SplashCast Launches New RSS Video Tool for Bloggers

SplashCast has a cool new user tool to create a customized an embedible player where a selection of video feeds can be displayed. This is a fairly easy way to organize favorite videos through RSS feed on a nice interface. Since this interface is embeddible, you can put it on your blog, site or push […]

 
 

The “Shocking” Truth! Rupert Murdoch Rocks London Tabloid World with Millions of Online Video Views!

Click To Play We’ve been exploring the world of newspapers and their use of online video.  We just learned that London’s The Sun, the Murdoch-owned London tabloid, has built a wildly successful online video player and big viewership. Beet.TV has learned that a recent clip titled "friendly fire" has gotten more that one million views. […]

 
 

Scoop: MTV Rocks NYU Student Newspaper with Snazzy Video Player from ROO

Click To Play When MTV bought the College Publisher last August, it acquired a company that provided a publishing platform and monetization system for college newspapers.  Today, some 500 college newspapers use the publishing platform   (The purchase also included the wildly successful RateMyProfessors.com.) MTV has integrated its its new purchase into the mtvU unit, a […]

 
 

Online Industry “Breakthrough:” Video Ads to Appear on Revver Clips in P2P Networks — as Joost Announces Big Ad Program

Click To Play The next big frontier for online video advertising may well be ads inserted into P2P content.  Revver, which announced yesterday that it will distribute video clips through P2P, is using its proprietary ad serving technology to insert and manage ads traveling around the P2P networks. In my second interview, Steven Starr, CEO […]

 
 

Blinkx Set to Go Public — Video Search is Hot Sector

Click To Play Blinkx, the start-up that has created a video search technology using a variety of techniques notably "listening" to audio track of video, is going public on the London Stock Exchange in May. Blinkx was spun off from Autonomy, a company that does a good deal of government work. In fact much of […]

 
 

Revver to Serve User-Generated Content through P2P Universe: Steven Starr Explains it all on Beet.TV

Click To Play Revver, the popular video sharing site, will soon syndicate user-generated clips through P2P networks in a new alliance with INTENT MediaWorks. This is the most significant development in moving user-generated content through the P2P world.  The Atlanta-based INTENT will distribute tens of thousands of Revver clips through its platform.  Revver will serve […]

 
 

“Gateways” Are Effective Online Video Advertising Platforms, eMarketer’s David Hallerman Says

Click To Play On these pages, we have explored what form of online video advertising is effective. This in a business still very much in its early stages and strategies are still emerging. There are many different approaches: from YouTube’s contextual banner ad placements around the clip, to insertion of post-roll clips at Revver to […]

 
 

Exclusive: CNN.com Had Record-Breaking 11 Million Video Views on Day of Virginia Tech Schootings

CNN online video clips of news surrounding the Virginia Tech shootings totaled 11.4 million views on Monday, far more than the daily average of 2.1 million streams and exceeding the previous one-day record of 7.7 on December 30, 2006, the day after Saddam’s execution. These are internal traffic numbers provided by CNN to Beet.TV. Nielsen/NetRatings […]

 
 

Tom Wolfe Debuts in Online Video from Conde Nast’s New Portfolio.com

Very cool to see Tom Wolfe on Beet.TV talking about hedge funds and cruising around Greenwich, Connecticut, the home of mysterious and powerful new power in global finance. The video is one of several on Portfolio.com, the new business publication from Conde Nast.  The videos are very well done.   We are especially pleased to find […]

 
 

Fast-Growing Social/Search Network StumbleUpon Set to Organize CNN, BBC, Flickr, Wikipedia and MySpace

StumbleUpon has created one of the fastest growing networks of individuals who rate and recommend sites. Some 2 million members rate over 9 million sites.  The company is doing well and generating a lot of interest.  This week it was said to be in final talks to be acquired this week by eBay for $45 […]

 
 

YouTube is Not Yet Sharing Revenue with Uploaders or Inserting Ads

We read with interest a report that YouTube is sharing revenue with video creators, like the Revver model, and that advertising will be inserted into the video.  There has been quite a lot of buzz about this today in the blogesphere. This is not happening, yet. We reached a YouTube spokesperson who told Beet.TV that […]

 
 

Retailers Jump into Online Video As a New Marketing Platform, The Wall Street Journal Reports

As consumers use more online video for entertainment and news, more and more online business are using video to market and sell their wares.  Today, Ice.com, the Montreal-based jeweler is launching a broadband show about buying jems. Several other companies are using video including Baby Universe, The Knot and Home Depot, according to an article […]

 
 

Microsoft’s New Silverlight Will Stream Live Video: Could Bill Gates New Initiative Bring Online Video to Billions of New Computer Users?

Click To Play OK, so our colleague Robert Scoble has thrown in towel on going live 24/7 on Ustream — a good decision, Robert, heehee. But what Robert demonstrated, and the much talked about Justin Kan of Justin.TV, is the viability and prospect of streaming live, quality video. Silverlight, the new Web based video distribution […]

 
 

Oh Wow: eBay to Buy StumbleUpon for $45 Million, TechCrunch Reports

Click To Play In a sign of the viability of the online video video and the multiples it can command, StumbleUpon, a small start-up that allows its users to organize and share video favorites, has agreed to be sold to eBay for $45 million, according to a report by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. Michael says […]

 
 

Windows Live Messenger is New Promotional Platform for MSN Videos

While Microsoft, Yahoo! and AIM have long placed advertising and promotional messages on the their IM applications, the new Microsoft Live Messenger has an ersatz video player on its web application. The player, which is really banner ad, comes and goes at the bottom of the page, sometimes being swapped out with a conventional banner […]

 
 

Newspapers Scramble to Cover Virginia Shooting with Video — Washington Post and New York Times Demonstrate Breadth of Coverage Styles

As newspapers have expanded video content to their pages, they have begun covering breaking news stories.  It’s interesting to see the work of The New York Times and the Washington Post and differences in style. The Times has a straightforward news report of the sequence events.  It was reported by Ben Werschkul. The Washington Post’s […]

 
 

Hold the Presses: Newspapers Top TV Stations in Online Video Advertising — Jeff Jarvis Sees New Models for the Newspaper Biz

Sure newspapers have some serious challenges these days, but one bright spot is online video advertising.  According to a study by Borrell Associates, newspaper web sites sold more than twice as much online video advertising as local television stations last year.  And local online video advertising is set to surge over the next five years, […]

 
 

VideoEgg Hatches Finance Deal with WPP

Click To Play Congratulations to the VideoEgg crew on their new relationship with giant marketing holding company WPP.  I interviewed VideoEgg co-founder Kevin Sladek last summer in San Francisco. I’ve republished the video.  Kevin spoke with me about the evolving business model and how advertising works into it all.  Looks like he has taken a […]

 
 

Microsoft Unveils New Browser-Based Video Platform at NAB in Las Vegas — Major League Baseball, Netflix and Brightcove will use Silverlight

Click To Play We’ve been reporting on developments with Microsoft’s new online video platform which had been called Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E). Today (Monday) in Las Vegas at NAB, Microsoft is taking the wraps off the new platform which is called Microsoft Silverlight.   It’s all part of the new Microsoft Expression initiative.  It won’t […]

 
 

We Caught Justin Kan in Bed — The Future of Streaming Live Video is Revealed (Sort of)

Click To Play Here’s Justin.TV’s Justin Kan who we caught on tape lounging around in bed in San Francisco.  Beet.TV’s David Kavanaugh put this together from our Manhattan broadcast center.  (Sorry for the audio — we’re going to transcribe some of his comments and add to this post.)  Justin is not engaged in some sort […]

 
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