Andy Plesser

DECA, the Los Angeles-based producer of non-scripted, original Web video, has launched a video ad network or women’s sites called HerChannel.

Really sorry for so many of us who have lost dads, brothers, husbands, lovers and friends to prostate cancer.  I lost my dad 13 years ago to the disease. 

Scott Donaton, former editor editor of Ad Age, who leads the two-year-old, IPG branded content unit Ensemble, has his first big, high-profile campaign with a progam for Denny's.

LIve concert programming delivers unique value as an "emotional connection" for sponsoring brands says Scott Reich, VP of Programming and Original Content for VEVO.

The Arab Spring is not a “Twitter revolution,” but  a real revolution in which social tools including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube played a central role in organizing movements, says PJ Crowley, former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, in this interview with Beet.TV

With the widespread implementation of a rich media ad unit called "Project Devil," and a standardized, in-page video template, Aol will soon have "video on every page," says Jeff Levick, President of Global Advertising and Strategy at Aol in this interview with Beet.TV.

Scott Ferber, the Baltimore-based entrepreneur who created and later sold Advertising.com to Aol, launched TidalTV, an online video ad optimization platform, in 2007. 

Los Angeles-based Panache has introduced a technology to allow publishers to insert interactive advertising into live streaming on multiple devices including Apple iOS and Android devices.

Last night, TED's Chris Anderson awarded a Special Achievement (RED) Webby Award to Ushahidi, the Nairobi-based crowd-sourcing start-up. He presented it to co-founder David Kobia.

It's been a busy few weeks for Blip.tv, the big New York-based video site for eposodic programming.  It went through a complete site redesign, becoming an entertainment destination site, and bulked up its roster of orginal programming with a new distribution agreement with The Collective.

Auditude, the Palo Alto-based provider of IP video advertising services, is deepening its relationship with DailyMotion, the enormous Paris-based video site, and with New York-based Major League Baseball.

Amr Salama, an Egyptian filmmaker and a central figure in creating the alternative media universe during the revolution in Egypt, is finishing a documentary about the historic events. 

Having launched just over two years ago as a hub for colleges' and universities' YouTube channels, YouTube EDU has become a destination for education, providing an index for a broad range of topics and campus activities, says Angela Lin who manages the education program at YouTube.

To be sure, it seemed like an odd choice of music for the 500 marketers, agency execs and Hollywood producers as they settled in their chairs for the start of the Digitas NewFront event during Internet Week.

SAN BRUNO/HANOVER/PALO ALTO — YouTube, which has recently introduced its live streaming platform, will stream its first live commencement from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire this Sunday (6.12) at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Dartmouth's YouTube channel.

With social media "blowing up" the marketing landscape, "non-working" media, as opposed to traditional media buys, could reach fifty percent  of budgets for some big brands, says Jordan Bitterman, SVP and Social Media Practice Director at Digitas in this interview with Beet.TV

Break Media, the big Los Angeles-based creator of humor programming for young men, is  producing programming for woman, with two shows in the works, says Jonathan Small, editorial chief for the network.

The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV), a national association of video creators, has announced its first awards program for excellence in over twenty categories.

ABC is the only television network with an App for episodes for the iPad.  Since the launch, the App has been downloaded two million times and 28 million episodes have been streamed, says Albert Cheng, EVP for Digital Disney/ABC Television.

The conventional means of charging for online video at a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) for video ads is quickly changing.