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SAY Media, the company formed through VideoEgg’s acquisition of Six Apart, has acquired the Dogster, the dog owner social site and is planning several more acquisitons, reports Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch.

LAS VEGAS — Brightcove, the big U.S. online video services company, is working closely with giant television maker LG to bring digital content to Net-connected television sets. 

LAS VEGAS –  The Associated Press is working with New York-based Livestream to provide live streaming of events from the Academy Awards to this months’ Royal Wedding.

Author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki spoke at the ad:tech SF conference on the Art of Enchantment, sharing his tips on how to “enchant” audiences, customers, viewers, your boss, employees and more. Here are his tips from Daisy Whitney in the New Media Minute.

KIT Digital, the Prague-based software and services provider for the digital video industry, has announced it is acquiring San Diego-based ioko for $80 million in stock and cash.

While many publishers have been building video Apps in response to the dramatic rise of video consumption via the iPad, iPhone and Android, it's not a very effective environment for discovery, according Ross Rubin, top technology analyst at the NPD Group.

“TV Everywhere,” the industry moniker for technology enabling cable subscribers to access programming on multiple digital platforms, can be implemented by content creators, says Ooyala’s Bismarck Lepe in this excerpt from the Beet.TV Video Strategy Summit.

Half of buyers of Internet-ready TV’s are connecting to the Net, video consumption on mobile devices for big publishers like iVillage is quickly increasing, linear television is inexorably moving online and to mobile devices, Madison Avenue is moving beyond pre-roll to interactive ads and big publishers including AOL, MSNBC.com are finding new ways to connect […]

Marketers and advertisers are increasingly turning to bar codes as one of the hot new media platforms. Given the prevalence of smart phones, brands have recognized the opportunity to connect with consumers via these ubiquitous codes.

When interactive features are added to in-banner video ads, the interaction rate can increase to 18 to 20 times that of a display ad, a promising jump that underscores the potential that new video ad innovations hold for advertisers.

A senior level conversation about the changing creation, distribution and consumption of video on the Web, mobile and in the living room. Hosted by Kevin Krim, Global Head of Bloomberg Web Properties. Moderated by Andy Plesser, Executive Producer, Beet.TV – and – Erick Schonfeld, Co-Editor, TechCrunch Panelists Rob Davis – Director, Interactive Video Practice, Ogilvy […]

AUSTIN – As the Web becomes increasingly Web-centric, more publishers are embracing the .tv domain as a way to denote video content, says Verisign's Tom Correia, who is product manager for the .tv domain.

Ran Harnevo, Head of AOL Video Mark Marvel, Director of Video and Emerging Media, msnb.com Jayant Kadami, President, YuMe Bismarck Lepe, President, Products, Ooyala Max Haot, President and CEO, Livestream Kevin Krim, Global Head of Online, Bloomberg News Rob Davis, Digital Video Director, Ogilvy Worldwide   Moderators Erick Schonfeld, Co-Editor, TechCrunch Andy Plesser, Executive Producer, […]

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy We are streaming the live coverage of the Japanese earthquake with NHK streaming live on MSNBC.com

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned today in the wake of a fundraising scandal. 

Apple is slated to introduce its much-hyped and anticipated iPad 2 this week. In advance of the release, we asked TV networks and TV stations for their best practices to make a great iPad app. 

FreeWheel, the big video advertising technology solution provider used by 80 big publishers, is expanding its offering with a new service to allow publishers to manage pay-per-view and subscription services. 

Watch live streaming video from scribemedia at livestream.com We are streaming the paidContent2011 event here.

On Monday, Bloomberg West debuted, a daily, one-hour television program about the business of technology originating from in the company's new television studio in its San Francisco bureau.

When brands, publishers and Web sites add personalized video recommendations for site visitors, they can see a 3x lift in video views, according to video discovery platform Taboola. Other ways to increase video views include adding video to more pages on a site and striking syndication deals. For additional details, check out this week’s New […]