Andy Plesser

Vibrant Media, the company known for inserting ads into text advertising in the form of hyplinks which link to a rollover message, has introduced a video ad unit which expands full-screen when visitors choose. 

The New York Times has launched a branding program using online video as the medium for the first time.   The campaign launched this week on several sites including Salon, Gothamist, Bloomberg and Comedy Central.

Sky News, the U.K.-based global, satellite news channel is avialable in the United States for the first time, via Livestation, the London-based agregator of of live news programming,  Sky News announced today.

AOL Video/HuffPost Media, has become a major player in video news, passing both CBS News and Fox News in video views, according to February comScore numbers. 

From news updates, reviews and long-form, branded shows, Mashable is making a big commitment to digital video programming and syndication, says Adam Ostrow, Executive Editor in this interview with Beet.TV He says that Mashable will be surfacing third-party video content.  And, the company has entered into syndicators to expand the reach of Mashable videos beyond […]

Yahoo! is investing heavily in original, premium video for the Web, says Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo! EVP for the America's in this intview with Beet.TV at yesterday's Digital New Front event where the company unveiled a slate of new shows.

Video on the Internet has come of age and there is a big movement to premium content, says Mickie Rosen, SVP, Media Network, Yahoo! in this interview with Beet.TV

Xbox LIVE is Microsoft’s most innovative and differentiated offering for video advertising, says Rick Song, GM for Microsoft Advertising, East Coast, in this interiew with Beet.TV

At that AOL New Fronts event last night, the main event was the announcement of new video portal called AOL On.  

AOL has launched new video destination comprised of 14 channels, involving some 1000 top video publishers and over 300,000 videos and a number of new, original made for the Web programs.

Microsoft's Xbox LIVE, the fast growing gaming console, which has become a primary video consumption platform for some 40 million users around the globe, allows advertisers to reach highly specific audiences according to interests, gender, location and other factors. 

Today, Adobe is releasing its latest video production and editing package Creative Suite 6 (CS6).   

Having a video start automatically when a Web page loads can be appreciated or annoying — valuable and destructive, says Sean Knapp, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer or the Ooyala, the big video services company.

LAS VEGAS — Pricing compression for Internet bandwidth is “definitely alleviating” says Limelight Network’s Json Thibeault in this interview with Beet.TV earlier this week on the floor of NAB.

LAS VEGAS — Kit Digital, the big global, Prague-based provider of digital video services, has introduced a set of social media tools to its platform at the NAB Show this week.

Brightroll, the big San Francisco-based online video ad network and exchange has topped the latest comScore rankings for online video ad properties among the its competitive set of ad networks and exchanges.   (Brightroll ranks third in the overall category with Hulu and Google in the first and second spots.)

LAS VEGAS – Thanks in part to the wide-spread use of paid services for video on demand including Amazon, Netflix and Hulu, it is now "acceptable to pay for content," says Brightcove's Eric Elia in this interview from the NAB Show.

LAS VEGAS — BreakingNews, the influential aggregator of global breaking news, has released the first of its kind App for Samsung smart TV's which pops up news when it happens.

LAS VEGAS — Livestream, the popular free-webcast service which claims some 30 million users, demo'd at the NAB conference some big developments including a camera-mounted device to stream video directly to the Web via WiFi or cellular, and a new ad-free model for event producers.

LAS VEGAS, NV – Mid-roll ads are the most engaging, live is more engaging than on-demand and mobile viewing drives high engagement with advertising, says Adobe's Jeremy Helfand, VP for Video Monetization, citing a report issued this week at the NAB Show.