Web original series are continuing to grow and will reach 1000, says Paul Kontonis, Chairman of the International Academy of Web Television in this interview with Beet.TV In a sign of the vitality of the sector, he says that nominations for the Academy's upcoming awards are up over 70 percent from last year. We caught up with him on Friday at the [...]

MONACO -- While there have been series problems in reporting at the BBC recently, the broadcaster should stop its "self- flagellation," says Robert Andrew, Senior International Editor at paidContent and GigaOm, in this inteview with Beet.TV We spoke with Andrews at the Monaco Media Forum where he was as session moderator. Andrews also addresses the pitfalls of "jigsaw" reporting in the era [...]

MONACO -- Top brands are unwittingly supporting pirate music and fil sites with large volumes of display ads sold through ad networks, says Jonathan Taplin, Director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, in this interview with Beet.TV Taplin was a speaker at the Monaco Media Forum where he presented inital findings from the big global report which will be released early [...]

MONACO -- Millenials are big fans of technology, in part because the Internet and social media lets them be themselves. That's one of finding many findings of a global studyby Viacomtitled "The Next Normal: An Unprecendented Look at Millenials Worldwide." Beet.TV interviewed Colleen Fahey Rush, Executive VP and Chief Research Officer at Viacom Media Networks, at the Monaco Media Forum about the findings. For [...]

MONACO - With its just-announced integration with the big online video platform Kaltura, and its existing relationship with Brightcove, AOL is building a sort of "video exchange" explains Ran Harnevo, SVP for Video at AOL, in this interview with Beet.TV In addition to plans to bring more video companies into the "exchange," he says that AOL will introduce a free, self-service [...]

MONACO -- Buoyed by its recent acquisitions, digital video ad platform Videology is aiming to make inroads into the addressable TV advertising market next, says Scott Ferber, the company's CEO and chairman, in an interview with Beet.TV at the Monaco Media Forum. "We've expanded beyond the PC to include mobile devices, phones and tablets, as well as connected TVs, and we're looking [...]

MONACO -- The presidential election was a milestone for video streaming, with a three to four times greater volume of streaming at peak than the 2008 election, Bill Wheaton, Senior VP and General Manager, Media Divison at Akamai, tells Beet.TV in an exclusive interview at the Monaco Media Forum. During the election, online video streams peaked at 11 pm ET when President Barack Obama [...]

MONACO -- Broadcasters have been reluctant to participate in programmatic buying online, but that may change soon because brands want more audience buying, says Marco Bertozzi, EMEA Executive Managing Director for the VivaKi Nerve Center, during an interview with Beet.TV at the Monaco Media Forum. "In every market we're talking to [broadcasters] about how we can work with them, and I think [...]

To help broadcasters deal with device proliferation, Adobe expanded its Project Primetime platform with both the addition of an ad insertion option and a new player technology that lets programmers handle streaming, rights and content prep for all devices, Adobe says. Beet.TV spoke to Jeremy Helfand, VP Monetization at Adobe, about the new features and how programmers can use them. The overarching [...]

Viacom Music Group  expanded the reach of a musician-centric multi-screen platform with a broader launch of Artists.MTV to now include VH1 in addition to MTV, says Shannon Connolly, Senior VP of Digital Music Strategy at Viacom. Launched over the summer, the platform has led to a doubling in time spent on the sites, she tells Beet.TV in an interview. "This is [...]

We are streaming the Digiday Video Conference here on Beet.TV. Good show:

The TEDTalk videos, the iconic, 18-minute on-stage presentations by leading thinks, has reached one billion video views, according to Adam Ostrow at Mashable.  To celebrate the milestone, Mashable is promoting the videos on its site, Ostrow writes. TEDTalks, the video production and distribution of the videos created at TED conferences, was launched in 2006. In October of 2010, we spoke with TED's [...]

In what could become a giant, global art cinema, IAC unit Vimeo, the popular video sharing site for the creative community, has announced the first steps in presenting  full length films on a pay-to-view basis.  The program will begin with six films this month with a bigger roll-out in 2013. The first batch of movies, selected by the Vimeo staff,  cover [...]

Jason Glickman, co-founder and former CEO of the giant video ad network Tremor Video, who left the company in 2010, has been working on a start-up called Connected Sports Ventures.  The company, which provides a second screen app around sports programming, has raised $4.5 million, TechCrunch reports. Back in 2010 we spoke with Glickman about the growth of Tremor and trends [...]

Very pleased to be heading to Monaco this week where I'll be moderating a panel on the changing valuation of digital video with Alphabird CEO Chase Norlin,  Videology CEO Scott Ferber,  Josh Mortensen MD and founder of Denmark's GlibHippo and René Rechtman/CEO, of London's Goviral & SVP International AOL Advertising Group. In addition to moderating, we will be producing many exclusive [...]

RAMP, the Boston-based content optimization company, best known for providing voice-to-text technology services to media companies, is launching a full enterprise video services product called MediaCloud. The new offering works with Microsoft's SharePoint platform which is widely used by enterprise users to share documents.   The announcement is being made at the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas today. Troy Dreier of StreamingMedia.com reports [...]

As the use of "second screen" devices during television viewing grows, so has the desire of consumers for second screen content that adds to their viewing experience.  Last month, Samsung sponsored a competition to foster creativity in the multi-screen programming arena.  We spoke with Barry Gribble, writer and director of The Conspiracist, one of the competition’s finalists, who believes that [...]

Compelling headlines and carefully constructed interviews lead to success with online video news consumption says Dan Colarusso, Global Head of Programming of Thomson Reuters, in this video interview. The former metro editor of the New York Post, who had a video news stint at Bloomberg before coming to Reuters,  explains how interviews should be constructed to create compelling sound bytes and [...]

One year into an alliance with Yahoo! to stream live news events, and to produce original programming for digital devices, ABC News is "rivaling" the reach of cable networks around big events including this Election Night, says Joe Ruffolo, SVP for Digital at ABC News in this interview with Beet.TV Today, ABC said it served up  a record 10 million live [...]

Bravo has launched its first Zeebox integration with its series  Life After Top Chef, says Lisa Hsia, EVP of Digital Media at Bravo, a NBC Universal unit, in this interview with Beet.TV In this interview, Hsia explains and demonstrates how the Zeebox app works with the television experience. Sponsoring the Zeebox integration on the Bravo show is American Express.  More on American [...]