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In an effort to bring more accurate third-party metrics to blog traffic, Nielsen Net/Ratings has begun to gather demographic data from visitors to Technorati in the form of a pop-up questionaire which takes about 10 minutes to fill out. Just this past Friday, I met with Nielsen’s Scott Ross who spoke about the need for […]

Click To Play Metrics and demographics for online video viewing is critical for the success of the industry.  Nielsen/NetRating has developed a system that provides this critical data to publishers and advertisers.  VideoCensus been deployed to various publishers including  NBC, CNN, VideoEgg and Brightcove.  The system is in advanced beta and will be released with […]

There have been more than a few raised eyebrows in the digital media world this week when Nielsen/NetRatings came out with a new metric to guage Web site popularity by adding in the factor of time spent on a page.  AOL came in first! Shocking! Well, we sat down in the Beet.TV studio this morning […]

Click To Play As the explosion of streaming video makes huge bandwidth demands, the business of content delivery networks (CDN’s) is booming and new players, large and small, are moving quickly. Just yesterday VeriSign, which is getting in the CDN business in a big way, announced a deal to distribute BBC video. Level 3, a […]

Click To Play Here’s Fred McIntyre who heads AOL video.  He outlines the fundamentals of search and the implementation of search technology at AOL.  It a really informative interview. Well, we all have to get our hands around effective video search.  It’s key.  So, I wanted to share my article from this week’s PR Week […]

S Steve Rosenbaum is a pioneer in consumer-generated content.  He was among the first television producers to provide inexpensive video cameras to the public to create video.  His show "MTV Unfiltered" demonstrated the promise and power of user-generated video before there was a Web. Steve gives us a little history lesson today. In the beginning […]

One of the hardest working journalist/blogger in the online video space is Steve Bryant.  He authors the Hollywood Reporter’s ReelPop, contributes regularly to NewTeeVee and writes Google Watch for e-Week. But, more than just keeping up with what’s happening and reporting it, he’s an insightful critic of video content.  I always enjoy reading his columns, […]

It’s not around anymore, but shareyourworld.com was the first video sharing site that allowed users to upload files in various video file formats and share videos.  It was started back i 1997 by Chase Norlin, who now heads the very cool video/audio search company Pixsy. Chase takes us down memory lane, during the last Internet […]

Brad Greenspan, the Los Angeles-based entrepreneur who is best known as founder of MySpace, believes the the digital assets of Dow Jones have not been properly valued.  Moreover, he believes that management has not effectively integrated its online properties. He has organized a group of investors with the hope of acquiring a 25 percent ownership […]

Click To Play Mike Hudack and his colleagues at Blip.TV have played a crucial role for emerging, independent video content creators.  Blip.TV hosts and distributes video files in a range of formats.  But, more than just a video sharing site, Mike believes that Blip.TV represents a "next generation television network."  Like RCA, which spawned NBC, […]

Whether or not MySpace founder Brad Greenspan (left) is successful in acquiring a minority interest in Dow Jones, his idea to create a global Internet video news channel is on target as the news media evolves, Bambi Francisco, former Dow Jones/MarketWatch columnist and TV personality, told me. And, she thinks that Dow Jones employees should […]

Peer-to-peer is inevitably going to become a primary distribution platform for online video.  Joost looms large.  But,  BitTorrent, with some 150 million installs is the gorilla in the closet.  But can you watch this stuff on a TV set, easily? These P2P companies are going to have to solve this since we will be watching […]

Click To Play Thumbnails are becoming pervasive on search results pages of Google, Ask, Yahoo! and on many customized search pages. Thumbnails had been mostly the domain of image search — look up a celebrity under the image category and there’s the photo.  Well, it turns out that thumbnails have become a powerful way to […]

Click To Play The San Francisco-based start-up AdPerk has begun its service with Dwell magazine. Visitors to the Dwell home page are provided with a subscription offer. Those who watch a few videos get free magazines. Marketers connect with targeted audiences.   On this new platform, ads and other content are "pulled" by the registered users.  […]

Click To Play With scoops of Paris Hilton entering prison, Alec Baldwin’s rants, Michael Richard’s "comedy" routine and Anna Nicole Smith’s refrigerator, TMZ has become the most popular of the celebrity web sites. The New York Times has a big business feature today of the Time Warner-owned property. The Times called it the "Web Site […]

On Tuesday, the much anticipated  and controversial new video player from RealNetworks will be released.  The player allows users to download videos in all major formats. The videos are then organized on a desktop application.  That application has a dedicated and branded search utility provided by blinkx, the fast growing video search company. This is […]

RealNetworks is set to release its new player on Tuesday.  The desktop application allows users to scroll over online video in all major formats and save them to a hard drive.  Videos with digital rights management cannot be saved, but a vast majority of Flash files can be. Virtually the entire YouTube library can be […]

Beet.TV has learned that The New York Times will make the embed code of its video clips available to the public by early fall.  This means that many of the paper’s videos will be freely used and posted to blogs and Web pages.  This change will be implemented in Q3, according to Diane McNulty, a […]

Quite a glowing double profile of TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Om Malik  of GigaOM in Wednesday’s USA Today by Michelle Kessler.  These dudes are visionaries who have pioneered successful new, valuable media businesses by their bootstraps and through really hard work.  Arrington told USA Today that they work so hard, he and OM have given […]

The Washington Post, which has been publishing online video since 1999, today began to share the embed code of its Flash videos, meaning that bloggers and other Web sites can grab the code and publish the video without payment. One of the very first videos to be shared in this manner is the clip of […]