Andy Plesser

Caroline McCarthy, the social media beat reporter at CNET News.com, who has just wrapped up her coverage of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, does a little debrief with her editor Dan Farber. She said the energy around the parties was exuberant; some revelers told her it was a throw back to the old […]

Emeryville-based TubeMogul, the platform that allows video publishers to use a one log-in page to upload to over 15 different video sharing sites, is expanding its analytics services.  A number of content creators and shows use TubeMogul including NextNew Networks, Tornante, CBS Interactive, Average Betty, Goodnight Burbank and National Lampoon. The syndication service is free […]

Click To Play Online viewers of the Summer Olympics, will need to download a small plug-in to their computers to watch some 2200 hours of live and on-demand video coverage from Beijing. The Web application is called Silverlight. It was introduced last year by Microsoft. To check it out, you might want to watch a […]

Click To Play The booming participation in social media is creating both a big opportunity and potentially a giant sink hole for media companies and marketers.  How this will play out is far from being known at this stage, says Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch whom I consider a true media visionary. I caught up […]

Video consumption on CNN.com has reached a record with 116 million videos, including clips and live streams, viewed in March, according to internal CNN numbers.  This is a 5 percent increase over February. CNN.com Live, the platform which provides four simultaneous streams, had 4 million streams in March. An increasingly popular live show is "Now […]

Nokia has been aggressively positioning its mobile phones as multi-media devices.  New phones, such as the N95, have been given to reporters and bloggers as a video news gathering tool. Now, Nokia is marketing its phones as a tool in creating theatrical films through a new project with the celebrated American director Spike Lee.  Laura […]

Click To Play ScanScout, the Boston-based ad network that has been one of the leading innovators in providing overlay advertising into video streams, has just announced a big publisher agreement with Broadband Enterprises.  Earlier this year at the AlwaysOn conference in New York, I interviewed Waikit Lau, ScanScout’s co-founder and CEO.  Waikit gives an overview […]

"How to videos" are propagating on the Web and some producers are making a reputation for themselves and some money.  Kip Kedersha, an independent video producer is getting millions of views and is the top earner on Metacafe, New York Times reporter Miguel Helft reports today.  Not sure how all the new startups will fare, […]

Although numbers of comparative visits to the Obama and Clinton campaign are not that different, the time spent on videos is far longer on the Obama clips by a margin of 3-1.  These are the results of a report issued today by Nielsen Online, VideoCensus. Traffic to John McCain’s site was modest compared to the […]

Online video is not just having a big impact on the media landscape, but it will have a positive impact on the environment, according to Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet. Metcalfe believes that online video and conferencing can ameliorate the need for travel.  So, watch online video and shrink your carbon footprint! I have republished […]

Click To Play HP is readying a monitor for video post production work that has "one billion colors."  The new technology was announced at the NAB show in Las Vegas last week by HP and partner DreamWorks.  DreamWorks will be using the new monitor in animation post-production. DreamWorks and HP have had a long association […]

Click To Play In Las Vegas last week at NAB, we sat down with Bob Hesskamp, the head of engineering for CNN.  Bob received the 2008 Technology Leadership Award from Broadcasting & Cable magazine for his pioneering work in creating CNN HD, the first news network in HD.  Bob gave us an update on the […]

For online video to be searchable in the way that text is indexed on the Web today, video will have to be transcribed and indexed in the form of transcripts or raw metadata. Not only is this critical for effective search, it will be essential in the years ahead when the Web evolves to a […]

Click To Play Move Networks, the little start-up in Utah, has impressed many in the industry with super high quality streaming technology that does not appear to hog too much bandwidth.  To see how great it looks, check out ABC.com — that’s the Move player on the videos. Last month, Microsoft announced an alliance with […]

Click To Play In the television news world, one of the most authoritative news sources is TVNewser, part of Mediabistro which is now owned by Jupitermedia. Editor Chris Ariens has a scoop about embattled anchor Katie Couric.  According to his report, CBS CEO Les Moonves told the CBS news staff in a meeting earlier today […]

Click to play Not sure if Segway’s slow growth will be accelerated by the company’s new plan for a social network which was announced this week, but a customized Segway for shooting video sure got a lot attention at NAB on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week.  Not only does the […]

Click To Play Microsoft is readying the launch of its IPTV platform on the Xbox 360 in the U.K. later this year with British Telecom.  This development was first announced in January.  The console is doing extremely well in Europe, PC World reports tonight. I met Microsoft’s Jim Baldwin at the NAB conference in Las Vegas […]

Click To Play Covering NAB, walking the halls Las Vegas Convention Center, it was striking to overhear so many attendees speaking foreign languages.   About a third of the 100,000 attendees are from overseas, a record international contingent, the NAB says.  I had the opportunity to interview the NAB’s Chris Brown, the executive who runs the […]

Click To Play The big turning point in the adoption of Silverlight, the rich content, in-browser plug-in from Microsoft, could be this summer with the Beijing Olympics.  As previously reported, MSN will stream some three thousand hours of video on Silverlight.  (As we understand, this deal is for video casting in the United States only.) […]

Mogulus, the the New York-based start-up which is empowering live online video casting of small content creators, on Monday announced a "white label" solution so broadcasters and publishers can use the platform with their own branding and customized functionality.   Some other well known players in the field include Justin.tv and uStream.  Yahoo! Live will enter […]