Andy Plesser

MONACO — Yahoo! seeks to expand the footprint of its video programming through Apps on connected TV, on tablets and viewing on a new "second screen" companion viewing App, says Rich Riley, EVP and Managing Director at Yahoo! EMEA.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif/NEW YORK (via Skype Video)– Earlier this month, Jivox, a company that provides a toolkit to brands and agencies to integrate interactive elements to existing video ads, raised a venture round of $8.2 million to expand its sales and marketing operations.

MONACO — Dailymotion, the giant Paris-based video portal, introduced an Android App this week, along with an enhanced iPhone App.

MONACO — Giving online video viewers the option to select an ad improves the impact by 200 percent, says Tracey Scheppach, EVP & Innovations Director at VivaKi/Starcom MediaVest.

MONACO — With the recent introduction of the Open Graph Platform, Facebook has become a “massive distribution mechanism for video on the Web,” says Christian Hernandez, Director of Platform Partnerships for Europe, Middle East and Africa, in this interview with Beet.TV.

MONACO — Orange, formerly known as France Telecom, is expanding its global offering of IPTV and is using its ownership in Dailymotion to establish video markets where the Paris-based telco giant is not a service provider.

MONACO – YouTube has 200,000 advertisers on the site per quarter and is hoping to have 6-7 million in the future, says Lucas Watson, VP for Global Sales, in this interview with Beet.TV.

MONACO — Bahrainian blogger Esra’a Al Shafei, a key figure in the social media activity around the Arab Spring, has been awarded the Monaco Media Prize by Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Fora.tv, the San Francisco company which began as a free portal for influential conference videos, has gained traction with a pay model, charging to watch high-level conferences by organizations and publishers, including The Economist, Wired and The New Yorker.

The industry’s largest video advertising network has shifted its emphasis from a cost-per-view formula to cost-per-engagement and has found “dramatic” success around purchase intent, says Jason Krebs, Chief Media Officer of Tremor Video.

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The New York Times has launched a program to bring documentary filmmakers, both famous and aspiring, to the digital pages of the paper in a new program called Op-Doc. 

Umami, a New York-based stealth start-up with seed funding from top VC's NEA and Battery Ventures, will launch its iPad App, which is a synchronous companion to TV shows, tomorrow on November 8th.

While video is becoming increasingly pervasive on news sites, what is it that makes visitors hit that play button?  According to the top video editors at the Wall Street Journal, CBS News and The New York Times, the motivation comes by providing a surprise, the unexpected scoop or a unique viewing opportunity.

Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper group, is getting $40-50 per thousand video views on several of its smaller market newspapers, says Kate Walters, SVP for Video at Gannett Digital.

HealthiNation, a New York-based producer and syndicator of original health and medical videos for the Web, is the most widely viewed producer in its sector, having more than double the views of WebMD, according comScore's September Video Metrix.

Historically, newspaper editors have been slow to embrace video, in part from a long-held print bias. Video editors have had to struggle for visibility on newspaper sites. 

NEW YORK/BELFAST (via Skype Video) -  For many in the news business, Mediagazer has become an essential destination for important stories about the media business and journalism. 

Video advertising and content are essentially "separate," says Ashley Still, Director of Video Solutions for Adobe Systems in this interview with Beet.TV.

YuMe, the big online video ad management and software solution company, announced today that LG Electronics has embraced the YuMe advertising platform to serve a major campaign into its line of smart TV's. The first big campaign is for Toyota.