollywood, as reported earlier this month.

Kosmix, the up and coming search company has a made a great deal of progress, creating a taxonomy of 5 million categories, according to a report in The New York Times.

I interviewed Alex Castro, founder and CEO of Delve Media, at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable earlier this month.  Alex explains the value of Delve in a field filled with big, established competitors. 

Adobe, known principally as a software company, is expanding Web services business according Bill Rusitzky, who heads business alliances at company. 

Video consumption is becoming less of destination scenario. Many of us are watching videos on social networks, so widgets are increasingly important.  

Msnbc.com has announced that it has expanded its offering of television news programming to mobile devices through an alliance with Transpara. NBC News shows to be sent to mobile devices will include "Today," "Nightly News with Brian Williams" and "Meet the Press."

Here at Beet.TV we are like to chronicle how small media brands, with no legacy, emerge to grab attention.  Fora.tv, launched in 2007, is a site which presents videos of thought leaders speaking in public forums. It been gaining some traction over the past three months.

SAN FRANCISCO — Online video is replacing television for consumers 25 years and younger  as part of a dramatic demographic shift.  Watching video on a personal computer is becoming the principal way young adults consumer video. 

Many video producers embrace a hyper-syndication approach to distributing their videos across many sites, meaning they make their videos sharable on unassociated blogs and Web sites. 

News videos displayed on YouTube have been organized to be timely and relevant to the news of the day through the integration of Google News into YouTube News. 

SAN FRANCISCO — A large part of the success of online video can be attributed to the widespread adoption of Flash, a rich media, Web plug-in application which is on nearly all of the world's computers.

SAN FRANCISCO — Driven by political and economic events and changing consumption patterns, Web video is becoming increasingly news-centric, according to Charlie Tillinghast, president of msnbc.com and Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube.

Webcam chat at Ustream The Beet.TV roundtable in San Francisco (and Ustream's live stream of the event) ended at noon PT today. You can watch the first half on-demand in this post; for the second half, visit our Ustream channel. Keep reading for my live blogging of the event!

SAN FRANCISCO — Adobe is aggressively promoting the use of its Flash video ecosystem into more of the news and entertainment world with a new development deal with Time Warner. 

Thomson Reuters has announced a new online video service as part of a $1 billion plan to update the company's products and infrastructure.  The new video portal is part of the company's paid service for financial professionals.   

Chris Soghoian at CNET News.com reports that the White House has dropped YouTube as its video platform for President Obama's addresses for custom player and system from Akamai.  Chris says that the move has come as a result of privacy concerns over cookies collected by YouTube.  Chris explains the situation here.