Andy Plesser

With new management in place, there’s a lot of action underway at Yahoo! these days. The clock is running on Jerry Yang’s new 100-day action plan. Not sure if corporate communications is part of the plan, but Yahoo! surely needs to improve its image and could be making some progress by landing Ruth Sarfaty as […]

We were saddened to hear that the accomplished media reporter and our good friend Dan Fost will be leaving the Chronicle next month.  We understand from sources at the paper that he has taken advantage of a generous buyout. San Francisco has always been a great, albeit small media town and Dan was always the […]

Click To Play Richard Morgan is back from the super high level media mogul retreat hosted by Allen & Company in Sun Valley where he was covering the annual event for The Deal, where he is a staff editor. Richard is a former editor of Adweek, advertising columnist for the New York Observer and author.  […]

Wow, congratulations to Laurel Touby at Mediabistro for the sale of her company to Jupitermedia for $23 million.  Hot damn! Beet.TV wonders if her husband, Business Week marketing columnist and rock ‘n roller Jon Fine will give up his day job? Hope to update you on this later today. Update 8 a.m. EDT:  Jon Fine […]

Click To Play In the video publishing realm, having good content is key, natch.  But having a robust content management system is essential, particularly for big broadcasters and publishers. Over the past months, we have covered some of the solution providers who power the big Web video publishers.  These have included Roo, the Feedroom and […]

NBC Universal yesterday announced the launch of myNBC, a social networking site created for fans of NBC programming.    As Louise Story reports in today’s New York Times, there are various takes on this by industry observers including Forrester analyst Charlene Li, Jack Myers and yours truly.  I told Louise that NBC should unlock the […]

Just got the numbers for online video sites for June from Nielsen/NetRatings and Veoh has registered the second fastest growth among major video sites, jumping 254 percent from the same month last year. The fastest growing of the major players is Yahoo! which is up over 400 percent. The New York Times story yesterday by […]

In an effort to bring more accurate third-party metrics to blog traffic, Nielsen Net/Ratings has begun to gather demographic data from visitors to Technorati in the form of a pop-up questionaire which takes about 10 minutes to fill out. Just this past Friday, I met with Nielsen’s Scott Ross who spoke about the need for […]

Click To Play Metrics and demographics for online video viewing is critical for the success of the industry.  Nielsen/NetRating has developed a system that provides this critical data to publishers and advertisers.  VideoCensus been deployed to various publishers including  NBC, CNN, VideoEgg and Brightcove.  The system is in advanced beta and will be released with […]

There have been more than a few raised eyebrows in the digital media world this week when Nielsen/NetRatings came out with a new metric to guage Web site popularity by adding in the factor of time spent on a page.  AOL came in first! Shocking! Well, we sat down in the Beet.TV studio this morning […]

Click To Play As the explosion of streaming video makes huge bandwidth demands, the business of content delivery networks (CDN’s) is booming and new players, large and small, are moving quickly. Just yesterday VeriSign, which is getting in the CDN business in a big way, announced a deal to distribute BBC video. Level 3, a […]

Click To Play Here’s Fred McIntyre who heads AOL video.  He outlines the fundamentals of search and the implementation of search technology at AOL.  It a really informative interview. Well, we all have to get our hands around effective video search.  It’s key.  So, I wanted to share my article from this week’s PR Week […]

S Steve Rosenbaum is a pioneer in consumer-generated content.  He was among the first television producers to provide inexpensive video cameras to the public to create video.  His show "MTV Unfiltered" demonstrated the promise and power of user-generated video before there was a Web. Steve gives us a little history lesson today. In the beginning […]

One of the hardest working journalist/blogger in the online video space is Steve Bryant.  He authors the Hollywood Reporter’s ReelPop, contributes regularly to NewTeeVee and writes Google Watch for e-Week. But, more than just keeping up with what’s happening and reporting it, he’s an insightful critic of video content.  I always enjoy reading his columns, […]

It’s not around anymore, but shareyourworld.com was the first video sharing site that allowed users to upload files in various video file formats and share videos.  It was started back i 1997 by Chase Norlin, who now heads the very cool video/audio search company Pixsy. Chase takes us down memory lane, during the last Internet […]

Brad Greenspan, the Los Angeles-based entrepreneur who is best known as founder of MySpace, believes the the digital assets of Dow Jones have not been properly valued.  Moreover, he believes that management has not effectively integrated its online properties. He has organized a group of investors with the hope of acquiring a 25 percent ownership […]

Click To Play Mike Hudack and his colleagues at Blip.TV have played a crucial role for emerging, independent video content creators.  Blip.TV hosts and distributes video files in a range of formats.  But, more than just a video sharing site, Mike believes that Blip.TV represents a "next generation television network."  Like RCA, which spawned NBC, […]

Whether or not MySpace founder Brad Greenspan (left) is successful in acquiring a minority interest in Dow Jones, his idea to create a global Internet video news channel is on target as the news media evolves, Bambi Francisco, former Dow Jones/MarketWatch columnist and TV personality, told me. And, she thinks that Dow Jones employees should […]

Peer-to-peer is inevitably going to become a primary distribution platform for online video.  Joost looms large.  But,  BitTorrent, with some 150 million installs is the gorilla in the closet.  But can you watch this stuff on a TV set, easily? These P2P companies are going to have to solve this since we will be watching […]

Click To Play Thumbnails are becoming pervasive on search results pages of Google, Ask, Yahoo! and on many customized search pages. Thumbnails had been mostly the domain of image search — look up a celebrity under the image category and there’s the photo.  Well, it turns out that thumbnails have become a powerful way to […]