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USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham, veteran tech reporter and the host/producer of the Talking Tech and Talking Your Tech video shows, has a new book out about the video production process, aimed at both professional journalists and newbies who want to improve their iPhone videos and DSLR footage techniques.

As automated buying of digital video advertising becomes more widely adopted, it will eventually disrupt the conventional structure of the television marketplace, says analyst Ashley Swartz, former head of the interactive television practice at Digitas, now principal of the New York-based consultancy Furious Minds.

SAN FRANCISCO (via Skye Video) – Adobe Systems  has created an app for the NBC Olympics coverage of the London Olympics to stream thousands of hours of live programming onto tablets and mobile devices of U.S. broadband subscribers.

Media industry consultant/publisher/authorJack Myers says that the VC-funded runway for most of 12,000 digital media start-ups is running out and there will be major consolidation over the next 36 months, in this inteview with Beet.TV

ANAHEIM, CA – The Collective is a full-service entertainment, management and content production company that works with some of YouTube’s most popular creators.  At VidCon, Beet.TV sat down with Petar Mandich, a manager at The Collective, to talk about the process of pairing brands with YouTube creators for branded advertising campaigns.

Mashable, which calls itself the largest independent news source for digital culture and social media with 20 million monthly unique visitors, has been building its video operations recently with both in-house operations and syndication deals with independent producers.

ANAHEIM, CA – In his keynote presentation at VidCon last week, Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback spoke about some of the trends he has seen from top creators on YouTube.

ANAHEIM, CA – NYC-based comedian Mark Malkoff has made a name for himself with a collection of online video stunts in which he challenges himself to do things like live in an IKEA for a week, live on an AirTran jet for 30 days, get 6-pack abs in 30 days and more.  At VidCon, Beet.TV […]

ANAHEIM, CA – In yesterday’s YouTube Keynote at VidCon, Tim Shey, Director of YouTube Next Lab, made a number of big announcements.  Shey announced a number of brand new initiatives designed to support partners and creators. He recaps these announcements in this video interview with Beet.TV

ANAHEIM, CA  – In January online video startup Chill, previously a platform for watching videos together with friends, relaunched as a social video discovery platform, allowing users to collect and share their favorite videos from across the web.  This week, five months after relaunching, the company announced an $8 million funding round.

BOSTON — Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video recommendation platform for publishers has raised a new round of $10 million, the company announced this morning.

Discovery Communications has officially accquired web TV network, Revision 3. The online video service may soon dictate part of the channel’s analogue content, depending on show and audiences says its digital chief officer, J.B. Perret, in this interview with Beet.TV

PARIS — UbiQ, a new digital media and entertainment conference will debut in Paris this  coming week with several highlevel speakers including Randi Zuckerberg, Machinima’s Allen DeBevoise, Ooyala co-founder Sean Knapp and some 60 others who will be part of the conference at the historic Palais Brongnairt.

Social media guru, Neal Mann says, using new technology alongside Twitter is an excellent way of verifying tip-offs from followers, in this video interview with Beet.TV

Verizon FiOS is increasing download speeds to as fast as 300 Mbps to residential customers, the company announced today.

Original video programming service WatchMojo.com racked up 40 million video views last month and reached about 15 million to 20 million unique viewers, said Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, CEO WatchMojo, in an interview with Beet.TV. We caught up with Karbasfrooshan for an update on the company's deal-making and expansion.

Jim Breyer, the uber venture capital partner with Accel Partners, will be one of the three keynote speakers at the three-day Brightcove PLAY customer conference in Boston on June 25-27.   Also keynoting will be Brightcove CEO and founder Jeremy Allaire, and veteran tech journalist Erick Schonfeld, the company announced today.

Howcast, the four-year-old 'how-to' video producer and distributor, has redesigned its site. organized around topics, with related video served up on its pages.

TEL AVIV – Israel-based video start-up Magisto is simplifying video editing with a platform that analyzes and edits video automatically. In this video interview, Magisto CEO Oren Boiman discusses the difficulties of video editing and why today more than ever there is a need for an easier solution.

LONDON (via Skype Video) — The Associated Press, a leading provider of video news for broadcast and online media, has upgraded its news gathering and distribution and will be offering broadcast and online clients news video in HD beginning May 30, says the AP’s Mark Davies, Deputy Director of International Video in the AP’s London […]