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How cool is this: Beet.TV has established a global video news gathering operation, with hundreds of videographers, in over 50 nations, through a new association with TurnHere.TurnHere is the Emeryville, California-based video production and distribution company that produces thousands of short Web videos for corporate customers including Williams Sonoma, Simon & Schuster and Conde Nast.  […]

Here in Hollywood last night, I caught up with several of the creative leaders in independent online video.  I interviewed  Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, producers of lonelygirl15, Tim Street of French Maid TV and Hayden Black of Good Night Burbank.  As each of these producers seek a growing audience, they are monetizing their content […]

In a move that has been highly anticipated by content creators, online publishers and advertising agencies, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the industry trade organization of online publishers, will announce today that the standardization of online video advertising has been finalized. Many of the standards, including specifics for companion ads and pre-roll ads have been […]

Click To Play In the span of just six months, peer-to-peer (P2P) companies have gone from being the bane of Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) to emerging as a practical solution for managing network traffic and maximizing profits for the ISP’s and content creators. A great deal of collaboration is underway including the efforts of Comcast […]

Late last month, CNET Networks quietly released a superb new Flash video player.  The player is beginning to propagate CNET’s news videos.  It was developed in house.  Here’s what I think is notable: *The player has a pop-up window for a text description along with hyperlinks to related stories. This is extremely valuable as videos […]

The newly launched MySpace page for political coverage with content from MSNBC is an interesting experiment in brand building in the social media world.  Videos from msnbc.com appear on the MySpace video player.  Not just a marketing outpost, NBC News talent and executives are busy "friending" and sharing.  Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been […]

The utilization of Flash on mobile devices may well expand with the news that Adobe will provide Flash for free for certain mobile phone applications.  The initiative is called Open Screen.  The BBC published the news earlier today. Earlier this year, I was at Adobe’s San Francisco office for this cool demo of how Flash […]

Acclaimed for his work as employee #1 at MTV where he was creative director and later as president of MTV Online, president of Hanna Barbara and the force behind the revitalization of Nickelodeon, Fred Seibert has been on the forefront of several chapters in the (r)evolution of television. These days he’s building a diversified network […]

Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan are co-founders of DoubleClick, the giant ad serving technology platform sold to a private equity firm in 2005 for $1.1 billion and later to Google. The two have been building new businesses including a content delivery network (CDN) called Panther Express.   Earlier this year, Kevin told  Beet.TV that Panther is […]

Adify, the San Bruno-based ad network which raised $27 million in venture funding, has been sold to Cox Communications for "about $300," according to reports on paidContent and the Silicon Alley Insider.    I interviewed Adify chairman Larry Braitman 18 months ago in San Jose, I’ve reposted my interview tonight.  Good overview on the business […]

Whether or not the new Adobe Media Player (AMP) enjoys widespread adoption, the technology solves the critical issue of tracking the viewership of downloaded files, says Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder of Blip.tv. While most downloaded video files come through iTunes, publishers like the Washington Post and advertisers have difficulty knowing if the files are […]

VodPod, the San Francisco-based start-up that creates widgets of multiple video players, has doubled the number of video sites from which users pull clips to 3500 over the past six months.   VodPod users have organized some 1 million videos into widgets. Mark Hall, CEO of VodPod, told me on Sunday that most of this increase […]

Pioneering videobloggers Robert Scoble, Jeff Jarvis, Steve Garfield and Pop17’s Sarah Meyers are using a Nokia mobile device to stream live video to the Web.  Most upload to a Web sharing platform such as QIK and Flixwagon.  Some journalists are using the phones for news gathering. Camera phones are great, but live video streaming only […]

Caroline McCarthy, the social media beat reporter at CNET News.com, who has just wrapped up her coverage of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, does a little debrief with her editor Dan Farber. She said the energy around the parties was exuberant; some revelers told her it was a throw back to the old […]

Emeryville-based TubeMogul, the platform that allows video publishers to use a one log-in page to upload to over 15 different video sharing sites, is expanding its analytics services.  A number of content creators and shows use TubeMogul including NextNew Networks, Tornante, CBS Interactive, Average Betty, Goodnight Burbank and National Lampoon. The syndication service is free […]

Click To Play The booming participation in social media is creating both a big opportunity and potentially a giant sink hole for media companies and marketers.  How this will play out is far from being known at this stage, says Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch whom I consider a true media visionary. I caught up […]

Video consumption on CNN.com has reached a record with 116 million videos, including clips and live streams, viewed in March, according to internal CNN numbers.  This is a 5 percent increase over February. CNN.com Live, the platform which provides four simultaneous streams, had 4 million streams in March. An increasingly popular live show is "Now […]

Nokia has been aggressively positioning its mobile phones as multi-media devices.  New phones, such as the N95, have been given to reporters and bloggers as a video news gathering tool. Now, Nokia is marketing its phones as a tool in creating theatrical films through a new project with the celebrated American director Spike Lee.  Laura […]

Click To Play ScanScout, the Boston-based ad network that has been one of the leading innovators in providing overlay advertising into video streams, has just announced a big publisher agreement with Broadband Enterprises.  Earlier this year at the AlwaysOn conference in New York, I interviewed Waikit Lau, ScanScout’s co-founder and CEO.  Waikit gives an overview […]

"How to videos" are propagating on the Web and some producers are making a reputation for themselves and some money.  Kip Kedersha, an independent video producer is getting millions of views and is the top earner on Metacafe, New York Times reporter Miguel Helft reports today.  Not sure how all the new startups will fare, […]