Daisy Whitney

CBS-owned TV.com plans to launch its first original Web series this month with a weekly recap of prime-time programming, the New Media Minute has learned. The show will be hosted by Web veteran Julie Alexandria. The show will include clips, commentary, and an interactive poll.

Time.com has been building out its video library with a clear goal in mind: taking people to places they can't go without the video. That's what the site's managing editor Josh Tyrangiel told Beet.TV in an exclusive interview earlier this month about how he journalistically approaches online video.

REDMOND, WA — msnbc.com has grown ad revenues for the fiscal year that just ended in June and is attracting advertisers in a range of categories, the site’s President Charlie Tillinghast told Beet.TV in an exclusive interview earlier this month.

Despite the high-profile loss of Hulu content earlier this year, Boxee users are still tuning in: the average Boxee user watches six to seven TV shows and three movies on the Web-to-TV service each week, Boxee CEO Avner Ronen told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month.

Magnify is growing dollars by migrating customers to a fee-based service, the company's CEO Steve Rosenbaum told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month.

Media executives at News Corp., Disney, and NBC are talking about paid content models online being all the rage, but a new eMarketer report says that’s just not going to happen.

Buoyed by the overall growth in video RSS feeds, Web video service Channels.com is releasing a new version of its service today that indexes four times as many Web shows as it did just four months ago, the company said. 

Online video is both hugely different from television and brings more value to TV, CNNMoney.com Anchor Poppy Harlow told Beet.TV earlier this month.

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses, Daisy Whitney reports in this week's New Media Minute.

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses.

Verizon customers have been upping their consumption of Blip.tv shows on Verizon's cable video-on-demand service and that's one of the reasons the telco is now offering shows from the video-sharing site to its DVR customers, Verizon's Garrett Rieman told Beet.TV at a Blip.tv event in New York recently.

The age old question in Web video is what type of ads work best. To reach a true consensus on the best ad formats, online video should learn from the cable business.

REDMOND, WA — Adoption of Microsoft Silverlight streaming tools are on the rise, including use by France TV, Microsoft’s Senior Director Tom Honeybone told Beet.TV during an interview at Microsoft headquarters.

MTV Networks is currently selling ad inventory for the format it officially declared the best for online video, and the media company expects other Web publishers to follow suit, said Jason Witt, SVP and GM of MTV's digital advertising unit in an interview with Andy last week in Manhattan.

Web-to-TV hardware maker Roku struck a deal with Blip.tv last week to bring independent Web content to Roku boxes connected to TVs.

SEATTLE, WA — Internet TV provider thePlatform has an advantage over its competition because it's owned by Comcast. 

NEW YORK, NY — Blip.tv's content creators could land on-air on NBC in New York thanks to a slew of new distribution deals the video-sharing service struck last week, including one with NBC Local Media.

The consumer packaged goods giant Kimberly-Clark recently launched a 10-episode Web series on green home improvement tips sponsored by Scott's Natural.

Extend Media is aiming to capitalize on the buzz surrounding TV Everywhere with the launch of a new platform to help multichannel providers deliver TV programming online, the company announced today.

A media company needs at least a three-year runway before it can take off for profitability, and that’s the goal for the new video destination Take180.com, the site’s general manager Chris Williams told Beet.TV at the NATPE LA TV Fest in early July.