Andy Plesser

LONDON – Sky News, a unit of the highly profitable satellite channel in Great Britain, has introduced the functionality for viewers to timeshift live programming via its iPad app, says Rob Owers, Producer/Team Leader for the iPad at Sky, in this segment from our recent video journalism summit at the offices of the Financial Times.

LONDON – "This is the biggest thing the BBC has ever done," say Chris Dobson, GM/EVP Global Sales, BBC Worldwide, referring to the role of network as the host broadcaster for the London Olympics.

LONDON – The Financial Times, which has produces primarily talking heads videos from its studios in London, New York and Hong Kong, is gaining attention for its longer-form, feature stories says Josh de la Mare, Global Editor of Financial Times Video, in this segment from our recent video journalism summt at the FT’s headquarters.

PLAINVIEW, NY – NeuLion, the digital video services company based on Long Island, New York, with offices in Canada, China and the U.K. has been selected by China's main national broadcaster, CNTV, to stream over 5600 hours of live and on-demand video of the London 2012 Olympics.

LONDON –   Dublin-based Storyful, a new  sort of “wire service” which authenticates and curates “crowd-sourced” journalism for big media customers including The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters and YouTube, quickly identified authoritative “citizen” journalists and local news sources in the aftermath of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado.

LONDON – State-supported, English-language  Russia Today (RT) and Iran’s Press TV are building a “loyal following” via the live news aggregator Livestation, says the company’s CEO Lippe Oosterhof in this segement from the recent Beet.TV video journalism summit at the Financial Times.

LONDON — Seeking more commercial opportunities and an audience not necessarily driven by breaking news, CNN has been producing a range of Web original programming from branded, advertiser-centric content to editorial projects, says Pete Bale, GM of CNN Digital International, in this segment from our recent video journalism summit at the headquarters of the Financial […]

SAN FRANCISCO (via Skye Video) – Adobe Systems  has created an app for the NBC Olympics coverage of the London Olympics to stream thousands of hours of live programming onto tablets and mobile devices of U.S. broadband subscribers.

LONDON – The Guardian has been serviing 5-10 million monthly video views, says Stephen Folwell Director, Business Development and Brand Extensions for Guardian News & Media, in this segment from the recent Beet.TV video journalism summit at the Financial Times.

LONDON – Today, the BBC Worldwide announced that net profits were up 13 percent over last year up to 155GBP.  Digital sales has risen to from to 13 percent of net sales, up from 8 percent the year before, the company said in a separate announcement about its digital business.

The concept of “platform agnosticism,” the notion that legacy media companies must have their content on all digital outlets is “completely wrong,” says NBC News Chief Digital Officer Vivian Schiller in this session excerpt from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat.

LONDON — As brands are increasingly becoming publishers, the marketplace for video news on corporate sites is growing quickly, says Greg Beitchman, Head of Multimedia for Thomson Reuters , in this segment from our recent video journalism summit at headquarters of the Financial Times.

LONDON — YouTube has become a “seven figure” business for the Associated Press says Sandy MacIntyre, Vice President and Director of International Video News, in this segment from our recent video journalism summit at the headquarters of the Financial Times.

LONDON – Demand from advertisers to run pre-roll ads on BBC News online video far outpaces editorial inventory by a four-to-one ratio, says Andrew Roy, Head of News, BBC World News, in this segment from our recent video journalism event at the headquarters of the Financial Times.

PARIS — Brazil is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with heavy television consumption, but digital video delivered via the Internet is limited due to lack of bandwidth, smart phones and and a dearth of IP-connected devices says Roberto Schmidt, head of digital for Globo TV, Brazil's biggest broadcaster.

Media industry consultant/publisher/authorJack Myers says that the VC-funded runway for most of 12,000 digital media start-ups is running out and there will be major consolidation over the next 36 months, in this inteview with Beet.TV

LONDON – Seeking to moneitze its vast video news operation beyond its traditional television “agency” business, the AP has launched digital distribtion plaform for publishers of various sizes to use AP news videos.

LONDON –  While the BBC Worldwide is putting most of its efforts around apps for the Apple iOS platform, apps won’t maintain their dominance in the future, predicts Daniel Heaf, the head of digital for BBC Worldwide in this session from last month’s Beet.TV Global Video Summit – which took place at the BBC Worldwide […]

New York-based Outrigger Media has launched a sort of quality and influence meter which ranks the impact of a number of YouTube partner channels.   The platform called OpenSlate has gone live.

LONDON — The future of real-time news gathering will be an army of smartphone users uploading live events via apps including Bambuser, which are authenticated by the Associated Press, and distributed via the giant news organization, says Sandy MacIntrye, the AP’s Vice President and Director of International Video News, in this segment from the Beet.TV […]