LAS VEGAS  —  At NAB last week,  Adobe presented its collaborative editing solution called Adobe Anywhere.  At the show, Beet.TV interviewed Adobe Anywhere Senior Product Manager Michael Coleman about the product. Coleman explained, "Anywhere is going to allow professionals that are working with Premiere Pro and Prelude to collaborate on media over the network."  Groups of people can work on centrally-located [...]

CANNES – Digital studio Vuguru and distribution partner FremantleMedia are launching two new comedies for the global marketplace, says Scott Nocas, Head of Distribution & Marketing at Vuguru, in an interview with Beet.TV at MIPTV 2013.   At MIPTV, the two companies internationally rolled out the original multi-platform comedies "Fetching" and "Hollywood Help," stemming from the programming deal the pair inked last year. FremantleMedia is [...]

LAS VEGAS — As consumers are watching vastly increasing content on digital devices, discovery of relevant content is becoming an increasing problem.  Rovi has a discovery engine that associates content by machine and human editors, explains Rovi's Damian Francis in this video interview with Beet.TV.  We spoke with him last week, at NAB. Francis explains that, "To us, content isn’t linear.  [...]

CANNES – The traditional role of a documentary or news show host – the "presenter" in the parlance of British television – is over, says Liz Warner, founder of  Betty productions, the highly successful producer of reality TV which was purchased by the Discovery Networks two years ago. Warner is a former commissioner of programming for both Channel 4 and the [...]

CANNES – While streaming or broadcasting super high quality  4K (four times the highest HD) by  the world's broadcasters is still in the working stage, and as the industry seeks to adopt compression standards, the camera and editing of the new format is beginning to take hold with both Hollywood producers and some broadcasters, including the BBC and Sky Germany, [...]

LAS VEGAS - Akamai is expanding its video analytics product that allows publishers to understand video viewing down to the individual, says Barrett Mononen in this video interview at the NAB conference last week. In this interview with Beet.TV, he explains and demos Akamai's ability to encode quickly and render video into a number of formats for various devices.  

LAS VEGAS – Now that TV Everywhere has been established, the next step is customizing the TV watching experience for the individual user – what Rovi is calling 'Entertainment Unbound', says Andy Townsend, senior product manager at Rovi, in an interview with Beet.TV at NAB. Entertainment Unbound aims to evolve the TV Everywhere initiative by working with the content as soon as [...]

CANNES - While technology and social trends are accelerating branded video, the measurement of the impact of the new medium has yet to be established, says Doug Scott, President of Ogilvy Entertainment, in this interview with Beet.TV this week at the MIPTV conference. We spoke with him about the emergence of branded video, industry initiatives around measurement and the creative work [...]

CANNES – The Valley Girl Show, the video talk show about business produced in Silicon Valley, is finding a big audience in "out-of-home" videos that display in fast food restaurants and other retail locations, says Jesse Draper, actress and founder of The Valley Girl Show.  We spoke with her earlier this week at the MIPTV conference where she was speaking. Out-of-home videos [...]

CANNES – VICE, the fast-growing, New York-based video programmer of edgy lifestyle and entertainment, is readying the launch of a global news organization this year in the company's "biggest commitment" says Andrew Creighton, president, in this interview with Beet.TV.  The project involves the opening of bureaus around the world with a big expansion of staffers and video freelancers. The Brooklyn-based company [...]

CANNES – Audience targeting already has proven it can lower costs and reduce waste for marketers, and the next step is to reach consumers as they move from device to device, says Ryan Jamboretz, Chief Development Officer at Videology, an advertising technology platform, in this video interview with Beet.TV at MIPTV 2013. "The holy grail is the ability to target the same person on different [...]

CANNES – Social TV is an important aspect of the next-generation television experience, says Stephanie Hospital, Executive Vice President of Orange Digital, in this video interview with Beet.TV at MIPTV 2013. In an effort to connect with multi-device consumers, the service provider relies on an application called TV check, she tells us. "It's a social application that combines gamification of the TV experience [...]

CANNES, France - Television has been "reinvented" with fast consumption of video via IPTV, mobile and tablets, says Laurent Frisch, VP of digital at FranceTV, the nation's largest broadcaster, in this interview with Beet.TV  He says that fully half of the broadcaster's views are delivered via digital devices. In this wide ranging conversation, he outlines the forces changing television consumption including [...]

CANNES -- Private exchanges for programmatic ad buying will play a vital role in growing the overall audience-based buying business, says Jana Eisenstein, Managing Director Videology UK, an advertising technology platform, during an interview with Beet.TV at MIPTV 2013. Private exchanges will help media owners become more comfortable with programmatic buying because such buying mechanisms let  them sell inventory to approved and [...]

CANNES -  The "Entertainment Experience," a film project lead by Dutch-born Hollywood actor Paul Verhoeven, consisting of user generated material, won an International Digital Emmy at MIPTV on Monday.  At the award gala, we spoke with  the project's producer Rene Mioch. The UGC project has lead to the creation of theatrical film which will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival later [...]

CANNES — As smartphone and social technology improves, users have become empowered and are creating their own usages and solutions for second screen entertainment, leveraging the tools at their disposal, says David Nahmani, Director of Business Development and Partnerships at Orange/France Telecom in this interview with Beet.TV at the MIPTV conference. Orange was early to the second screen game, attempting to [...]

CANNES -  "Da Vinci's Demons," a new television series co-produced by Starz and BBC Worldwide, was screened at the MIPTV conference this week.   On the red carpet, Beet.TV spoke with the leading actress Lara Pulver about her role in the the and her upcoming role in the Ian Fleming biopic which just wrapped.    

CANNES -- As part of its general rollout of the Adobe Primetime platform for TV Everywhere, the tech giant is focusing both on US and global territories. Second screen services are becoming increasingly important across Europe, and especially in English, German and French markets, says Mouna Roger, business development manager for Adobe in France, during an interview with Beet.TV at [...]

CANNES -- In a move that that could widen the reach of TV Everywhere, tech giant Adobe added full support for the HLS streaming media protocol to its flash player, Steve Allison, Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe, tells Beet.TV during an interview at MIPTV 2013. "That's a huge change to the workflow and it makes the whole TV Everywhere approach [...]

CANNES - Viewership of TV programming  by cable subscribers on their digital devices is accelerating quickly , says Adobe's Campbell Foster in this video interview with Beet.TV.  We spoke with him at the MIP conference where Adobe was a presenter. Even without the Olympics, the number of steams rose seven times year over year, and he says.  This has created a [...]