Andy Plesser

Click To Play Al Gore’s Current TV is creating some very good content, but its efforts to generated user generated video has faltered and monthly unique visitors are only 152,000 per month. Nonetheless, one investor in Current, Los Angeles magnate Ronald W. Bunkle, is quoted in today’s New York Times stating Current has a valuation […]

Click To Play The Akamai showcase site for HD online videos from several customers including the BBC, MTV, the NBA and others has just gone live.  The images that load to the home page are in very high quality Flash.  To see the HD videos, you need to select either 1280 X 720 or 1920 […]

Click To Play Revision3’s Diggnation has a large following.  Like most episodic Web video shows, most of the clips are consumed via downloads, mostly through iTunes.  Recently, the company has has introduced a Flash player with shareable embed code and it has done very well, Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 told me. Here’s my second […]

Click To Play October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we figured it would be a good plan to produce and stream videos about the disease including clips about screening, genetics and therapies.    These videos are beginning of a new medical channel dedicated to women’s health.  We’re still working out the format/branding, but we have […]

Click To Play Extend Media is the company that has implemented the backend technology for Fanfare, the music and video portal from SanDisk.  The site interfaces with a simple, inexpensive USB device that takes videos from the computer and allows them to be plugged into a TV set. Like iTunes and AppleTV, the new service […]

The wildfires in Southern California have generated an unprecedented amount of video and photo uploads to CNN, other news organizations and to the video sharing sites. One of the most interesting developments in "citizen journalism" around this disaster has been the widespread use of mobile phones as a reporting device.  Veeker, the San Francisco-based start-up […]

Click To Play A new era of high definition online video will begin on Monday when Akamai launches a showcase portal for videos from customers including the BBC, NBA, MTV and others.  The term HD has been bantered about quite a lot in the context of Web video.  But by our understanding, "true" high def […]

Blogginheads.tv, that little scrappy scrappy "Crossfire" of  a webcam start-up for political bloggers, has found a home on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times.  There will be three video excerpts a week featured on the The New York Times Opinion Page. Rachel Sklar, that eagle-eyed media columnist at The Huffington Post broke the […]

Click To Play The movers and shakers in the online video space will be at NewTeeVee’s one-day conference in San Francisco on November 14. Beet.TV will be on the scene, natch.  So, if you can’t be there, you can count on exclusive "behind the velvet rope" coverage by the purple channel! As you might have […]

Click To Play Nope, it’s not the corporate blogging software we’re talking about here, but the new permanent art installation in the lobby of the newspaper’s new Renzo Piano-designed headquarters building on Eighth Avenue and 41st Street. Artist Ben Rubin and UCLA professor/statistician Mark Hansen have created a multi-media installation of 560 small screens, mounted […]

Click To Play Keith Kocho is the founder of Extend Media, a company that manages online video assets for content owners.  Its closest competitor is the thePlatform, now owned by Comcast. The company is powering the backend of Fanfare, the new video and music Web download platform from SanDisk — which is producing the Sansa, […]

Click To Play The amount of user generated content from the California wildfires have set a record at CNN’s i-Report, a spokesperson told me a few moments ago.  The number of video have far surpassed citizen content surrounding the Minneapolis bridge collapse or the Virginia Tech shooting by more than fourfold. Surely the geographic extent […]

Click To Play Brian Stelter reports in The New York Times today that Google and Nielsen are launching  a new monitoring and analytics system to track television viewership. A few weeks back, I interviewed Scott Ross, who heads marketing at Nielsen Online. I’ve reposted my interview here.  Although the Google/Nielsen deal is not about online […]

Click To Play Internet visionary Joe Trippi is "on the rise" and having a big impact on the John Edwards campaign, according to a front page story in today’s Washington Post.  Trippi is a senior adviser to the campaign but the Post calls him the "de facto campaign manager and lead media consultant." I’ve posted […]

Click To Play I caught up with Brian Stelter at The New York Times this afternoon to talk about television news and how the Web is transforming the industry.    Brian created a hugely successful and influential blog about television news.  He recently joined The New York Times where he is blogging and reporting for […]

In a big step in using user-generated video by a major newspaper, The New York Times is soliciting the public to upload videos of the California wildfires.  The notice just went up on the newspaper’s home page. Most of the television cable and network news organizations provide a mechanism for the public to upload video. […]

Click To Play I caught up with Tilzy.TV co-founder Joshua Cohen to chat about his fledgling company that indexes and recommends online video programming.  I met him at the NewTeeVee mixer last month in Manhattan. There is a big need for authoritative guides for all this Web video.  Let’s keep an on these guys who […]

Click To Play WiMax has just recieved a huge boost from the United Nation’s body that regulates telecommunications. The emerging technology has been endorsed as a wireless standard. WiMax is super fast and could make the distribution of big video files via mobile devices more practical.  In May I interviewed Motorola’s CTO Padmasree Warrior who […]

Click To Play We couldn’t make it up this week to Toronto for the Online Media Association, but we’ve keeping up with coverage from Editor & Publisher.  Yesterday’s closing panel included Anil Dash of Six Apart, the big blog software company.  The panel discussed the use of community content in the context of mainstream media […]

Click To Play Veeker, the San Francisco start-up that enables users to upload and share videos created on cell phones, has raised $2.5 million and has a deal with NBC, Liz Gannes reports on NewTeeVee. Seems that the company has gone through some iterations.  Here is my interview with co-founder Roger Raderman, who gave me […]