Andy Plesser

Click To Play The San Francisco-based start-up AdPerk has begun its service with Dwell magazine. Visitors to the Dwell home page are provided with a subscription offer. Those who watch a few videos get free magazines. Marketers connect with targeted audiences.   On this new platform, ads and other content are "pulled" by the registered users.  […]

Click To Play With scoops of Paris Hilton entering prison, Alec Baldwin’s rants, Michael Richard’s "comedy" routine and Anna Nicole Smith’s refrigerator, TMZ has become the most popular of the celebrity web sites. The New York Times has a big business feature today of the Time Warner-owned property. The Times called it the "Web Site […]

On Tuesday, the much anticipated  and controversial new video player from RealNetworks will be released.  The player allows users to download videos in all major formats. The videos are then organized on a desktop application.  That application has a dedicated and branded search utility provided by blinkx, the fast growing video search company. This is […]

RealNetworks is set to release its new player on Tuesday.  The desktop application allows users to scroll over online video in all major formats and save them to a hard drive.  Videos with digital rights management cannot be saved, but a vast majority of Flash files can be. Virtually the entire YouTube library can be […]

Beet.TV has learned that The New York Times will make the embed code of its video clips available to the public by early fall.  This means that many of the paper’s videos will be freely used and posted to blogs and Web pages.  This change will be implemented in Q3, according to Diane McNulty, a […]

Quite a glowing double profile of TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Om Malik  of GigaOM in Wednesday’s USA Today by Michelle Kessler.  These dudes are visionaries who have pioneered successful new, valuable media businesses by their bootstraps and through really hard work.  Arrington told USA Today that they work so hard, he and OM have given […]

The Washington Post, which has been publishing online video since 1999, today began to share the embed code of its Flash videos, meaning that bloggers and other Web sites can grab the code and publish the video without payment. One of the very first videos to be shared in this manner is the clip of […]

AOL’s Truveo has opened up its search API for the online video industry and the results are impressive.  According to internal numbers from comScore MediaMetrix, the Truveo search engine has resulted in 39 million unique monthly impressions with those numbers increasing 50% month by month.  Truveo’s technology is being used by hundred of sites including […]

When the book is written on the roots of user-generated content and iconic independent video casters, there’s got to be a chapter on Ugly George. The dude created a wildly popular public access cable TV show in the early 80’s on Manhattan cable by convincing nice wholesome women to bare their breasts. He didn’t pay […]

Click To Play Mike Hudack, the co-founder of Blip.TV came by the Beet.TV studio last week to talk about strategies for creating successful online video programming.  He gives a good overview of the roots of videoblogging as an outgrowth of audio podcasting. He says it’s essential to publish content on many platforms, not just streaming […]

Fox Television and Brightcove will announce tomorrow (Monday) a major development in the distribution of online video by a mainstream television company:  The integration of the Brightcove player in several Fox online video networks means far more than just streaming shows. This is already happening.  Here’s what’s significant: The incorporation of the Brightcove platform means […]

Click To Play I was hanging out with colleague Jose Castillo, the noted new media consultant and blogger of Think Jose.  I explained to Jose the root of the Beet.TV name and why I like beets.  Jose likes jalapeno peppers and uses an image on his logo. On more weighty topic, Jose thinks that near […]

Click To Play   Publishing powerhouse Simon & Schuster launched today an ambitious program to create and distribute short-form online videos of authors.   The videos have been created by TurnHere, the Internet video studio/distribution company based in Emeryville, California. Clips of 40 authors have been produced and many more are planned.  The videos have the […]

Click To Play I caught up with Noah Gellman of the AlwaysOn Network at the Streaming Media East conference in New York.  Noah keeps a close eye on technology trends as one of the key programmers of the AlwaysOn conferences.  Noah thinks that P2P will be continue to grow as bigger video files will be […]

Click To Play The Washington Post has been doing pioneering work in online video since 1999.  Recently, video has become more visible on the washingtonpost.com with a prominent video player on the home page — and video clips integrated onto many news pages. Tom Kennedy, managing editor multimedia has been leading the video effort at […]

Click To Play I had a nice chat with Rafat Ali, founder and CEO of PaidContent in Madison park, just two blocks from our studios. The former journalist has bootstrapped this fledgling media property that covers digital media as well anyone. Today, he is well on his way to building an influential media brand. With […]

Click To Play Here’s my interview with with Fox Television honcho Stefanie Henning. I asked her about how the emergence of web and mobile video has lead to new creative and technical issues and where Fox is going with all this. (The opening image is black, but hit play and the clip runs fine.) I […]

Congratulations to Bambi Francisco and the team at Vator.TV on their big launch tonight. I think this is a very cool idea.  It’s a unique video-centric environment for entrepreneurs to meet funders, strategic partners and vendors. Some skeptics might wonder if an open forum is really the way to get an idea funded.  Will ideas […]

Click To Play Yesterday, I was at the Washington Post where I spent time with Tom Kennedy, the visionary managing editor for multi-media.  We’ll be publishing excerpts of my interviews over the next week or so. Tom is a big believer in producing and distributing high quality video files. He has shifted the video production […]

RealNetworks unveiled last week a new downloadable player that allows users to save all major video formats to a PC.  As long as there is no copy protection, users can easily save QuickTime, WMV and Flash files.  Here’s our post and demonstration. There’s been a lot of buzz and anticipation surrounding this. Michael Arrington over […]