Andy Plesser

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube has been an essential platform for videos of street violence in the Middle East, mostly camera phone uploads of events not covered by the news media. 

Kantar Video, the video analytics unit of WPP, is teaming with semantic Web services company Open Amplify to gather and organize social media chatter as part of Kantar's product offering.

The announcement late Sunday evening by President Obama that Osama Bin Laden had been killed created extraordinary traffic for MSNBC.com and pointed the emerging role of online video viewing in cable-connected homes.

Reuters, a leading provider of live news video to television broadcasters around the globe, is now making a rich offering of live video feeds available to  digital publishers, says Chris Ahearn, president of media for Thomson Reuters, in this interview with Beet.TV

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube is partnering with Dublin-based  Storyful to curate breaking news on YouTube's CitizenTube channel, says Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube in this interview with Beet.TV

Following Skype's purchase earlier this year of Redwood City-based mobile video chat platform Qik, the combined company aims to deliver both live video calling and delivered video messages, covering both asynchronous and synchronous communications on a global basis, says Qik co-founder Bhaskar Roy in this interview with Beet.TV

With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a "great media company" in various content verticals, CEO Jim Bankoff tells Beet.TV in this interview.

Eyeview, a company which provides brands and their agencies with tools to localize in-instream advertising, has received investment from ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's venture fund, Oren Harnevo said in this interview with Beet.TV

FreeWheel, the fast-growing video management firm, is providing live video ad management for a number of broadcasters including ESPN and Turner and it has just signed up the UK’s leading satellite company BskyB. 

Digitalsmiths, the video search platform which visually analyzes and indexes video, has announced a new funding round of $12.5 from existing and new investors.

If all goes according to plan with the Space Shuttle Endeavor, YouTube will stream a live interview with the crew on May 2 at 2:15 EDT via PBS which is producing the transmission and will host it on the Newshour YT channnel.

SAN BRUNO, CA — While YouTube is playing a unique role in providing raw video of the unrest in the Middle East to the Web, and to many of the the world's news organizations, the giant video site doesn't actually organize or vet video.

CineSport, a small New Jersey-based syndicator of professional sports highlight videos, served some 250 million video views in March, according the comScore Video Metrix.

SAN BRUNO, CA — The introduction of the live streaming platform of YouTube is nothing less than "creating a new YouTube," says YouTube's Joshua Siegel, Product Manager for Live Streaming, in this interview with Beet.TV conducted at the company's headquarters.

SAN BRUNO, Calif — With dramatic footage published today from violent demonstrations in Syria, YouTube is again displaying its role in giving the world a view of breaking news which is largely unseen by the cameras of mainstream news organizations.

While Web has video has grown primarily in an "on-demand" ecosystem, an increasing amount of programming will be streamed live online, affording publishers siginificant new opportunities says Bismarck Lepe, co-founder of Ooyala, the Mountain View, California-based digital video services company.

KIT Digital, the Prague-based global provider of digital video services, sees opportunities beyond the online video platform sector and more broadly in digital services for broadcasters who want to reach audiences through multi-platform solutions, says Gannon Hall, EVP of KIT.

SAY Media, the company formed through VideoEgg’s acquisition of Six Apart, has acquired the Dogster, the dog owner social site and is planning several more acquisitons, reports Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch.

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube is cultivating a new crop of promising video creators with top-tier film school education scholarships and direct grants.  

LAS VEGAS — Kaltura is seeing growth across many sectors around its open source video solution — a system which allows customers to use the Kaltura "toolkit" to create a customized solution, says CEO Ron Yekutiel.