Andy Plesser

Click To Play AOL’s UnCut, the consumer generated service that has been in beta for a about a year, but little talked about, will launch next month, Fred McIntyre, chief online video executive at AOL told Beet.TV. The new service will be implemented on many of AOL’s platforms including AIM, AOL and it’s growing social […]

Click To Play Here’s my interview with Chris Hughes, one of the three co-founders of Facebook — and the only one to graduate Harvard. An Ivy League degree and a great business at 23. Not too shabby.  I interviewed him last summer on the Stanford campus.  This video was on my post on July 26.  […]

Click To Play Last week at the Streaming Media East conference, I caught up with Steve Safran, managing editor of the essential television industry blog Lost Remote. Steve gives his take on the value of YouTube and why it’s such a success. He also discusses the challenges of big media to succeed in this new […]

Click To Play At the Streaming Media East conference last week, I sat down with Forrester’s television industry analyst James McQuivey. James made some big waves last week when he issued a bleak report (for purchase) about the future of paid video downloads. He think the advertiser-supported is the future. In our chat we spoke […]

If you haven’t read the big page one story on today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription) about the poisoning of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, it’s fascinating and troubling.  The piece by Moscow-based Journal reporter Alan Cullison is sourced to a 1998 videotape done by Litvinenko and fellow security officers who said they […]

gle We’ve uploaded all 260 or so video clips from Beet.TV to our "Partner" channel on YouTube and it’s really starting to grow.  Folks are subscribing to the channel, commenting and generally spreading the word.  Today, the purple channel ranked 69, which I think it is pretty cool.  And yes, I have been designated a […]

Click To Play The business of delivering video files quickly and efficiently to users is made possible by Content Delivery Network (CDN) companies. The big players are Akamai and Limelight. But there are many emerging players, plus big, established companies moving into the space including VeriSign and Level 3. Level 3 is a big Internet […]

Click To Play One of the most spectacular online video players can be found at ABC.com. It was introduced just last month and and has attracted quite a bit of attention. The player shows remarkable, full-screen high quality.  And, it loads quickly. It’s not Flash, it’s not Windows Media and it’s not distributed on P2P.  […]

Click To Play When I was in LA earlier this month for the AlwaysOn conference, I had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Abraham who heads IBM’s consulting services in the entertainment and media industries.  Steve provides a very informative take on the NBC Universal/News Corp alliance for syndicating and advertising online video content. […]

Click To Play NBC Universal and News Corp announced plans to create a giant distribution and advertising platform for video programming. At that time, AOL announced it would be associated with the new entity by providing its massive platform to present the videos and related advertising. Earlier this week, I spoke with Fred McIntrye who […]

Click To Play One of the coolest online video environments I have seen is the new home for Major League Baseball. It is being created on Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform. I got a sneak preview when I caught up with Microsoft’s Sean Alexander this week at the Streaming Media East conference in New York. Sean […]

Click To Play Here’s my interview with Robert Scoble from the floor of Streaming Media East in New York yesterday. Robert was one of several guests I interviewed live over a two hour period. In addition to streaming the interview, we taped it, so here’s an excerpt. Many more video clips to follow. The live […]

Click To Play Bart Feder is the President and CEO of the FeedRoom, a company that powers video platforms for media organizations including The New York Times and Conde Nast. The company is increasingly providing video distribution platforms for companies who want to provide videos to journalists, bloggers and the general public. After all, any […]

Click To Play Earlier today, Akamai announced a new initiative to offer live video support for Flash video playback. The giant content distribution network (CDN) company said the new initiative supports On2 Technologies VP6 Codec used in Adobe’s latest Flash Player. This is another indication of the imminent proliferation of live streaming Flash video. At […]

Click To Play Adobe’s Flash Video has huge penetration.  Its brower-based application is nearly everywhere.  So, why is Adobe launching a new player this summer?  Earlier today, I caught up with Adobe’s Craig Barberich at the Streaming Media East conference here in New York. Craig gave us a demo and it’s pretty impressive.  Unlike the […]

Click To Play The very premise of the "Streaming Media" conference has tranformed from largely a broadcast-engineering expo to a must-attend summit where online video and its revolutionary effect on society is explored.  It’s a whole new ballgame.  Congratulations to Dan Rayburn for programming such a relevant and informative show. We are delighted to cover […]

Click To Play More and more video will be available on mobile devices. Consumers will have choices and opportunities to download and stream short and long-form content. That’s cool but how can the wireless providers and their networks support this bandwidth demand? Part of the solution will come with the deployment of WiMAX, says Padmasree […]

Click To Play Amir Ashkenazi, one of the founders of shopping.com which was sold to eBay, has just launched adap.tv  It is a new kind of advertising network that places advertising on video clips in the form of contextual overlay advertising.  These are not video ads inserted before of in the clips, but they are […]

Click To Play Gabe Rivera, 34, working completely on his own in his home in the Bay Area, has created Techmeme, what many bloggers, reporters and editors consider the most important tech news aggregation site.  And, he is about to transform the news and blogging world with new aggregation sites for national politics, gossip and […]

Click To Play I caught up with legendary angel investor Ron Conway in Hollywood last week. Ron was an earlier investor in some of the Valley’s most successful companies, including Google. Ron is very enthusiastic about the opportunties for investment in a whole crop of new online video ventures including kyte.tv.  He is an investor […]