Andy Plesser

Video search will become increasingly important as publishers and advertisers seek to draw viewers to content, says Amanda Richman, managing director of digital at MediaVest, the giant media buying company.

NEW YORK, February 19 — We are streaming the paidContent:2010 media summit today.  Beet.TV will be be at the event doing a number of video interviews that will be published later today and over the next several days.

Consumers of online video are not adverse to multiple in-stream commercials — and many will embrace a form of micropayments, according to Quincy Smith, former CEO of CBS Interactive  who is now a partner with Code Advisors, a new media boutique investment banking firm. . 

Vook, the startup which has developed a multi-media platform for books that mixes video, pictures, and social media with traditional text, has raised $2.5 million in funding.

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Today Google released a video about its Google Voice and its many features.  One of which is the means by which voicemail messages are transcribed to text. 

Clicker, the fast growing guide to online video programming, raised an additional $11 million in venture funding, the company announced today. 

RealPlayer SP is a desktop application that allows users to save streaming, online video files, including YouTube videos,  to a local drive to watch and then move to connected mobile devices and Facebook.

YuMe, the online video ad technology company, has raised an additional venture round of $25 million lead by Menlo Ventures, the company announced today.

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Publicis boss Maurice Levy, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt are some of the luminaries who will be heading off to Abu Dhabi next month for a three-day international media summit, the first in the Persian Gulf.

BARCELONA — Brightcove, the big online video services company, will announce today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a solution to bring true Flash video to a number of smart phones. 

Associated Content has some 350,000 contributors uploading millions of articles and videos and is growing quickly, according to Patrick Keane, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV.

Microsoft’s Silverlight, which will power online video for NBC Sports Olympics coverage, will have a number DVR-type functionalities and will offer bloggers and others the opportunity to grab the embed code of certain videos.

Lots of buzz yesterday with Google's announcement that it is in early stages of a system to deliver ultra fast Internet service, at 1GBPS to homes in the United States.

Twitter has a deep integration with NBC Sports for its Winter Olympics coverage. You can find Twitter throughout the site and on the "Olympics Pulse" page.  This is the most significant media integration for Twitter to date, but is just one of many to come, according to Chloe Sladden who heads up media alliances for […]

The big upside for publishers around the industry-wide TV Everywhere initiative is the opportunity to serve highly contextual online video advertising to specific subscriber groups, says Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, a video services unit of Comcast.

Adobe's Flash 10.1, which has been in Beta on some smart phones since October, will get a big push into the mobile ecosystem next week when Adobe and many industry partners are expected to to announce key partnership at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Running a news organization in heavily censored countries including China and Iran is not easy, nor is it always easy working with U.S. and British authorities, says Sean McGuire, Reuters top global news and politics editor in this interview with Beet.TV.

REDMOND, WA –  Regardless of how fast your broadband connection is, Microsoft plans to deliver consistently high quality,  "smooth streaming" of the Winder Olympics with adaptive streaming technology, a system that delivers video tailored to the connection speed and CPU power of the end user.

Demand Media, the fast growing creator of  instructional online text and video content, has a huge backlog of assignments:  some 150,000 assignments waiting for a network of 7,000 freelance writers, editors and videographers to undertake, according to Steven Kydd, Executive VP of  Demand Studios.

5Min, a small start-up with offices in New York and Israel, backed by Spark Capital, has landed the number 10 spot as most viewed video video property as measured by uniques, according to numbers released by comScore yesterday.