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AMSTERDAM – San Antonio-based NewTek is touting a mobile video production unit, its TriCaster 40, a device that provides full switching and live encoding to HD, for under $5000.

Beet Retreat 2013, a two-day conference with a select group of digital media leaders, on the state of digital video at the W Retreat and Spa on the Caribbean island of Vieques on February 1 and 2.

The six-year-old Monaco Media Forum (Nov 14-16) will headline the stars of New York's Silicon Alley this year, says Spencer Reiss, program director of the invitation-only show hosted by Albert, II, Prince of Monaco.   Featured on the opening night will be Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed, David Karp of Tumblr and Ben Lerer of Thrillist.

Vimeo, the video sharing site, an IAC unit has launched in Spanish and will expand into other native languages, says Kelly Trainor, CEO, in this interview with Beet.TV

(Check out this photo montage from the Beet Retreat 2012) I am pleased to announce Beet Retreat 2013, a two-day conference on the state of digital video at the W Retreat and Spa in Vieques, the small island off the eastern shore of Puerto Rico. This is our second year organizing this invitation-only event.  You […]

Nielsen broadened the reach of its Online Campaign Ratings initiative with the addition of more than a dozen online ad partners as part of the measurement firm's goal to bring a GRP to online ad buying. Beet.TV talked to Tom Acquaviva, Senior VP Strategic Accounts at Nielsen at the Adap.TV conference in New York and he shared […]

Vimeo, the popular video sharing site for independent content creators, has introduced a means for producers to make money by having viewers contribute voluntarily via the "Tip Jar," the company announced today.   The company is also rolling out a pay-per-view scenario on a limited basis.

COLOGNE — Contextual advertising technology company Vibrant Media rolled out some of its tools for in-image advertising in the German market. Beet.TV contributor Ashley Swartz caught up with Vibrant CEO Cella Irvine at the Digital Marketing & Exposition Conferece in Cologne, Germany this week.

AMSTERDAM — Technology giant Cisco recently completed its acquisition of video software firm NDS in a move that could help boost Cisco’s video business.

Ad platform Undertone has introduced a money-back guarantee for its video ads that focuses on whether the ads viewed were initiated by the user.

AMSTERDAM — Discovery Networks is keen on on-demand offerings like TV Everywhere, over-the-top and broadband video, but is much more cautious about services like Netflix that could cannibalize the existing business, says Mark Hollinger, President and CEO of Discovery Networks International, during an interview with Beet.TV at the IBC conference.

AMSTERDAM – The success of the London 2012 Olympics, the "first digital Olympics," was a historic moment for the television as multi-feed, multi-screen event, says Ingrid Deltenere, Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), in this interview with Beet.TV

AMSTERDAM — XBox LIVE, built as video game platform, has become more popular for video consumption of television and films than gaming for users in markets where daily consumption has reached as high as three hours a day, says Rohan Oomen, GM of Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE for EAMEA, in this interview with Beet.TV He did […]

Verizon FiOS recently increased bandwidth speed options of up to 300 Mbps in response to consumer demand for video streaming, says Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, Director of Interactive Video Services at FIOS TV in an interview with Beet.TV.

Dailymotion, the world's second biggest video site, has been nearly doubled in video views over the past 12 months. 

With a dedicated advertising sales staff just selling original Web series, Blip monetizes this content better than anyone, says Kelly Day, CEO in this video interview with Beet.TV

Presented by Hosted by GroupM The adoption of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and, the programmatic buying and selling of digital video advertising, is exploding with brands, agencies and publishers.  Beet.TV will host a half-day exploration of the topic with leading agency executives, analysts, publishers and technology providers. Keynote Speakers: Rob Norman, Global Chief Digital Officer, GroupM […]

The London 2012 Olympics was a transformational event for the “TV Everywhere” — a means of delivering premium content to connected devices which have been previously just seen on the television, Adobe announced this morning.

Some premium publishers have resistance to programmatic buying due to price degradation concerns because they are used to setting the prices for their inventory, says Joanna O'Connell, Senior Analyst, Interactive Media at Forrester in an interview with Beet.TV

The Financial Times, the global newspaper unit of Pearson, has more digital subscribers than print, and now derives half of its revenue from its digital products, Pearson announced today.