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Dow Jones has grown its digital video traffic by four times in the last year, says Rahul Chopra, VP of Video Programming at Dow Jones, during a recent interview with Beet.TV at the Wall Street Journal offices in New York. The growth comes in part from a wider reach; Dow Jones videos are now distributed across […]

As part of efforts to evolve the DirecTV Everywhere service and help advertisers reach customers on digital and mobile devices, DirecTV has partnered with leading video advertising technology provider FreeWheel.

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An automated system in which advertisers purchase spots on Dailymotion in real-time has lead to greater efficiency for marketers and higher ad rates for the big publisher, says Roland Hamilton, who heads the U.S. operations for the Paris based company.

Here’s the big news and various updates from the Beet world: I have bootstrapped Beet.TV with the support of the boutique PR firm I founded 20 years ago. The staff, and my partner Kent Holland in particular, have allowed me to grow it over the past seven years. And I am grateful.

Beet Retreat 2013: A Summit of Digital Media… by DailymotionUSA Watch the Beet Retreat 2013, a leadership summit of leaders in the digital video industry, streaming live via Dailymotion from the W Resort & Spa in Vieques, Puerto Rico. You can find the stream right here on this page, on Friday, February 1, from 11:30 […]

The next evolution of search will be predictive and it will reach across TV viewing, says Sam Vasisht, Chief Marketing Officer for Veveo, a video search and recommendation technology firm, in an interview with Beet.TV. He shares insight into how he sees search evolving across devices and screens and what that means for consumers watching videos.

Talking to the TV in plain English and having it respond has long been a pursuit of technologists and manufacturers, but so far most voice-processing is clunky and unnatural. Video technology firm Veveo is aiming to change that and is currently testing its conversational voice software with a handful of service providers, says Sam Vasisht, Chief […]

Consumers can expect to find 80-inch TVs for less than $3000 in retail stores in the next few years, says Irwin Gotlieb, chairman of global media investment company Group M, in an interview with Beet.TV. As larger sets become the norm, so will the 4K resolution, he adds, as he shares his predictions for the future […]

The consumer appetite for digital video may bring the Internet to its knees, if the viewership of video streaming continues at its current pace, says Irwin Gotlieb, chairman of global media investment company Group M, in an interview with Beet.TV.

The online advertising business would greatly benefit from technology that curates scoally shared  content and identifies the content that can be monetized with ads. That’s the conclusion of Rene Rechtman, CEO of Goviral and Senior VP AOL Advertising Group International during a panel session at the recent Monaco Media Forum covering inventory challenges.

BuzzFeed, the brainchild of Huffington Post co-founder of Jonah Peretti, is the big winner in the media landscape of 2012, writes Erika Frey in Fortune magazine.

While much has been said about a “second screen” powering television viewership, Ensequence is harnessing the power of the TV set, or “first screen,” in driving ratings as much as 20 percent for programmers, says CEO Peter Low, in this interview with Beet.TV

Dynamo, the New York-based start-up that has served as video-on-demand rental portal for independent documentary, film and Web series producers, has changed its business to become a “white label solution,” allowing content creators to license the platform for their own use, explains founder Rob Millis, in this interview with Beet.TV

As consumer video viewing spreads across devices, advertisers increasingly will want tools and analytics to track, measure and reach those audiences. That’s what 24/7 Media is aiming to do, Nicolle Pangis, President of Real Media Group, a division of 24/7 Media, WPP’s marketing technology company, tells Beet.TV in an interview.

TubeMogul, the Emeryville, California based video advertising services has raised $20 million in a series C round, the company announced today.

Interactive features in digital video ads should grow tremendously in the next year, based on the expontential rise in ad campaigns using them over the last several months, says Zvika Netter, CEO and co-founder of Innovid, a digital video and ad serving technology company, during an interview with Beet.TV.

Nearly two-thirds of mobile video viewing is occurring in the home, often concurrently with another screen, according to a just-released study from the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

NDN, a syndicator of video news clips on the Web, has been ranked by comScore as the second biggest U.S. Web video source, by unique viewers, after Google/YouTube, comScore reports in its November video rankings.

RAMP Presents A Beet.TV Leadership Summit Hosted by NBC News Digital Big Data to Transform TV and Digital Video Tuesday, February 12, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. The NBC Cafe at 30 Rockefeller Center Keynote Speaker: Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer, NBC News Speakers Tom Wilde, CEO RAMP Joanna O’Connell, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Andrew Feigenson, […]