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SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube, which announced in November the availability to create computer generated text captions of video on a limited number of channels, is announcing today that it is making voice-to-text captioning available to most video channel producers.

The Financial Times has been publishing online video for the past three years and is set to "invest heavily" in production and technology, according to Rob Grimshaw, head of digital operations for the FT.

Not surprisingly, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver have captured the attention of millions of Canadians who are watching the Olympics online.  

Cable networks and big media companies aren't the only ones pursuing international distribution.

Vook, the startup which has developed a multi-media platform for books that mixes video, pictures, and social media with traditional text, has raised $2.5 million in funding.

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Today Google released a video about its Google Voice and its many features.  One of which is the means by which voicemail messages are transcribed to text. 

Associated Content has some 350,000 contributors uploading millions of articles and videos and is growing quickly, according to Patrick Keane, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV.

The Beet.TV Online Video Executive Roundtable, London Moderated by: Robert Andrews, PaidContent UK and Andy Plesser, Beet.TV   Our first overseas event was on Monday, March 8 at the London offices of the Guardian. Helping me co-moderate was Robert Andrews, editor of paidContentUK.  We are publishing a number of segments from the conference on this […]

A year after its founding, social video startup Vpype launched one of its first applications in partnership with Facebook. Since social video is an area that’s bubbling up in attention, I traveled to the company’s offices in Milpitas, Calif. for an interview with the CEO Shoieb Yunus. Yunus explained how Facebook’s 350 million users can […]

A year after its founding, social video startup Vpype launched one of its first applications in partnership with Facebook. Since social video is an area that’s bubbling up in attention, I traveled to the company’s offices in Milpitas, Calif. for an interview with the CEO Shoieb Yunus.

5Min, the creator/syndicator of instructional Web videos registered a whopping 30.5 million video views in December, according to a report on TechCrunch.

Advertising is becoming participatory and social and because of that shift it’s returning to its roots, said Sarah Szalavitz of social design agency 7 Robot.   We caught up with the social community and advertising thought leader at the recent NATPE conference in Las Vegas where she shared her thoughts on the transition brands are making […]

Having struck media partnerships with MTV, Current, and the recent Hope for Haiti Telethon, among others, Twitter has a full plate this year, according to my interview with the company’s executive Chloe Sladden.

The Beet.TV Online Video Executive Roundtable: An Exploration of Online Video Distribution, Analytics and Monetization Moderated by: Kara Swisher, AllThingsD and Andy Plesser, Beet.TV In addition to the on-demand feed of the video above, we have published a number of segments and one-on-one interviews from the conference, so please check back for updates: 2/26/10 Top […]

Google's Android cell phones are quickly closing the gap on Apple's iPhone, according to new research from eMarketer.

Now that the new decade has started, what new media trends should you be looking out for?

Our very own Daisy Whitney will be covering the NATPE annual B2B video platform event in Las Vegas from January 25-27, 2010. 

Earlier this year, Justin.tv, the San Francisco-based live video site, dialed back its relationship with Akamai to serve its enormous live video traffic in-house, Evan Solomon tells Beet.TV in this interview. 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA  — For the most part, the advertising model for online video is not working  The ecosystem for premium content  is going to be a paid-model/subscription model and Cisco is planning to be a big part of this, according to Murali Nemani.

Now that the PBS Kids site PBSKids.org is generating more than 9 million unique video visitors each month, the public broadcaster is going to start pursuing online ad deals.