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As the technology of news creation, distribution and consumption is quickly changing, publishers have the opportunity to connect with new audiences through original content creation, site design, search and discovery.

Subscribers to Verizon FiOS can now use an Andriod App which allows them to watch programming saved  on their Flex View library, functions as a remote control and is a tool to access the telco's new Home Monitoring and Control service, Verizon announced today.

What's hot in interactive TV, social TV and new media? While traveling in Tokyo last week, I received some interesting tips from venture capitalist Habib Kairouz of Rho Ventures, best known for backing iVillage, on the top three trends he is tracking in these areas.

DBG, the New York-based video ad network and branded content creator, has made its first acquisition with Digital Sports Venture, a platform which syndicates college sports videos.

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com            Beet.TV Leadership Webcast Connecting Video News with New Audiences Presented by Taboola   As the technology of news creation, distribution and consumption is quickly changing, publishers have the opportunity to connect with new audiences through original content creation, site design, search and discovery.  These topics will […]

BrightRoll, the San Francisco-based online video advertising services company, has announced a product which guarantees video advertisers a specified number of impressions to their target audience.

The Wall Street Journal has just published a poignant video of Walt Mossberg's private visit with Steve Jobs shortly after his liver transplant. You can find the Journal's obit of Jobs here. A great loss. Rest in peace.

Mobile video usage is growing fast among consumers and big video sites like AOL Video are implementing mobile solutions as a result, AOL Video’s SVP Ran Harnevo tells the New Media Minute. In part two of this interview, he discusses how video sites can migrate their videos to mobile platforms, drawing on his experience at […]

LOS ANGELES – Celebrities from Kevin Pollak to will.i.am have driven audiences for their newer projects by actively engaging with social media to boost ratings and viewership, said new media expert Amber J. Lawson who is the chairman of the interactive media peer group membership committee at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

LOS ANGELES — The economics around Web original video programming are not yet sustainable, says says Myles Beckett, a co-creator of lonelygirl15, the pionering "webisode" from 2006 and CEO of Los Angeles based EQAL.

As part of an expansion of YouTube's EDU efforts, which has mostly involved college-level education, the big video site has expanded its reach into primary school education with a new platform for teachers to create and share educational video materials.

In an effort to refine tools for advertisers, online audience measurement service comScore plans to release a new report in the next month or so that will provide more detailed attitudinal and behavioral information about online video viewers, comScore told Beet.TV in an interview.

SAN FRANCISCO – Interactive video platform provider Coincident TV has added new customers in CBS syndicated show “Excused” and in an expanded relationship with Fox Sports for high school sports, the company told Beet.TV at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. 

SAN FRANCISCO – Based on a belief that consumers want more video on the Web, the startup Wibbitz raised about $500,000 in a round of seed funding for its technology that can turn any text on a Web site into a viewable video. We caught up with the company at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference […]

The Weather Channel, which claims the second most downloaded iPad App, has moved from a Flash player to an HTML 5 player from Brightcove, enabling consumers to watch video regardless of their device, said Cameron Clayton, EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV.

The Wall Street Journal would not be delivering its three and a half hours of programming if it were not for the iPad, says Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor of the WSJ.com.

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com The economic and creative process surrounding original Web programming will be explored in 90-minute Webcast from the AOL Studio in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 20 at 11:00 a.m PDT.

ESPN operates its multiplatform programming strategy according to a “best available screen at the moment” approach, said Tim Connolly, VP for digital distribution at Disney/ESPN, while speaking at a Beet.TV Online Video Leadership webcast in New York last month.

ESPN is slated to roll out ads in October in live programming it carries on digital platforms such as tablets, mobile phones and computers, said Tim Connolly, VP for digital distribution at Disney/ESPN, while speaking at a Beet.TV Online Video Leadership webcast in New York last month.

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com       Live from the AOL Studio in New York on Tuesday, September 27 at 2:00 p.m., tune-in to the next Beet.TV Leadership event, a ninety-minute Webcast with top Web personalities, senior media and advertising agency executives for an exploration of the strategies around branded entertainment […]