Andy Plesser

Click To Play Rafe Needleman is editor of CNET’s Webware, the increasingly influential blog about how "Web 2.0" technology is utilized by consumers.  (It’s up to #26 on the Techmeme Leaderboard.) Rafe’s been covering emerging technologies and start-ups for some time.  During the last tech bubble, his daily newsletter for Red Herring, titled "Catch of […]

Click To Play Dabble has built a video search platform around the preferences of viewers.  Founder and CEO Mary Hodder calls it "people powered search." The company will soon provide metadata about search to publishers who need to understand why and where their clips are being watch.  If Mary can solve this, it would be […]

Low priced laptops are starting to reach millions school children in a number emerging countries. But most of these are not the Linux, AMD-powered ones designed by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte.  Winning is the Windows-based Classmate from Intel, reports Steve  Stecklow and James Bandler in today’s Wall Street Journal. Stecklow provides a video report to his […]

Click To Play   Microsoft veteran Charles Finkelstein, who has been a leader in a number of products including the video editing program Movie Maker, which is installed virtually every Windows PC, is excited about the prospects of a greater interactivity in online video. With the arrival of Silverlight and the new Adobe Media Player, […]

Click To Play Crackle formerly know as Grouper, the video sharing and advertising network recently acquired by Sony Pictures, has a "bucket of cash" and 15 unique  monthly visitors, CEO Josh Felser told me when we met last week at the NewTeeVee summit where Josh was a panelist. He likens Crackle to a  new kind […]

Jayant Kadambi, CEO and co-founder of YuMe Networks, an advertising network for online video, told me that women viewers, from ages 18-34, are highly desirable to marketers and get higher advertising rates then men in the same age group. As far as rates at YuMe, he says that cost-per-thousand views, the measurement used to set […]

The New York Times has moved into a Renzo Piano-designed building on Eighth Avenue.  Begun in April, the move is now complete. Beyond the new design and functionality of the place, which is reviewed  today in the paper, the new building has an integrated newsroom. It combines the "print" editorial operations,  previously in the paper’s […]

Click To Play Revver, the Los Angeles-based video sharing/advertising network, is charging advertisers as much as $35 per thousand views of certain videos.  While some videos get just a $3 CPM, this higher number is a very positive indication of a advertisers willing to pay high rates surrounding quality, independently produced video.  Revver, splits the […]

Click To Play VideoEgg, the pioneering video sharing site which has raised $30 million including the most recent round of $15 million, has signed agreements with major publishers to power online video advertising operations and sales, Beet.TV has learned. Unlike Brightcove, Maven and ROO, which provide full video publishing solutions to big publishers, VideoEgg’s new […]

Click To Play It was great to see Kent "Ask a Ninja" Nichols one of the two creators/actors of the award-winning online video episodic show, at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco on Wednesday night. After threatening to kill my show because "its getting on my nerves" (haha) he disclosed the show’s distribution platform.  They […]

Click To Play Mzinga, a Boston-area start-up that is offering companies the tools to construct social networks, is launching today at the TechCrunch MeetUp on in Boston. Erick Schonfeld has a report up on the new company on TechCrunch.  The start-up has already raised $17 million, Erick reports. A few weeks ago, I interviewed Mzinga […]

Click To Play Since you couldn’t make it backstage to NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco last night, I was there doing my video paparazzi thing.  I visited the star-studded cast of the closing event the "Video Celebrity Game Show." Om and Liz lined up quite the glamorous and influential in our world:  Wallstrip’s Lindsay Campbell, […]

Click To Play Ashwin Navin, the president and co-founder of BitTorrent, says that peer-to-peer file sharing as a video delivery platform is a reality — demanded by consumers and by by scores of media companies. It’s time, he says, for the carriers  to upgrade their systems to accommodate P2P protocols.  He told me that BitTorrent […]

While the paidContent conference last month had plenty of great speakers, one of the most compelling presentations was in the form of pre-taped video conversation by pioneering online business media executives Larry Kramer of MarketWatch and Jim Cramer of TheStreet.com The 9-minute video went up on paidContent last night and I wanted to share it […]

Click To Play The Nielsen numbers for online traffic at newspapers, which came out yesterday, show a significant jump in unique visitors to the NYTimes.com for October. In reaching 17.5 million uniques, the paper had its best month ever, a Times spokeswoman told me.  The numbers are up from 14.6 million in September. Earlier this […]

Click To Play Adobe, the maker of Flash, the ubiquitous Web video program, is launching a major advertising campaign tomorrow with overlay ads served into the video streams of Beet.TV and Rocketboom.   Interactive banner ads will appear on numerous sites over the next few weeks. In a dramatic display of its software platform, Adobe will […]

Click To Play Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube says the time spent by visitors to YouTube makes it a highly valuable proposition for advertisers.  Today at the NewTeeVee conference he reflects on the meteoric rise of YouTube over the past 24 months and explains that ad monetization is going to happen, but will "take a […]

Incredible turnout here at the first NewTeeVee conference at the Mission Bay Conference center in San Francisco.  About 500 guests are registered for the one-day shindig. Above is a photo of the opening discussion with Om, Liz Gannes and MTV’s Mike Salmi. Om Malik, founder of GigaOM and its successful spinoff NewTeeVee about video convergence, […]

Motionbox, the New York-based video sharing site that has differentiated itself by offering users the ability to edit and view specific segments within long uploads, has a new, unique monetizaton scheme:  The company has just launched a subscription service that allows viewers to upload an unlimited amount of high quality files and share them with […]

Click To Play Here’s my second interview with Tom Wilde, CEO of the Boston-based EveryZing, the video search platform that uses speech-to-text to index and maximize the discoverability of online video.    The company provides a white label solution to media companies and various enterprises. Earlier today, Boston.com, the regional portal of the Boston Globe, […]