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This Sunday’s big, VH1 Divas show from the Shrine Auditorium in Hollywood has many of the digital elements of other live entertainment shows with video streaming from the red carpet and backstage, but in something new, the cable net is producing a large numer of animated GIF’s of celebs.

This Saturday’s Rolling Stones concert at Newark’s Prudential Center will be available as a pay-per-view event on cable and satellite, but in something of a first, it will be available on digital devices including PC’s, smart phones and tablets.

Broadcasters and cable networks, which have long kept the digital distibution of their programming to their owned sites and apps, are beginning to syndicate programming far more broadly, says Doug Knopper, co-CEO of video ad services firm FreeWheel, in this interview with Beet.TV

ESPN rolled out an expansion of its TV Everywhere product with the launch of WatchESPN within the Xbox Live app that brings live ESPN programming to the gaming console, says Raphael Poplock, VP Games and Partnerships at ESPN.

I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving.  Had a good one here.  I wanted to catch up on some developments and fill you in on some upcoming plans.

Kaltura, the open-source video services company, has taken $25 million in new investment for its expansion in Asia Pacific, the company announced today.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the Smart TV and Multi-screen Advertising Summit in San Francisco, J.P. Lee, Executive VP of Enswers, the leading provider of automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies and systems, announced that the company signed a deal with Samsung in May, making them the exclusive ACR vendor for Samsung Smart TV in North America.

Web original series are continuing to grow and will reach 1000, says Paul Kontonis, Chairman of the International Academy of Web Television in this interview with Beet.TV

To help broadcasters deal with device proliferation, Adobe expanded its Project Primetime platform with both the addition of an ad insertion option and a new player technology that lets programmers handle streaming, rights and content prep for all devices, Adobe says.

Viacom Music Group  expanded the reach of a musician-centric multi-screen platform with a broader launch of Artists.MTV to now include VH1 in addition to MTV, says Shannon Connolly, Senior VP of Digital Music Strategy at Viacom. Launched over the summer, the platform has led to a doubling in time spent on the sites, she tells […]

We are streaming the Digiday Video Conference here on Beet.TV. Good show:

The TEDTalk videos, the iconic, 18-minute on-stage presentations by leading thinks, has reached one billion video views, according to Adam Ostrow at Mashable. 

In what could become a giant, global art cinema, IAC unit Vimeo, the popular video sharing site for the creative community, has announced the first steps in presenting  full length films on a pay-to-view basis.  The program will begin with six films this month with a bigger roll-out in 2013.

Jason Glickman, co-founder and former CEO of the giant video ad network Tremor Video, who left the company in 2010, has been working on a start-up called Connected Sports Ventures. 

Compelling headlines and carefully constructed interviews lead to success with online video news consumption says Dan Colarusso, Global Head of Programming of Thomson Reuters, in this video interview.

AOL's network of localized news web sites, called Patch, had record traffic during Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath says John Brod, President and co-founder of Patch.

The live streaming of multiple video feeds across assorted devices including Xbox, tablets and mobile phones will be part of the new television landscape of election night, says Stokes Young, Executive Producer of Multimedia and Video at NBCNews.com in this interview with Beet.TV

Using Patch, its network of local digital publications,  AOL organized some 500 employees to purchase and deliver needed supplies to towns in New Jersey and New York impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

In its third quarter earnings release today, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said that video at AOL will account for $100 million in revenue, up from just $10 million two years ago.

With intense interest in the path of Hurricane Sandy, the Weather Channel recorded some 40 million video views yesterday, Sunday (10.28), making it the busiest video day ever, a spokeswoman told Beet.TV today.  She expects today’s numbers to be even higher.