Andy Plesser

After years of anticipation, it seems that the open source community is ready to publish video on Wikipedia. Users will encode videos with a free codec called Ogg Theora and publish them on an HTML5, open format. 

Late last year, Capture Your Flag, a new online video site that chronicles the leadership philosophy and strategy of emerging leaders, launched in beta with some 500 clips.

AUSTIN — YouTube is making a big push to pull musicians to YouTube to help them build audiences and monetize their videos.  

LONDON — The BBC’s iPlayer, a destination site for BBC news and entertainment programming, is enjoying rapid growth in the U.K.  Unique monthly visitors reached 6.3 million in February, according the most most recent data compiled by Nielsen.

AUSTIN — YouTube Rental, the video sharing site's nascent pay-per-view service that launched in January with a handful of independent films, is becoming a paid platform for creators of education, travel, and entertainment programming, according to YouTube's Sara Pollack.

LONDON — STV, the digital arm of Scottish Television, is gaining 10 percent of new registered users through its integration with Facebook Connect, according to Alistar Brown, who heads new media for the company.

PALO ALTO — Facebook has 80,000 sites using Facebook Connect in addition to the 500,000 applications on Facebook, according to Ethan Beard, who heads up the company's developer network.

SAN FRANCISCO — While the Webisode is not dead, many of the big media players who had made sizable commitments to creating Web-original entertainment content, have thrown in the towel.

LONDON — Reuters, which produces and distributes news videos to many of the world's broadcasters and top news sites, is working on a plan to syndicate videos from third-party content producers, said Greg Breitchman, Global News Editor of Reuters, at Beet.TV's online video summit.

Video views in February jumped 42 percent in February to 152 million, making CNN.com the fastest growing video site among the top 10 in the U.S, Nielsen just reported.

LONDON — BSkyB, the satellite programming service, is getting considerable traction with its online offering, including sustained advertising rates and engagement, which averages 26 minutes according to Nicola Clarke, an executive with the company.

LONDON — The Guardian, which has been offering its API as a syndication tool since last year, has just made that offering much deeper with the release of information from elections going back to 1992, according to Stephen Dunn, who heads technology strategy for the newspaper.

LONDON — In August, Josh Tyrangiel, then managing editor of Time.com and now editor of Business Week, told Beet.TV that long-form journalism on the Web is "not working." 

LONDON – While big newspapers and broadcasters have made substantial investments in online video creation and distribution, most have limited their reach and opportunity to the wider Web. 

LONDON — In Iran, with significant limits on what it can cover from its bureau in Tehran, Reuters is following a cadre of citizen journalists on Twitter who provide camera-phone videos of street protests, says Greg Beitchman, Global Editor of the Reuters News Agency.

LONDON–While Adobe Flash is the most pervasive plug-in for video on the web, it is not supported by Apple's iPhone, iPad, and related devices. 

LONDON — While the Financial Times is mostly behind a subscription wall, its videos are provided without restrictions.  

  Our first overseas event was on Monday, March 8 at the London offices of the Guardian. Helping me co-moderate was Robert Andrews, editor of paidContentUK. 

Although online video advertising has been a growing area, some on Madison Avenue believe it's too pricey.

SAN FRANCISCO — Getting viewers to want to watch online ads, particularly mid-roll spots, requires that the ads are relevant to the viewers.  By increasing the personal relevance of them, CBS is finding completion rates of views of as high as 95 percent, which is about 10-15 points higher than normal.