Andy Plesser

Metacafe, one of the first major video portals, has been focused primarily in creating specific entertainment and gaming channels. Today it announced the launch of channel for men 18-34 around original, live and aggregated content.

"Audience and data is sexy" and is key to the success of branded content, says Stephanie Sarofian,  Managing Director of Brand Content and EVP at Digitas, in this interview with Beet.TV.

AOL Video has found a growing business around original Web programming, meaning shows which are sponsored by a specific brand, says Karen Cahn, VP for Branded Partnerships.

LOS ANGELES – Brandon Laatsch and Freddie Wong are collaborating on some of the most successful viral video hits, including Gamer Commute, which is nearing 9 million views in just over two weeks.

LOS ANGELES — Video is becoming part of the Huffington Post's "DNA" with a combination of original video and related videos drawn from the 5Min network, the giant AOL-owned syndicator, says Gabe Lewis, Head of Original Video at AOL in this interview with Beet.TV.

CNN's sizable investment in international coverage has paid off with increased television ratings and digital consumption, says Mark Whitaker, EVP and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV.

LOS ANGELES — The economics around Web original video programming are not yet sustainable, says says Myles Beckett, a co-creator of lonelygirl15, the pionering "webisode" from 2006 and CEO of Los Angeles based EQAL.

LOS ANGELES — Published on YouTube just two weeks ago, Gamer Commute is a runaway hit with over eight million views 80 thousand "likes."  

LOS ANGELES, Calif — Yahoo! has green-lighted eight new, short-form Web original video programs, producing them both in-house and with leading Hollywood shops, including Electus, Principato-Young, FishBowl Media and Warrior Poets (Morgan Spurlock's company), says Erin McPherson, VP and Head of Video, in this interview with Beet.TV.

As part of an expansion of YouTube's EDU efforts, which has mostly involved college-level education, the big video site has expanded its reach into primary school education with a new platform for teachers to create and share educational video materials.

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Storify, the social media curation tool, was used by the Weather Channel during Hurricane Irene, says Cameron Clayton, EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Intercast Network launched a product which allows broadcasters to distribute their programming live via a rich display unit with accompanying social tools and e-commerce functionality.

The Weather Channel, which claims the second most downloaded iPad App, has moved from a Flash player to an HTML 5 player from Brightcove, enabling consumers to watch video regardless of their device, said Cameron Clayton, EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Since the Los Angeles-based filmmaker/gamer  Freddie "W" Wong released "Gamer Commute" on YouTube this past Saturday, the two-minute clip has garnered nearly 5 million views and 18,000 comments.

The Wall Street Journal would not be delivering its three and a half hours of programming if it were not for the iPad, says Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor of the WSJ.com.

While the the sale of downloadable entertainment has been the largely the province of the Apple, media companies will create their own "media stacks" to sell content directly to consumers, says Chris Van Noy, Chief Media and Entertainment Strategist at Akamai.

comScore, which first broke out metrics around the top 50 YouTube partner channels for the month of July, is publishing analytics for all YouTube partner channels, which is many thousands, says Dan Piech, Product Manager, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Having decided as to "go it alone," and not be part of Hulu, CBS has seen dramatic growth of its business in an "open, non-exclusive approach" to syndication with deals with AOL, Yahoo, MSN and Comcast, explains Ken Lagana, SVP of Sales at CBS Interactive.

Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of TechCrunch has been named editor by AOL, taking over the reins from founder Michael Arrington.