Andy Plesser

Last month, VideoEgg, the online video ad network announced it was buying SixApart, the big blog platform company which operates Movable Type and TypePad.

While Google’s Android OS has been has been a huge hit for handsets, thanks in part to subsidization in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless, there will be no sort of carrier support for Google TV. 

PARIS — Dailymotion, the big global video sharing site, has been developing tools for content discovery including "hubs," areas of content around themes and personal interest.

NEW YORK — The "currency" of online advertisnig will shift from the current CPM model of cost per impression, to a "cost-per-view" model in which advertisers only pay for the ads which are watched, says Google's Barry Salzman, head of media and platforms for the Americas in this interview with Beet.TV

Vimeo, the video sharing site favored by independent content creators and an increasing number of consumers, is developing an iPhone App, according to a report on NewTeeVee.

In its rankings for video views in August for the U.S., comScore has found that the San Francisco-based video ad network Brightroll has served up nearly 470 million video ads, ranking second to Hulu for most ads served.

NEW YORK — While rich media display ads comprise just 6 percent of Web advertising now, that number will vastly increase as the cost and complexity of serving comes down, says Barry Salzman, Google's Managing Director of Media and Platforms, the Americas, in this video interview with Beet.TV

PARIS — VivaKi, the digital and media arm of the giant Publicis Groupe, has formed a division committed to creating original branded campaigns.

  After 40 years, it is gratifying to connect with so many young people who are watching and commenting on my high school film in a new, mashed-up form.

5MIN, the fast growing syndicator of online video, mostly lifestyle and "how to" clips, has been sold to AOL, according to a report by Peter Kafka of All Things Digital, MediaMemo.

SAN JOSE, Calif – Cisco, which has a high-end video conferencing business called TelePresence, will announce in October a consumer product for as little as $500 per unit, according to a report out on Reuters.

PARIS — Dailymotion, the Paris-based online video site, has registered a 21 percent rise in unique visitors around the globe to reach 70 million, according to the latest numbers from comScore Media Metrix.

Fred Seibert, who as the first employee at MTV, later president of MTV Online and a key mover in the success of Nickelodeon, has taken over the CEO role of NexNewNetworks, a company he co-founded in 2007.

PARIS — Last year, the Web sites of The New York Times and the Times-owned International Herald Tribune were combined to become the Global Edition of the Times. 

A small Bay Area, angel-backed start-up called SpeakerText provides publishers with a plug-in  to transcribe videos with clickable and shareable transcripts. 

VideoEgg, the online video technology and marketing company, will acquire the giant blog software company Six Apart in a deal to be announced tomorrow.  The new company will be called SAY Media.

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com Here is our 30-minute conversation with NPD lead tech analyst Ross Rubin. This is the first of what will be a series of live program on Beet.TV.  The show originated live earlier from  the Livestream studios in Manhattan. Andy Plesser

Rocketboom, the daily topical Web video show, went live on YouTube with three, one-hour programs last week as part of the YouTube live programming pilot.

Los Angeles-based Break Media, a producer and distributor of online video for young men, has beaten all the big video ad networks in the just released numbers for August, the category of unique monthly viewers, at 66 million. 

Nick Bilton, the lead writer of The New York Times technology Bits blog, says that the porn industry has lead the way with digital media by first harnessing interactivity and more recently in pioneering multi-screen content delivery.